Would any of you do this with a dog after it dies?

[Archae]

I mean,

"Perhaps that's what the owner of Buck -- once the Guinness World Record holder for largest Saint Bernard -- was thinking when his dog passed away. With a heavy heart, Buck's owner sawed off his head and preserved it like any other hunting trophy. Indeed, Buck's head was so freakishly large, the taxidermist had to use a grizzly bear mold to mount it. But when you care enough about a dead dog to display part of its body in a Utah bar like an award, you're willing to go that extra mile."

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-craziest-things-people-are-doing-with-dead-animals/#ixzz2Ko1xlo00

[Xyzse]

1. Oh hell no.

Whole body or not at all. I still won't but geeze, that just looks awful.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Nope

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I would not do that.

I heard about a family who had their dead dog freeze-dried after it died.

[Corgigal]

4. I can't type the words I just said out loud

but what the hell is wrong with people? He was a pet, a family member, not a damn trophy.

I've lost two pets in the past three months from old age. Miss them terribly and I buried them in the backyard. One is in his doggie bed because he loved it so, and the cat with his little stuffed human he played with as a kitten. It was a Sesame Street, Guy Smiley but we called it his stuff human. They weren't trophies; they were friends.

[intaglio]

5. I would not but has no-one heard of Jeremy Bentham?

The Auto Icon of Jeremy Bentham

Who was Jeremy Bentham?

[Myrina]

10. I know of Mr. Bentham!

One of my sociology/history profs in college went to Oxford & delighted in telling us the story.

[GentryDixon]

6. Buck is mounted in the Shooting Star Saloon

in Huntsville, Utah. He died in 1958.

I have attached a story about the Shooting Star. It is is oldest bar in Utah having opened in 1879.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile/55614069-68/bar-star-shooting-sutter.html.csp

[raccoon]

7. Heavens, no! It looks terrible, like Cujo. I also consider having deceased pets freeze-dried

to be disrespectful of the pet's memory.

[RebelOne]

8. Absolutely not.

I had my two Rottweilers cremated and have their ashes.

[Myrina]

9. OMG I just threw up in my mouth ...

... my boy Max crossed the Bridge last weekend, I shouldn't have opened this thread.

That's horribly grotesque.

[In_The_Wind]

11. No. Not to anything I love. That is disrespecting the love of that pet.

[bigwillq]

12. No (nt)

[agracie]

13. That is wrong on so many levels... nt

[graywarrior]

14. Good grief, no!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. Hell no!

I have, now and then, threaten my mother-in-law with such an end but prior to natural causes taking their course.

[AngryOldDem]

16. Oh, HELL no.

That's just wrong.

[susanr516]

17. I know a taxidermist

He refuses to stuff or mount any family pet. He says it's impossible to make any animal look exactly as it did when alive, so a grieving pet owner would likely not be thrilled with the result.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. I saw a program on cable

called Animal Stuffers that covered a business called Xtreme Taxidermy that does pet preservation in addition to traditional taxidermy. I admit I never would have thought of doing this and I still don't think I would, but he did beautiful work. I think I like the ones where the pet looks like it's sleeping best.

http://www.xtremetaxidermy.com/

[MrScorpio]

18. No, he deserved better than that nt

[Phentex]

19. I am very much in the minority on this as I don't find it all that odd...

I have thought about this for years but whenever the subject has come up with my immediate family or friends, they ALL think it's disgusting and freakish and deplorable.

I wouldn't cut the head off but I didn't think having one stuffed or freeze dried would be horrible. I wouldn't do it, mind you, but I am not grossed out.

However, when I talked to someone at a pet crematory recently, he said that people have done it but they almost always regret it. He has even been asked to cremate a dog that was previously preserved. He said what people have found is they think they would like to see the pet nearly as it was when it was alive. But it's NOT alive and instead it's a constant reminder of their loss and they eventually remove it. That makes sense to me.

[Moondog]

20. Grrrrr.

What a contemptible way to repay a lifetime of loyalty and companionship.

[Honeycombe8]

21. That's disgusting and disturbing. nt

[BlueJazz]

22. I'd be afraid that somehow the damn thing would come alive during the night..

....and want to play...or worse, get very, very hungry.

[840high]

23. nonono

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. From the game "Deer's Revenge"