Well, yes, I am offended, as it happens. It is disrespectful of this cat and cats in general. This is not the first domestic cat skin rug. There are others. There are many wild cat skin rugs, all of which I personally find objectionable. I thought they had gone out of fashion. The tiger skin rug is a bit of a throwback to the British Raj and tiger hunting – that sort of era.
This red tabby cat has a resemblance to a tiger. It is probably why the taxidermist, Andrew Lancaster, decided to make it. That, and the publicity he thought he’d get.
He saw the dead cat by the side of the road, thought it looked nice, picked it up, took it to his workshop and did his grizzly work. I don’t know how anyone could do this sort of work. You have to be pretty desensitized, it seems to me.
It was advertised as….
“Great little gift for the mancave!’
I am not sure what that means. I suppose it is intended as a gift for an idiot male of the human species to take back to his cave. It is the kind of gift you’d give to Woodsman.
Mr Lancaster does not know if this cat was a domestic cat who had a human caretaker, or whether the cat was a stray or feral. It appears that he made attempt to find out. The advert says:
[it] ….was probably wild.
That seems to be a bit disrespectful of the person who may have looked after this cat. Bearing in mind the condition of the cat – described as “Large male in excellent condition” – it seems quite likely that the cat was domesticated.
Conclusion?: Please don’t do it again, Mr Lancaster.
Thanks Rowwdy. I now know what a “mancave” is 😉 Can you imagine this in a person’s office? Mad.
Really disgusting. “Great little gift for the mancave”? What planet is this clown from? No man I know would want that in their “mancave” aka office. Idiots abound.
Only horrible despicable sadistic people would want a rug like that as their minds are sewers of sickness and depravity.
I hope someone makes rugs of them when they die and sells them for a fortune and gives the money to Cat Shelters.
This is disgusting and disrespectful and only a person with a sick mind would approve of, or buy one of those rugs!
What is wrong with some people that they think the exploitation of, or cruelty to another living being is acceptable?
They obviously think because they are upright and can talk and have power over vulnerable species that they can treat them however they want to.
ALL living beings have feelings!
My only hope is that if they aren’t punished by something dreadful happening to them in this life, if there is reincarnation these cold hearted monsters come back as dung beetles because that’s where they belong, in a pile of manure!
I think it’s going to become a huge fad. After everyone sees the price he got by selling it. (I read about this on another site, and he got something like $900+ for it.) Plus it’ll definitely put a dent in feral cat populations.
Well over 2/3rds, maybe 3/4ths, of the population in the USA want nothing to do with cats so they don’t really care what happens to them. They’re fed-up with everyone’s cats destroying everything. Only 86 million cats are wanted for pets and many of those are in homes that already have more than one cat. The population is 315 million people. You do the math of how many don’t want cats in any part of their lives.
I like the way he explains-away an undamaged pelt by claiming it was “road-kill”.
If you want to be even more offended Google for: Orvil Helicopter Cat
All taxidermy creeps me out. I object to it highly in all areas except educational museum type situations. Man, this one irks me. It’s not even done well. It want to make it clear that it would be disrespectful to do this with any animal even when it’s done right. This is just a mean joke. The cat deserves better. Any idiot that would by this is on drugs.
Thanks Michael.