Taxidermy or Freeze drying.....

[ACooper]

We were talking about this tonight after watching Criminal Minds.

Phoebe has been with us about 9 years now, and my oldest son doesn't even want to discuss what it will be like when her time comes

Anyway, due to the content of tonight's show, we brought up Phoebe concerning taxidermy. I googled and come to a website (a place in Colorado) which offers freeze drying........the end result is like taxidermy but more cost effective.

I don't know if this is something we'd actually do for several reasons........one of course being it seems a bit on the creepy side, LOL

I was wondering about your thoughts on the subject. Is this something you'd consider for your long time family friend? (money not being an issue of course)

If you could include a quick why or why not after your vote, that would be lovely I need some food for thought, LOL

[Linds]

Ohh, now I'm looking forward to watching the recorded criminal minds even more

Honestly, I wouldn't do it. It just seems too creepy for me. When my old BC died it was just my mom and I home and we had to wait the whole day for my dad to come home to bury him. So from 10 am to 6 pm we had him lying on the floor under a sheet. It creeped me out to no end and I didn't want to be anywhere near the livingroom.

I couldn't really imagine seeing my dead pet stuffed everyday. It would just bother me. It took me a good while to get used to not looking for him or thinking we had three dogs or seeing him out of the corner of my eye. It would take even longer if he really was still there, just stuffed. For me it would make moving on much harder seeing them in the house but not alive

I don't think I'm getting my thoughts out very well, but pretty much the idea of it bothers me.

[Xandra]

I'm not a prude by any means but as you said, it's creepy. And that's an understatement.

[Saeleofu]

I think it's creepy...

...regardless of whether my brother wants a "Rowdy" or not

[Chances Mom]

Originally Posted by Saeleofu

I think it's creepy...

...regardless of whether my brother wants a "Rowdy" or not

I've actually tried to find my own Rowdy to buy. I'm still hunting for one too. I want to bring it home and surprise my mom with it by putting it in her bed. I told her I was going to get one and she told me that's a stupid idea and really weird. I think a dead dog would be fun to have around (Though I do draw the line at bathing with it and trimming it's butt hairs ) so long as I didn't know him in his previous life.

Though as far as MY dog goes, I could never stuff him. That's too weird. I'm going to have him cremated when he goes.

[BostonBanker]

It would disturb me, but the dog is gone and feels nothing anymore, so if it helps an individual to have it done, I see nothing wrong with it.

My animals (or a piece of them - I doubt I will be able to afford cremation for Tristan, but I'll have a lock of his hair) will all be cremated, and their ashes combined with mine when I am gone.

[Laurelin]

No, that's not something I'd ever do. It's just a body, I don't need it around to remember my friend. I'd rather get my pet cremated and bury their ashes and then remember them through memories and photographs of them.

Also, I've had quite a number of dogs in my life and I'm sure I'll have a lot in the future... it would get really quite strange to have a bunch of stuffed dogs all around the place...

[Linds]

Originally Posted by Laurelin

Also, I've had quite a number of dogs in my life and I'm sure I'll have a lot in the future... it would get really quite strange to have a bunch of stuffed dogs all around the place...

But see, then you wouldn't have to have the photo album on the table of all your old pets. You start talking about old Fluffy and his antics and instead of pulling out a photo you can lead them over to his body to give them a real idea of what he was like

[Xandra]

Originally Posted by Laurelin

Also, I've had quite a number of dogs in my life and I'm sure I'll have a lot in the future... it would get really quite strange to have a bunch of stuffed dogs all around the place...

No kidding.

I find taxidermy tacky to begin with and would never want any in my home. Let alone my own deceased dog lol

[Doberluv]

No way! It's not only super creepy, it would just kill me every day, over and over again, to see what use to contain my best friend...as a stiff, staring fixture. It would cause extreme conflict and stress to me. I just know it would.

Even in one of my poems I wrote about conflict with acceptance of the death of my Lyric, there were a couple lines: ."Are you here or are you there, it's hardly plain to me. Stay or go, don't haunt me so, this can not be the way" I wrote that because at first, it's just so hard to let go. So to have a "statue" of the dog staring at me all the time...well.....no way. It would make it so much harder to let go. And it would creep me out as well.