In response to elebenty gazillion readers who sent me this item, I am not going to post the video of Orville, a tabby who was run over by a car and had his flattened carcass turned into a flying helicopter with a propeller at each paw.
It’s gross, and no way to respect your dead moggie.
Reminds me of an Aussie folk singer who claimed, when travelling in the outback, they would use dried out moggies run over by a road train as frisbies,
Yes, I saw that somewhere yesterday and was utterly disgusted.
I heard about that on Facebook. I’m not sure why one would want to share that. It doesn’t sound appealing in the slightest.
Why would someone want to share something gross with anyone else, let alone a feline lover! When you publish your memoirs, and give stories of your dealing with the great unwashed…..
Good call. It is just morbid.
That would make it 102 uses of a dead cat!
heard about it, have not looked & thank you!
Better remove it from the comment section of an older post too.
That’s where I first saw it. Now it’s all over the place.
I agree that it is totally disgusting.
So…has anyone got a link?
You can check The Guardian online for an article and photos.
It is completely undignified in my opinion.
Perhaps next the artist could exhume his grandmother and dress her up in a rodeo-clown suit.
Damian Hurst?
Thank you for not publishing it.
Are there not better ways for people to get their kicks? Good call Jerry
Thank you.
IF KITTEHS WUZ MEANT 2 FLY, CEILIN CAT WUD HAS GIVEN THEM WINGS.
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I’ve had to reset my pussword again. I’ve also retained the services of a taxidermist. We’re thinking Butter might make a neat little throw rug. But we want it to be tasteful.
To be honest I’m more on the fence about this one and haven’t made my mind up. My initial reaction was that it was gross and disrespectful, but the more I think about it I find it strangely endearing. The cat is dead, and people do strange things when they are mourning. Some people have their animals stuffed and displayed (not something I could do or want…), this is in a similar realm, albeit a bit more unconventional…
The cat is dead, and feels neither joy nor disrespect. It’s just grotesque, is all. Clearly the owner doesn’t think so.
We considered having Bryxie taxidermied in her favorite sleeping pose, but opted instead for cremation. (crackle, crackle, crackle.)
101 uses for a creationist’s brain …
It’s a little grotesque but each to their own. Maybe when the “artist” dies he will havte it in his will to be turned in to a corpse-copter.
It’s not much different to other arts involving animal carcasses you can view in modern galleries.
Saw it. It’s funny as hell. Have no idea what you all are going on about.
Thanks for not posting it.
Thank you. I hope we do the same with America’s Funniest Home Videos and the like (that includes the light-on-science Animal Planet) where they use live cats for almost as offensive “jokes”.
Bunny Suicides is funny. If you want humor, draw pictures.
Thank you for having the class and tact to not post this. Others didn’t share those qualities unfortunately.
I doubt the guy killed his cat with the intent purpose of using him this way… Correct me if I’m wrong. What’s disturbing to one person might not be to the next… What if his cat loved chasing his owner’s toy helicopter and this was a way to commemorate his cat… I doubt this was the case, but let’s not jump to conclusions about whether this is wrong in the ethical sense.
I’ve thought about getting my kitty stuffed when he passes and I hope people don’t judge me to be an ass just because I stuff him in a karate kicking stance. I’m the only one who loved and cared for my cat… If my little niece happens to stay over and befriends my cat, I’ll definitely reconsider stuffing it just for her sake.
I’m just saying, this might be disturbing to some people, but it’s not necessarily wrong. The owner might have and cared and loved that cat throughout its life… Again, I might be wrong about the details, but lets not condemn so quickly.
The cat was not harmed (died in an accident prior), nobody is being hurt by this, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. It’s not typical, but that’s all it is.
I doubt the dead cat cares; it wasn’t hurt in the least by this nor was it deliberately killed for this purpose. It’s interesting how so many people think it’s revolting. I guess the “Body Worlds” exhibitions get a similar reaction: “Eww! Human carcasses!” “How dare they do that to dead folks!” and “That’s so disrespectful of dead folks!” I guess at least in the case of Body Worlds, the humans gave consent to be used that way while alive. I’m sure we can find a Pet Medium who will tell us that Orville always wanted to fly and is happy in his latest incarnation as a remote controlled toy.
I saw this (being Dutch, like the artist) and found it morbidly fascinating. I can’t decide whether I really dislike it – part of me wants to but the rational part of me just screams WHY THE DISLIKE!?.
Cat died in a car accident and like every other animal before it, never gave permission to be stuffed. Nothing new there. Owner added chopper bits, and from what I gather (read), he loved that cat to bits. How is that so different from adding a mounting board and screw holes?
I remember not too long ago JC himself posing underneath a ginormous stuffed moose head stuck to the wall of an office of a friendly professor. That moose unlike the cat may have actually be killed on purpose to do that with. Now that I find revolting.
I would like to see _reasoned_ how these two acts of stuffing, then putting on display, are so fundamentally different that one merits contempt and revolt and the other a proud photo and everybody going ‘oh great, nice antlers, la la la’. I don’t see it.
Post this pic instead.
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