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Kiwi seems to think so. She walked over, me not paying attention, grabbed it, and refused to let me get it out of her mouth. She locked her jaw on it was a PITA to get it out.

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I hunt grouse, and make the feet into earrings / necklaces. They're pretty awesome, and I was making some earrings, and well... As I described above, she loved to grab the feet and chew on them. Or something. I didn't let her have it very long.
 

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Wow...just. Wow. I'm not sure I even know how to react to that lol:)
 

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Well, dead tissue decays. Ornamentally they might be ok, but to have it chewed on is another thing. Now, if it's been taxidermized, then the preservative chemicals are toxic to live animals.

You'll probably get many negative comments but not from me. Now, if you had a conure head on a stick, then I might be provoked into making a statement...
 
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Wow...just. Wow. I'm not sure I even know how to react to that lol:)

Exactly how I felt. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to call her a cannibal or what.


Jones - not sure if it counts as taxidermized but they've been sitting in salt for like... 6 months. It's all dried flesh / skin, and bone. Not that I'd let her have it, haha.

Hmm, never thought of that. Everyone I know has 2 different mind sets :
GET IT AWAY FROM ME. NOW.
And
CAN I HAVE A PAIR?!?!
They make great conversation pieces, haha, too. My grandma - who NEVER wears them- lives in Washington and says it was a great conversation piece. So I suppose some own them to wear; some own to say 'hey look, I own this, it's from ALASKA' lol.

If anyone wants to get mad, I'd suppose it would be from hunting/ eating animals, which since I'm not a vegetarian and don't plan to be, I'd say that hunting is better then buying store meat. And if they think its weird to have grouse feet earrings... LOL, well it is, and I don't blame them to think it, lol.

And yes, a head on a stick is weird. Though I want to save the skull of things I kill (we have a farm) so I can have skulls and such. I have a lynx tooth (well, it was from a skull our dog found in the woods we assume was a lynx - it was completely decayed (nothing but bone), but bugs were all over it and my mom wouldn't let me keep it... Haha. So me and my best friend each got to keep a canine tooth. I think it'd be cool to have grouse skulls, rabbit skulls (we don't hunt them much but we breed meat rabbits), a chicken, goose, duck, etc... I have a thing for bones :eek: one of these days I want to completely decay an entire rabbit carcass and have a full skeleton. Would have to research some more though...
 
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i'd say no not a safe toy based on goalerjones' post.


however, no negative comments from me either. hunting is hunting, if the animal was eaten, then really, i have nothing against it. people hunt for food and also have the pelts and often mount some of their trophy hunts. this is not much different than that, IMHO ;)
 

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Spots, bacteria live everywhere. Halophilic organisms can live in high salt concentrations and reproduce...
 
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Sorry if I wasn't clear but this WAS a joke, lol! I would never let her purposefully chew on this. Not only is it creepy, I didn't imagine it to be very sanitary.

But thanks for the information anywho ^^
 

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Reminds me of the short story, "The Monkeys Paw".
 

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I'm opposed to trophy hunting, but not for eating purposes and if you want to keep the leftovers I don't see a problem with that, though I can't imagine wearing grouse feet :)
 
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Yep. We eat them. I only eat the ruffed grouse which are hard to find, but my sister will eat the spruce grouse, which are like trying to find hay in a hay stack, lol. They're everywhere.

Though personally I'm not opposed to trophy hunting since everyone I've heard of / know that trophy hunts always donates the meat to the local villages or the food bank & such. They get a trophy, people get fed, win / win IMO. But if they just kill to take the antlers or hide or something then... /: not right.

We got some real toys now for kiwi (that she will hopefully like) so maybe she'll leave the feet alone, haha.
And I don't blame you or anyone else for thinking wearing grouse feet is weird, haha.
 

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Yep. We eat them. I only eat the ruffed grouse which are hard to find, but my sister will eat the spruce grouse, which are like trying to find hay in a hay stack, lol. They're everywhere.

Though personally I'm not opposed to trophy hunting since everyone I've heard of / know that trophy hunts always donates the meat to the local villages or the food bank & such. They get a trophy, people get fed, win / win IMO. But if they just kill to take the antlers or hide or something then... /: not right.

We got some real toys now for kiwi (that she will hopefully like) so maybe she'll leave the feet alone, haha.
And I don't blame you or anyone else for thinking wearing grouse feet is weird, haha.


exactly my view with the bolded part. i do not agree whatsover with solely trophy hunting, but if they donate the meat, then yes that is definitely a win/win :D


i will admit the grouse feet is different, but i wouldnt bash it. sometimes things are just different and it's a form of art, i suppose, and people use all sorts of materials for art. it might offend some people, but anything people do will offend someone or another.

i come from a family of hunters. my uncle lives nearly off the land, he hunts for his own meat, he grows his own veggies... and i'm used to things like this. they hunt and use nearly everything from their hunts. whatever they cant use (whether by feeding themselves, their dogs, or by the pelts) they take out back and leave it in the field for vultures and coyotes--so they feed the wildlife as well. a lot of people dont agree with hunting in general, i understand, and i respect their standpoint. but not all hunting is bad. i hold a lot of respect for good hunters who respect the animal's life and waste as little as possible. :)



people back in the day used to wear taxadermied animals on hats and such, so this isn't the first to hear about it :p
 

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