Question. What do you do with a dead feral cat?<\/p>\n
The answer depends on a number of factors, such as \u201cApart from being dead, is it in good shape?\u201d (quite literally!) and \u201cWhat talents and skills do you possess that are compatible with disposal of a dead cat?\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a taxidermist, I guess you\u2019d stuff and mount it (no, not that kind of mount!). If you were a biology teacher, perhaps you\u2019d take it to school as a novelty for your year\/grade 8 or 9 pupils\/students.<\/p>\n
And if you were an artist, you might look for a way to accessorize using it.<\/p>\n
In Blackadder III, Edmund has a robe made for what he thought was the beginning of a political career; it should have been made of ermine, but Mrs. Miggins spotted the truth<\/a>\u2014it was finest cat fur.<\/p>\n And a 2005 blog post I found shows how to make a dead cat bag from black felt and red fleece\u2014not the real McCoy, but it shows the direction we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n This week, the CBC reported <\/a>that a New Zealand artist and taxidermist had made a handbag (they\u2019re called purses in Canada) from a dead ginger tomcat she found by the side of a country road. The bag looks kind of spooky because it includes the cat\u2019s head, with eyes open and staring. Apparently she kept the cat in her freezer (sounds like a sketchy restaurant I went to a couple of times a long time ago\u2026) for three months while she looked for the owner, then used her taxidermic\/artistic skills to design and create the handbag.<\/p>\n Strangely, the New Zealand Herald hasn\u2019t run the story (as far as I can tell)\u2014perhaps for Kiwis the concept is commonplace.<\/p>\n If the artist has a tech-savvy buddy (or are they \u201cmates\u201d in NZ?), maybe she could arrange for the purse to purr when she strokes it and hiss when someone tries to steal it. A worthwhile enhancement in this wearable technology age, I think.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure that crazy cat ladies around the world are thinking this is the purrrfect purrrrse for them, and are planning how to emulate the accessory when one of their kitties passes away.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s just a faint possibility that I\u2019ve hit on the truth of Donald\u2019s hairstyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question. What do you do with a dead feral cat? The answer depends on a number of factors, such as \u201cApart from being dead, is it in good shape?\u201d (quite literally!) and \u201cWhat talents and skills do you possess that are compatible with disposal of a dead cat?\u201d If you\u2019re a taxidermist, I guess you\u2019d stuff and mount it (no,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[664,178,175,176,177,179,180],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-commentaries","tag-500words","tag-blackadder","tag-cat","tag-handbag","tag-purse","tag-taxidermy","tag-wearable-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}