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<\/p>\nI have always found dead stuffed cats to be creepy.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re so stiff and fake looking that at times it is hard to tell that they are not toys\/decorations and had at one point been alive.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean seriously, do you want your dead friend perched at the end of your couch? It’s so unnatural.<\/p>\n
So for those crazy taxidermists, how do you make it more acceptable, how do you sleep knowing that not that far away, the body of say a dead deer, is staring at you? \u00c2\u00a0 Answer: take the animal and distort it even more so it becomes something else entirely.\u00c2\u00a0 It becomes, well, a piece of art.<\/p>\n
Ron Pippin is an artist.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s created everything from detailed ships to overflowing adventure journals.\u00c2\u00a0 He has also given an antelope guns.<\/p>\n
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I would have no qualms with having this critter in my house.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s interesting to look at and all that metal makes me wonder if there will ever be a time when it’s open season on humans.\u00c2\u00a0 But that thought is so distant, so improbable, I can deal with that much easier than a stuffed cat at the foot of my grandma’s bed.<\/p>\n