I have no issue with hunting, I have issues with eating the meat (yucky!)- as for displaying an animal head in my home- NO WAY! My great grandfather had a ram and boar head displayed in his home and that always bothered me (am I wrong- but don't they have a "smell"? I recall seeing a few different heads and there was a smell- maybe it's my imagination!).

DS shot his first buck when he was 10, it was 9 points and beautiful. He wanted the head mounted and it hangs in his bedroom. I don't have a problem with it but I would draw the line at hanging one in our dining room or family room. DH has a few sets of antlers that are hanging in the garage, they are so big that he never even mentioned hanging them in the house.

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I liked the idea of only mounting he antlers- those are a bit less... creepy. I tooka wildlife mammals class in high school. Unfortunately it was in the same room used by the taxidermy class so I was constantly surrounded by dead animal bits hanging from chunks of wood. I see nothing beautiful in shoving marble eyeballs into eyesockets or any other part that goes into taxidermy. I agree with your point. When grandma dies we don't run for the stuffing. Other animals deserve the same respect.

Personally I don't do it, but DH isn't into hunting...That said, my uncle is a taxidermist and has done some BEAUTIFUL mounts ~ business and personal; and I have been around it all my life so I don't have a problem with it.

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My dd's husband has stuffed dead things everywhere, they live in a very small 2 br trailer and he has 2 lage heads, antlers everywhere, whole stuffed beavers, bobcats, squirrels, rabbits, large ducks --were on the bedroom wall 3 of them!, even a deers butt, all in the living room and kitchen area, oh yeah turkey beards, tails and feet--yes feet. Thank God he has built an office for himself and moved most of it in there. It looked like a wild animal kigdom. His Dad trys his hand at taxidermy but isn't real great and the stuff he did looks like it has the mange! My MIL is scared to even go in the house she thinks is gross. I have been around it all my life, but a little bit goes a long way and I think they need their own room!

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My husband has a deer head in his computer room. I wouldn't want it where I could see it all the time. I think it was his first deer or something. He doesn't hunt anymore. We have a friend that enjoys hunting and gives us his extras. We just have to take them for processing.

My husband hunts too and nope! Not in my house. That's what his office is for!

Not in my home! Period. It's tacky! Very tacky!

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Ick!!! But I am definitely not a hunting person and neither is dh.

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I don't know, but I gotta say I laughed when I read the title of this thread...it sounds so strange to me!

For me, I would never want animal corpses in my house. That's just me. I understand that for some people it is part of their lifestyle. I personally don't "get" having a dead animal hanging on the wall. I just don't.

In high school I had a friend/aqcuaintance whose family was well-off and had gone on safari. In Africa or something, I think. They must've had 30 or 40 heads, bodies in that house. In fact they had a room devoted just to these things, plus more scattered throughout the home. Boars, big stuff...

I was so creeped out, obviously because I can still remember the place ,like 15 years later. But to them it was no big deal. I guess whatever floats your boat!