Disregard America’s silly focus on smelly vagrants in public libraries, boys wearing lipstick to school and disputed patents for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
The nation now is focused on a new controversial way to skin the cat—literally. And it has nothing to do with monkeybars.
Instead, the latest preoccupation in America is the making of pillows from pelts of dead pets.
While taxidermists routinely stuff and mount carcasses of game animals, the prospect of Fido and Tiger cushions revives the horror of lampshades made from skins of inmates in Nazi concentration camps.
Nevada taxidermist Jeanette Hall charges $65 per feline, $125 per canine and $150 per cow or horse. One can only guess about the fillers used.
Check for fleas, mites, lice and other critters the next time you rest your head on calico bedding. (17 APRIL 2005)
