NO SMELL
“I really wanted an animal carcass in my house, but I was concerned about unpleasant dead wolf odor. Fortunately, New Skin-Rug Wolf™ comes comes with a Professionally Treated Head™, so you can have a dead animal on the floor without your house smelling like rendering plant!
Thanks, New Skin-Rug Wolf™!”
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UPDATE: An eagle-eyed reader found this description in one of the seller’s other listings, providing me with the best laugh I’ve had in a while.
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April 15, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Hmmm… that wouldn’t give you nightmares at all…
April 15, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE PEOPLE.
April 15, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Let me be the first to say it: I LOVE WOLF HEAD!!!
April 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Part of me wishes I could get professionally treated head, but that’s illegal, unsafe, and immoral.
April 15, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Oh now this just makes me sad – the whole Etsy shop. Can we go back to talking about Jews and Spongebob and retardsy humorless sons of motherless goats?
April 15, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Wolf head is now a meme:
http://memegenerator.net/dead-wolf/ImageMacro/884834/dead-wolf-Pick-fight-with-grandma-they-cut-your-fucking-head-off
April 15, 2010 at 1:40 pm
You know, that wolf doesn’t seem too happy that he’s been professionally treated.
April 15, 2010 at 1:41 pm
“Great gift newborn”!!!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44642172/natural-soft-silken-fur-of-a-fox?ref=vl_other_1
April 15, 2010 at 1:42 pm
This shop makes me sick. : (
April 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Okay , I do love me some good people,and some good Jewmor, but this makes me more than sad.
April 15, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Well done taxidermy should not smell.
April 15, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Wow, now I can get rid of all the fetid, worm-infested carcasses that I usually strew around for decor, yet not lose any of that kitschy charm? Thanks!
April 15, 2010 at 1:49 pm
So gross, and scary. I know the seller doesn’t speak English as a first language, but wall decal is NOT the same as wall decor. Plus the tags let us know it is round as well as woven. And can be use mutipurpose (bathroom, bedroom, blanket, sheets).
April 15, 2010 at 1:50 pm
sad.. I would like to steal it then follow them around at night with it on and jump screamin outta their closet when they are asleep.
April 15, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I’m like 99.7333 percent sure that it’s illegal to possess—let alone sell—a wolf’s head outside of the Indian reservations…Just Sayin’. When I was on Pine Ridge one of the guys I was staying with told me a story about the hell he had to go through to keep a family heirloom that was a taxidermied wolf head, because it is illegal off the Rez.
April 15, 2010 at 1:51 pm
wow… is it even legal to do that? i thought wolves were a protected species at least i mean their numbers are dwindling. that does make me very sad. i don’t oppose taxidermy though i personally find it rather creepy, but this animal was majestic and wild once and i think treating his head and making him a rug is a damn shame. even making a taxidermy statue (or whatever the term is) of this animal would have been better.
April 15, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Sarah Palin has an Etsy shop?
Who knew?
April 15, 2010 at 1:53 pm
I have nothing clever to say. That poor, beautiful wolf.
April 15, 2010 at 1:53 pm
I’d buy it if it had that genuine wolf head smell. Goes to authenticity; who wants a rug that doesn’t even smell??
April 15, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I bet a dollar this guy is not for reals curing his own furs and taxing his own dermies.
OMFG AND WHERE IS TALLNI! What country is that?
April 15, 2010 at 1:56 pm
I’m gonna say that there are probably some customs issues getting dead things from estonia…
April 15, 2010 at 1:56 pm
I HATE taxidermy. It makes me vomit. Literally. Especially when it comes to wolves. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
April 15, 2010 at 1:57 pm
just cause they’re imported its doesn’t come close to making it right
April 15, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I think these are wolverines:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44645119/the-most-comfortable-thing-homefur-rug?ref=vl_other_1
a whole lot of wolverines. :,(
I also think this place is in Kyrgyzstan where trapping these critters isn’t necessarily illegal, but importing them into the US certainly is.
I also disbelieve Female/17
April 15, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Wild animals are so beautiful, especially when their skins, heads, & antlers are strewn decoratively around my sitting room.
April 15, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Maybe it’s for a Steppenwolf fan?
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/S/Steppenwolf/Steppenwolf%20Live/Steppenwolf%20Live.jpg
April 15, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Killing this majestic animal didn’t even feed anyone , unless wolf is eaten in Estonia, which I doubt.I can’t wait to live in a world where everything is hunted to extinction & there are only scumbag pimping humans left.
April 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm
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April 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I like my fur fake/latch-hooked/vintage. Antiques and heirloom are okay by me, but I do think we’ve evolved technology advanced enough to do without pelts. That said I can’t talk as I have things made of leather. Sorry hamoza.
April 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm
@#8, LeeLoo: my newborn really could use a cloak… can I register for baby gifts on this site?
April 15, 2010 at 2:03 pm
OMG we found Palin’s Etsy store!
April 15, 2010 at 2:03 pm
@mtopia, I’m hardly the moral police, but I can’t find humor or anything redeeming about this tragic brutal loss of a life for decoration.
April 15, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I have a couple of skins laying around my house…damn lazy cats
April 15, 2010 at 2:04 pm
“FOX as alive.” http://www.etsy.com/listing/44716752/fox-as-alive
So, why couldn’t you just leave the fox alive and take a picture?
April 15, 2010 at 2:08 pm
#32 fluffy, thanks for the laugh through my tears.
April 15, 2010 at 2:10 pm
dead wolves usually cannot smell.
Latvia? Lithuania? No–Estonia this time
April 15, 2010 at 2:12 pm
My fucking cat is acting up again, tearing through our apartment in the middle of the night. Since the water bottle no longer works as an effective deterrent, do you think this would help?
April 15, 2010 at 2:13 pm
@ #31, I have to laugh at how fucking horrible some things are. It keeps me from crying.
April 15, 2010 at 2:14 pm
@#15 – This person is in Estonia where nothing is considered illegal.
April 15, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Yes Helen me too. That is why I love regretsy <3
April 15, 2010 at 2:16 pm
To address any serious objections–this poor thing won’t get past US Customs.
April 15, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I totally dig that this hammered chair interior has an open jacket and two pairs of shoes in the first two floors.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44713361/hammered-chair-interior
April 15, 2010 at 2:18 pm
We’ve come full circle from the latch-hooked parrot shrug.
That was quick.
April 15, 2010 at 2:25 pm
this has got to be one really big scary woman, the whole shop is skinned animals and hammered steel, they must build them big in estonia *shivers*
April 15, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I think I’ll bang out a diningroom set this morning then maybe grab a bear or two after lunch…sorry if I don;t laugh about it it will make me sick
April 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm
This shop gives a whole new meaning to Little Shop of Horrors. The whole shop looks like a set for a serial killing fur trapper.
April 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I can’t get ANYTHING done today Damn IT. You people are way more facinating than my stupid fucking work.
This poor creature though – I am just appalled.
April 15, 2010 at 2:39 pm
I’m curious about the trade marking issue. After all, what national (international?) agency granted trade mark status to Skin-Rug Wolf™ and Professionally Treated Head™? Can you imagine that application coming across your desk?
April 15, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Really? You thumbs me down for dissing Estonia? Shit, it’s not like I went off on Bulgaria.
April 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm
@ #48, That was me. It just sounded like it should be trademarked.
April 15, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Much of that store is damn creepy. Seller: it’s a lovely wolf…when ALIVE. Take up quilting or make taxidermy with stuffed FAKE animals. We live in a modern era where you don’t have to slaughter animals for decoration.
April 15, 2010 at 2:49 pm
God help me, I actually understood what the seller meant by “it is open jacket and two pairs of shoes in the first two floors”. It’s a mens’ clothing valet, meant to hold a jacket over the back, and you can store shoes on the shelves.
Still no excuse for selling rotten carcasses of possibly endangered animals on the internet. Which IS STILL ILLEGAL, by the way.
April 15, 2010 at 2:51 pm
And not for nothin’, but why does the poor wolf’s nose look like he’s been on a five day coke bender with LiLo?
April 15, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Those of you who reported the shop, what did the seller do wrong, other than offend the animal lover in you? Is it in the Etsy TOS that everything sold must be legally importable to the US? Just because *you* don’t like it doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be available for sale.
I don’t like it, either, but I’m not Estonian – for all I know the purported 17 yo female shop owner is a trapper’s daughter, and this is one of the ways the family puts bread on the table.
April 15, 2010 at 2:57 pm
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April 15, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Estonia is actually a beautiful country- their architecture is similar to Russia’s and in good shape. But like many iron curtain countries, life not so great for some citizens. Plus, the seller clearly didn’t cry at the end of “Dances with Wolves” like I did. It still can bring me to vomit-cry.
April 15, 2010 at 2:59 pm
I’m intrigued that most of the dead animals are labeled twin, crib, children, nursing.
You know when my twins were on their way, I really had a hard time choosing between the Winnie the Pooh decor and the rotten animal carcasses. In the end Pooh won.
April 15, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Some Twitard will probably try to buy this…
ps- I hate seeing animals killed solely for stupid shit like this. Taxidermy is one thing, this shop is a whole different issue…
April 15, 2010 at 3:02 pm
@#54 – “…life not so great for some citizens.”
Too obvious?
April 15, 2010 at 3:02 pm
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/grinreaper1965/Regretsy/WOLFHEAD.jpg
April 15, 2010 at 3:03 pm
My BIL does legitimate (conservation) trapping here in the US — mostly live trapping to move animals, but some harvesting of weaker animals to help keep the population healthy and strong. It’s not ALL mass slaughter, folks. Anyway, I’ll have my husband ask him whether this is even legal to import in the US. What an odd concept: getting some actual facts! I may have to turn in my Regretsy card.
April 15, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Aaand a quick question to him just brought the reply that he’s about 99% sure there is NO restriction on importing wolf skins.
Since it’s not illegal in many places in the US to trap and kill and make your own wolfskin rugs now, apparently. 
In fact, where he grew up they’re hiring trappers to get rid of some of the wolf population because they’ve become “nuisances” (his word.)
I hate people.
April 15, 2010 at 3:11 pm
“Hammered home the interior”
I wanted to see how “Lost in Translation” this could get, so here is English > Estonian > French > Maltese > Taglog > English:
“Hammered home the presidency. (Stainless Steel) is an open jacket and two pairs of shoes in the first two floors.”
April 15, 2010 at 3:11 pm
NO STINK!
http://www.nature-watch.com/product-info.php?prod=807p
April 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm
@ skully hahaha… really? my last newscaster head just reeked, but it sure was a great conversation starter
April 15, 2010 at 3:28 pm
#52 HermesGoddess :
THANK YOU! I never would have figured out “it is open jacket and two pairs of shoes in the first two floors” was estonian into english for metal butler with shoe shelves.
April 15, 2010 at 3:48 pm
This is just nasty! Reminds me of my childhood, my Grandpa hunted, and had all those nasty elk and deer heads all over the basement family room. Mu older cousin always tried to make me and his sister touch the glass eyes, claiming they were still the real eyes ICK!
April 15, 2010 at 3:50 pm
OOPs My older cousin, sorry just having flashbacks makes me shake to think about it!
April 15, 2010 at 4:01 pm
“I may have to turn in my Regretsy card.
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Can I have it? Those things are endangered–almost like wolves in some states.
April 15, 2010 at 4:01 pm
In Soviet Estonia, wolves made rug of you!
And everyone thinks the end of the USSR was a good thing
April 15, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Disgusting. That said, at least the wolf looks like it went down FIGHTING. Seriously, can you imagine stepping into the mouth of that thing on the way to the bathroom at night?
April 15, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Its a perfect afternoon for some cryabeetus therapy, Manischewitz and teddy bear mauling.
April 15, 2010 at 4:02 pm
it’s
April 15, 2010 at 4:16 pm
with the wolfskin, the Etsy pipe and some Legos you could get into some serious 3 little pigs roleplay . Get mad , and huff – then puff and blow the house down
no?
April 15, 2010 at 4:18 pm
People, don’t get so upset. The wolf probably died happy and at one with the world, what with all that psychoanalysis.
April 15, 2010 at 4:42 pm
This just makes me sad.
April 15, 2010 at 5:16 pm
All the moaning and tears makes ME sad…not what some female hunter chooses to do in Estonia, of all places. I love that the wolf is looking fierce, unlike most of those lame bear skin rugs that look like glorified teddy bears. This thing really looks like it’s going to creep up on you in the middle of the night and rip your throat out. It’s awesome.
April 15, 2010 at 5:24 pm
The rug makes me want to cry =(
The chair listing IS funny though
April 15, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I half expected there to be lampshades made out of skin in this store. Now I’m a little disappointed.
Can you imagine this seller’s house? I’m thinking the whole place must be lined in fur, like wall-to-ceiling shag carpeting.
April 15, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Perfect for young children’s rooms: very ‘Lost Boys’.
April 15, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Does this “rug” remind anyone else of Insanity Wolf? http://7.media.tumblr.com/1Dpx8EFUNqe6cqg6Vw372gCQo1_400.jpg
*an hour passes as I fight with photoshop*
This is what I mean:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47488840@N04/4524762330/
April 15, 2010 at 6:40 pm
bahaha, crossed promise.
April 15, 2010 at 6:43 pm
1. I registered just to comment on this.
2. I LOATHE PETA and all its bullshit – animal rights is NOT animal welfare.
3. How much of a psycho do you have to be to know 45 foxes were killed to make you a blanket you bought for a measly 269.00 and enjoy it? That’s $5.97 per life, if you were keeping track. I don’t care what excuse about poverty or conservation you trot out, this is revolting.
April 15, 2010 at 7:15 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44716425/new-skinrug-wolf-with-professionally-tre?ref=vl_other_1
This one is waaaaay scarier.
April 15, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Judging from this entry, if she ever decides to expand into vagina purses, they will in no doubt be made from real vaginas.
April 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I don’t care where you live, stop killing stuff. For the love of god… @mtopia: what kind of fucked up garage/bathroom/junk room is that? Is this seller some kind of weird hoarder? Psycho serial killer?
April 15, 2010 at 8:06 pm
@mtopia–just.wow.
Read the caption:
“Beautiful decor item for home-house. Our rugs are the perfect accent for your home’s interior.
NO SMELL”
Then look at the photo:
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.137111774.jpg
April 15, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Dead wolf head scent is not considered offensive by many:
http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/sunshynegrll/wolfscent.jpg
janncri, I take umbrage at your generalizations. Most of us serial psycho hoarders stick to traditional crafts like lampshades and woman-suits.
April 15, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Did anyone else look a the tags in that shop? for the sewn rug Kirghiz fox rug/blanket (and others) it says “crib, children”. uh huh. perfect for the baby’s crib, that way you can use the “Natural soft, silken fur of a fox.” for a “changing pad”.
weird freaking world that person lives in…
April 15, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Stop with the sissyfication of America FFS. Men should smell like men and dead animals should smell like death.
April 15, 2010 at 9:41 pm
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April 15, 2010 at 11:34 pm
SOLD!!
April 16, 2010 at 12:04 am
Nope. I hate it!
April 16, 2010 at 12:37 am
#84 @ mtopia, whoa , I missed that view, quite a shithole. I guess if I had to be in that vile room, i’d rather be dead like the ‘rug’.
This seller has only been on Etsy for a week & 2 sales already-what a bright future she’ll have there.
April 16, 2010 at 1:00 am
Maybe it sold, maybe not…relisted here?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44640988/new-skinrug-wolf-with-professionally-tre
April 16, 2010 at 1:04 am
@#92 libertyangel – What if no one died and no one starved? You like that idea better?
What if your carcass was a rug? You like that idea better?
April 16, 2010 at 1:05 am
It sold. The buyer wrote to me and said they’d let us know if it smells.
April 16, 2010 at 1:08 am
It shouldn’t it was professionally treated.
April 16, 2010 at 1:12 am
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April 16, 2010 at 1:19 am
What if we don’t make excuses for people we don’t know.
The seller isn’t apologizing. In the profile the words hunting and hobby appear.
No starving Estonians.
April 16, 2010 at 1:23 am
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April 16, 2010 at 1:28 am
The bio describes hunting as a hobby. You describe it as a livelihood. Who should I believe?
April 16, 2010 at 1:32 am
Do you know her? Personally? Really?
April 16, 2010 at 1:39 am
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April 16, 2010 at 1:45 am
When you said:
“What if by NOT killing these animals they eat his entire herd of sheep/goats/geese and his family (all 12 kids and his wife) dies of starvation? You like that idea better?”
I thought you were saying “what if” for the seller, so I thought I would “what if” for the dead wolf.
“What if” is a pointless game anyway. I know how things work too.
April 16, 2010 at 2:07 am
Go Team Edward!
April 16, 2010 at 4:57 am
Is the buyer in the US? I’d be really interested to see if this makes it through customs.
April 16, 2010 at 5:42 am
45!!!!! 45 frickin’ animals. I’m going to go into a dark corner now and cry…..
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44641557/exlusive-sewn-rug-kirghiz-fox-rugblanket
April 16, 2010 at 7:15 am
Wait, honestly, I didn’t know she was only 17 when she offered me professionally treated head!
April 16, 2010 at 7:19 am
I have never seen so much mock-blocking on Regretsy.
April 16, 2010 at 7:41 am
I hate that people still portray wolves as vicious, man-eating animals……and this just perpetuates it!
April 16, 2010 at 7:45 am
It was already relisted? That means they have more than one……and you’re NOT going to get what’s shown in the photo!
April 16, 2010 at 7:58 am
#112 takilasunrise – Did you hear about the hypothetical wolf that ate an entire herd of sheep/goats/geese and his family (all 12 kids and his wife) dies of starvation?
It was particularly vicious……. hypothetically.
April 16, 2010 at 8:18 am
#98 Helen-
Can we wager whether it smells or not?
My money is on a faint smell of Febreeze. Or cigarettes. It’s a toss up, really.
April 16, 2010 at 9:31 am
If they’re teetering on the brink of starvation, maybe they shouldna had 12 kids? Tried and tried but still can’t figure how that’s the wolf’s fault.
April 16, 2010 at 9:54 am
#114 – Snark-o-leptic
Or how about the hypothetical Fox Swarm of 2010 that could have devastated flocks of sheep and other farm animals? Thank god the seller was at the ready to kill all 45 of them and turn them into a blanket!
April 16, 2010 at 11:03 am
@111 “mock-blocking” is the best phrase ever! I love it
April 16, 2010 at 11:20 am
Hunt or starve, huh? I wonder what wolf tastes like. Chicken perhaps?
April 16, 2010 at 11:23 am
I’d like to ask: is the buyer perhaps related to Little Red Riding Hood?
April 16, 2010 at 11:34 am
The seller is among us! They visited my blog yesterday.
April 16, 2010 at 5:50 pm
“…The buyer wrote to me and said they’d let us know if it smells.”
Use it as a bed-spread–overnight. The surest test there is.
April 16, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I hope whoever bought it that not only does it stink but they catch some disease off of it.
April 16, 2010 at 10:00 pm
this makes the vegetarian & animal lover in me shed tears.
this makes the obsessed-with-taxidermy-since-i-was-four part of me squeal with delight.
sorry, can’t explain the contradictions….at least i buy my taxidermy 2nd hand or as waste parts from animals killed for other reasons.
*can feel the red thumbs of hatred descending already*
April 17, 2010 at 12:54 am
Ok… so I was on the front page of Etsy for, like, TWO seconds and THIS came up in the “Recently Listed” Having just shooped this face (circa comment #81) into something pretty funny I was certain it was the same.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44960693/new-skin-rug-wolf-with-professionally-tr?ref=fp_recent
Did the buyer not want it anymore? I’m sure some febreze could scent that bugger right up? Was it a shipping issue? What gives?