Cheetahs Never Prosper
I’ve always said Etsy is full of dried up old pussies.
UPDATE: Brilliance left in the comments by JoshPincusIsCrying
I’ve always said Etsy is full of dried up old pussies.
UPDATE: Brilliance left in the comments by JoshPincusIsCrying
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May 24, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I’ve been watching far too much Buffy to be able to process this post.
May 24, 2011 at 5:57 pm
There’s no such thing as far too much Buffy. The Buffy goodness is protecting you from processing this- I wish I’d been watching it too.
May 24, 2011 at 6:10 pm
It seems I need to watch more Buffy. Must start at season 1 again.
May 24, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I wish I were watching Buffy instead of looking at this. I’ve never, ever wished that before whilst on Regretsy and there’s been a lot of weird, nasty shit on here.
Only Helen’s caption made me not go screaming off into the darkness.
May 24, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Glad you didn’t run off. We might have collided in the dark.
May 24, 2011 at 5:36 pm
GROSS…that’s all I can say about this.
May 24, 2011 at 5:38 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Damien Hirst would beg to differ.
May 24, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Damien Hirst is also a nutjob. My brother used to work with him, and I never tire of stories about that man.
May 27, 2011 at 11:33 pm
to the contrary- I think he would agree. He just wouldn’t think it was a bad thing.
May 24, 2011 at 5:36 pm
You can take that and the fetal cat in the jar and market them as “Circle of Life” bookends.
May 24, 2011 at 5:36 pm
flag it! not handmade! holy shit that’s fucked up…
May 24, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Although, depending on how long it’s been mummified, it could be considered “vintage”
May 24, 2011 at 5:55 pm
repurposed dead cat upcycled into soul snatcher
May 24, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Ah! This one really WILL steal your breath in the night just like grandma said. O___O
May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
it’s homemade! although the mama cat that made it is not getting the credit she deserves. plagiarism!
May 24, 2011 at 7:44 pm
That is the first thing I thought!
WTF is wrong with me that I’m not upset about someone selling a mummified cat so much as I am about them trying to sell it on Etsy?
May 24, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Its VINTAGE!!!
May 24, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Seriously? Disgusting Disgusting Disgusting.
May 24, 2011 at 5:37 pm
For once. . . I’m speechless. O.O
May 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm
I’m not — I shrieked like a startled schoolgirl when that came up on my screen.
May 24, 2011 at 10:01 pm
I did, too! Then I yelled “WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK???” while furiously scrolling downward in terror.
May 24, 2011 at 10:45 pm
I’m glad you realize we prefer our fucks actual here, rather than conjectural.
May 24, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Pussy Jerky!
May 24, 2011 at 5:38 pm
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in ages.
(the dried up old pussies remark)
May 24, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I wonder how much I could get for my ferret I buried in the garden?
May 24, 2011 at 5:52 pm
try it out! at worst you’ll end up right back here on regretsy
May 24, 2011 at 5:38 pm
If that seller had an ounce of respect she would bury it and leave it be instead of parading it around and putting a price tag on it ::eyeroll::
May 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I mean it’s kinda interesting to look at, but it really does deserve a burial.
May 24, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Just don’t bury it in the pet semetery *shiver*
May 24, 2011 at 6:17 pm
cemetary*
I think the semetery is the garbage can full of used kleenex in a single guys bedroom.
May 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for the spelling correction.
May 24, 2011 at 6:19 pm
shit.. I can’t even spell it right
*cemetery
put me under the hay bale now
May 24, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Read more King kthx.
May 24, 2011 at 6:23 pm
I used to be a book addict, but I had to give that all up to further my crafting addiction.
May 24, 2011 at 6:25 pm
ahem its spelled wrong in the book for a reason
May 24, 2011 at 6:27 pm
May 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Aww.. seriously?.. I’m too sheltered when it comes to movies
May 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
and books..
May 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm
that books is why I can never seem to spell cemetery right. And I just did it again. Thanks spell check!
May 24, 2011 at 7:29 pm
May 24, 2011 at 10:04 pm
They should use that as a heading for a new ‘dead things’ category.
May 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Well, shit. We found one during the old barn clear-out AND it had genuine mummified (kitty)breast-fed kittens. We buried them on the hillside.
May 24, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Thank you for being sane.
May 24, 2011 at 5:48 pm
AND that was the right thing to do.
May 24, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Forgive my city-girl ignorance. Does this happen often?
May 24, 2011 at 6:33 pm
I grew up out in the country, and while we did occasionally find the mummified bodies of dead animals, I don’t recall ever finding any household pets. And most of the bodies we did find weren’t in this good a shape.
May 24, 2011 at 6:54 pm
I’ve seen “mummy cats” two or three times, and I always assumed it was an old or sick cat that crawled into a “safe” spot and never left. I’ve never seen one this well preserved, either, though.
May 24, 2011 at 6:55 pm
It depends on the climate (dryness, etc) where you live – some of the buildings my department manages in the more northerly regions of this province often find mummified beasties in spaces that haven’t been opened in awhile. It’s a ripoff to sell them though – when you remove them from those conditions they can rot pretty quickly.
May 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Yeah, climate matters a lot; I live in the south so we don’t get surprise mummies so much as we do surprise piles of ‘OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?!’.
May 24, 2011 at 10:06 pm
So true… we did find a large dessicated skink in our garage once. But here in FL, that doesn’t happen often.
May 24, 2011 at 11:58 pm
I found a rat once, in Dad’s back shed, completely desiccated and completely repellant. It hadn’t been a happy rat in life; I could tell, because it had committed suicide by eating into a box of snailbait.
I buried it. I regret this now, as clearly I could have made $100 by flogging it off on Etsy as a companion-piece to the dried-up pussycat.
May 24, 2011 at 7:00 pm
I grew up in the country, found a mummified frog, then two squirrels after I was mostly grown up.
I left one of the squirrels on the porch to scare the mailman, but I don’t think he appreciated that very much.
May 24, 2011 at 8:09 pm
I found a mummified squirrel once. My dog thought it was beef jerky and ate it.
May 24, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I found dried up squirrel tails under a bed once when housesitting. The couple’s cat had left them there. I was puzzled as to how they never smelled them.
May 25, 2011 at 1:35 am
Perhaps this child will be after your own heart, then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nn0UkdDArM&feature=share
May 24, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I grew up in a desert, and it did there. My grandpa found “Kiki,” and I’m still a little traumatized from the time he made it walk along the outside of the kitchen window at night.
May 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Oh thank goodness, I was starting to think there were only ugly things on Etsy. This dessicated cat (most definitely male) has really restored the balance…
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Sarcasm. That was sarcasm. Except for the male part.
May 24, 2011 at 5:53 pm
if anyone took that as not sarcasm, i fear they have no faith in humanity..
May 24, 2011 at 6:00 pm
For some reason, it felt important to my soul to clarify
Apparently this is getting etsy hearts, faith in humanity is shaky at best!
May 24, 2011 at 6:26 pm
i don’t. i didn’t take it for sarcasm till you clarified. can you blame a person for not having any faith in humanity?
May 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Poor thing.
And what is this. Handmade? God I hope not. Vintage? How old is that corpse.
OH I KNOW! Supplies!
Expect to see this guy on a hat soon!
May 24, 2011 at 5:41 pm
dammit i just posted the exact same thing down there
May 24, 2011 at 7:20 pm
lol, no shit, right?
May 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Disgusting
May 24, 2011 at 5:40 pm
not hand made, not vintage (unless maybe in cat years), perhaps a supply?
May 24, 2011 at 5:41 pm
What’s the black line in the middle? Does it fold in half for easier shipment?
His skin is silky and soft… really??? This seller definitely took the writing workshop!
May 24, 2011 at 5:44 pm
It’s wire (so I’ve come to determine from the other pics on the ad), which means someone has been HANGING this from god knows where to display to other like-minded individuals
May 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Of course it is. Now I just feel silly. Serious question though- how do you know if you’ve hung it crooked? In my mind all animals die flat on their backs. Can someone rotate the picture?
May 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Silky and soft… that kinda stood out to me too. I can imagine this sick fuck sitting alone in the dark stroking this poor dead cat.
May 24, 2011 at 9:02 pm
“Silky and soft”.
I don’t know. My mama taught me not to go rubbing dried corpses to see what they felt like.
May 24, 2011 at 10:50 pm
My own Mama’s instructions were more directed toward live penises than dried corpses. It’s totally possible that I could have petted any number of horribly dead house pets without those vital instructions, I guess.
Oh, wait. No it’s not. Because that would be horribly disgusting.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
My brother and I each paid $1 once at a carnival to see something called “The Amazing Thing”. We handed our dollars to the man, who ushered us behind a curtain and gestured to a coffin-like enclosure.
Within it, was this thing. Or something very like it.
The Amazing Thing, folks.
May 24, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I saw something like that behind glass at a gift shop in Banff, but it was a taxidermy abomination of a fish and a ??? It was supposed to look kind of like a mermaid but was creepy as hell. I didn’t have to pay $1 to see it but seeing as the shop charged ridiculous tourist prices like $7 for a pen and $12 for a rabbit pelt the fact that people ever bought anything there was The Amazing Thing
May 25, 2011 at 3:46 am
Hi, just thought I’d point out that what you saw was most probably half fish, half baby monkey. It’s called a Feejee Mermaid (with various spellings) and was first popularised (if that’s the word) by P. T. Barnum.
This may not be a popular thing to say here, given people’s general disgust for the mummy cat, but if I’d seen a Feejee Mermaid for sale, I admit I would be tempted to buy it :S
May 27, 2011 at 5:19 am
You remind me of the once fabuous, now non-existant, Steeplechase Park in Coney Island (in Brooklyn New York to those out-of-towners among you), where one was encouraged to climb up a ladder to view California Red Bats in an enclosre at the top. Scary to a 6 year old, really! The view, in the darkened interior, was of three real baseball bats, bathed in red light. Oh, boy!
Way, way off topic, but a fond memory…thanks, Rev.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Dear Jesus, why couldn’t you save this helpless creature from this insane person? This disturbs me as an animal lover, but even more as an artist! Shouldn’t the cat’s ghost get the profit? For the sake of all that’s holy, someone give this “listing” a respectful burial! Etsy’s new pain in the ass extra steps for sellers of handmade & vintage sure is weeding out the weirdness, eh? WTFE
May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Yes, the cat’s ghost should get the money from this. But what would he spend it on?
May 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm
ghost mice..
May 24, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Conveniently, also from the seller:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/69122747/freeze-dried-mouse
May 24, 2011 at 7:48 pm
@Amazon
Why would you do that to the mouse?
May 24, 2011 at 7:49 pm
@Amazon
My last comment looks weird. The you was directed at the person who I’m hoping isn’t freeze drying them while they’re alive.
May 24, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Heh. For a second I was going to get butthurt at you accusing me of freeze-drying mice.
May 28, 2011 at 1:46 am
LMAO The mouse! this dude is so killing off these poor animals to get a buck or two. Sadistic bastard! baha
May 24, 2011 at 6:03 pm
a bus ticket east.
May 24, 2011 at 6:08 pm
A stick for smacking people who buy dried up dead cats?
May 24, 2011 at 6:11 pm
(kissing fingertips) Perfecto!
May 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Ghost catnip, of course.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
What a bunch of fucktards! I hope someone sells their dried out carcass when they’re dead too. WTF in their right mind even wants to buy a dead cat? I could see if it wasn’t dried out and a taxidermist needed some practice, but this is just beyond greedy and fucked up IMO.
May 24, 2011 at 5:44 pm
fucktard seems to be the moniker for this um fuck tard
May 24, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Sell them to Gunther van Hagens. He can put them on display in his “Body Worlds” exhibition.
May 24, 2011 at 6:49 pm
There is a huge market for creepy shit like this. There’s even a show on TLC or History or some other channel about a store that sells exploding skulls, and vintage prosthetic limbs. I don’t get it. Now, if it were an actual Egyptian mummy cat, the wanna be Indiana Jones in me would jump at it. But I’m not 12 anymore.
May 24, 2011 at 7:10 pm
the same store DOES sell vintage prosthetic limbs.
May 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Kinky Friedman once commented that he hoped that somewhere in the universe there was a planet full of intelligent armadillos who dried out humans and carved THEM into ornamental baskets.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Upcycled pets…the new retro chic.
Also how exactly does a mummified cat have personality?!?!
May 24, 2011 at 7:43 pm
When its owner took the Etsy Writer’s Workshop!
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I didn’t want to know how the poor thing died, I’m going to have nightmares…
May 24, 2011 at 5:56 pm
All I can think of is the poor cat, trapped, spending its last hours frightened and alone. It makes me want to weep.
May 24, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Oh now you are going to get me started. *sniffle*
I was thinking the same thing. How long was it alive before finally giving up? I hope it didn’t starve..
May 24, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I did cry, I love my kitties. I’m just hoping it didn’t have to suffocate or starve to death and that the bale killed it. I’ve seen my share of pets die from baling accidents, believe me, broken neck is the way to go.
May 24, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Ugh, same here…..doesn’t help that I’m stuck at home feeling ill already, now my mind has wandered to this. The poor thing should just be buried!
May 24, 2011 at 11:21 pm
A lot of cats know when they’re about to go (of natural causes), and choose to go curl up somewhere comfy and safe. I’m going to hope it was one of these.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 5:53 pm
We LIKE
kittehscats here.May 24, 2011 at 6:06 pm
I love cats, but actually with my sick humor quite a bit of that was funny.
May 24, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Ah Bill…ya gotta pick your audience.
(I was thumbed down for laughing at a dead cat JOKE here, and I freaking LOVE cats.)
May 24, 2011 at 7:19 pm
I don’t even have a daughter. It was all lies.
May 24, 2011 at 7:29 pm
most of the audience here i think might be newer to regretsy, so that might explain it?
i also thought the joke was funny and you can ask anyone that knows me i love all animals (2 cats, a dog and 2 turtles co-habitate with us)
May 25, 2011 at 8:58 am
So talking about vaginas, explosive diarrhea, bloody tampons and miscellaneous diseases is A-OK…but somehow not liking cats gets me vilified? Wow….tough crowd. I shall not flounce, however, I will soldier on with my dead cat army.
May 25, 2011 at 9:00 am
I can’t stand cats. You have at least one ally.
May 25, 2011 at 11:26 am
Great, I have a friend in cat hatred! You can be the Buzz to my Woody. It’ll be a great friendship.
Get your minds out of the gutter, I didn’t mean THAT kind of Woody.
May 25, 2011 at 3:44 pm
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May 25, 2011 at 9:03 am
Damn double postings…first one didn’t show up. I’ll take my dead cat and sit in the corner now. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
May 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm
The seller really missed a real opportunity to spice up the listing by stating some bullshit about how the ancient Egyptians worshiped cats and this cat is obviously embalmed with level 4 spiritual fuckery.
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
A little help with translations:
“As the story goes” = “That’s my story, officer, and I’m sticking to it.”
“…got into some trouble on the farm, and was stuck between some stacked hay.” = “…was really pissing me off one day, and was stuck by my pitchfork.”
“…which is fortunate for me..” = “…which is a damn good thing because if there were such a thing as ghosts this bastard would haunt me at a level that would make Poe freak out.”
May 24, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Mistletoe, I adore you.
May 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Oh, fancyskants. I bet you say that to all the elves.
May 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Do not.
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
the fucktard listed it as steampunk
May 24, 2011 at 7:52 pm
People keep using that word. I don’t think it means whatever it is they think it means.
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Oh GOD that’s NASTY!! I had the misfortune of finding my own mummified cat as a child, and let me tell you, I’ve never forgotten that smell!!!! Oh how gross.
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
My high school bio teacher always said she had a hard time finding mummified animals for her home. I should find her email and send her the link for Etsy. Or better yet, buy this and show up at her doorstop unannounced. “FOR YOU <3"
May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
As the daughter of a science teacher I beg you to do this.
May 24, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I went to a vocational agricultural school and the standing offer was if you had an animal die, you could donate it for dissection or as a specimen. That’s how we got quite the collections of strange stillborn animals, including a chinchilla. Creepily educational!
May 24, 2011 at 6:13 pm
…because that would not be creepy AT ALL
May 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I was about to eat dinner, but I guess not now. GROSS
May 24, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Agreed. But unfortunately for me, I just came back from eating a nice dinner including dessert then checked to see what was new on Regretsy. I can only say, I regretsy doing that as what goes down must come up sometimes…
May 25, 2011 at 12:03 am
I was thinking about cooking something, and wondering whether I’d manage to start my diet properly any time soon. I think I’ll start it right now…
May 24, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Holy shitfuck that’s terrible. And it feels silky smooth! Now I just have horrible images of someone sitting in a corner with this thing, rubbing their hands all over it and making gurgling noises.
May 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm
now i have the evil guy from 007 stroking THIS kitty in my head
May 24, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Well… it won’t shed on his dress slacks. Not fur, anyway. Some of it’s rich, amber skin might flake off.
I pretty much live in the forest, dead things are just a common occurrence around here. But this is still disturbing. “I found this dead cat. It died a horrible death trapped between hay. I hung it up for shits and giggles for a while, but I need the new iPad so gimmee a few hundred bucks for this corpse that I ventilated for you.”
May 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm
http://youtu.be/1jOnmdUcuG8?t=1m11s
May 24, 2011 at 5:44 pm
This must be the level 10 photoshop
May 24, 2011 at 5:45 pm
I’ve read just about every single post ever put on this site and this is the first one that made me draw in a deep breath when I opened it.
*off to find some Fancy Feast for my beloved Meows (that’s what my kid calls them) *
May 24, 2011 at 5:45 pm
I prefer my pussy warm, hairy and kinda noisy when it wants something.
Seriously, what kind of sick fuck is this?
May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
I thought you were being naughty for a second there. Then I thought- noisy? Oh. My bad.
May 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm
see i still did even after the noisy bit
May 24, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Nah, this is one of the two warm, hairy and noisy pussies that live with me. The other one hates cameras.
May 24, 2011 at 9:27 pm
I lurve all black kitties. They look like little panthers!
May 24, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Someone is absolutely going to buy that.
May 24, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I hate people, it has 14 hearts. What THE fucking HELL.
May 24, 2011 at 6:07 pm
nine lives too.
May 25, 2011 at 6:49 am
past tense.
May 24, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I think if you want to bookmark an item so you can get back to it to show your friends, maybe you might just heart it… at least, I HOPE that’s the explaination behind the heartings.
May 24, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Too bad there’s no odor… when I pay $350 I expect a creepy animal corpse that you can use with women of any size, because you can change the size of the smell.
May 24, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Check out the shop. There is also a gross dead fish so the gross dead cat will not go hungry. Her house must smell amazing!
May 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Really helps enhance the story that she just “found” this, huh?
May 24, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Yep! I bet the fish accidently got caught between two bales of hay too!
May 24, 2011 at 6:33 pm
No, it died trying to eat the lamp! Win/win. Fish died with a full belly and some lucky duck is going to get one heck of a Christmas present this year.
May 24, 2011 at 6:53 pm
I’ve worked in barns, and like someone else said, you do find animals in all sorts of different stages. It’s sad and gross
May 24, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Yeah… she just found it during the filming of her episode of ‘Hoarders’ most likely.
May 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm
I…uh… I am not drunk enough for that thing. I will never be drunk enough for that thing. There is not enough whiskey in the world. I’m going to go watch more My Drunk Kitchen to make the screaming in my head stop now.
May 24, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I…have no words. Frankly I’m terrified.
…actually, I think the words for this are “AAAHHH OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT”
May 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Well shit, if I’d known I could have gotten 350 bones for my daughter’s dead cat, I wouldn’t have scraped it up with a shovel and told her it joined the circus.
May 24, 2011 at 6:13 pm
*snort*
May 24, 2011 at 5:52 pm
How disgusting, awful, disrespectful…I threw up a little, then hugged my cats. Then I reported this to Etsy. This is quite possibly one of the most truly offensive things I’ve seen come out of Etsy–along with that wedding card with the page from The Diary of Anne Frank. As it is, I’m working on establishing myself elsewhere on the web so I can close my Etsy shop by the end of the year. But with every post on Regretsy, I find myself wanting to speed that timeline up…
May 24, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Are you familiar with EvenBadgers? Made by disgusted Regretsians, FOR disgruntled Regretsians!
May 24, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Nope. But I’ll go check it out.
May 27, 2011 at 5:37 am
Your shop has lovely stuff! Please let us know where you settle!
May 24, 2011 at 5:52 pm
What the dingley duckfuck is this seller thinking?
May 24, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I don’t know, but “dingley duckfuck” made me smile and I deeply needed something to smile about after this post.
May 24, 2011 at 5:55 pm
May 24, 2011 at 6:20 pm
The “phone numbers” on this really got me> How does one dial a man-sitting-with-arm-raised?
May 24, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Duh, you just push the button with a picture of a man-sitting-with-arm-raised on it.
May 25, 2011 at 1:14 am
Thank you. Like a breath of fresh air over here, Josh!
I guffawed.
May 25, 2011 at 6:10 am
Snaps up for not using Papyrus, as not even the Ancient Egyptians would stoop to such terribly overused fonts.
May 25, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Holy crap, that’s great.
May 24, 2011 at 5:55 pm
I have four very healthy happy rescue cats, so I had to report this–it’s part of the cat lady code::
IT’S A DEAD CAT! It’s not vintage and I hope to God it’s not a supply or handmade!
“Your report was successfully submitted! Just as a heads up, you won’t receive an update on your submission. We’ll review this information and address any issues directly with the seller. Thanks for taking the time to help maintain the integrity of the Etsy marketplace!”
The integrity of the Etsy marketplace pretty much bit it when they traded genuine artisan crafted or properly scavenged vintage goods for the juiciest ballsack…show me the money not dead animals–assholes
May 24, 2011 at 6:25 pm
me too. just reported this. i’d be very interested to see whether it is removed after some days. doubt it will be.
May 24, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Yeah, on my report I said though I knew they weren’t going to give me any follow through, if they chose to keep this in I really wanted an explanation of why a dead mummified cat counted as hand made and noted that this wasn’t taxidermy , but even taxidermy doesn’t fit on Etsy as handmade.
I’m sure they’re onto this being a Regretsy born complaint, the probably have a toss file just for us.
May 24, 2011 at 5:56 pm
I opened this link at work — and proceeded to make my IT guy very upset with coffee splattered monitor…
I believe the sound I made was ‘Blerrghhfuuuknastyyyy’
May 24, 2011 at 5:57 pm
i didn’t realize you could taxidermy fish..
May 24, 2011 at 6:03 pm
May 24, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Technically, they’re all fiberglass now. I was somewhat disappointed to find out that there wasn’t some magical technique that they used to taxidermy fish. They just order a fiberglass blank and paint it to look like the fish you caught.
May 25, 2011 at 4:13 pm
ha! yeah, I didn’t actually read any of her descriptions, I just quickly glanced at the photos.
May 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Well at least it is tagged correctly. It is tagged “weird”.
May 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm
And steampunk.
May 24, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I have some friends who are steampunk. I’m pretty sure they would all classify this as ‘a poor dead kitty that should be buried’.
Are they confusing steampunk with Goth? I have, I have to admit, known some Goths who might want this.
May 25, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I think the person who posted it is just…special. Yeah. I’ll go with special. Although I do have one goth friend who would like it. But, after years of being severely allergic to cats and being forced to be around angry feral cats, she doesn’t like cats. I don’t think it has anything to do with the goth thing.
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May 24, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Yes. Definitely the only one.
May 25, 2011 at 4:23 am
LOL you guys are funny. I should’ve pointed out that I still think it’s gross, but oh well. If you think this is gross you should’ve seen (or smelled) the dead rotting moose I saw in the woods a few days ago.. Wonder if I could sell that on etsy.. (kidding)
May 25, 2011 at 4:25 am
Also I love my kitty c
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May 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm
I’m so bothered by this. Does this person have no respect for the dead? If they found a Person would they try selling them on Esty too? The expression on the late cat looks scared or struggling and they’re displaying this and proud of their find? And It’s not Steampunk *facepalm* Definitely Horror though. *shugger*
May 24, 2011 at 6:06 pm
I am sickened. If it sells, it’s allowable? Like profiting from a creature’s misfortune is okay because animals are “things?” Nice big pricetag–is that because it’s rare or because they will sell anything for money? The least they could do with this attempt to profit from death would have been to offer 100% of the money to an animal charity, but still a really bothersome way to raise funds!
May 24, 2011 at 6:13 pm
I reported it. Ended up reporting for “suspected not vintage” because I couldn’t think of anything else. I’m so appalled that someone thought was a cool enough to sell. It is interesting, I can even understand the macabre fascination with the poor thing but…Hang it on the wall and then sell for $350? I don’t even think a donation would make me feel better. The kitty suffered and now is being paraded like a trophy
Also will add: this is why I love this Regretsy. They shed light on stuff that otherwise goes unnoticed.
May 24, 2011 at 6:24 pm
me, too, don’t know what the “appropriate” selection would be–there should be an option for JUST WRONG ON ALL ACCOUNTS
yeah, I never knew the underbelly of Etsy until recently because I’m always looking for *pretty* things, nice things, things I might wear or give as a gift… :/
May 24, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Realistically, people do sell leather goods and such on Etsy…but a random cat corpse that suffered an accidental death does seem…different.
May 24, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Actually, there have been human parts sold – or at least listed – on Etsy. One featured here on Regretsy was part of a dubious ‘art work’.
So in answer to your first question – no.
May 24, 2011 at 6:00 pm
My first thought was of this episode of hoarders:
http://tv.gawker.com/5416213/aes-hoarders-discovers-the-ultimate-cat-lady
May 24, 2011 at 7:16 pm
That lady’s got like $12k lying around the house
May 24, 2011 at 8:05 pm
This episode is why I don’t watch Hoarders anymore. Of course, now they have Animal Hoarders (which I avoid like the plague). I don’t need to see this, I know it happens, don’t give me visual evidence! (Sorry, I tend to yell when upset, nothing to do with anybody here.)
May 24, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Oh God, that episode broke my heart. Both for the woman and the cats. And a little bit for the guys who had to clean the place out.
The part where they found the skunk was hilarious, though.
May 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Nothing is more Steampunk than a dead cat. I think someone should call the animal control people in her state and see if she has anymore mummification projects “under the hay bale”.
May 24, 2011 at 6:21 pm
they would steam punk the seller’s ass. serve the seller right too.
May 24, 2011 at 6:51 pm
I do believe you’re thinking of goths, not steampunks. Ain’t nothing steampunk about a dead cat.
May 24, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I don’t think there is anything goth or steampunk about a dead cat. I don’t really think there is anything humane about a dead cat for sale. That was a wee bit O the sarcasm.
May 24, 2011 at 7:21 pm
That was icraftoncrack’s point; they were being sarcastic because the seller listed this under steampunk.
May 24, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Is it even legal to ship that kind of shit around?
May 24, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Nope. We had this conversation when the dead mouse earrings came up. The Postal Service won’t ship dead things unless the shipper has a special license and pays an extra fee.
May 24, 2011 at 6:07 pm
I’m not easily disturbed by dead things (I’m not a freak I swear, I’m just a biology nerd). I am however disturbed that someone found a dead cat and thought “I bet I could totally sell this on etsy.” (For $350 no less.)
May 24, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Not asseptable, of course, but mostly it’s sad.
I have two cats. So, this cat died a painful, lonely death of either smothering, crushing or dehydration. I look at the cat warming my feet right now and look at this. Nice.
I so what all that pain in my house. That will attract some good juju right there.
And I like weird shit. I have made dolls with skulls and have no problem with the morbid.
Blech.
May 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm
I know, right? There’s a line between weird curiosity & completely nasty insane to make money–corpse whoring–hot off the merhandising desk!
May 24, 2011 at 6:23 pm
One of my favorite cats jumped in the feed barrel and the lid fell on him ( mind you if he had tried to get out he could have simply bumped the lid) he panicked and must have scrambled arround and died of fright, because we found him that evening. THIS THING reminds me of the look on his poor poor face. Fright, horror, panic.
May 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
poor baby, and even though they are terrific hunters, they are sort of helpless in man’s world–they don’t understand what humans do–they’re at a serious disadvantage with all of human stuff, nothing natural. Mine stay inside where I now they & other wildlife are safe–my furry toddlers
May 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm
where I *know* they are safe
May 24, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I had to put them outside, I was prego and the ex who’s spawn i was birthin and the other two OLDER children wouldn’t change the litter boxes. Nuerotic feller that he (the cat) was did quite well outside for years. And yes I had repeatedly gotten after the kids for not checking and shutting the bins properly, because i constantly found a fat and happy mommy kitty every morning in the feed bin after a long nights feast. He however just spazzed i guess.
May 24, 2011 at 6:32 pm
oh my god. The poor thing. Oh wow. You break my heart!
I…Have to go play with my cats now.
May 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm
I’m sorry to read that. It’s so sad. and angers me even more that someone could think they could profit form this. Can’t wait to go home and hug all my kitties
May 24, 2011 at 7:19 pm
yes that is why i told the story, because that face on that “mummy” looked like his, and it wasnt happy.
May 24, 2011 at 6:15 pm
He’s calling it a mummy… yet WHERE ARE THE BANDAGES? Where is the tiny cat-sized sarcophagus? The coptic jars??
Bast, go get him!
May 24, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Humans: Bast Kitty Toys!
May 24, 2011 at 7:21 pm
No, no, this is when you send Sehkmet! she handles the vengeance. and the plagues.
May 24, 2011 at 8:10 pm
It’s such a luxury to lurk in a forum where someone (and often more than *one* someone) knows what Sekhmet is for. Almost makes up for Mummy Kat, almost…
May 25, 2011 at 4:37 am
Thanks for the clarification. I’m more up to speed on the Hindu, Celtic, Norse and Greco-Roman pantheons.
May 24, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I contacted PETA with the link to it, shop name and the effed up site it is for sale on. I hope a group of angry animal activists show up and protest at their headquarters. Some of this crap they sell on etsy is just totally f&%$ed up.
May 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
While I am not a fan of PETA, sicking them on this dickbag seems…*right*…
May 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Never had anything to do with PETA before, I carry a leather purse, they wouldn’t like that. But this is just awful and encourages cruel messed up people to possible trap animals, kill them and sell them. And etsy lets people sell some dead birds and their parts for jewelry and such. Right now my beautiful calico is rubbing around my legs, she was dumped out in the country on a dirt road in front of my house ten years ago. And she is so precious.
May 24, 2011 at 6:54 pm
We’ve been working on trying to bring in and pretty much adopt this gorgeous Siamese lady that the previous tenant left behind. We put food out for her and pet her and everything. She likes my cats, but some of my kiddos aren’t too into her. She just doesn’t like staying in the house for too long.
May 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I’m also going to report it to PETA in the hopes of getting this thing taken down and the seller and/or etsy in trouble
May 24, 2011 at 7:58 pm
I HAAAAAAATE PETA.
That being said, your action was brilliant. Sic the asshats on each other.
May 24, 2011 at 8:39 pm
I hate PETA as well. Evil bastards. But hey, they and Etsy deserve one another. DUKE IT OUT, ASSTARDS!
May 24, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Maybe the ASPCA should be told about this item and the animal bone sellers on etsy, too. But they would probably just send Kalin a strongly worded letter.
May 24, 2011 at 8:38 pm
http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm
…yeah, you might want to try calling a different “animal activist” group. (warning: graphic pictures)
May 25, 2011 at 6:14 am
Why are you all reporting her to PETA? They can do jack shit, and whilst it might not be tasteful, she actually hasn’t done anything cruel or illegal.
“this is just awful and encourages cruel messed up people to possible trap animals, kill them and sell them” – Where do you think meat, leather, fur, etc comes from?
I think this listing is disturbing, out of touch, and probably not Etsy material, but seriously…
May 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Mummified cats are SOOOO BC.
Plastified cats are the future!
May 24, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Plastinated*
May 25, 2011 at 7:49 am
Plasticated?
May 24, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Capitalism at its finest, eh?
May 24, 2011 at 6:22 pm
I’m really not sure what kind of person has a “favorite part” of a dead animal….and has also touched it enough to know that it “feels silky and soft”.
May 24, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I’m just thankful that they didn’t turn the cat into a lamp like that taxidermy fish that’s also in the shop.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68781271/taxidermy-fish-lamp?ref=v1_other_1
May 24, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Bleh… the empty eye sockets were stealing my soul.
May 24, 2011 at 6:44 pm
I reported the fish for being a fire hazard, not sure if its against etsy rules or not, dont care, felt like being an ass
May 25, 2011 at 5:44 am
to be more clear, IT IS a fire hazard and etsy SHOULD have rules about selling things that are obvious fire hazards. There are laws controlling what stores can and can not sell that may or may not be flammable and suitable for age groups etc. I’m TIRED of seeing light bulbs shoved into things and called a lamp. THIS is not a LAMP, its a deadly fire waiting to happen.
May 24, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Why did I click on that? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?!
I’m seriously going to have nightmares now.
May 24, 2011 at 6:27 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Ah, try live with it. There are some things you don’t do, and one of them is try to charge $350 for a dead cat. I wouldn’t say I was in a state of moral outrage so much as a state of moral WTF?
May 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
May 24, 2011 at 6:40 pm
That made me laugh. And then I hated myself for laughing. And then I laughed again.
May 24, 2011 at 6:34 pm
May 24, 2011 at 8:12 pm
My vote for comment of the day!
May 24, 2011 at 6:36 pm
What really happened:
This kitty was unearthed when a cleaning crew came to haul out the 20 tons of garbage in this person’s house for an episode of Hoarders.
May 24, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Yeah….cat hoarders LOVE cats. Love them SO much and take such GOOD care of them. Like they do their homes, and their refrigerators. And their belongings, and the feelings and needs of their family.
My original background is in counseling, and I confess freely that I feel nothing but revulsion and frustration towards hoarders. I know it’s mental illness, and I don’t care. My guy’s daughter is one. His ex wife is one. Sometimes I think he married me because I will throw anything away, valuable or not. Stuff smothers. Mess just stresses me out.
It’s probably good that I am not a counselor anymore.
“How about we get a nice can of gasoline…and a match?”
Yeah.
May 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm
My great-great aunt is one. After something like 3 decades of trying to get her institutionalized, she is now in a home. And getting medicated for her schizophrena for the first time. They re-homed 32ish cats. And I am SHOCKED that someone bought her house for like $25K. They’re going to have to gut it to the bricks. Because remember: cat urine + fire = not good. Don’t wanna get all the nasty stuff into the air.
May 24, 2011 at 9:19 pm
I’m doing an MFT now, and actually want to specialize in hoarders…but animal hoarders baffle me.
May 25, 2011 at 7:39 am
You are a better person than I (also MFT background). I mean that sincerely.
Glad you are. They are needed. It just won’t be me.
May 24, 2011 at 10:24 pm
I confess freely that I feel nothing but revulsion and frustration towards hoarders. I know it’s mental illness, and I don’t care.
AMEN!!!
My mother is a hoarder. I spent 2 months with my closest friend shoveling out her fucking house. All she did the whole time was bitch I was getting rid of “all [her] memories”. Never mind those ‘memories’ were covered in dust, dirt, dog shit and god knows what all else. It was a disgusting experience and the place is still a fire hazard and should probably be condemned due to all the black mold, shitty wiring and general neglect of everything. I never in my wildest dreams imagined so much MESS could cover so many MORE EFFING MESSES.
Get meds, get counseling, get whatever is needed, but throw out the junk and keep your house fucking presentable and in good repair.
May 25, 2011 at 5:35 am
Remember when cat hoarders die, and aren’t found promptly, they aren’t found intact, cause kitteh’s get hungry. Again, true story.
May 24, 2011 at 6:41 pm
May 25, 2011 at 7:41 am
I laughed. Even after all that I laughed. The expression suits the sentiment.
You ALWAYS make me laugh.
I hate you a little.
May 25, 2011 at 8:35 am
I hate me a little, too
May 24, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Totally disgusting and a bit freaky/scary too….I mean, who finds this valuable, promotable, funny or socially acceptable?
May 24, 2011 at 6:54 pm
May 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Turkey Jerky is SO 1987.
May 24, 2011 at 7:02 pm
I am the manaGer of a funeral home. Its what I do for a living. So I am very accustomed to seeimg dead people in very advanced stages of decomposition… And even I must say that the fact that some retard (*gasp* the R word!) Would sell something like this… On etsy… freaks the crap outta me. I mean, if its for some veternary school or somewhere where they need to do various animal autopsies, fine. But on etsy?! Really!? How stupid can this seller really be! this is enough to make someone shit out of their mouth
May 24, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Too bad it did not have metal tags or a collar on it. Then they could have added “steampunk” to the listing.
May 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Oh, they did. Check the tags on the original listing.
May 24, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Jesus Christ on a bike. I missed it. But then I did not look at the original.
You know, there was a dead petrified baby bird in a nest under the eaves of our porch, never did it cross my mind, while I was burying the whole deal, “Bet I could sell this or stick a barbie doll head on it and make some cash.” NEVER!
May 24, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Etsy may well be full of dried up old pussies, but from what I’ve seen on Regretsy I have my doubts about them being one of a kind or having great personalities and absolutely no odour.
May 24, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Dead things on Etsy don’t often bother me, with the exception of the inexplicable subgenre of taxidermy-head fascinators…But this is just absolutely fucking sick, and the description sounds like it was written by some kind of budding (or budded) psychopath.
May 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I’ve seen those fascinators, and I still choose to believe they don’t exist.
May 24, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I need to go hug my cat. NOW
May 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm
This seller has been disqualified from rapture status on October 21.
May 24, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Reported to ETSY. As if anything would happen.
May 24, 2011 at 7:18 pm
i guess i am so used to seeing weird shit on etsy this doesn’t phase me anymore. i do feel bad for that cat, though…and starry you know i adore you, too
May 24, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I know some of you are upset, but it was mummified. It wasn’t like someone harmed this cat to get it that way. I adore my cats, but looks like this cat died from natural causes. Doesn’t anyone around here remember Url?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/24255621/fish-in-a-squirrel-suit-taxidermy-url
May 24, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I really don’t think this person harmed this cat. I have no idea why any of you would want to report it.
May 24, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I agree, people are acting like the cat was terribly mistreated. I think it’s really bizarre to decide to sell a naturally mummified cat, but I wouldn’t call it inhumane. *gets bricked*
I’d also like to point out that this was a barn cat, not someone’s house pet. People generally aren’t as attached to the former, it may not have even had a name. (I probably just made it worse, didn’t I?)
And just for the record, I’m not Satan, I do love cats.
May 26, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Those are my thoughts too. It’s an unpleasant object, but there’s no reason to think this cat met a distinctly inhumane end.
And likewise, I lurves my kitties (who range from animate plush toy to eartipped recovering feral).
May 25, 2011 at 4:39 am
I agree.. people are acting like she killed and dried it herself.
May 25, 2011 at 6:19 am
admittedly, it’s kinda gross, but as we all know here, some people’s taste in craft knows no bounds…
May 24, 2011 at 7:22 pm
My cats are smarter than most people I know. I would be disgusted if this was a dog, or any other animal, never mind a cat. Even a hamster. Ok- even a squirrel, as those pricks are eating my flowering bulbs.
May 24, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Now I know what to show my cat when she wakes me up at 4sm. “Do you want to end up like this?!?!?” I’ll say, but she’s a cat, and her English-not so good.
The long-walks-with-dead-animals guy should hook up with this seller.
May 24, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Great. I was eating a late dinner as I read this. Thanks so much, Ms. Winchell.
May 24, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I don’t know why I still insist on scrolling down when I see the “Dead Things” tag.
On another note, I just found this gif on a sausage factory’s website and I feel like people need to see it.
May 24, 2011 at 7:45 pm
if you animated this with a bunch of dehydrated cats, i would be more impressed.
KIDDING!
May 24, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I couldn’t help myself…
May 25, 2011 at 12:18 am
I love you.
May 25, 2011 at 1:03 am
THANK GOD. There are still some sick fucks lurking on this site with me.
May 24, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Considering the same seller also sells these two terrifying things, I’d take the mummified cat any day of the week.
May 24, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Jesus Christ, that first one will haunt my nightmares for a week.
May 24, 2011 at 8:21 pm
The bird/doll thing is kind of amazing.
May 24, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I did have a next-door neighbor in my college dorm who collected dead birds.
I coped. It wasn’t the worst thing people on that hall did.
May 25, 2011 at 12:16 am
Dare I ask…?
May 25, 2011 at 4:44 am
You know he’s got human remains in his basement freezer.
May 24, 2011 at 7:51 pm
May 24, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I think a certain charnel house is missing its cat…
May 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Aren’t there laws against sending dead animals through the mail? If there ain’t, there oughta. Yuck.
May 24, 2011 at 10:15 pm
My fetal pig came via UPS, but then it was vacuum packed after professional preservation. Keeping it under my desk at work was probably pushing my luck but my boss just shook her head and walked away.
But the true horror comes from the idea that this cat is not specifically offered for science classes, but as a decoration. There’s no proof that the remains are sanitary or have been preserved.
I cringe at the rather bizarrely worshipful description which panders to some sort of Young Necrophiliacs League market segment.
And I must admit that, if offered as art, it is doing its job of stimulating thought. In this case I’d rather have my revulsion over my intellectual satisfaction.
May 24, 2011 at 8:05 pm
May 24, 2011 at 8:07 pm
As a person who recently had a cat give birth to four precious kittens, this broke my heart! Agggghhhhh.
May 24, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I don’t recall this being one of the chapters in “101 Uses For a Dead Cat” . . . but I could be wrong, it’s been a while.
Now that’s out of my system, I’m gonna go hug my kitties.
May 24, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Genius! Quickly doing math…… $300 (need to undercut crazy lady’s price) x 20 (the average number of mummified cats per episode of Hoarders found on A&E) = Paying off a serious chunk of credit card debt…. I wonder if I could get a premium by using an “as seen of TV sticker”
May 24, 2011 at 8:11 pm
As a cat
ladylover I find this kinda depressing.And unimpressive. It’s one thing to find a dead cat and sell it, it’s another to find a dead cat and turn it into a Kentucky Derby hat.
May 24, 2011 at 8:12 pm
May 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 8:54 pm
I think you’re overthinking this one, I really do.
May 25, 2011 at 1:06 am
thank sweet jesus, you’re here. i was beginning to think i was on the bizarro version of this site.
May 24, 2011 at 9:09 pm
To me it looks like they are taxidermists. The half owl half doll thing appears to be roadkill where the head was not salvageable. Some of the other items appear that way, as well. Like some of their projects failed, and what better way to get rid of them than to sell them.
I know there are people in my are that pick up roadkill like foxes, porcupines, coyotes..etc..and take them to the taxidermist guy. To have the animal processed in a way that might be salvageable. I know a fellow coworker who found a beautiful fox and had it turned into a stole.
But still..ick.
Yes I believe I overthunk that.
May 24, 2011 at 8:15 pm
May 24, 2011 at 8:33 pm
One man’s trash is another man’s trash.
May 24, 2011 at 8:40 pm
May 24, 2011 at 10:26 pm
For some reason those two go together well.
May 24, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Well, of course they do! It’s the perfect hat for the impending zombie apocalypse.
May 25, 2011 at 10:22 pm
They have the same pose and expression.
May 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Is it sad that it took me a good 30-45 seconds to notice that it was not her hair?
May 24, 2011 at 8:44 pm
See, this is why I don’t delete my account: so I can report crap like this. I know they won’t do anything. It just felt good. (BTW, my reason was “prohibited item: encourages violence”. Because seriously, how can it not?)
May 24, 2011 at 10:08 pm
good reason! Better than mine…I ended up sounding like a crazy ol’ coot yelling “Get this off my lawn!!!!” …and I’m under 25.
May 25, 2011 at 4:46 am
It certainly does encourage violence. I want to slap the seller silly.
May 24, 2011 at 8:48 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm
See I think someone should have probably loved this animal perhaps missed it. I’m not a vegetarian. I don’t wear leather… Domesticated animals are beloved by people, they are something to love and care for. So seeing a sad mummified dead cat makes people think of their own animals. I am the proud cohabitant of a feral cat who hates people, and claws everyone like a freaking scratching post, if i saw her like that i would be fucking pissed off. Regardless of how it was acquired, weather she stumbled upon mummified cat or she lost her own damn cat, its still gross and sad. and seriously can you imagine the conversation? OMG i found my cat mummified under a hay bale. OOO can i have it so i can sell it? Thats weirdo to me. Especially if the animal meant anything to the original owner.
May 26, 2011 at 9:08 pm
It’s possible, and probable that this cat never had an inside home, or a name, or a person who cared about it. There are many, many feral cats outside.
May 24, 2011 at 9:08 pm
I think there’s a difference between taxidermy–which I think, though I may be wrong, is by definition carefully prepared–and just finding your dead pet and posting it with a creepy description that sounds happy about the cat getting stuck in a barn and dying slowly.
May 25, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Exactly. The reason I feel it’s legit to report this item is the fact that it was not professionally prepared and could be a health/sanitary hazard. If it was professionally done I would still be disgusted, but wouldn’t report it.
May 25, 2011 at 10:40 am
I love taxidermy too. Taxidermy is an actual craft. Finding a dead animal and trying to sell it for an exorbitant price is not.
May 24, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Soooo…. anyone who has a painting of a dick has to have a mature tag to protect our precious children from being horrified by seeing naked genitalia. BUT, it’s alright for them to see this???
May 24, 2011 at 9:45 pm
I agree 100%
May 24, 2011 at 8:55 pm
May 25, 2011 at 1:10 am
yes, yes, and yes.
finally a like-minded individual is here…
May 24, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Wow. Reporting them to PETA and the Etsy overlords? Seriously?
It’s a fucking dried cat from someone’s barn.
The couple who run that store are two of the nicest folks y’all could imagine and aren’t in the business of killing things so that they can sell them.
What a bunch of reactionary asshats some of y’all can be.
May 24, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I have to agree with Cate on this one guys. Really made some leaps in this thread.
May 25, 2011 at 12:57 am
They were a nice couple, quiet, kept to themselves. Uh huh.
But to be serious, yes, I do think that PETA & claiming cat murder is overboard. However, this is NOT taxidermy or a Bio. class project. See AmberleighTamborine’s post for a good example why this scores a high ICK factor. This creature died a painful, possibly extended death and now, instead of buring it, these “nice people” want to profit from its misery to the tune of $350 (the price is sickening in itself). And the cutesy description really is vile; “a little trouble” is falling into a pail of water, not being crushed to death. “Appears to be without a curse” and “great personality” may have been intended funny but clearly is not playing in Peoria.
Regretsians have slammed road kill crafters before, it is not suprising that dead pets get an even more negative reaction.
May 26, 2011 at 9:12 pm
It didn’t necessarily die a particularly horrible death. Depending on circumstances, this may have been a product of the most peaceful death this creature could have hoped for.
May 25, 2011 at 5:32 am
I imagine they took this down themselves when they saw the reaction here, so that shows they are listening.
And yes, we got a bit carried away – Peta and accusations of petacide were over the top.
A $350 Dead cat is a poster child for what Etsy is becoming – anything goes.
May 25, 2011 at 5:34 am
wow… that took out a line… I said reporting them to Etsy was more reporting Etsy to Etsy than informing on an individual.
May 26, 2011 at 1:49 am
Doesn’t make any difference. The “nice couple” are still in the business of taking some old nasty dried-up corpse and trying to flog it to idiots on a HANDMADE site for bloody $350! Srs ethics fail, y/y?
May 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 9:08 pm
I just caught up on this thread, and I have to say that the reaction here is a little weird.
I posted this because I think it’s a ridiculous thing to sell on Etsy, not because I think the seller did anything legally wrong.
We have absolutely no reason to believe the seller harmed this animal. I think it would be irresponsible to go down that road, so let’s not.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ANYONE WHO HARASSES A SELLER FEATURED HERE WILL BE BANNED FROM THE SITE.
May 24, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Oh but my story about a family friend and cats was real and not harass-y at all
Though reading it again in my mind it did sound a little wrong at the end… Sorry
May 25, 2011 at 3:43 am
Just to be clear….
I can still continue to harass my family and co-workers, right?
May 25, 2011 at 8:46 am
I insist.
May 25, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Not to mention PETA is just the most ridiculous place to report something like this! PETA supports euthanasia of pets because that’s “not natural.” Why bring them into this kind of thing? I agree – weird to sell, but wth, it doesn’t say “harvested from our cat farm.”
May 24, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Is this a dog’s chew toy or a museum piece, I can’t decide.
May 24, 2011 at 9:30 pm
The listing’s gone! Looks like it was pulled, not sold. Good riddance.
May 24, 2011 at 9:40 pm
who would want to sell a dead cat….?
actually- who would want to BUY a dead cat?
May 24, 2011 at 9:46 pm
I used to have a bobcat pelt, does that count?
May 24, 2011 at 9:50 pm
I actually love furs and animal bones, its just something about a MUMMIFIED cat that disturbs me…
if it makes me a hypocrite, it does, but I can’t help the way I feel about it…
May 24, 2011 at 10:34 pm
I’m right there with you. If it were bones or taxidermy I’d be fine with it. I wouldn’t want it, but I’d not be quite so creeped out.
May 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Sorry, $350? How is that justified? It’s not as though there is skill or effort required to collect your dead pet from outside. I mean, all other issues aside, that is a ridiculous price.
May 24, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Literally just this morning, my sister found a dead bat in the garage when she was cleaning it. The first thing out of my mouth was “I bet someone would sell that on Etsy.” We instead buried it and had a mini bat funeral because we are normal humans.
May 25, 2011 at 7:24 am
Is it bad that in my mind, I pictured you covering the bat signal with a cloth as you blew out candles and lowered the little bat-shaped coffin into the ground?
May 25, 2011 at 9:03 am
Last night I told a friend to put the head of a snake on a pendant and sell it on Etsy. It was awkward since she’s not a Regretsy stalker xD
May 24, 2011 at 10:51 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 10:57 pm
The trip here is that people are buying and selling animal carcasses over the internet. Roadkill/barnkill is garbage. That anyone would handle it, attach lights and doll heads to it, that others would buy it as art, well I don’t personally get it, but I don’t need to. People are crazy and I accept that and stare and laugh and laugh and laugh.
May 24, 2011 at 11:09 pm
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May 25, 2011 at 12:28 am
I had a cat just like this, found it under my front porch.
If only I’d have known I could sell it for $350…
May 25, 2011 at 2:11 am
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May 25, 2011 at 3:27 am
mtraub & DXO to purrrfection! Proves that the mid-2011 Etsy formula = tastless, weird, stuffed (aka plushie) embellished, false, untrue, consumer nightmare, take your chances and keep throwing cash to buy what you obviously will never get!
There is such a slim chance of getting what you pay for on Etsy, sellers and shoppers alike, that it’s a crapshoot gone wild. Multipied by millions. (That’s millions$$$ in profits for Etsy!)
May 25, 2011 at 5:13 am
“but my favorite is his tail”
er, what tail?
May 25, 2011 at 7:04 am
It’s just a dead cat. When a cat is ready to die, it usually runs off to do so.
May 25, 2011 at 7:53 am
Damn, I’ve been looking for another mummy cat to add to my collection. Unfortunately I only get ones that are adulterated.
May 25, 2011 at 8:44 am
I can has decent burial?
May 25, 2011 at 8:52 am
I actually study (human) mummies for my doctorate. This is the sort of shit people find and give me. Once my friend’s mother found a desiccated bat in one of her claret glasses. She saved it for me for months and presented it to me over dinner. Thanks I guess?
May 25, 2011 at 1:10 pm
I never knew that bats liked claret.
July 13, 2011 at 11:01 am
All of them except vampire; they seldom drink…wine.
May 25, 2011 at 9:50 am
I hope it also comes in teriyaki!
May 25, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Hey- I’ve got a mummified cat in one of my drawers in my science classroom (a “gift” to the school from a now middle aged student who found aforementioned mammal under front porch during renovations). If I could get $350 for it, I’m in! But then again, in an episode of “Oddities” a man who wanted to sell his mummified cat only was offered $150. Heck, I’d take either to get the thing out of my room. But one advantage of the moldering thing is that it’s always good for freaking out middle schoolers.
May 25, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I saw that episode too!
They mentioned that as far as mummified animals go, cats are quite rare.
Two important points:
A) Apparently there is in fact a collectors’ market for mummified animals.
B) The guy who brought them the mummified cat ended up trading it for a taxidermy head of a cow that had been born with two faces.
May 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm
“this little guy got into some trouble, and got stuck between stacked hay”
That… that’s just sad, man.
So your pet cat got trapped, died while still trapped and mummified and now you’re selling the corpse?
May 25, 2011 at 7:45 pm
now i am glad i have buried two former cats in an unmarked grave deep in the woods …
May 26, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Looks like it has been removed now. You mean Etsy actually followed up on a legitimate complaint? *looks out her window for airborne swine*
May 27, 2011 at 12:46 am
So… no one has actually seen that show Oddities? No one knows that there is actually a want for mummified cats? And that they actually go for far more than this?
You guys are fucking boring, for real.
July 24, 2011 at 12:02 pm
If we only appreciate live animals, and don’t appreciate or preserve dead animals, we end up missing half of the fundamental wonder of life.
What an amazing piece.
Perhaps it would be better buried underground where nobody can see it? I think not. Proudly displaying this in a collection of natural history serves as a way to dignify and remember the animal.
-Stereoguy