Dead Animals on Walls (Taxidermy) and house listings

Its like a pet cemetery! No thanks!

If my kids saw those pics they'd likely never want to move in---even long after they were gone!

I think taxidermy is definitely something worth storing during the home-selling process. Even if you just stuff them all into a closet like in Harry & the Hendersons.

Yeah....no. NO thanks.

I grew up with my dad hunting and fishing and even he had enough clear thinking to keep his taxidermy limited to the garage. Taxidermy on the walls while the house is listed is no bueno.

Considering that my dad has been a taxidermist for over 60 years, and I grew up in a house that looked like that, this house doesn't bother me for once!!  lol!  


But I do agree that they probably should have moved quite a few of them into storage when the house was put up for sale. 

ETA:  I take it back;  as much money as they spent on the taxidermy, the house isn't quite the right style for it, so it looks out of place...  it should really be more of a 'lodge-style' architecture.  In a suburban setting like that, the taxidermy doesn't really look right.  The mounts also need better settings-- like, the one sheep is standing on two little rocks hanging on a drywalled wall- it should have a larger habitat, not just two tiny fake rocks.  The person spent all that money, but they sort of chintzed out on the final product, in my opinion.

I can't even imagine.

When we were house hunting a few years ago, we saw a house that had a den with a cool little attached bar area. It also had a turkey over the fireplace. Every time we mentioned that house, it was "the dead turkey house." (Dh and I are so not hunters and the house was in the city.)

We were seriously considering the house and we really liked the realtor but we ended up finding a house that was a better fit. Even now though, we still call it the turkey house.

Not only do the animals look horrid but their taste in furniture sucks too 😲

My uncle did taxedermy, too, but his thing was birds. They were all over my grandparents' basement. He had ducks, loons and a snowy owl (we are talking old, old birds here). I thought it was weird then it was always at their house so I got used to it.

I have an inlaw with a room like that and I call it (in my head) the "death room."

Certainly not my style in any form but if I was looking at a house decorated in this way I like to think that I would be able to look past these items.

However having said that some things are not able to be unseen! 

"I think we can all agree that those ceiling fans need to go."

Negative for me on the dead animals on the walls, but I live in Southeast Texas and I can't imagine living in a house with no ceiling fans...
Guess it all depends on where you live. I don't know anyone who doesn't have ceiling fans.

See, that doesn't bother me, as long as they are taking it with them I don't care.

Wow! They have spent a ton of money in taxidermy! My DH would love it! I could see past it if it was a house I was looking at. Most everyone I know would look past it. It's just a part of the decor here in the area I live.

The plaid couches crack me up because we had ONE of the same couch (many people on the old 2peas board did too). It was a super popular couch to own back in the late 90's early 2000's. It was the best dang furniture I have ever owned. It took 15 years for it to finally bite the dust. We still have a coordinating chair and a half down in our basement in my dh's man cave. It is a solid burgundy color. Super comfortable chair. It's centered right between my DH's first white tail deer and his dad's first white tail deer. I guess we have something mentally wrong with us.

When we put our house on the market last year I did make my dh take them down and store them.

Well, it definitely says something about someone who would hang dead heads all over their house. 

I can't wrap my mind around hunting for pleasure anyway. I am a meat eater and a gun owner. If I had to hunt to eat I'd do it in a New York minute. I know that sometimes animals need to be culled to manage the wildlife and sometimes an animal is dangerous and needs to be taken down. What I just can't understand is someone who would go out into nature and kill a living thing who is bothering no one and is a danger to no one, just for the pleasure of killing a living thing. I don't care if they eat the meat, that is not the point. What mindset thinks that is okay?