Oh my god, is it just me or is that bear thing horrifying? I recoiled in terror as apartmenttherapy loaded, I absolutely cannot imagine having that on my wall. Um, no offense to whoever has that on his/her wall.

We live in a small town, Alberta, Canada. I have seen a "few bears" on walls up there. Not my taste, though.
I would love to see that wood paneled room after a makeover..

I don't like stuffed animals on walls. Neither do like fur coats. My dislike is about being opposed to hunting and farming for fur (I'm a hypocrite in that I wear leather and eat chickens, pigs, and fish), and it is not necessarily that I find fur or stuffed animals inherently dislikable. I have two fur coats inherited from my grandmother. They are beautiful and I wear them to winter parties. The distinction I make is whether or not my use of the coats contributes to further fur farming (I argue that it does not). I'm wondering about taxedermy specimens like the bear. If you're in philosophical agreement with me about hunting, but find you have a place for the aesthetic, is it one thing to hang a head that was stuffed before you were born and for which you didn't pay, and quite another to contribute to the market by paying for one or even killing one yourself?

Kimg, if you wear the beautiful fur coats or display the trophies, you are in effect advertising and condoning those uses, regardless of whether animals died a long time ago or will die in the future. All living things have death awaiting them, misery and pain are the unacceptable components of our treatment of the animals that we use, in my opinion, that's how I make the distinction.

Is the bear real? If so, I am also disgusted by it primarily because a beautiful animal was killed to become a trophy and secondly because of the way it was posed to look scary. They are beautiful animals. What a shame.

The bear is from this house tour:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/house-tours/la-house-tour-anne-jacobs-curiosity-shop-meets-midcentury-modern-052709

And a reason why *I* find the bear to be in bad taste:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96179754@N00/2573779050/