At first I was drawn to these, but they are actually just gross. It's not honoring the animals and is a major dust catcher. If it's not your child's artwork project - just say no.

so if taxidermy is a "craze" even though it's been used in interior decorating for centuries, what pray tell is Stainless Steel and Granite? If it's not your thing, it's not your thing but referring to it as a "craze" or "trend" is well just Craze-y.

How is this a 'daily find'?!
Taxidermy is so passé!
Major dust catcher indeed!

I kinda like the fake heads... its alot better than real taxidermy don't ya think? The fake ones are so pristine and white, so much unlike the real thing.

I like them so much, that I wanted a cow. But no one makes a cow head. So I made one out of paper mache. It is a little freaky, especially when I was making it and fell asleep with it sitting right next to me. What a wake up view. Yikes. It truly gave me second thoughts.

I also find it amusing to see a cow in my living room. Not something you expect to see in a suburban condo. Cows are one of my all time favorite animals. Their heads are just so dang big. Big fat slimey nostrils. Love em!

oh wiselatinabr... what doesn't catch dust? i guess a big wall of nothing. booorrring!

In my life it would have to serve a definite and necessary useful function to warrant an expense like that. Not my style either, but if someone likes it and has the spare cash, why not? It's certainly less dusty and easier to clean than a real furry animal head. Not to mention possibly just slightly less controversial.

I personally like the bicycle handlebars on trophy plaques

Exactly, myurbanlife. Couldn't agree more.

No, I don't think it IS better than real taxidermy. That's gross and offensive to my sensibilities and I'm not even an animal lover. But these fake things seem like some kind of twee commentary on taxidermy, which is shallow. Such as ... "I would like a deer head up here, but I know it's bad ... so faux you, I'll have one anyway."

Things either need to have a function or they need to be personal. Animal heads, balls of wicker, ceramic do dads, or anything purely decorative that can be bought at a chain store is usually not the best choice. It's more of a shortcut or placeholder with no real intent other than to fill up space. And personally I'd be more impressed if someone made a sculpture out of the styrofoam trays and cello wrap that their meat comes in. I mean, if you like to glorify animal death, why not go all out?

Hang it lower, and it could serve as a decorative coat/hat stand, at the risk of an antler gouging your eye out.

Couldn't agree more, Parnassus and Jukesgirl. Though I am, in fact, an animal lover, I'm not a vegetarian and am not coming at this from a moralistic place. Or rather, for me it's as much an aesthetic matter as a moral one. Taxidermy may have been around for a long time, but usually it was presented in a room as a kind of macho statement about having shot, killed, and stuffed the animals in question: the "aesthetic" of it was always questionable. Today, at least in most rooms that show up in places like AT, it's nothing but some gross winky thing that absolutely needs to go away, in my opinion. Also, as Parnassus says, I strongly believe things should be functional or personal. Mass-produced stuff that serves no function except to prove that you aim to be a hipster and sadly are failing deserves to die.