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Artist turns dead cat into beautiful thousand dollar handbag
yahoo.com ^ | 20 Sept 2016 | Heather Dockray

Posted on 09/21/2016 7:08:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Cats only live nine lives — but their desiccated corpses can live many, many more.

Seven years ago, New Zealand artist Claire Hobbs found a dead cat on a nearby road. After storing the cat in the freezer and searching through missing pets ads for three months, Hobbs decided she could put the cat's body to good use — and converted the dead kitty into a beautiful handbag. And now, she has now decided to sell it.



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To: MUDDOG
Damn. That's just...holy crap, and I'm not even a cat person. Ghoulish?

If it were me I'd have a little recorder inside playing an occasional plaintive meow.

41 posted on 09/21/2016 7:58:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Perfect!


42 posted on 09/21/2016 8:00:36 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 11th_VA
"imagine all the roadkill out there, the possibilities are endless ..."

When I was in college, taking my studio art courses, I was told an interesting story by one of my professors. Several years before I went to that college, there had been a student who would collect roadkill. He'd take the animal and encase it in a block of concrete - I think he may have written some sort of inscription, or date, or poem, or something in the concrete. Once the block of concrete had set, he would return the block to where ever he had found the animal in the first place.

I guess he made several of these memorial "sculptures" during the course of a semester. Eventually the semester ended and the student left the school, never to return, but he left one last sculpture behind in his studio space in the art building. It was a big block of concrete and no one wanted to take the time, or make the effort, to haul it away, so it sat there...time passed. Then, one day, the concrete block split and a horrible smelling goo began to ooze from the cracks in the concrete, filling the fine art building with its stench. Suddenly, people were motivated to remove the sculpture.

I think there's a lesson there for all of us, if we look closely enough.

43 posted on 09/21/2016 8:00:58 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: 11th_VA

PURE MARKETING.

She’s TRYING to get you outraged.

A+ for understanding brain-dead journalists, though.


44 posted on 09/21/2016 8:04:15 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: 11th_VA

Classic, just classic. Oh man...


45 posted on 09/21/2016 8:05:10 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 11th_VA

I can see the headline now: PETA kills cat purse owner.


46 posted on 09/21/2016 8:05:14 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOL! That would almost make me want to buy it. /joking sortof


47 posted on 09/21/2016 8:09:34 PM PDT by visualops (It's the majority of the American people and Trump against the enemies of the republic - Windflier)
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To: JudyinCanada

Years ago used to play bridge at gal’s house. She had four cats, two on the fireplace hearth, one on an island in the kitchen and one draped over the top of a passageway door. Was always amazed at how well behaved they were since I had cats but mine were all over the place. Commented on them one week. Those that knew gal well just laughed. Cats were all quite dead and had been stuffed. Turns out that she took them all to bed with her at night.

Never went back after that.


48 posted on 09/21/2016 8:10:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A
"Never went back after that."

Smart decision.
49 posted on 09/21/2016 8:12:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: rey

Well...I was going to post something but your post made me laugh so hard I forgot what it was.:D


50 posted on 09/21/2016 8:13:22 PM PDT by berdie (#No Hill/bern)
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To: 11th_VA

Back in the day my father told me about a friend of his with
a speech problem who told a young lady he had called on she had a couple of mighty pretty “titties”


51 posted on 09/21/2016 8:15:04 PM PDT by WKB (If you are on the "Trump Train" you can't get run over!!)
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To: CJ Wolf; rey

Rey,

When I was in high school, I tore the fur off a rabbits foot key ring and just had the skeleton, is that like the Nazis?


52 posted on 09/21/2016 8:18:37 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: rey

Too funny..


53 posted on 09/21/2016 8:19:50 PM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: 11th_VA

Just.........NO! Looks like my elderly tabby.


54 posted on 09/21/2016 8:21:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: 11th_VA

Wouldnt a cat handbag properly be called a ...

Purrrrrrrrrse?


55 posted on 09/21/2016 8:29:52 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: 11th_VA

Bttt


56 posted on 09/21/2016 8:34:06 PM PDT by aberaussie
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To: 11th_VA
Dead cat helicopter:


57 posted on 09/21/2016 8:35:25 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: 11th_VA

Artist? They used to call this taxidermy.

red


58 posted on 09/21/2016 8:39:41 PM PDT by Redwood71 (uad.)
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To: 11th_VA
Litter get what the markat will bear.

Good on her, bizarre as it may be. Not so long ago, it was high fashion.


59 posted on 09/21/2016 8:44:09 PM PDT by Daffynition (*If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?*~ Gene Wilder)
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To: 11th_VA; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

Well, that’s not creepy.

DANG!


60 posted on 09/21/2016 8:44:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables)
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