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A friend's mother once investigated having her datchund turned into a headrest cover when it crooked.

There is something seriously mixed up in the thinking of someone who wants to do that to their dead pet. It's like having your grandpa stuffed and stuck in his favourite chair. Warped!

WTF indeed. You are a funny bunch North of the border!

I like that the reason is the new dog's amourousness as opposed to the fact it is clearly a revolting article to have in the house. That said the in laws have a badger skin complete with head somewhere about the house (to accompany the myriad of deer antlers) and I was in a castle on Sunday with a bearskin plus snarling head in one of the rooms.

I suspect the main issue here is that it's a dog! People don't seem to bother as much about other animals for some reason.

Can you imagine the sheer outrage if it was a cat?

Yes, the whole thing is very weird and it is even weirder that she thinks people would want to buy her dead dog, but the level of outrage being suggested by the paper is totally out of proportion. It's the professionally offended brigade again.

This. 

Uncle Paul probably has a twenty pound note nobody could be bothered to dig out of his pockets, which presumably explains his valuation, or perhaps it is a £50 note? Complete with novel collection Eau d'body.