Sarah has pets at the office, too.

What is she, The Predator? :rofl:

similar cousins from the tip of South America.

Uh, still not.

just sayin.

My hubby deer hunts... fine by me, I like deer meat...but he has been told in no uncertain terms "no deer heads in the house, ever!"

Back in the sixties when I first went to Alaska, Anchorage was full of fur trader type stores, where designers shopped for their pelts to make into fur coats for rich ladies in the lower 48. Fur coats were a luxury then and there was no PETA around to remind you that an animal had to die a cruel death for fashion. There were also other items like bearskin rugs, wolf skin rugs and a variety of other decorator items made from animal skins and parts. Fur parkas made from a variety of animal skins were sold as well.

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The trophy queen! I prefer to see the animals alive and upright, thank you.

predecessor's head on the wall. Except who would want to look at that drooling snarl every day?

using all the animal that you kill for food for other uses is quite common in hunter/gatherer cultures. Whether you make clothes or furnish your cabin or igloo with them is the norm there. I am hesitant to criticize people for doing this who live in places that still practice traditional hunting and fishing.

What I did object to was the trapping culture that was killing these animals to meet a marketplace demand for the product. It was often a cruel way for the animal to die and the trappers nearly made the beaver extinct here in the continental USA because of the demand for beaver pelts. This is the reason not to wear fur. It's to kill the demand for it.

I rather doubt that the chic lady reveling in "the kill" finds it necessary to feed herself or family with Grizzly tongue or warm the igloo.

They forgot why they hunt and just do it for fun.

"Ms. Exurban" did with the rest of that grizzly bear? Anything useful or is it just a trophy?

That bear came out of a fur shop in Anchorage. Some of those bear skins have been around since the last century. The natives do use the rest of the bear for food and other uses. They know the bearskin is valuable and they sell it to the furriers just so people like her can furnish their abodes. It also could have been a trophy shot by bear hunters (a scummy lot. I have met in Idaho). I don't think she or anyone in her generation shot that bear.

You're right. She didn't shoot it. I still wonder what they did with the rest of the bear.

White bear hunters do not eat the rest of the bear as far as I know, however, in the NW where I was a camp ground host, there were salvagers from a local meat packing plant who hauled out the skinned carcasses of what the hunters didn't take themselves. I asked the rangers what they did with them and they said they were sold to companies that made pet food.

Not especially relevant, what her father did.

Unless Sarah and the whole family got together and had a grizzly skinning party and she helped throw the carcass in a dumpster. Or she played some other role in the killing of a grizzly bear just to try to impress people with the trophy.

thus the attraction to McCain?

tanning bed?

spend the hard winter months there. They usually went to Seattle or Vancouver for those months or even some of the warmer states in the southern USA.

...unless the person has used a tanning salon or it's the end of the summer.

sun glare from the snow so I hear. I don't know really, but don't skiers have to wear sunscreen?

...skiers don't usually expose their extremities to sub-zero weather for long.

She was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, a place I lived in for five years. The pioneer people in that area come mainly from French trappers, Norwegian loggers and Native Americans. Most of the locals who can trace their ancestry back generations have some Native American in the family tree.

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