How sad.

You have no problem with wearing leather and eating steak dinners, right? :)

Me, it's not exactly my style choice, but what a unique item! Makes me think of the original Pink Panther. There's this great scene with a hot chick rolling around on a bearskin rug. :)

I would love a bearskin rug! I'm so jealous!

You know what REALLY feels good? Sea otter pelt. Boy that stuff is nice. It's endangered, so you can't have one. We went to the aquarium last weekend. One of my friends volunteers there and does the lecture part while other volunteers feed the seals and otters. And you get to feel samples of the different pelts. Sea otter is the plushest, softest, nicest bit of fur I've ever had the pleasure of fondling. I guess that's why they're endangered.

Now you wear it as a coat and crash a PETA meeting. Spray paint their clothes while screaming, "Hemp is murder!".

Now THAT would be funny... LOL!

I feel about this rug pretty much how I feel about fur coats. If they're vintage, they're guilt free and fine by me. Love 'em. I'm a hypocrite, though. I admit, seeing a new fur coat bends my nose out of joint. But I'm a meat eater and I wear leather. I guess it's the notion that the animal is wasted only for its pelt. I don't know. Hypocrite, like I said. If I were a vegetarian who wore vinyl shoes insteado of leather, I might have more of a leg to stand on.

But the bear skin rug is second hand. Even if you were someone who thought it was gross, why would you want to see it trashed and wasted? The bear died a long time ago. Of course, this is coming from someone who wants to purchase an entire cat skeleton from the Necromancer store on Melrose, because I think bones are pretty.

So, in short, I concur with Chris. Once you find a way to deodorize it and clean it up a bit, find a nice open space for it, and declothe yourself. I bet it'll feel like quite the luxary.

You might want to get a quote from a dry cleaners, but I bet they're expensive.

Only, eh? ;)

It's not that it's made of animal skin. It's just that it's polar bear. I really like polar bears. Any other bear (if it's vintage of course) and I would roll around on it naked. I'd probably cry if I saw a polar bear rug. Are they endangered? I had a friend as a kid that had kangaroo skin rugs. Now, I know that kangaroos are hopping around aplenty in Australia, but I love those hoppy guys. I could never own one of their skins.

I use beacoup (sp?) animal products, and I suppose eating a horse is no different than eating a cow when it comes down to it, but I just couldn't do it. If I were starving on an icy summit I'd eat my dog, though. We've talked about it, and she would do the same.

Ah, I understand.

FYI, from this story:
So the answer is yes and no.

LOL. I keep thinking this thread is about Build A Bear....:p

Nothing to add, I'm afraid. Move along.