okay, the fingerpuppets are just wrong.

I think this quote from the article disturbed me most of all:

"I have tried to get her to try to work with larger animals, like dogs."

The finger puppet picture is pretty creepy though.

A lot of those cross the line for me between "making use of the animal" and "desecrating the corpse of the animal". I really don't get the cat/rabbit heads on vases series.

I don't understand why she can't use animals that are already dead. There's plenty of freshly dead mice at university labs, for example.

I would think you could also do a lot in terms of simulating that (with fake animals or photoshop or something).

I think I'd still see it as somewhat impolite to the animal even if she were using dead mice from labs.

I'm fine with killing animals for a useful purpose (food, etc.) especially if they are treated well (although I don't do as much as I should to make sure I only support places that do) but I'm not as fond of killing them for sport (unless they actually have a fighting chance against the hunters) or for one person's artistic sensibilities.

I DON'T even want to know.

-Alexis (Vegetarian, non-leather/fur-wearing, animal lover)