Road Kill Sporrans?

[The Monk]

Brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:

"If life hands you roadkill, make leather. Or jerky."

[vipermcgee]

...but she probably wouldn't be seen in public with me while wearing it, unless I had a good story to back it up .

Well,
I was going to offer to send you a "fresh" pelt and a nice "roadkill story", but I read some of the other posts and I couldn't possibly get a pelt to you fast enough. Too bad. Hunting season opens soon and there will be a menagerie of pelts dumped across the state! I hate to see them wasted!

Robert

[wildrover]

I wish I could've recorded yesterday's conversation with my g/f about full mask sporrans, and what I'd need to do in order to secure and properly venerate an animal which had met an untimely end. It was hilarious...there was a lot of shrieking. She's now been thoroughly convinced that the easiest way for me to get a fur or full mask sporran is not roadkill, and certainly not for me to take care of it at home. I thought she was either gonna faint, or go for the rolling pin when I said "foxen are small, I could probably fit two in the freezer, between the ice cream and the frozen vegetables!"

But the happy and planned result of the conversation about tanning, brine, and making a beautiful tribute to a poor animal whose life ended on a lonely road somewhere was that she is accepting of a full mask sporran, probably badger, as long as I don't do it at home , and as long as it isn't a furry woodland critter (I guess badgers don't count...thank goodness Disney never threw them in a cartoon).

-Sean

[beerbecue]

two foxes, many skunks in the past three days .. I have been thinking about this too....

[tyger]

But the happy and planned result of the conversation about tanning, brine, and making a beautiful tribute to a poor animal whose life ended on a lonely road somewhere was that she is accepting of a full mask sporran, probably badger

[Kiltboy]

If only there were a way to turn an armidillo into a mask sporran....

[george7]

I've been alligator hunting lately. The first one I get will be a sporran for me and a sporran for dad.

[tyger]

If only there were a way to turn an armidillo into a mask sporran....

There is. I have it in my head. And the 'dillo on the shelf. Stay tuned, for some day it will show up here.

[The Monk]

There is. I have it in my head. And the 'dillo on the shelf. Stay tuned, for some day it will show up here.

I saw a purse in the Mercado in San Antonio a few years back that was a rolled up armadillo. You gained access to the inside by unbuttoning its nose and opening its mouth. I tried to get the wife to buy it but she wouldn't.

That would have made a great sporran.