What we are doing in Australia

Perusing the finest Australian literature?  Australian wines?  Becoming involved in local government?

Leave it to my wife to discover weird tv in a foreign land.

We are currently watching a British expose on "people who make ornaments of their pets."  It's called All Creatures Great and Stuffed.  One person made a drone out of his deceased cat.  I am absolutely not shitting you.  He flew his dead cat approximately fifty feet into the air before crash landing it in a field and bemoaning the lack of aerodynamics caused by the fur.  If you've never stared into the lifeless eyes of a levitating cat corpse, you've never lived.  Another American (sigh) family spent $5k to have a taxidermist freeze dry their Dalmatian and paint the toe nails hot purple - let's just say this family probably didn't max out their Roth IRA before Han Soloing their dog.  Another dressed a stuffed squirrel in skimpy Victorian garb, a Liaisons Dangereuse for the rodentia.

If you don't believe me, log on to ebay and search "taxidermy animals."  Do it now.  What you see will cause you to lose all hope in humanity.

Here is a sample.

There were 144 people watching this when I queried.  ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR "PEOPLE" interested in a dead squirrel dressed up like John Wayne.  This must be a sign of end of days.  That squirrel could be one of the four horseman.

For those of you not following the comments, Darth Lobster asked what all this "blogging" has to do with Australia.  This post is a perfect example.  The answer is virtually nothing.  This is not an educational blog where you leave better educated and basically better than when you started reading.  It's a way to stick it to the man while dissociating in the bathroom.