While I'm not a fan of stuffed animals or mounted heads, I've always been intrigued by the beauty of bones. This first (and third) is a cat skull, discovered on an abandoned property and (thankfully) already clean and white. Look at the size of those eye sockets!
I think this was one of our mastiffs. She was buried in a spot that much later required some backhoe work and this appeared.
When I was much younger and still living at home, I had a cow skull on top of the book case in my room. I had ivy trained through it, coming out of the eye sockets--a kind of life/death commentary.
My poor mother was not a fan.
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I remember finding a deer head in the woods. I took it back to the cottage compound. It could still be there for all I know.
When the Museum of Crime and Punishment existed in DC, it had an extensive exhibit of human skulls showing the effects of various fatal injuries -- different types of gunshots, blunt force trauma, etc. It was fascinating.
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