Dead squirrels

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So my DH came home with a big bag he was carrying through the house out to the garden. I asked him what it was and he said dead squirrels as he wants to skin them and use the fur for knife handles or some shit. Obviously I blew my top and he thinks I'm over reacting when I said get rid of them.
He was given them from somebody at work who did some skinning at scouts
He can't see why I'm reacting the way I am so hopefully I can make him see that I'm not the only one that would not be okay with this.
He's gone to dispose of them now but he isn't happy. Ianbu? Am I?

yeah - i thought, oh, that will be easy...... nope, it looked like it would be fun - i sat there, scraping and scraping and throwing away the fat from the skin,

left it curing for a while, came back to see how it was doing, it looked like gollums uglier cousins skin.... i had to bin it!!

stinky? yeah - but i did it in the workshop - the birds i had hanging smelt worse!

Sorry but I think this is digusting. Shooting animals to make handles for something. As far as I know we arn't living like cavemen. There is really no need for this. I am with you OP, I detest shooting of any kind. Every creature has a right to a life and cannot understand how some of you can be so bloody heartless.

If he was my dp or dh he would be TOLD, no hunting, shooting or have anything to do with it, like I told mine. And I dont give two fucks whether he likes it or not.

I'm so sorry OP but this thread has cheered me up no end! My DH drives me absolutely nuts with the stupid things he does but never has he brought home a bag of dead vermin to make knife handles with! 😂

Today 17:31 dollydaydream114 Who the fuck has knifes with fur handles?!

So I apologised to DH for the way I reacted. Did say though it was a bit of a shock being presented with a bag of dead squirrels like a cat with a mouse. He's never shown interested in anything like this before so it was a bit out of the blue.
I've agreed to be less controlling and I think DH won't be bringing home any more dead animals at least with my knowledge
The squirrels in question have gone now thankfully.

Aw, too bad. I was really looking forward to a picture of a fur-handled knife.

Do all these people honestly think it's normal???
To walk into a house with a corpse bag?!
That's not normal! That's not a thing that happens! People don't just enter rooms with bags of dead squirrels!

AIBU has boggled my mind today. No, YANBU, there is no standard reaction to this situation and blowing ones top is perfectly reasonable in my obviously outnumbered opinion.

Grey squirrels are technically vermin, but if you are going to shoot them, you may as well eat them. Fur handled knives are pointless really as the fur will wear off with use and how will you wash them without the fur going soggy?

Gosh I would go mad if my dh did that. Mind you I'm vegeterian and cant sit neer dh when he eats chicken off the bone. Poor squirrels. Its awful killing an animal for no good reason (if people want to eat meat fine, I would not do but no judgement) why the hell would anyone want squirrel fir lined knifes

Do all these people honestly think it's normal???
To walk into a house with a corpse bag?!

Hahaha millions of people do it everyday, some even have their 'corpse bag' delivered by Ocado.

Well dang why didn't my bold work?

It wouldn't bother me, I have to say - my DD regularly shoots rabbits and squirrels which I feed to my python. Saves me a fortune. Personally, I think if you're going to shoot them (and sometimes you have to, especially in the case of rabbits - we'd be overrun otherwise) you should at least try to use them in some way. I've eaten both, and they're both quite nice, but squirrels are a bugger to skin and have very little meat on them apart from the back legs.

And now for the gruesome bit...

My DH used to be a member of a club who one day donated him two binbags of shot rabbits as food for an animal rescue we were connected with at the time. Unfortunately he forgot about them the next morning, went off to work and left them in the conservatory, and it was a hot sunny day...

Suffice it to say that when I shifted them I could feel maggots popping under my fingers as I lifted the bags. Boak.

OP YADNBU. I'd have blown my top then probably passed out with the very vileness of it all

And now OP knows what to buy him for his next birthday. A bouquet of dead squirrels, or some fur handled knives.

I have a friend who on opening joint of beef in the freezer discovered it was an owl.