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Hudson’s Bay Company stocks Fort Smith line of fur hand warmers  CBCsource

Last year, when a player was named player of the game by his Montreal Canadiens teammates, he got to wear the team’s man-of-the-match sunglasses. It was a fitting choice for a group of young guys who were trying to have fun in the midst of a rebuild, focusing on development and getting better together.On Saturday, […]

A surveillance camera at a home in India captured footage of a leopard sneaking up on and attacking a dog lying on a rug on an outside balcony.Video shows the leopard grabbing the dog, leaping off the balcony and trying to run off with it only to be foiled by the pet owner, whose screams […]

“Way Over in Syria Was Business Career of This Salem Merchant Started. N.C. Kafoury Has Had Enough Experience to Make an Interesting Novel.”So started Olive Doak’s 1930 article in Salem’s Oregon Statesman newspaper about Nadir Coury Kafoury.While I agree with Doak that the Kafoury family’s story is interesting, I would argue that the facts are […]

Leather and some animal skins still allowed, while circuses will be banned from using wild animals like tigers and bearsCalifornia will become the first US state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products and the third to bar most animals from circus performances under a pair of bills signed on Saturday by […]

In the BOH series What I Love, we’re asking designers to build us a mood board of what’s inspiring them right now.Meredith Ellis knows a thing or two about mixing and matching textiles. The Texas designer and owner of the James showroom (in Dallas, Houston and New York) employs a range of carefully curated colors, […]

Need to borrow a polar bear fur? Or a walrus skull complete with tusks? Or how about a beluga whale vertebrae or piece of baleen?All you need is a library card and a trip to the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus.The library — better known as ARLIS […]

Saks Fifth Avenue to Phase Out Fur  WWDsource

A dollhouse built into the cavity of a deer is an example of the creative and slightly twisted “rogue taxidermy” movement. It involves turning taxidermy mounts into clocks, pieces of furniture, vehicles and other things.April 27, 20244 min readIs a dollhouse made from a full-body taxidermy deer, bighorn sheep or other formerly wild creative, fun, […]

The amount of money spent on a study of a now-shuttered 170-specimen taxidermy display at the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum is adding up.More than eight months after Mayor Paul TenHaken and zoo administration opted to close the exhibit of rare, exotic, and deteriorating mounts at the natural history wing of the central Sioux […]