How much is that taxidermy special in the window?

This had got to be one of the grossest things I've seen in a thrift shop window - it's just icky on so many levels.

The fox about to pounce upon and kill the birdie; the REAL fox and the REAL birdie; the $50 price tag; the dust mites that surely must be coursing through every ounce of organic material on the thing; a beautiful piece of driftwood made hostage to this gruesome little death tableau - oh, I could go on.

I was all the more horrified to see a "SOLD" sign on it the day after I snapped this shot.

Almost as bad as the fox hat with fox head still on it that I saw in the same window a few months earlier (hey I'm not judging the thrift shop: they take what they receive, and they clearly have no problem selling items such as this!).

Brr. Doesn't the doll in the blue dress behind the fox, watching, make it all the more creepy?