Full mask sporran: Yea or Nay?

[BLHS209]

I won't be convinced until I see a full mask blue whale sporran.

You know what they say - "be careful what you wish for...."

[MacBean]

As a child in England, I had a fascination with animals, museums, dead animals. I was given a FM tiger rug, and offered the bull elephant in the foyer of the Swedish Natural History Museum, either of which would have made impressive sporrans (teeth or tusks!). I gave those and other stuffed beasts away when I turned vegetarian 40 years ago. Now all I have is a boa constrictor pelt from the Amazon, which might make a most impressive FM, though you'd have to get the length just right; perhaps mixing it with a hair sporran that came just below the hem of the kilt would be majestic.

Aesthetically, some look OK but most don't. I think the more highly tuned the regalia, the more they fit in fine. On standard day wear they look out of place. I prefer my animals live and wild; there isn't much wild left these days.

[jrmiller]

I understand that this is an art form and I get it from that perspective. Just doesn't seem "right" to me to go out and catch a critter for the sole purpose of skinning it and making it into a pouch. It's not that I love raccoons and such, I would prefer they all go "somewhere" else on the planet. It's just the idea that they are deliberately caught, killed and made into something which could easily be made from another material or fabric.