By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson
November 3, 2021 0 Comments
Taxidermy of black bear and cub for sale at trophy auction in October 2021.The HSUS577SHARES
Americantrophy hunterstarget hundreds of thousands of animals in the U.S. and abroad every year just to display the gruesome keepsakes of their kills. Now,a new undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Internationalreveals where so many of these macabre souvenirs, discarded by their owners, end up:an auction where animal trophies and taxidermy from hunts that claim precious animal lives are soldto the highest bidder. Trophies made of African elephants, giraffes, hippos, polar bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions and even black bear cubs, along with zebras and a baboon holding a beer bottle, were recently offered in a massive display of death at a fairground in Maquoketa, Iowa.
The auction…
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Exposing the Big Game 
It’s even worse to think that after the thrill kill, the ‘trophy’ just gets discarded somewhere. Talk about overindulged, greedy fools. This is a ‘right’? I’ll vomit.
It’s all a thrill kill–with or without the “trophy.”