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Our relation with the animals we consume is very remote nowadays. The meat in the supermarket is abstract and square. You might consider a vegetarian life style. No? Then you might consider making your own designers bag from your cat.

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  • Little do you know that if you buy fur, there is a large chance it IS a cat labelled as something else. The illegal fur trade is sad

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  • I could have went forever without seeing that picture... that is so terrible. :( But, guys, I really don't think this guy really wants you to make purses out of your cat. I think he's just saying it's not so different from having a leather purse. They're all animals.

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  • Anybody here read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"? It's about eating babies. And if you don't get this, you won't get that either. Here's the deal, people. This is what we call satire. It isn't supposed to be a joke, exactly (not like "LOL, RTFL", anyway), but you aren't supposed to take it literally, either. They aren't actually suggesting you turn your cat into a handbag. I know I am probably wasting my time here...

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  • Some of the comments are just ridiculous, like: Rachel: "but TO MURDER A HELPLESS ANIMAL FOR MATERIAL POSSESSION….WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND?! " How many animals are killed so you can eat them? For your shoes? Wallet? All of them totally helpless! I don't see myself walking around with my recycled cat, but the idea is interesting, and even more offending. I'm sure my hubby loves the idea because it is supposed to make you think and meditate about the values you believe to live and the hypocrisis you actually do live. Long time ago, tattooed human skins were traded for a lot of money. Creepy? Maybe... but maybe not...

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  • It is so funny when people take this stuff seriously. They get so mad and waste their time writing a long, angry reply. It was meant as a joke, people. GROW UP.

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  • I like it, a creative well done artistic view on pets. I don't get why most people have the need for such language and ill temper over these subjects in general. People forget whom they are and where they come from, we humans consume. Personally i don't buy products with fur on it, mostly because it's not my style, but i do have a leather jacket. If you're cat were to die, Wouldn't it then be better to use all of the materials, rather than just letting it decay ?

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  • i think this is brilliant! i always wanted to make a pillow out of my cat when he passed, and a bracelet of his tail... this makes my heart skip a beat with joy!!!

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  • You have to admitt the handle on this purse is the purrfect finel touch. Although I would never own this hand bag, I did blow the tea out my nose when the page loaded.. LOL

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  • I think the idea might be that you can turn your DECEASED pet into something that you can keep forever, so in that case none of your "that's cruel" comments have any meaning. Many intelligent people have already pointed out that cats are not significantly different than any other animal and can be eaten, and are eaten, in some places. What has a cow ever done that was so mean that you wanted to wear its skin on your feet and around your fat waist and eat its body and grind its bones into powder and then eat that too? Has a chicken ever coughed up a feather ball into your shoe? Has a little piggie ever pooped in the middle of your kitchen floor or scratched your face? To the people who posted this image, thank you. It invokes strong emotions and define]itly gets the point of societies inconsistencies across.. at least to some of us.

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  • I'm a veghead and I'm seriouslly ticked off by this! That poor cat...no animal deserves to die for the sake of bloody fashion! Who would kill their pet cat or dog or rabbit and turn them into a purse or a bag?! How'd you feel if I had a bag made from the body of a human baby? D8

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  • it doest look fake to me...

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  • It's fake morons.

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  • Dear Marcy, I am glad you liked the largest part of our program. I am sorry you could not appreciate the Tinkebell act. We invited this artist because we believe the consumptive attitude people have towards their pets, is a relevant subject within the theme of the event. - We are long aware of the controversial and politically incorrect nature of the project. It is not our goal to just ‘shock’ people (that would be bad taste), nor is it our ambition to organize an event which only establishes people in what they already think and feel (that would be mere entertainment). - We selected this project, because opens up a debate how people ‘consume’ animals and points at some of the inconsistencies. We carefully presented the Catbag performance in the context of Judith de Leeuw’s ‘New Shoe’ presentation (which dealt with our disconnection with consumer goods) and Sunny Bergman’s ‘Over the Hill’ (which pointed at our relation to women as consumer goods). I hope you can see the invitation of Tinkebell was a clear curatorial decision. We are aware that in an audience of 800 people not everyone immediately will ‘get’ this and I glad to be able to explain it here in detail.

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  • After seeing some well thought out, creative and inspiring visual shorts at the Visual Power Show 2008, I am reminded of only one that disturbed me greatly. A young woman was applauded for her grotesque display of how she created her Cat Purse. This should not be condoned as second nature! I am not an animal rights activist, I have many fur coats and grew up hunting animals for survival, however this has spurred me to speak out! Her accounts of wringing her cats neck to kill it, then the act of skinning it... only to make a purse of it... It is NOT second nature to kill your pet for the purpose of making a commodity for yourself, then making a self glorifying video of it that encourages others to do the same. This is not the kind of behavior one should be rewarded for and you should consider banning such works that have such disrespect for life. A public apology should be in order from the producers of the event as well as the woman herself!!! I will publicly speak out against this event from ever happening again and encouraging such acts.

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  • Well, as fond as I am of my cat, I guess I can't really complain. It would make me a hypocrite... I personally have cosplay pieces made with real fur, such as fox tails or bobcat tails. Honestly, I hate that people harm animals, especially when the meat isn't used for food. I've never gone out hunting, never will in fact, and I will not be one of those people to get their pet stuffed. It would creep me out. My opinion on acts such as these would have to be neutral. Yes, it's a bit creepy...carrying your deceased animal around with you, but at least, I suppose, the fur is being put to good use... Now, I personally get my fox tails and bobcat tails from fur coat manufacturers. I'd rather get them and put them to some use then let them throw them out like they do a good portion of the time. Use all of the animal that you can, and at least it's not as wrong as if you did it for amusement.

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  • I think that all chinese people will call this new bag the Retro Hello Kittey bag... For those of you with a funny bone will laugh. On the other hand whats the diff if you have your animal freezed dried and then siting in the corrner of your home. This Would be a nice answer to all the homless cats that run around and do nothing but makes little homeless kittys. I dont think this guy is saying to all the cat owners "Hey go kill your cat and make a bag" just an idea of what to do with the surplus!

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  • I hate cats but this is just wrong. Who ever made this should go get help. Who ever agrees with this should be locked up.

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  • It's seem a good idea from somebody who has bad IQ.

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  • I think this could be intended to provoke the viewer to recall a time in the past where survival and necessity outweighed attachment to things and people/animals. That would be the only redeeming value of it and it isn't done that clearly. Laws are passed on animal cruelty and though farm animals are not included in it surely our use of animal products does not mean they were treated humanely. I think it's a little offensive because it does not tell us if no animal was harmed in it's creation. People are attached to their pets. Their value as food was during a much earlier time when people had their priorities to survive. Today most of the world is starving and the misallocation of food and resources is astounding and quite unfair. Surely in the right circumstances it would not be unlikely to eat the food available to us even if it were an animal we favored. The use of it's material for necessity would thus be more justified. To make an item for use out of the material of a living thing if it were for necessity would be better than if it were just to make a point or a statement.

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  • GRMBL. Make a bag of everything you found, but not of an animal!

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  • cw

    hat better be a fucking joke btw. seriously.

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  • Jp

    http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/

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  • No. I'm not full vegetarian, but I rarely eat meat. I know animals are slaughtered every day like cattle, pigs, etc. and people don't give a shit. I don't really care as much for those animals sadly, but I still love them. I do think many kill them creuly and so young, and the world revolves like that sadly, but still. THIS IS A CAT. And I'm a large cat person and Dog person so I care more for them. And this is a sick thing to do no matter where in the world! I know countries are starving and thats easy meat, but still I would rather die then eat my best friend. WHO WOULD EAT THEIR BEST FRIEND!? I sure as hell wouldn't and my pets are one of the family nothing less.

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  • Leopardess are you a vegetarian yourself?

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  • You guys are fucked up! WOW HOW ABOUT WE MAKE COATS OUT OF YOUR HUMAN HIDES!! Yum, nice I think we need to chop off your limbs before WE KILL YOU TOO! Animals are friends/pets. How different are we from animals...? NOTHING! We are animals ourselves, if you like hides so much WE CAN RIP YOURS OFF YOU TOO AND LET THE BLOOD SPILL. MAYBE WHEN DONE Let's not even bury you. How is that? You sick fucks! Animals are prescious just as we 'HUMANS' are. Your sick Phychotic minds are really over working, ya think. And when you finish making more animal coats I hope they attack you before they are skinned inhumanly!

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  • Ooh! Such passionate responses! It would seem that if cows, pigs, chickens, etc. were only cuter and perhaps fluffier, we'd all be militantly vegan. These people are pissed! Its so much easier to rage and rant than to pause and consider. Overall, I find this image and concept powerfully thought-provoking. I say this as a leather-wearing, meat-eating, cat-loving pet-owner with a conscience that does bother me in regards to the way animals are "harvested." At the same time, I also am considering the ways in which I wrong my fellow man, for human life should be valued as well. Yes, I unfortunately am a hypocrite; we all are. But Im trying to change and still have tolerance of others. Even if they are ignorant and violent assholes. See, I'm definitely a hypocrite.

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  • find better hobbies.

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  • I love this bag!!! And yes 'crazed' I think I'll become a football after I'm dead.

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  • aly

    WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE FUCKING PEOPLE WHO CAN EVEN HAVE ONE THOUGHT IN THEIR TINY ASS BRIANS TO MAKE SOMETHING THIS SICK ?! WELL FUKC YOU AND YOUR THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO BE SKINNED AND MADE INTO A FLOOR MAT BECAUSE YOUR NOT EVEN GOOD ENOUGH FOR SOMEONE TO CARRY IN THEIR HAND .

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  • Was this by any chance inspired by the expression "the cat is out of the bag"? Well now, the bag is out of the cat!

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  • this world is becoming MAD. maybe next there will be handbags made of humans!

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  • If you ever come near anothaer animal i will personally make you into a handbag!!!!!!!

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  • "Well, in some parts of China, dogs are farmed as food. It can’t be much more cruel than growing a goldfish for four weeks, then boiling it alive…" Very well put Mr Rabbit. Let's put our views in perspective before any opinion attack. - I'm not very fond of bulls, maybe that's why I don't condemn leather boots - I have 2 cats I love very much, I would never hurt them - Cows are sacred in India, I just had a steak for lunch - I am against all sorts of violence!!! - Although I am Pro Abortion! It is not an easy act! - Fetishist brutality is a must in our society, just look it up on youtube - Does an act become cruel just because we find the sufferers cute? Does love have anything to do with it or is it just an ethical misconception? - USA's current war game says Arabs are BAD!!!, its a "let's kill 4 money" principle - Where do we cross the line between the "acceptable" and the "unnecessary" act? - North Americans must find Osama Bin Laden an ugly man, I think he's quite charming - I'm gonna have a Turkish Kebab for dinner made by my friend Ahmed Think about the principle behind our judgment, not the solo act by itself. Culture has its twists and turns. Opinions fails constantly, It is wiser to go beyond that and consider all the ways that push it forward. I'm not talking about "DEVELOPMENT", the biggest misconception of our times, I'm talking about going the distance with our minds. This cat purse thing looks like a good example of "shocking" awareness bomb. War creates shortcuts in time, it is sad but true. It's what happens when humans can't handle the dead ends of their ambitions. Sorry if my opinions shock you, it is not my intention. I got to go feed my cat now...

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  • WHAT THE FUCK YOU SICK BASTARDS!!! WATCH OUT I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A FUCKING PURSE. BITCH GO SUCK SATAN'S COCK IN HELL.

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  • Well, in some parts of China, dogs are farmed as food. It can't be much more cruel than growing a goldfish for four weeks, then boiling it alive...

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  • sim

    >taco: and what if we would make a bag out of your head or any human for that matters(i wouldn't mind), would that be similar as well? >Dude: get an education! This stuff is not acceptable, any animal that needs to be killed to make a leather purse or a fur coat. Cows and sheep are already killed for meat, if they are killed to feed us we might just use what would otherwise be wasted. But we don't eat cats, so i don't see the point of killing them for their fur only...

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  • idiots.

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  • Nav

    Sorry, "The Dude"? WORTHLESS? Just...shut up. Shut up NOW. Cats are not worthless. If a cat is worthless, so's a dog, so's an elephant...SO ARE YOU. And Tombo? Yeah, not funny, mkay?

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  • Nav

    This can't be real. That link in the picture? That can't be true. How can some one be so damn cruel? I am proud to say I don't wear leather or any skin. But I am not a vegetarian - a wolf eats meat, they kill for food...I just hate the way we humans do it. I probably sound hypocritical, but everyone does for something. "Now I always have (the cat's name) with me!" Bitch...

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  • amy

    wow this is not right. cats should not be turned into everyday merchandise, nor should one be selling it. im sorry but i severly disagree with this product, anyone in their right minds would not want thier loved anc cherised cat to be turned into a hand bag.

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  • Thank you for your feedback Eric, I am sorry you are so upset. and find it necessary to use such strong language. I cant help but wonder, whether you are a vegetarian or a hypocrite. Please answer...

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  • Answer me you sick Fuck

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  • You r one Sick Fuck. You should Go to Hell!!!!!!!!!! What r u a Crack Baby?You r FUCKING RETARDED

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  • jay

    Not ashamed to say i don't get it.........

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  • Very nice job on the pic. I really think this is an interesting way to draw attention to how our society views animals. Provocative....very nice. I would suggest adding more text above the picture. I know you have more to say. Made my morning that much nicer! Thanks!

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  • You guys are nuts. That is so wrong!! Yes, animals are very important. They keep us company when we're lonely. One question. What did they ever do to you or me? Huh? I thought so. They make mistakes. Yeah they bite us, but that's better than turing into a bag. Or a jacket. How would you like it if they did that to you. You may say that's stupid they would never do that. Well guess what they may do it. If they're crazy enough to do that to a poor inocent creature, then they will do that to us. I would never buy that, and I'm sure lots of other people wouldn't either.

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  • I think it's a good end to a worthless animal. It looks nice and soft too!

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  • You guys are thinking that this is crazy and wrong when having leather wallets,crocidile skin shoes or fur coats are totally fine ? Whats the difference ? Just because its a animal that is considered as a pet does not mean its superior to any other animals ? You guys need to take your heads out of your asses and see clearly before judging this like that.

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  • HAHAHAHAHA. Here Kitty Kitty.......

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  • Are you serious with this shit? You are a murderer. I mean...I can ALMOST understand saving any possible remains of your beloved pet after it dies...you fucking nut job...but TO MURDER A HELPLESS ANIMAL FOR MATERIAL POSSESSION....WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND?! You shouldn't be allowed to be within 1000 miles of any living creature. Your poor cat is now nothing more than a stupid material possession...that cat probably got so excited to see you everytime you came home, and was sad everytime you went away. That cat depended on you for survival...and you murdered the poor thing. I'm glad that the cat is in a better cosmic, more unified place where its soul and energy can be appreciated by something so much greater than yourself...if I believed in hell, I would wish you there. You fucking heartless UGLY bitch. You make me want to vomit EVERYWHERE. Fuck you very much. You fucking piece of shit. I've adopted 3 cats and one day I hope to open a shelter for all animals in need. I feel horrible if I so much as step on my cat's tails! You need to seek therapy, ASAP. I hope one day you wake up and realize how fucked up you are...the world will be much better when you aren't in it. Have a great day.

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  • WTF is wrong with you guys? Animals for FUN? OMG WHAT THE HE;; ARE YOU THINKING! COME ON WE'RE BETTER THEN THAT. START SOME FIGHTS WITH ME. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT......BUT THIS IS FUVCKING WRONG.

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  • PSYCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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