A piggy bank made from the taxidermic body of a piglet is creating some waves as one of the most distasteful holiday gifts on offer this season. Dubbed the “Piggy bank of all piggy banks," the CAN$4,000 (US$3988, €2918) dead piglet bank is the work of controversial Vancouver-based company TheCheeky.com.
“Its a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug,” explains the company website. “Just so you know that we don’t actually kill the piglets, they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use.”
The Winnipeg Humane Society has an online campaign encouraging people to contact the company and ask for the removal of the dead piglet piggy bank from the company's online store.
“While animals are routinely killed for their meat and hides, this is a particularly callous and demeaning exploitation of a baby animal's dead body. It trivializes the life (and death) of a sentient being,” explains The Winnipeg Humane Society.
The creators of the piggy bank, Ryan McCormick and Colin Hart, are reportedly getting death threats and abusive e-mail according to a Montreal Gazette interview.
Via Montreal Gazette & Winnipeg Humane Society
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