Animal House

Probably a nice boy, just missunderstood

Personally, I would have been far more curious about the crate full of rattle snakes– seems stranger & more sinister than an amateur interest in taxidermy.

more important than the movie, what was on the BBQ for dinner?

One of my best friends has a small collection of animal skulls, she sees them as beautiful and uses them as anatomy studies for drawing. Personally, the box of rattlesnakes would have been the deal-breaker for me!

OP I’m glad you left before the movie, he had way too many skeletons in his closet!

You didn’t stay for tacos?

your skull was probably next

I just really wonder what’s a guy thinking showing his date his animal skull collection on date one? Not exactly a deal breaker now is it, (unless, tht is; he knew beforehand she had an interest in such things? Which isn’t the case here) guess he found out the hard way. I actually find rattle snakes more acceptable (guy could be a snake charmer by design, or just have them as pets). An odd pick but nevertheless not any worse than venomous spiders or any other potentially lethal living things some people are fascinated with so much so as to share living space with them!

Rattlesnakes in a glass tank seem like an outre pet.

Rattlesnakes in a wood crate seem like a diabolical prop from a horror movie.

What the hell’s wrong with some people? Why would you reveal that to anyone who didn’t know you really well? What a loon!

The rattle snakes did it for me… out of there ASAP!

RATTLESNAKES! Maybe because I live in a place where we see 2 of these a year….But I would have walked out after that. Sorry dude, if you like to live with things that can hurt you, maybe kill you, then we will not work out.

I think skulls and snakes are pretty cool and even I’D have been weirded out if a guy brought out a box of animal skulls on a first date and told me in detail how he peeled them up off the road and boiled and bleached them himself. That’s just not the sort of thing you discuss right off the bat. And the rattlesnakes in a box (not a tank or a habitat, but a BOX) would have made me seriously consider climbing out the bathroom window.

I’m going with “serial killer” potential. Good move leaving.

The rattle snakes I’d be concerned by; even though I’ve kept many pets, some of which could be considered exotic, I’d be uncomfortable with sharing the house with a fatally poisonous critter.

The skulls are no big deal, a lot of animal lovers and artists keep skulls because they’re really very interesting and beautiful to look at. And he isn’t killing animals himself, I’d find that far more objectionable.

ewww….a date with the Trinity killer!

The fact that the skulls were roadkill is absolutely disgusting. I wouldn’t have thought it was weird if he looked for animal skeletons in the woods because he found bones to be interesting but the roadkill is too much. The rattlesnakes in the box is really creepy, hopefully they’d been defanged or something?

lol I bet he’s still wondering why it didn’t work out…guys must take shock for interest, in my experience! LOL

Call me crazy, but I think this would have been a pretty cool first date. Go figure?

Patric? Patric Bateman with strange stain on his Armani suits?

“I just really wonder what’s a guy thinking showing his date his animal skull collection on date one?”

“Why would you reveal that to anyone who didn’t know you really well?”

Yeah, ’cause the mistake wasn’t boiling and bleaching road kill, it was being open about it? I hate to sound paranoid but the people replying ‘I can’t believe he showed the skulls on the FIRST date’ rather make me worry about what skeletons (real or otherwise) they might have in their closets which they’re more surreptitious about.

@Lakopa – I take the point but… when is the right time to bring up your roadkill flesh removal hobby? I think the OP hit the nail on the head when she said she must have seemed interested when he explained the owl. Still… better to know these things, no?

See, to me this date is not alarming (and yes, I am a girl). I suppose the live snakes could be done without….but the taxidermy stuff doesn’t weird me out. I went to an environmental college where everyone was majoring in Biology or Zoology or some other wildlife/outdoors based degree. I took a class called Fur Trapping, where we learned the ins and outs of trapping, how to use traps, how to set traps, how to skin animals….the big finale was when we each skinned a muskrat. I’m kind of against trapping animals, especially if it’s just to get the fur….but still an interesting class.
Just saying…one of my roommates kept a ziploc of duck parts in the door of our freezer, and for a while there was a whole fisher in there….
Just saying…

I don’t blame you!! That must have been SOME date while it lasted !!!

Did you happen to venture down to the basement? Wonder what he had down there.

I am a girl and except for the rattlers I do the same things. People don’t think twice seeing oppossum skulls on my counter.

@KCAugust How is looking for dead things in the woods any better than in the street? I do both by the way and just wondered what your thought process was.

A friend of mine (girl) has a rather alternative fashion sense, and she also likes to use skulls of small animals for her accessoires like necklaces and headwear.
Some she buys on Etsy, but there are also some she has prepared herself (some rats, birds, a rabbit and a dog)
She gets them from a friend who knows some hunters and also a vet.
Yeah, she’s a bit odd in an artsy sense but nothing dangerous at all.