Reading about the latest fashion trend, roadkill fur, reminded us of a case that came in to the SHG a long time ago.
An ex-squaddie suffered from combat stress resulting from the time he was serving in Aden and sent in to fire into a building that intelligence said was full of terrorists. He did and the bodies were all women and children.
In an attempt to try and stop the nightmares he started drinking.
He kept a few rabbits and one day found a dead fox that had been killed by a car. Thinking he could make himself a Davy Crockett hat the fox was skinned and hung to cure.
The RSPCA prosecuted on the grounds that even though these were domesticated rabbits they would be terrified of the smell of fox fur hanging in the same air space, as foxes are natural predators of rabbits.
The RSPCA eventually dropped the case, but not until they had put this poor man through utter misery to the point that we were on suicide watch.
He died of cancer a couple of years later, so the RSPCA can no longer hurt him.
