Dead Cat/Fox Bounce ?
barnstormer1968 and jyndabine,
Don't know the story - do tell !
The fox stole came complete with "mask" (same as a tiger-skin rug) - you can see it on the Q.M's arm. Ours always looked reproachfully at me (or so I thought), but really being killed by a hunter was a better option than being killed (first) and then eaten by its natural predator, the wolf.
(Then when we exterminated the wolf in these parts, we had to invent an artificial one - the foxhound. Then when the hound became non-PC, we have foxes all over the place. Where will it all end ? I ask myself).
The taxidermy was well done, it didn't pong at all.
On the subject of the Thread, with all due respect to Miss Vorderman, I have always had a vague feeling that there is something wrong with the whole idea.
Even in the case of Churchill, who was an honorary Air Commodore with an honorary brevet, it's not quite right (he'd done some flying, too - he recalled one mishap as being "stalling between two fools !"
D.