Leather Comers From a cow?


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Leather Comes From a cow?

Yep... had that conversation with my 12 year old daughter... she has been joining me at the shooting range and really enjoying learning how to handle and shoot her Walther P22... she shoots my Glock 19, but prefers the reduced recoil of the P22...

Given that I have started playing with leather, I thought it would be special for me and for her if I made her a holster for her P22... just for her... thought I was doing something special... a real dad and daughter thing...

Following the recent Tandy Leather "end of year sale"... I order a double shoulder... a full 15 sq feet of leather... never done that before. I unrolled my proud new purchase and started explaining to my kids where this section of leather actually came from off of the cow....

For a second, my youngest daughter followed the conversation with interest... as I described where the two front legs fit within this particular piece of leather, here eyes suddenly went wide - as if the ugly lights of realization had been turned on...- her words... "this came from a real cow?" A horified expression followed my "of course"... she asks "this is what you used my make my holter?"... another ill prepared and not yet up to speed "of course."

daughter... "well... I don't want it if you made it from a real cow!!"

What is a dad to do....she'll be fine in time, but I found this 'realization" a priceless moment that I wish I had cought on film...

Picture of the scary holster to folllow....

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The trim is cow leather 'embossed' to look like alligator.... bit of failure on that learnging curve... but, next one should be better...

As before, big thanks to you leather guys who have gotten me started on this.... am thoroughly enjoying the process of playing and learning the leather game... two thumbs up to you guys... :dblthumb:
 
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Some times... you guys are like hearding cats... running hear and there with no sence of purpose... "squirrel".... yep... makes me feel right at home... ;)
 
I also picked up some leather and other stuff from Tandy
over the holidays. I was working on a knife sheath when
my sons girlfriend came over. She asked what that stuff was.

I said leather, she asked where it came from, I said a dead cow.

The look was priceless. She is 17 and didn't have any idea
leather came from animals.
 
This is the reason that I've had my girls hang out and watch when I'm butchering a deer or a goose or fileting fish since they were very young. I've known too many people that don't connect the dots between meat and real, live animals. And, oddly, my south-Philly-girl wife, an ER nurse, shies away from me butchering food, but isn't phased one bit by people in various stages of dismemberment at work. I just don't get that.

To the OP. I wish I could render more assistance to you, my friend. I'm stumped on how to ameliorate her response to the fact that most leather comes from cows. Except to maybe point out some object that she's especially attached to like a pair of leather shoes or a leather coat and see if that changes her mind in some manner.

Good luck w/ that one, bro.
 
Sandcut said:
To the OP. I wish I could render more assistance to you, my friend. I'm stumped on how to ameliorate her response to the fact that most leather comes from cows. Except to maybe point out some object that she's especially attached to like a pair of leather shoes or a leather coat and see if that changes her mind in some manner.

Good luck w/ that one, bro.
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Yea... her sisters have already been on her regarding the boots, purse, jacket...etc... don't think the scope of things have coalesced just yet...

funny stuff to watch... :)
 
Quick, what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "turkey"? (especially this time of year)
A 14lb frozen Butterball or a thing with feathers on?
 
Reminds me of my daughter when we were raising goats. Invited all the neighbors over for a cabrito feast. She's munching away when she asks where Paquito was. I just grinned and nodded to her taco. Woooooo! Priceless!

As someone else said -- sometimes it takes a bit to connect the dots.

Good luck. My girl is 40 now and has a healthy outlook on groceries, so I guess she did OK. Now trying to get the granddaughters acclimated to what makes good munchies.
 
Just hope she doesn't tell her school teachers or counselor about how traumatized she was. It'll cost thousands for her therapy, and you'll be lucky to not be charged with abuse of some kind.
 
my step father was a truckdriver and he took me to a sloughter house at the tender age of 7.... I refused to eat meat for a few weeks ( my parents would not let me be a vegeterian and they slapped meat on my plate every night.... i would run away crying and going to bed hungry.... but eventually I gave into the hunger).... my mom gave me a nature book where sharks eat fish and wolfs eat deer.... and explained that it was how nature worked... the cycle of life and all. it took a little while for me to come around because I was a particularly sensitive child... but I eventually came around and begain to collect nature fact cards. I recongmend you buy her some books on predators and wait for her to come around.
 
You could point out that the cow was dead when the green "leather" was removed...

Oh wait, that probably wouldn't help.

Looker
 
Oh wow! I am glad I have my kids in 4H. When my son was 12 he raised a pig as a project animal and named it Sizzle, as he said, it was the last sound he would make.
We started by explaining what the animals provide, food, clothing, etc. and how we as people need to care for the animals and that includes harvesting them. We try to be as humane as possible, ( I wouldnt bring slaughterhouses into it tho).
You may also have her explain her issue with it. She may just never thought of it before or may have another reason. Either way Good Luck

Bob
 
i just ask my daughter,"well would you rather it go to waste?" at least we are using all of the cow, not just the part for burgers." she wasnt to happy with the idea of hunting till we talked about how beef cattle get treated, at least that little bunnie got to play in the woods. shes doing better on the idea
 
shutternut said:
Reminds me of my daughter when we were raising goats. Invited all the neighbors over for a cabrito feast. She's munching away when she asks where Paquito was. I just grinned and nodded to her taco. Woooooo! Priceless!
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OMG!!!! I'm dyin' here!


Daddy, where's Paquito?

Paquito es su taquito.

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!


I think I just herniated a lung laughing.

Thanks. That little gem just changed the whole tempo of my day.
 
I'll give you some leather any day to make me a holster like that! Nice.

Been having the same conversations with my daughters about that. My youngest helps me with the dressing out of critters, as long as she can use her knife and gets to play with the brains and eyeballs LOL She wants to be a traveling cook when she grows up. No cartoon channel for her - this 9 year watches the cooking channel!

My oldest has some vegetarian friends. But she really likes her meats. It became OK with her once I told her that if she ever became road kill, pigs and chickens would have no problem eating her flesh. Squirrels, bunnies, and mice would devour her bones in no time.
Guess what argument she used with her veggie friends:4:. Although she still won't eat deer or pheasant. Wild salmon is OK though - go figure.
 
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I know there are companies that pick up cows that die on farms before their time. Sickness, predators, weather, etc. They basically recycle the animal. The meat is usually made into some kinda feed for dogs or something. The skin is then sold to a tannery. I doubt it'll help but it's highly possible that her holster is made from a recycled cow.
 
Meat comes from the back room of the supermarket on white plastic trays covered with plastic wrap. :54:

Don't tell her where milk comes from or that a poor calf went hungry so she'd have milk on her cereal. :17:

Fact: Every cow grows up (except veal) wishing to become a pile of steaks. :27:

Ask her what her shoes and belts and other fashion accessories come from.

Nice holster! Great work.
 
Take her somewhere were she can work cows a little bit,mainly
have to walk around in the smelly green all day.After a day up close
with the cows and their dung, maybe she won't like them so much.:16:

Nice holster.
 
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