Yeah, I know there are laws on the books that you can't turn pets into fur coats. Now, you'd like to think there wouldn't be a problem if the animal died naturally.

Check out this article: http://www.messybeast.com/cat-fur.htm

And I just want to get a cheap set of bagpipes to scare the stuffing out of my wife's cats.

The PETA folk go ape$4i7 over regular fur, let alone pet. They would give me grief for the arctic fox, let alone a house pet. Then I could tell them it's my samoyed and watch them flip out.