I assure you, I would have taken no joy in wearing his eye for my avatar.
why not? he was a beautiful animal, why not wear his eye?
i think it was quite wise of you - the interplay between us humans and 'wild' beings is what we as humans have most to learn.
Tusko was looking at us, as do the parrots - "when are you going to kill me too?"
that is the question we have to hear from them. before it is too late.
i tried to save a sheep a two days ago - we were walking and i saw one of the maremmas dragging one of their new sheep (their last one had died, so they escaped and came around our house as they like us, and i think they most likely killed a baby kangaroo that had been feeding around our house... so they gave them a new bunch of sheep to look after). i raced down and saved the sheep - i expect she was only trying to drag it back to the others as a protective act. anyway, its leg was bleeding, with what i suspected was a flesh wound, so i let it out of the pen.
couldn't find the workers, and this morning we came upon it in the paddock, with it's throat torn out. we don't know what could have done that, and i can't see why a bloody leg would have caused that. julie said we should have brought it back to the house and bathed its leg - maybe.
i feel it's time was up, but also i look at all these 'wild' beings and hear them say, "when are you going to kill me?"
i feel Tusko's eye was a precious and poignant statement - we should honour him.