Trigger at Auction, Well-Preserved and Ready to Ride

"Honey, I've got good news and bad news.  The good news is, I'm getting
rid of the treadmill in the living room. The bad news is, I'm replacing
it with the preserved remains of Trigger, which I just bought for $200,000."

I guess we've all had that conversation with our wives.

You can have that conversation now if you like, because Trigger is on the auction block at Christie's, with a low, low estimated price of $100-200,000.  He's part of a big spread of Roy Rogers memorabilia. 

Trigger is a one-of-a-kind item, all right.  I must salute the Associated Press for getting the
phrasing right in its story -- "preserved remains," a wonderfully vague phrase.  In the early days of Who2 we got at least one letter complaining
that Trigger was not "stuffed" (as I think we had it) or "mounted"
either.  His skin is stretched over an artificial frame, which makes him
something else entirely.

"Dead," I think they call it.

(Hot tip: Trigger stars in our classic loop Seven Horses of Highly Effective People.)