“Why do big-game hunters mount lions’ heads?”/“To mount the other end would be a catastrophe.”

The word “catastrophe” sounds like “cat ass trophy,” and there are jokes. “This sounds like a guaranteed cat-ass-trophy!” was posted on the newsgroup rec.motorcycles on October 13, 1992.
     
“Only the front of my cat is my familiar, her ass is just cat? Can I, then, cut it off and mount it, making it a cat ass trophy?” was posted on the newsgroup alt.witchcraft on July 17, 1998. “Why do big-game hunters mount their lions’ heads? To mount the other end would be a catastrophe” was posted on Reddit—Dadjokes on November 2, 2020.
   
The joke often specifically uses “taxidermist,” as in “Catastrophe: when a taxidermist mounts the wrong end of the lion” and “I took my dead cat to a taxidermist, but they stuffed the wrong end. It was a cat-ass-trophy.”
     
         
Google Groups: rec.motorcycles   
Fogging and how to stop it?
Charlie Smith
Oct 13, 1992, 4:27:24 PM
(...) 
This sounds like a guaranteed cat-ass-trophy! When you get it mounted on your trophy shelf, let us know. I cat-e-gorically believe you can’t cat-a-log the non-cat-a-leptic cat-a-clysmic results! And I don’t say this cat-a-chrestically!
 
Google Groups: alt.witchcraft 
You either have the blood or you don’t.
The Color of Nothing
Jul 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
Only the front of my cat is my familiar, her ass is just cat? Can I, then, cut it off and mount it, making it a cat ass trophy?
 
Google Groups: alt.lifestyle.furry
I had a framed feline posterior mounted on the wall, but I lost it…
Locandez
Mar 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM
Cat-ass trophy!
 
Twitter
Bado™
@azbado
Instead of mounting a lion’s head on the wall as a regular trophy, we could mount the lions ass instead. Then it would be a Cat-Ass-Trophy
12:02 AM · Sep 1, 2010·Tweetie for Mac
   
Twitter
Christopher Dyer
@CDyer51
Replying to @GeorgeTakei
@GeorgeTakei Always wanted to mount the hind end to a plaque with a brass tag that says catastrophe (cat-ass-trophy).
5:21 PM · Dec 25, 2013·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Richard S. Crawford
@underpope
Replying to @antijenic
@antijenic @Therajill Just put the cat’s rear end on a wall-mount. Then it will be a cat-ass-trophy.
2:12 PM · Apr 14, 2015·Twitter Web Client
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/friste November 2, 2020
Why do big-game hunters mount their lions’ heads?
To mount the other end would be a catastrophe.
COMMENTS
Justgiz
Cat-ass-trophy. Nice
 
Twitter
keepingitcreel
@Keepingitcreel
Why do big-game hunters mount their lions’ heads? To mount the other end would be a catastrophe.
3:13 AM · Nov 3, 2020·IFTTT