Looking around the room at his stuffed animal trophies adds to his tension and he collapses out of his wheelchair from a heart attack.

A mile from the house is a pleasant antidote to all the animal trophies: a 12-acre bird sanctuary.

Mr. Pacelle of the Humane Society attributes the growth in ranch hunting to a quest for stuffed animal trophies that hunters like to display.

Inside the house, curators have dusted off banisters and furniture, and a project to restore Roosevelt's aging, brittle animal trophies was recently completed.

Mr. Shaver said there were 81 animal trophies in the house, if "the 12 steers that went into the construction of one chair" were included.

The animal trophies (Walt inherited them from a friend), for which the room was named, have been removed by Disney family members.

Web looked at the numerous animal trophies.

He also donated many of his own animal trophies to the collection.

"People are very sensitive to animal trophies," he said.

The log walls and stone fireplace were decked by a number of animal trophies, fossils, and what appeared to be Indian artifacts, along with a few small sculptures.