RE: Your Wife
Mine doesn't mind it too much when I go.
She went with us when I took her son ( my stepson) deer hunting the first time. He got a doe and she got to see him get it. Needless to say she cried and got all upset. While we went to track his deer, the other one that was with it, walked up to her and stood there looking at her.
She doesn't like the idea of killing.
She won't touch a piece of any wildgame, won't even taste it.
She does sorta like the rustic style of all the mounted animals I have, though. That's a plus!