I understand completely! I hate cutting fabric animals up. I don't apologize though, but I usually feel bad. Especially when it's like a bunny head that will forever be on the quilt... without a body.
I'm not a huge fan of OBW with animals because of the lack of full animals. Some look great (comes to mind is the carp quilt posted recently... so cool) but some look kind of sad... a kaleidoscope of animal torsos...