stuff

[Donkey]

How do you stuff a dead animal

[IndieSinger]

Open the packet, pour the contents into a jug, add the required amount of boiling water and shove it into the carcus.

I reccommend Paxo's Sage & Onion.

[New Forester]

Very good, Indie. I think they are generally skinned, the fur (or feathers) preserved, then the skin stretched around a suitable shape, I think traditionally made of wire, straw and clay. I think the head may use the animal's own skull. There are catalogues with hundreds of slightly different glass eyes to make an exact match (http://www.watdon.com/watdon_home.html, and click on Taxidermy). Fish are done by casting them in plaster, and I think just painting them, presumably with some bits of the jaws attached. It's all very skilled -- you can see how difficult it is by how unlifelike most stuffed animals look.

[FP]

Stuffed animals really freak me out. I can't bear natural history museums with stuffed animals in glass cases. It always amazes me how people can bear to get their pets stuffed and have them on show.

[FP]

LOL Indie, will you never change? Hope not!