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I'd leave it there. Its going to be covered in fleas all abandoning ship looking for another host.
Thread purely for attention, move on, nothing to see here.
Holy Moly! You remind me of a customer i once had who called into my garage for petrol, opened his boot & said 'look what I've found', & yes it was a dead badger.
He was wierd. (& his mother was French)
Another guy I know of collects dead birds. He somehow gets the innards out & mounts the skins on sticks. He has hundreds but he is also a respected authority on birds & apparently museums ask him for advice etc!!
Well, what can I say? This was a deadly serious question and I have previously alluded to being interested in stuffed animals.
Some amusing pics and links for sure. 🙂 Am certainly intrigued by TJ's mother having a collection of skulls but TJ neglected to mention whether he was OK about it!
Of course the icing on the cake would be a stuffed Red Kite as long as it was not caught in flight cos half of it would be in the garden due to space restrictions!
I'm quite harmless, perhaps a wee bit eccentric, so don't feel that you have to avoid riding with me. 🙄
Not a rogue taxidermist are you?
(google it :-O )
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Of course the icing on the cake would be a stuffed Red Kite
Animals should be enjoyed alive, in the wild, from a distance. Not dead and stuffed and kept. Thats just sad.
Being slightly eccentric is something to be admired - **** me I work in HR and there are alot more weired than this - and who hasn't been tempted by a bit a road kill!! Same thing...just.....
Section 1(3) Protection of Badgers Act 1992 states that a person is guilty of an offence if, except as permitted by or under this Act, he has in his possession or under his control any dead badger or any part of, or anything derived from, a dead badger.
(The exemptions are to do with it being necessary to prevent damage to crops and chickens and stuff).
This is actually true.
HTH
The real pisser is that badgers don't have horns
You could maybe fit a bell instead?
cinnamon_girl - Member.......... Am certainly intrigued by TJ's mother having a collection of skulls but TJ neglected to mention whether he was OK about it!
She is a slightly eccentric biologist - stuff was collected as specimens and it was always the case. I rememberer when I was a kid defrosting what I thought was a burger from the freezer and found it to be a gerbil. The worst was probably finding a goose and a fox in the freezer at the same time. We made her get another freezer for the specimens after that. ( stuff was frozen while awaiting dissection / preparation)
Just slightly odd my family - I am the normal one!
Me and a work mate found a dead buzzard at work picked it up looked it over and it was in really good nick no marks nothing. One bloke at work knows a taxidermist and we gave it to him so he could sell it to the taxidermist.
The taxidermist wanted my and my works mate name and a description of where we found it, he also sent a blood sample off to see if had been poisoned, apparently it hadn't.
This thread has been such fun. 😆
TJ - your mother sounds amazing. 8) Did you dread meal times?
Wierdest post on here for a while (and there has been some competition for THAT title!)
And from C_G too. Well done (I think...)
I will readily admit I'm often an attention-whore but am actually deadly (geddit?) serious about this!
C'mon guys, we need a bit of light relief after yesterday's events and subsequent threads. 🙂
CG we find dead sheep in the river or occasionally a cow do you want one of them sending 😉 Two even found a dead woman last year though there could be some questions if we send you one of them 😉
Admit it, you just want another hat
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decided what you're going to stuff your badger with yet?
its not as simples as it shoulds
I ran over a Badgers nose whilst out on my bike. It was hidden in some grass at the edge of the trail.
Horrible crunching noise it made too.
It wasn't until I'd stopped and gone back to check that I realised it had already been dead.
I felt no temptation to adopt it, I must confess.
I think that it's generally badger piss that's the considered be the main transmission method for bovine Tb or aerosol transmission, so if it's been dea a while you're probably safe.
PS - Eccentric is morris dancing. I think you must be completely bat sh*t crazy. 😀
OK, now I'm weirded out. Can't understand stuffing animals at all, certainly not hunting for them dead in fields and taking them home.
I saw a dead rabbit at the side of the road this morning c-g. You can have it for the cost of postage if you like?
OK, let me attempt to explain.
Some folk like having photos in their home, or paintings, or ornaments, or sculptures if they're posh.
I enjoy seeing wildlife, some creatures are beautiful to look at in all different ways. The one species I would draw the line at though is fish. That would freak me out!
I can quite understand how people could get unnerved seeing these creatures so would always be happy to put them out of sight, not in the bathroom obviously!
First band I played in was called 'Rancid Badger' due to drummers other 'collecting and stuffing' hobby
I kinda get the feeling that I'm 'Billy No Mates' now. 😳
Was thinking of organising an XC ride but reckon everyone will be busy. 🙄
I'm sure that's not the case, taxidermy is a bit Marmite though I find it really creepy, probably due to spending too much time at the Horniman Museum as a kid.
Hmm, C_G my Dad has a stuffed heron, he's weird but we all love him anyway.
[i]I was a kid defrosting what I thought was a burger from the freezer and found it to be a gerbil[/i]
crying with laughter here
Lady on the LHS of the Wisconsin Badgers pic has very nice buttocks
Sorry, what was the question?
The one species I would draw the line at though is fish. That would freak me out!
So dead badgers in your house are fine, but fish freak you out ?
You are seriously weird............you're not Morticia Addams are you ?
I'd still go on a bike ride with you though............specially if Uncle Fester tags along.
Pity people can't change their names any longer, "Morticia" would have been perfect for c-g :o)
Gus - fish eyes are spooky! Even in the fishmonger's they leave the eyes in. 😯
So ... when are you and Talkameda coming to Swinley then? How does a very small group sound (invite ony) with the delectable Aleigh?
sfb - shut it!
sfb - shut it!
the dragon-lady speaks 🙂
My new name is 'Billy No Mates'. 🙄
they don't want to end up stuffed and mounted ?
Not sure about the 'mounted' 😉
How does a very small group sound
Sounds fine, other than, I don't know if I could handle the relentless ear-bashing the mouthy upstart would inevitably administer. Talkameda needs to be experienced only in the presence of a large group, which provides the opportunity for individuals to escape. Ideally, it requires a team working a relay system. He once cornered me in a pub out of sight of any other known persons, to suggest that I lost the will to live, would not be an overstatement.
But yeah, I might risk it........and if it doesn't work out, we can all gang up and murder him in some quiet corner of Swinley. Then we could sling his body in the back of my motor, and take it round to yours for stuffing later. He would make a very useful doorstop I reckon.
LOL 😆
He told me he doesn't like large groups, he gets frightened or something silly. 🙄 But he knows us girls will look after him!
OK, he's bound to be reading this so I shall expect an e-mail or an essay! Will be in touch Gus. 🙂
As Obi_Twa said, it'll be feeding all sorts.
By now it'll have a whole lot of bacteria at work - I can't see it staying in good nick in the long run.
What's more, something killed it, wouldn't want that floating about my house thanks.
You'll need to get your [s]meat wagon[/s] bike to the scene quicker than that...
Just wondering if any of you might appreciate a wee update on my search for the perfect mammal?
When England were playing, I took myself off in the countryside for a long ride. Pootling along a bridleway and could see further ahead was some kind of obstruction. Naturally I become rather excited. 🙄
Excitement didn't last long due to carcass consisting of a body with nothing to be seen above the withers 😯 Yes, it's head and neck was missing. 🙁
Naturally I had to identify said mammal and after much studying from all angles and scratching of head, decided that it was probably a young muntjac. Poor little thing.
C_G's search for the perfectly formed mammal continues. 😈
The domestic counterpart of the tandem of doom thread. Marvellous.
Have you not considered [i]making a hybrid[/i] from the various bits you find?
Have you not considered making a hybrid from the various bits you find?
LOL 😆
Now that's an brilliant idea. 💡