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Got a new scanner/printer/copier all-in-one thing, so I am startin' to upload lots... more will follow when I get some of my projects from school back!
On the Bad side, my fishy died today. May she rest in piece (Adi "Moopy" Gallia"). At least she didn't suffer!
And the weird news?
I burried a dead racoon today...
You see, I have a collection of skulls and bones from various animals for anatomical reaserch/illustration purposes, and so when I was walkin' today and found a full in-tact dead racoon on the sidewalk (it wasn't even hit by a car! I think poisining or coyote fight), I got my mom to drive me back to where i found it, wrap it up and take it home and we burried it in the back-yard. GIve it about a year, and I'll have the perfect full skeleton! Neat huh?
Anyhoo, WORSHIP:
I have a coyote skull but I couldn't find a way to clean it correctly and it stinks like nobody's business. Actually, I had a dozen of those, mixed with skunks and beavers, and made a giant "skull soup" to boil them clean, but it mostly just stinked the whole appartment for a week.
I wish to get more, but really need to find a cheap way to clean them. I did some research about taxidermy on the net and all the information I found only confused me more. All these people were contradicting each others, mostly about peroxyde and wether to use it or not or what quantity or how long to dip it in and everything.
I tried the burrying, actually all the skulls I mentionned before were buried for 5 years before I found them... (it's a long story...) but that mostly filled them with bugs.
maybe I can harass you and you can give me a hint or two?
My teacher said to just burry the head for about a year... longer time is needed if it's a whole animal or just a larger skull.
When dug up, use a hose to clean out the cranium from left over brain/soil and insects. If you have a mini-power air blower (you can get those at a local hardware store) use that to clean'em up from any access. Usin' a toothbrush to scrub lightly the whole thing also helps (time consumin' but worth it!) and you don't have to use all those nasty chemicals!!! The soup ias also a good way to clean it... that's how my mom did it for a lamb skull!
If you want to continue collectin' the stuff, ebay sells some great ones (variety of animals too), and some aren't that expensive! I got me a cougar skull too!
hope this helps!
I used the toothbrush and bottle brush and it did help a lot. I might look into something with pressure to help me clean very precisely in the lil holes. thanks.
I'm guessing the skulls were still smelly because I didn't boil them long enough... There were an awful lot of skulls and they'd fit only 4 at a tme in the cauldron and I only had a day to do it (I needed to clean everything up before the roomate came in, though the smell did betray me)
I already looked intp e-bay (I've been drooling over lots of things there, and noticed the resin replicas are a lot cheaper but still very acurate), but thanks for the tip.
What did your roomate do after she smelt it?
My mom also has a thing about dead animals... and not the skulls, but when seeing the dead 'coon she admited to havin' a fear of dead animals. She had to borrow a shovel from her friend, and they thought she was weird!
Heh, that ex-roomate sounds like an @$$... it's good you freaked him out.
next time you see him, make on of the skulls tlak to him.. that usually gets a few screams.
I'd rather not see him again, but if I have to, I'll give that a try.
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But actually, the cartoon was of my sister's first moopy... but you know, i really should make one of her!.. i think i will!