AWKWARD ZOMBIE

This is the kind of thread thats going to be included in a news article with the quotes "The victims eyeballs were found in pickled taxidermy jars in the basement" in ten years

shit he's onto me

time to toss out that tub of formalin i had waiting for something big to go in

Dude, if you need to get rid of a body, just ask. I only need bleach (for cleaning) and access to a two-inch drain or larger. But if you live out in the woods like I do, I won't even need that.

I was afraid when seeing this thread's title, and after walking in, I am still afraid.

What do you mean you turn animals into bones? And, are any of those bones from a pet you've owned?

by turning animals into bones i mean that i drag roadkill/naturally killed/etc animals out of the woods and/or roadways and into my yard where i let nature do its thing until all i have is the bones. sometimes i get animals from my grandpa/friends/other family who have trapped or hunted them. none of them are my own pets, and i do not kill them just for my hobby. that's not to say that i wouldn't do it to my own pets after they die (and yes i'm aware of how morbid this is but it's the same thing as having an urn, in my mind, just a better conversation piece.)

the closest things i have to having a skeleton from a pet is the dog skull which was likely someone's hunting dog that got lost in the woods and had a run-in with a coyote. it has a similar skull shape to my dog's, so it was likely some kind of coonhound/lab cur, which are popular deer/rabbit dogs in that area.

I have been teasing you a bit, but this is actually quite cool. I want a skull now. Provided it is properly bleached and sanitized. I want to be able to lick the daisies thing with no repercussions. I mean, not that that is what I want it for, but just as an example.


Also, maybe for down the road when you with the lottery... and want to lose all hopes of social interaction
Don't you just want to have a human child's skull in a designated skull carrying box?

no licking any of mine then, i guess. i'm not a huge fan of bleached skeletons, i prefer the natural look. the ones from my grandpa aren't really clean, but not in a 'there's still mummified bits on' way, more a 'these were cleaned by hanging them on a fence so there's on them' way. the ones i do myself i keep them in buckets to rot down so they tend to be less full of dirt and spiders and stay whiter, but i don't bleach them. i clean them really well with soap and water (degreasing,) but i still..wouldn't lick one.

human skulls are cool (also i thought they were illegal to own unless you're a medical professional??) but MY holy grail is one of these. i'll never be able to have a real one, so i'll settle for the cast. bug thylacines are my favourite animal ever and their skull structure is SO FASCINATING. i know it looks generic carnivore but they could open then mouths at 90 degree angles!

We actually do a program about animal skulls at the children's garden where I work, we teach the kiddos about different types of teeth for carnivores and herbivores, and how predators have forward-facing eye sockets for binocular vision while prey animals have eyes on the sides so they can watch out for predators.

It gives me flashbacks to my Vertebrate Anatomy class, it's pretty daisies cool stuff.

do you ever get the urge to combine them into nightmarish abominations

Oh, hey, I remember watching a Dirty Jobs episode about this kind of thing once. It was actually pretty rad, and kinda gross. But your collection is cool!

This is a poor choice of words and I love it. Always a fan of seeing your collection!

oh boy drunk me sure does produce some winners






sometimes, but i won't try until i have more than one of a type just in case i ruin it

Whoah, huge.

I found this thing when we were out hiking a while ago. I think it's a vertebra? Shaped a bit weirdly, maybe it isn't even a bone.

it doesn't look like a vertebra to me, but i have no idea what it could be. it almost looks like part of a pelvis?? i have no idea.

for reference, here are some baby opossum vertebra. they tend to universally be kind of pointy looking - not smoothed out. they also usually only have one hole in them.

I live near a slaughter house, and I used to have a dalmatian that loved bones. She found a bunch of cow bones and kept them in the yard, and this one time a bunch of coyotes killed one of the cows that got free and my dalmatian went to the kill the next day and brought the cow's head in our yard. We probably almost had enough bones lying around to make a full cow. The cow head thing was pretty disturbing though since it was still really fresh, so we ended up giving the dog away to one of my mom's friends.