If you are just joining me and are not aware of the dead kitty saga.... read... Presents from Abbey..... :)
Much to my delight my friend who is a taxidermist has agree to donate her efforts for the sake of education and to create the entire skeleton of the kitty as well as peel the pelt (not for mittens or hats, but) so that my students can compare the fur with all the other pelts I have.
Even more to my delight was to find the dead kitty still in tact when I got home from work. It is now bagged and on its way to being frozen.
I wonder if she would let me help. I've assisted with a necropsy or two... they are quite fascinating.
Abbey has finally stopped sneezing.
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Interesting...very interesting.....
See, I love animals more than I love people and although I realize Abbey was doing her "job" it still makes me sad.
I think I would have buried it and not gone so over the top with the science part of it all.
But that's who you are...and I can't fault ya for that...just takes a different 'type' of person to get excited about such things.
I hope your students are respectful when dealing with animals that have died...bless their hearts.
I should clarify something:
I love animals more than I love MOST people. Not more than my family. Nooo. They come first. Everyone else is secondary. (I hope that makes sense?!)
Hi kimmyk, welcome to my blog.
Allow "me" to clarify something now... I truly love animals and the environment.... and you can ask 46 himself... if there had been one breath of life left in that kitty I would have been up the whole night through tending to it. I've rehab everything from a baby squirrel to an injured gossling.
But there was nothing I could do for that kitty... so I looked upon it as a gift... an opportunity to possess a portion of that animal with, which I can educate and instill environmental ethics into the minds of children whom hold within them the choices upon which the future of our environment is hinged.
So to me.. the death of that kitty now has purpose and meaning and I've shown it respect.
I will be able to broach so many topics from feral cats to evolution to responsible pet ownership to predator/prey relationships, and more with that one skull.
If I were to bury it, a fox would have just dug it up and run off with it.... or the moles and voles would drag pieces of it away while the beetles consume the soft parts.
Everybody is somebody's lunch... even us.
But don't think for a minute that I wasn't sad to see it lying there looking like it was sleeping. I thanked it for its life.
I feel better knowing all that now.
RIP lil' kitty.
I'm glad KK
I loved that pussy.
46
CAT-The Other White Meat.
Who loves ya baby!
;>)
Me
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