Taxidmery Tail
My office received a call yesterday from a guy who wants to have his cat's tail preserved. The cat is still alive, but lost her tail in an unfortunate garlic chopping incident in the caller's kitchen. The cat is one of those white fluffy things with a huge fluffy tail. The tail is (was) reportedly this particular cat's best feature, pristinely aqua blue eyes notwithstanding. The caller said that he wants to hang the preserved tail on the wall, most of the time. But he wants have it fitted so that on certain occasions, particularly when guests are over, the cat can wear the tail and be restored to her former grandeur.
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I've seen this sorta thing before: guy has animal, guy falls in love with animal, part of animal falls off, guy forgets that animal part is not representative of the spirit of the whole and forgets how to love animal without its removed part. It's a common occurrence. Fortunately it was just the tail (I won't get graphic, but this can be even more complicated when the owner has a fondness for other displaced areas). Basically, my approach has always been to assign the client to a trained taxi-therapist, particularly in this case, as it's hard to move beyond white fluffy things on your own.
This advice is just plain wrong and you should have your dermist license revoked and be hostiley kept out of any future gatherings within the dermist industry. You make a mockery of our craft and sully the specificity and uniqueness or our process.
Firstly, the question itself is proposterous and not worth of a true dermists time. A cat's tail? Am I dreaming and woken up in dermist hell? If a cat loses it's tail and remains alive and the owner wants the tail stuff, I'd call that insane! Totally insane! Secondly, I make my business with primarily moose heads, deers, and dogs. People love to stuff things they kill and things that are part of the family. When a dog dies I have no trouble stuffing it, giving him the best treatment, a trust worthy and honest member of the family wanting to honor and cherish his spirit and memory forever (WHICH IS DOING GOD'S WORK). Fourthly, things that are alive should not be stuffed. That's unethical and in severe violation of our sworn code. If you continue these dishonorable claims and theories, posting them on widely read blogs in our industry, I'm gonna take up the case with Inspector Spressly in the Kenosha County Legislature!
Stuff that.
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