Stay spooky, my ghouls
If you’ve recently picked up a new friend off the side of the road, you may have hit a point in your drive home where the excitement faded and the weight of the task ahead set in. What did you just get yourself into? Well, unless you have a freezer dedicated to roadkill that you can chuck your little find into, you’ll have
So, you have a dead, smelly thing in your (legal) possession. But what you really want is a clean pile of this thing’s bones. We’ve all been there, amirite? Now you have to decide how to reliably rot your new, cadaverous cohort. While there’s more than one way to skin a cat (or in this case your dead thing), I typically prefer maceration.
A page dedicated to (you guessed it) dead things. Vulture culture isn’t for everyone. But for those who are interested, there’s a wealth of information online on how to collect, process, and display specimens. I’ll include some methods I personally use with some practical tips I’ve learned along the way. Warning: Possibly graphic content.
It’s early one cold, Saturday morning and you’re out for a drive. A little ways down the empty road, you see an indiscernible lump on the right hand shoulder. You blink hard, trying to figure out what the heck it is. As your car cruises closer, you can make out the ring tail and masked face- another raccoon. But this one is different.