Anne Dickens | The Day After Yesterday

I was sitting in the kitchen today, idly having a cup of tea and watching Naughty George snore in his basket, when a thought popped into my head; 'Ummm, I wonder what people do with their dead pets?'

You see, I have been rather lucky to reach the age of 40 without actually having to dispose of a deceased pet. But it got me wondering, what would happen if one day I was faced with that dilemma?

At first I thought ........simple ....... I could just plant the stiff in the garden. But then upon reflection, it seemed such a waste. So I searched the internet for 'interesting things to do with dead pets', and up popped the art of taxidermy. 

What a bloody marvellous idea! Fido could live on in a stuffed state, and you could even pop him on a trolley and take him for his perambulations. I did some investigations into pets that have been taxidermied (is that the correct past tense?), and it quite quickly became apparent, that taxidermy is far more amusing when it hasn't quite worked out as was intended ...........














And then I stumbled across a dead pet that took me completely by surprise. Someone had stuffed a dog that looked exactly the same as Naughty George. As least it probably did when it was alive, because the taxidermist didn't appear to be particularly blessed with any skill.



So dahlink, have you got anything that you would like to stuff?



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