Learn from my Fail!

[kendall1987]

I was boiling some skulls in back yard,went to get my pressure washer from the garage, came back and came back to find my boxer had ate the whole front part of one skull .I had an old skull mount I chopped the horns off an used that skull on the horns.it was a sickenin feeling but when I got Done no one could tell!

[phoenix-cry]

Dogs and taxidermy, dangerous combination.  My dog ate a lion claw for reasons that I still don't understand, she also ate a physic text book.

[Carl Settle]

Dogs can diffidently make for a bad day, while doing a whitetail skull mount a few years ago my friends little beagle dog got a hold of the nose bones that had come loose. Luckily I was able to rebuild them with apoxie sculpt, had to paint it but it looked great and nobody ever noticed. 

[Stream Side Taxidermy]

Just did my first goose and decide to cheap out and use Balmex for legs and feet. Lets say they have more wringles then my old weathered face, two part injection for me now on.

[phoenix-cry]

I find that nine times out of ten the 'cheap' way out always costs more in the end.  For example: tanning at home. 

[kdogg_4]

 I had been helping a fellow friend from another state do game heads. So after a few months I was excited to do my own.  I ordered a cape from Northernmontana and got a form..  I was so excited to be doing my own project I prepped the face and threw in the earliners with two part ear epoxy.  I finished my mount and posted it on here for all the taxinet world to see!  In the beginning I saw that it had eyes, ears, nose , mouth and a set of real nice sheds I found.. After it being critiqued on here and everyone saying "THE EARS ARE WACK"  I soon realised I had put the earliners in the wrong ears!!!  Jennifer my beautiful girlfriend will not let me redo the mount.. She says it is my first one and a great learning lesson..   

[JimE]

Cats can be bad for taxidermy as well.  One day I found a yellowish, foamy pile of cat vomit on the carpet.  I soon discovered the source.  The cat got at a squirrel mount and ate the entire face off - hide, foam and all.