The Mating Position?
Is it strictly a politically correct / decor issue?
I mean we have animals eating others, fighting, swimmming in schools, flying in flocks - we even have deer butt (and other butt) "joke mounts" - yet this obvious and vital life function is almost -always- left out of the traditional taxidermy reperitoire. I have never seen a mating mannequin. It seems more than an "oops!" oversight. The 2 headed calf mannequin and the leopard mannequin are popular - yet the leopard is illegal to do anything with (buy, sell, trade, import, export) except in-state and 2 headed calves are very rare. What gives? I'm puzzled.
I would like to have a pair of animals mounted in the mating position (they are small rodents, nothing obscene). Yeah, I know, you'll tell me to do it myself, that's fine. What would YOU charge, though, if a customer asked you this?
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I wouldn't think it's a matter of being politically correct. Instead, I think it's a matter of profitability from the vendor's standpoint. It's not good business to invest all the money into developing a mannikin that only one guy wants to buy. You've got to recover those costs somewhere. I don't see any of my customers asking for their trophy doing the nasty. If they did, I'd probably have to do the form in-house, would charge appropriately as I would with any carcass casting operation, and then I'd ask them why in the hell they want that anyway.LOL
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An old lady walked into a taxidermy shop carrying two large brown grocery bags. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she stepped up to the counter. The taxidermist, seeing that this lady was very upset, asked "Mam, what can I do for you?" The lady's trembling voice returned "These are my two babies. I never married, but wanted companionship, so years ago on a trip to Florida I bought this pair of squirrel monkeys(sob, sob). They have been my family for a long time. Henry died yesterday, and Fifi died hours later(sob, sob). I am just heart broken about the loss of my "kids."
The taxidermist then asked... "Would you like to have them mounted?" Fire came into her red eyes as she looked up at him and said "Absolutely NOT. I want them separate!"
That's the end of the story...eh?
It's so dumb, the author doesn't even know how to spell his name. Any animal CAN be mounted in any position. Now, how would YOU like to have a pair of foxes mating setting on your cocktail table. I know some would, but they probably have their taxidermist's phone number on speed dial. I don't for the same reason I don't mount pets. There are somethings governed by MY taste and not those of my customers.
This is a forum for legitimate taxidermists, both amateur and professonal, not a forum for your masturbating fantasies. Maybe you should ask Larry Flynt or your mother what they think about the subject.STRAIGHTEN UP JACKASS!
Yimminy! I was taking count on all the "off the wall" questions this weekend. But I lost count! Notice I didn't out rightly call them stupid as they are.
To the ignoranus who couldn't spell his name that asked this question, why don't you hook up with the guy who wanted to know what Elmers Glue is, and see if you can't make a couple of things "stick".
And in the meantime, get some couth man.
i'm happy to say that we still live in a country where copulation is a private matter, and that public displays otherwise usually bring on red faced embarrassement from the average john doe public, especially women and children. taxidermy art, like other forms of art, demonstrates its beauty in the eye of the individual beholder. most poses in taxidermy are such that they leave the imagination of the viewer to picture what must be "taking place". in the pose you mention, there is nothing left to the imagination, and further, i doubt if your mind would be on the "beauty" of the mount.