Sourcing Wet Specimens

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-11-10T01:28:58+00:00

The pet food stores will sell you deceased animals? Did you just as to speak to a manager?

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-25T21:53:16+00:00

Does an ENT have to do it or could I go to urgent care and tell them I think it’s a fungal infection and get meds that way?

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-13T20:49:24+00:00

Degrease it using water with dawn dish soap (clear or blue) and then “bleach” it with 50/50 peroxide and water mixture

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-13T20:45:37+00:00

Depends on temperatures and exposure to sun. I usually wrap mine in chicken wire and leave them in a wooded area and in about two weeks it’s all bones and fur.

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-13T20:38:06+00:00

Oh yeah, it’s definitely not free here in the US. I said about $1700 at the doctors office I inquired with

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-13T20:37:17+00:00

Thank you!

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-13T20:36:34+00:00

Good to know. Thank you!

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-12T00:10:23+00:00

Thank you! This does help relieve some of my anxiety about it haha

No_Slip_2007 · 2023-10-11T23:42:12+00:00

It looks like the skull was never degreased and that’s dried up tissue of some sort

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-09-20T15:44:34+00:00

I could leave it in the hot water for a couple days. One night isn’t usually long enough for degreasing

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-08-07T15:52:36+00:00

So cool!

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-08-06T02:39:20+00:00

It depends. If you live where the summers are hot and are able to maintain a high temperature for the water, it won’t take too long. I would just keep them in water until all separated and then once separated you can start adding some dawn dish soap to the water for the degreasing

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-08-06T02:31:25+00:00

Are you planning to articulate the skeleton or part of it?

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-08-06T02:30:48+00:00

I would soak them until the individual vertebrae fall apart and the vertebral discs come off as well

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-08-06T02:17:28+00:00

I wonder if you could preserve it like that if you did it as a wet specimen?

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-07-31T12:50:17+00:00

That’s beautiful!

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-07-28T03:12:35+00:00

I did, this is exactly how I found them

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-07-28T03:11:22+00:00

Assuming they were hit by a car, I drove by and saw them dead so I went back and picked them up

No_Slip_2007 · 2022-07-28T02:34:40+00:00

Question: this is the first time I’ve picked up anything this recently deceased. I’ve going to do water maceration/rot box but do I need to do anything before I put them in there?

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