I have an odd set of requestions.

Yes. Requestions. It's a word now.

If you are bothered or angered by taxidermy, or think it is WRONG, stop reading. Go look for something else.

Still with me? Good.

Anyone who knows me probably was a bit thrown off by the title of this post, because, you see, Daxter has been dead for well over a year now. When he died, we had sent him to the taxidermist, because he's our baby and we love him and, in our family, that's what you do to pets instead of burying them in the ground in containers that will never decompose.

Anyhow, the taxidermist did a beautiful job. He still even has his ears on, and he saved all four paws separate so that we could have them made into "lucky" rabbit feet.

But there's a problem. We don't have anything to make them into keychains WITH and even worse, Daxter got... erm... crunchy? Sorry to be graphic. He is very stiff. He is not pliable like Snow the fox is and we went to go call him to ask him what to do or what to treat him with and...

The taxidermist is dead.

:x

Now what?

I need to know how to make Daxter's precious paws into the lucky bunny feet for Chris for his birthday (September) and I need to know how to soften Daxter's pelt safely. I don't want to lose my baby (again)!

So if any of you know a service or place that I could send it or something I could use myself safely, please let me know. This is very important to me.

Thank you.