I must give a little warning before you move on. If you have a squeamish stomach.. you might just want to skip this whole post. Well, you can look at Punker Man there but I think you just might be better off skipping the rest. So if you keep reading.. I did warn you.
He smells something....
Where is it?
Ahhh. the patient. Well , this poor guy had a run in with a car or something on the road and Dad found him the other day and brought him home since he was in such good shape. I mean, normally, roadkill is a big hit or miss kind of deal.. usually it is a pretty big mess and there isn't much to do but leave it for highway dressing , but this guy.... was totally perfect. He must have been bumped but not run over. Anyway, not wanting him to go to waste... he came home to Elly May and her very sharp skinning knife.
He should have brushed his teeth or something...
The first incision in....hmmmm . we'll call him Ivan for now .
She is skinning this guy cased for mounting. Gently the knife works to seperate the skin and flesh.
Biology 101..
The leg...
The toe nails remain with the pelt.. so she has to cut through the toe bones here.
This picture is just weird. It looks like a lot of different things.. none of which I will mention here. But what it really is.. is just the tail being slipped off.
Most of the pelt is off now...the tail came off beautifully in one piece. I tried it one time with another squirrel and the tail broke.... humph.
Just like a tube...
Okay, I am sorry, I know this is really gross.. but if you were curious as to what a squirrel looked like without its coat... now you know. If we were Southern and hungry... we could fry this baby up. But we have some scruples ... it wasn't bled out properly for one. And we don't eat rodents. Not unless we are desperate. And we aren't there yet so I can hang on to my snooty scruples for now.
It looks so deflated...
The end. She did a beautiful job and it went really quick. She saved the skull for the brain as this is going to be brain tanned. First it needs to be fleshed (all the little pieces of flesh/meat/fat still sticking to the skin have to be scraped off before tanning..). But right now it is in the freezer.
He smells something....
Where is it?
Ahhh. the patient. Well , this poor guy had a run in with a car or something on the road and Dad found him the other day and brought him home since he was in such good shape. I mean, normally, roadkill is a big hit or miss kind of deal.. usually it is a pretty big mess and there isn't much to do but leave it for highway dressing , but this guy.... was totally perfect. He must have been bumped but not run over. Anyway, not wanting him to go to waste... he came home to Elly May and her very sharp skinning knife.
He should have brushed his teeth or something...
The first incision in....hmmmm . we'll call him Ivan for now .
She is skinning this guy cased for mounting. Gently the knife works to seperate the skin and flesh.
Biology 101..
The leg...
The toe nails remain with the pelt.. so she has to cut through the toe bones here.
This picture is just weird. It looks like a lot of different things.. none of which I will mention here. But what it really is.. is just the tail being slipped off.
Most of the pelt is off now...the tail came off beautifully in one piece. I tried it one time with another squirrel and the tail broke.... humph.
Just like a tube...
Okay, I am sorry, I know this is really gross.. but if you were curious as to what a squirrel looked like without its coat... now you know. If we were Southern and hungry... we could fry this baby up. But we have some scruples ... it wasn't bled out properly for one. And we don't eat rodents. Not unless we are desperate. And we aren't there yet so I can hang on to my snooty scruples for now.
It looks so deflated...
The end. She did a beautiful job and it went really quick. She saved the skull for the brain as this is going to be brain tanned. First it needs to be fleshed (all the little pieces of flesh/meat/fat still sticking to the skin have to be scraped off before tanning..). But right now it is in the freezer.
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