#bone collecting
Unforeseen dangers of bone collecting: my cat thinks this is for her.
Not unrelated, but unexpected, events in my evening: chasing down my cat to retrieve a leg bone of questionable origin.
squirrel bones are out of the peroxide and ready for display :)))
Soup’s skull is finally finished! so small.
Opossum that was humanely euthanized due to injury
Buck on left I picked up for work. He was tangled in a chain link fence.
Buck on right I had to dispatch after getting hit by a car.
Both coming along nicely!
Long time no see!
Hello everyone!! What a minute it’s been since I’ve been on here!! I have been so busy with life. I ended up in a mental health facility for a bit to get myself better. I feel great, got engaged last weekend, and have been doing more vulture culture stuff.
Pictured is a litter of opossum Joey’s and an older joey!
New video! in this one we go for a walk up to Cefn Du and look for bones to collect. I talk about how I find them and clean them. I hope you check it out!
Grey fox skull display!
Made a display with the partial raccoon skull!
Bone haul from today!! Stumbled on an old hunter dumping ground I think.
photos are mine!!!! these are my skulls :3
The next skuzzle on my to-do list is this bullfrog! I had the mummified bullfrog sitting in peroxide and ideally I would have taken out a mostly intact skull around 2-3 days but I only got a chance to check it about 5-6 days in and all the skin/ligaments had dissolved so I got to pick out the pieces instead. Unfortunately the body sustained a lot more damage than I thought so no skeleton articulation. Some pieces will be taking a degreasing ammonia soak and then I get to start gluing!
It doesn’t look like it but progress is being made on the fish skull! After the first acetone bath it went into the warm Dawn/ammonia bath for a month and then back into acetone for another 2 weeks to get more grease moving. This picture is right after pulling it out of the acetone where a lot of the grease is now dispersed throughout the bone and ready to come out. It’s back in warm Dawn/ammonia now and I’m hoping to see some good progress!