#my deads

Hey fellow vultures, can I ask your advice? I collected a mummified squirrel last year, and rotted it down and degreased it, or at least I thought I had, so I put it in peroxide for a day, and most of the bones turned out great like those on the left, but some still have a pinkish/brownish color to parts of them. Am I correct that these need more degreasing? Or is this just a color abnormality? If I leave them as-is are they likely to get smelly again? Do they need more time in peroxide??

Sorry for the newb question. My normal source for silly vc questions has disappeared :(

Dead animal warning!

Um so now she is a fox in socks bc I have had trouble finding all the little bones and bits when I bury, so my mom had the idea to put socks over her feet and head to try and keep them all together and make digging her out later a bit easier. Pretty goofy lookin tho.

So it’s every American vulture’s worst nightmare to find one of your favorite native birds as roadkill

I collected it anyways and (after a day or two of extended googling and awkward hemming and hawing) I emailed a guy at the science museum about accepting it as a donation.

So this morning I waited around in the science museum lobby holding a dead bird in a plastic bag while children and parents were milling around, trying to spot this guy who I only knew by name…

And then this older guy approaches and mutters under his breath ‘wonder if there’s a bird in there…’ and then wanders off again, so I had to say ‘I do, um, have a bird in here.’ And our conversation continued in this supremely awkward fashion for a couple minutes, in which I attempted to be friendly and ask questions like what other sorts of donations he gets, and he tried the entire time to just grab it and walk away.

GOOD TIMES

in all seriousness though, RIP gorgeous egret friend. I’m glad you found your way to someone who is legally allowed to appreciate your remains, and possibly use them for science.

Dead animal warning!!!

I have the coolest friends. One of them texted me this evening to let me know of a rta fox just off the highway. It took me a good 40 minutes to figure out how to collect her safely, but I managed it :)

She’s the first Minnesotan fox I’ve ever seen. Shame she’s dead, but still very beautiful and precious. She will be buried in one of my flowerpots, alongside a toad and a raccoon from last year.