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How to make a taxidermy manikin myself…?

My brother is trying out taxidermy on the squirrels he gets from hunting. The only problem is that most of the time the squirrel is too big/small for the manikin he has. So he has to spend time either adding/removing parts of the manikin he ordered. He was wondering if anyone has any idea how to just make one yourself from the body of the squirrel. To make a mold and then fill it in. If you’ve never personally tried it perhaps you’d have an idea as to what to use to fill in the mold once it was made. Remember pins will have to be inserted into this material so it cant break easily. I was wondering along the lines of like foam insulation. How it expands to the area anyway. Make a mold, fill the two parts separately, scrap off extra then glue the two parts together. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work but he seems to disagree with me. What do you say?

Thanks for your input
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Can I feed my cat feeder mice and goldfish?

My cat really wants to chase the squirrels outside and is always trying to get my beta fish. She is an indoor cat with lots of energy and tears up her kitty toys all the time.
I want to get some feeder mice for snakes, and let them loose in a closed room with my cat.
I was also thinking of getting a fish bowl that she can easily get into and put a bunch of feeder goldfish in there for her.

Will either of these hurt her health?
She eats spiders, and bugs.

Will squirrels get into hummingbird feeders?

I am thinking about having some hummingbird feeders. I don’t want to have to deal with squirrels getting into it all the time. does anyone know anything about this?

Is this considered to be an “On-Leash” dog?

Ok this is the 10th time I’ve yelled at this woman. She has a large black lab, and she walks him around the neighborhood, aside from using a small dumpster that is on my apartments property for throwing out her dog waste on walks, her dog runs loose. I know most of my neighbors and they all use leads and collars when walking. I have 6 ferrets that are frequently taken outside for play time. They are on harness/leashes, and are not allowed to roam loose. If I see a dog coming with its owners I scoop them up and wait until they pass to let them down again.

She walks hers w/o a physical leash on the dog. She says she has a shock collar for a leash. I see everyday on craigslist people that have dogs that run through those electronic collars to keep them in their yard to chase a squirrel ect.

I told her get your dog on a leash or get it off the apartment property. She says her dog can just run all over my yard peeing on everything because it has on a shock collar. I’m calling the city tomorrow about it, but I looked up the collar. Its a hunting training aide. Does that really count as a leash/collar? Or is that considered not having your dog restrained? There are little children in this apartment that use the yard, and if this dog decides to barrell out of her control on this collar then what? If its a hunting training device I assume the dog hunts. I have small animals, thats not too safe! I’ve had labradors chase me before aggressively, and neighbors have had some NASTY ones that have bitten people. I do not feel safe around a large labrador on some shock trainer loose in my yard.

My dog won’t quit doing the cat. What can I do to make him stop?

This is true. Ever since the cat got pregnant the dog keeps “humping” her. I cat meows the whole time like it hurts or makes her mad. How do I make the dog stop?
Also he keeps killin’ squirrels and laying them in front of the door. How do I stop that?
He is a chihuhua.
This is my autistic son’s puppy I can’t just get rid of it.
The dog is fixed. I didn’t want the cat fixed because she is full breed persian. I wanted her to get pregnant because alot of people wanted her kittens. She mated with another Persian. I just didn’t want the dog to thump the crap out of her.

Rabies help many exposures!?

Ok so about 2 years ago maybe one my friends and i followed a rabid raccoon, it was limping, thin and weak and keep having seizures, we followed it from a distance and we never touched it, we called animal control and they took the poor thing away. Do you think its possible for me to have contracted rabies from the air and the ground we all walked on bringing it into the house and me eating without hand washing?also i was dog sitting a dog and we were walking we saw a dead squirrel and the dog rolled around in it i ran back screaming ans washed it with human shampoo, i know its a long time a go but my mom said i would be dead by now, but also rabies can live in you for a long time!that dig was vaccinated a year before it happened..

do i need shots?
the first one with the raccoon as 1 year ago
the one in romania was almost a year ago
another exosure http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkpJW9KCAge3.lTtQcx.vmLsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090212144903AAz70Tv

and that dog is still alive today, and well
oh yeah i as on vacationin romania my uncle adopted a stray dog and said he was vaccinated, that dog licked my open cut..i dont kno wif its fine..sooo..

I nEED hELP on Some Questions PLEASE?

7. Which of the following time periods accurately represents the training period of an animal control
officer?
A. A few weeks to a few months
B. A few months to one year
C. One to two years
D. Two or more years

8. The Animal Welfare Act regulates the care of all warm-blooded animals with the exception of
A. ferrets.
C. birds.
B. squirrels. D. mice.

9. In veterinary medicine, a policy statement issued by the AVMA represents a
A. code of ethics for a profession.
B. professional oath.
C. list of legal requirements.
D. consensus of an opinion on a specific topic.

10. Which of the following is not a requirement of the Controlled Substances Act?
A. Use of pain-killing drugs for all animals that had surgery
B. Written records of all narcotic drugs used in a practice
C. All persons administering narcotics to be licensed
D. Written justification for the use of narcotic drugs

11. Which of the following tasks will a veterinary assistant normally perform when the veterinary
technician takes a radiograph?
A. Operate the x-ray machine
B. Position the animal on the x-ray table
C. Analyze the x-ray
D. Make a preliminary diagnosis