Best way I was told from a friend for achieveing a good skeleton is very simple - maggots!!

Any dead animals I get go to her for taxidermy. Unless they needed a PM done and are past it.

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My neighbours would love that

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skin the snake and put it in formaldehyde (or however it is spelled) which will preserve the skin

my step dad did it recently to a dead baby pit viper off his mate.

theres a thought i havnt even gone to have a look at it yet so will try and get some pics for you

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well when i started this thread i nevva once thaught it would come to boiling a snake :O this is extremely morbid lol but still fairly humerous

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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

How do you go about skinning a snake?

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Mealworms will eat all the skin and flesh off the bone and leave you with a skeleton too, although if you leave it too long they'll destroy the skeleton as well! I know a few people who do taxidermy using mealworms and have little skeletons mounted. I also know people with freezers containing deceased animals - you never know when they might come in handy?!

There's also a university (is it liverpool, or might be london?) where you can send the deceased bodies and they are used for scientific studies (what exactly they do to them I don't know).... local schools studying science / biology may also be interested in bodys for class (we just did frogs back in my day.. )

My vet will do a quick cremation starting around £5 obviously it is higher the bigger the animal.

I believe it's actually illegal to bury non native species in the garden? I'm sure I read that somewhere but I can't remember where now..

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whoops, lol, my poor little rough green is breaking the law then.......i'm sure she'd be chuffed though!

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you don't know you've lived until you're about to die.........
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1:2:4 Royal Pythons
0:1:1 Snow Corns
0:0:1 Anery Corn
0:0:1 Okeetee Corn
1:0:0 Amel Corn
1:0:0 Albino Everglades Ratsnake
1:0:0 Red-tailed boa
0:1:0 Albino banded cali kingsnake
1:0:0 Red milk snake
1:0:0 Blood Python
0:0:1 Candy Cane Corn
0:1:0 Rough Green Snake (unfortunatly deceased but not forgotton..R.I.P)

+ horses, rats, mice, budgies, finches, cats, dogs, ferrets and a goldfish ....and on and on and on.
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