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Well since it’s not yet time for me to go out and start searching for dead things in the woods I have, instead, decided to buy
said dead things. At least that’s how I’m justifying it. I’ve been keeping my eye open for a good deal on a silver fox after I
was outbid late last year on one and I finally came across one. As clearly evident by the picture it’s a brown silver, I’d still
like to get a hold of a normal one but this one will do for now. The face is slightly torn, there are holes in the body and some
bald spots but I only use these as decoration so I don’t mind. It was hard to beat the price anyways, and the best part, free shipping!
Well I finally got around to cleaning some skulls that I’ve had sitting around for almost the better part of a year now. Just
using a low concentration hydrogen peroxide because that’s cheap and easy to get ahold of, I’ll just have to let everything
sit longer. I don’t have much space to do it in so right now it's only two coyotes, a fox, two bobcats, and an otter. I have a
whole coyote skeleton I need to get done too but that will have to wait till I’m done with the skulls. Hopefully it will get done
before the snow starts falling, otherwise it will probably be waiting until spring because I don’t feel like searching in the cold
and snow for them.
One of the bobcats is extremely greasy but I’m really too lazy to degrease it so it’ll be interesting how that turns out. Maybe I’ll
just have to let that one sit longer. If I remember, I'll take pictures when they’re looking clean.
While I have collected a lot of loose bones and a number of complete skeletons, one of the best bones I have ever found was the first I
ever took. This is the paw from a roadkill coyote. I found the coyote, already decomposed, in what appeared to be a dumping area for dead
animals. I assume it was roadkill because its skull and a number of ribs were all fractured on the left side. This paw, however, shows
that this coyote has suffered some sort of ankle injury but had survived long enough for the bones to fuse. I suspect that it was probably
in quite a bit of pain and struggled because it would not have been able to bend its ankle or presumably put weight on it. Just goes to show
the survivability and adaptability of coyotes. If I had to guess I would say that this injury was most likely from an ankle trap that it managed
to escape from or a grazing from a car.
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