There are jobs that don’t even exist – and what THIS woman does for a living is definitely one of them! Katie Warwick (38) claims to earn around 120,000 euros (100,000 pounds) a year – with dead mice! The woman from Great Britain is a taxidermist… and has made it her passion to stuff white mice and prepare them in special poses. Their mice hang from strip poles, do pirouettes… and cost between £55 and £200.
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She stuffs five animals a day and turns them into her bizarre works of art, reports the British newspaper The Sun. But the reactions to the small figures are not always positive. “People love it or they hate it – I get a lot of comments, especially from angry vegans,” she tells the paper.
She buys the mice dead and frozen at the pet store
“Some people say that the mice didn’t die to be immortalized as a stripper.” But for them it’s “a bit of fun” and not nearly as bad as stuffing and processing other animals – like elephants. The young mother also emphasizes that she gets all her mice from pet shops, where the animals are sold as reptile food. “You’re already dead and frozen.”
Weird too: It all started with the do-it-yourself kit “Taxidermy your first mouse” (“Stuff your first mouse”), which she received from her husband for Christmas. That was five years ago – to date she has sold almost 3500 of her mice on the craft platform “Etsy”. “After a bit of practice, the house was filling up, so my husband suggested I try to sell them online because people love that kind of thing.” The mice have been selling well, especially during lockdown.
And how does it work? First she thaws the mice, then she skins them. “I give them a borax treatment, which gets rid of bacteria, then I make a little head out of clay, and then I sculpt the legs and arms out of wire,” she explains. “I do all of this on my dining table and use a magnifying glass – my husband is a little disgusted with it.”
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Her daughter also helps her and is fascinated by the work. But there are also completely different reactions: After an appearance on a morning show on TV, many TV viewers criticized the work of the taxidermist. Some accuse her of disrespect, others criticize the alleged animal murders. “These little bodies scare me completely. Yuck!” writes one user on Twitter. Another: “What I find much more worrying is that there seem to be buyers for it.”
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