Most people are unfamiliar with this unique and special art form. Some associate it only with stuffed animals seen in museums, in dusty attics, or in old scary movies. Actually, taxidermy truly is an art... the practice of preparing lifelike representations of animals from their natural skins.

In taxidermy, many different methods are used in completing the finished work. Taxidermists must be skilled in a thorough knowledge of the animals' anatomy, in the building of forms, skinning, painting, and much more. A taxidermist is an artist who works in a three-dimensional world creating specimens as close to the actual living animal as possible.