iHerp Australia Issue 5 | Page 53

Creating ‘Eternal Creatures’. Taxidermy for unusual pets. Lauren Hundloe is forging a successful business reincarnating reptiles, and other animals…. When animals die, we often overlook the option to preserve them - most people go down the usual path of burial or cremation without knowing or considering that preservation through taxidermy is a possibility. It’s usu- ally seen as something reserved for natural history museum pieces, or the deer trophy up on the hunter’s wall, but among keepers of unusual pets, there is a rising trend to have their animals preserved.