My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A Rally Squirrel by Rick's Custom Squirrels Among the strange and quirky squirrel-related merchandise flooding the St. Louis ...

So, there's this guy Rick Nadeau who makes custom stuffed squirrels. As in taxidermy squirrels. Holding guns. Machine guns. And rifles. And nunchucks. And knives. Perhaps even a violin, or a deck of ...

Other taxidermists may work with deer heads, but Rick Nadeau prefers putting a squirrel on a polished piece of wood with an itty-bitty beret on its head and a five-inch model M-16 in its paws. Nadeau, ...

If a cop were to pull over artist Kimberly Witham in her Honda for, say, a speeding violation, the officer’s inner dialogue might go something like this. “Nice lady. Pretty, too.” “Wow, that’s a messy ...

Sometimes, a taxidermy deer is meant to evoke the animal in its natural habitat, majestically tearing through woods. But when a fawn boasts a steel gear spliced into its leg, as in Lisa Black’s bionic ...

In the mid-19th century, a German taxidermist named Hermann Ploucquet created an exhibit of anthropomorphized beasts for London’s Great Exhibition. He stuffed a group of squirrels and posed them ...

This isn’t your gun-toting great-uncle’s taxidermy: there are no hunting trophies mounted on smoking den walls or Teddy Roosevelt-inspired museum dioramas. In Taxidermy Art: A Rogue’s Guide to the ...

The world seems to reliably divide up into two camps where taxidermy is concerned. Camp number one hates the idea of dead animals hanging on their living room walls. Camp number two loves it, can't ...