Skeleton Patches
Crust Connoisseur
Let me say this before anything else:
I am against the commercial fur trade.
I wear animal pelts all the time. And I get mixed reactions quite often. Either friendly from people that kill animals to use or sell their fur or unfriendly interactions from people that think I’m a part of that disgusting trade.
Sometimes either side come and actually talk to me. What I explain to them is this.
I am certified with a Native Wildlife Rehabilitation Permit issued by CDFW and every pelt I have is ONLY from animals I have personally nursed that eventually died later on from natural causes (predators, old age, starvation, disease). I’ve practiced field rehab for animals for the past 9 years mostly because I was and am without conventional house living in the woods and hills of California and coexisting with wildlife.
When I come across an animal I’ve nursed like red/grey fox, coyote or raccoon that has died naturally years later how I interpret coming across these animals is as an offering from nature and I want to utilize and pay respect to the beautiful creatures instead of leaving it for other scavengers usually. Which a Cherokee native helped me understand. I usually process the pelt by smoke tanning the pelt and then I keep the fur. I don’t stuff it (taxidermy) for decorating or cut it up and sew it into anything else. I keep the shell of the animal the same way it was when it entered this realm. I do that as a respect to the animal and its soul. I keep the first fox I ever helped out around my neck. I lay it out in the full moon at night to let it bathe and soak up good energy’s. It keeps me warm and a few times has been the only thing that’s been able to keep me warm enough to get to sleep.
With that being said if anybody here in Shasta county (Redding CA) needs help with an injured animal you’re more than welcome to reach out to me.
I am against the commercial fur trade.
I wear animal pelts all the time. And I get mixed reactions quite often. Either friendly from people that kill animals to use or sell their fur or unfriendly interactions from people that think I’m a part of that disgusting trade.
Sometimes either side come and actually talk to me. What I explain to them is this.
I am certified with a Native Wildlife Rehabilitation Permit issued by CDFW and every pelt I have is ONLY from animals I have personally nursed that eventually died later on from natural causes (predators, old age, starvation, disease). I’ve practiced field rehab for animals for the past 9 years mostly because I was and am without conventional house living in the woods and hills of California and coexisting with wildlife.
When I come across an animal I’ve nursed like red/grey fox, coyote or raccoon that has died naturally years later how I interpret coming across these animals is as an offering from nature and I want to utilize and pay respect to the beautiful creatures instead of leaving it for other scavengers usually. Which a Cherokee native helped me understand. I usually process the pelt by smoke tanning the pelt and then I keep the fur. I don’t stuff it (taxidermy) for decorating or cut it up and sew it into anything else. I keep the shell of the animal the same way it was when it entered this realm. I do that as a respect to the animal and its soul. I keep the first fox I ever helped out around my neck. I lay it out in the full moon at night to let it bathe and soak up good energy’s. It keeps me warm and a few times has been the only thing that’s been able to keep me warm enough to get to sleep.
With that being said if anybody here in Shasta county (Redding CA) needs help with an injured animal you’re more than welcome to reach out to me.
