I guess it's kind of morbid, but i have a taxidermy duck that has been passed down in the family for nearly a century...why everyone kept a duck i have no idea, but as a child, i always wanted a pet and was never aloud to actually get one, so i spent hours petting this stuffed and mounted duck...Now that i'm an adult with my own home, i couldn't bring myself to throw it out. It just seemed disrespectful to throw him out like garbage, so to this day i have a hundred year old duck on my wall, and i always say good-morning and goodnight, to my beloved quacky.

@NymphetaminexXxGrrrl

7 жыл бұрын

TheDodicat I'm pretty confident of my sanity, however the day quacky starts talking back, i will consider getting help.

@mexicancandy1572

7 жыл бұрын

NymphetaminexXxGrrrl that's so weird and cute ! 😛

@cloroxbleach3838

7 жыл бұрын

Lol

@PKPK-rr3rs

7 жыл бұрын

I have a .577-450 Martini Henry that has been passed down in my family since the Boer War.

@raithigovender195

7 жыл бұрын

Awwww that's a cute story to me LOL

i really want to hear more about the people who wanted their relatives to be taxidermied

Of all the negative comments that i have read, how many of you eat meat. Think about it when you eat steak, chicken, bacon, hambugers and so on. Not to mention leather products that you wear.

@_omar3184

7 жыл бұрын

bw2950 We eat animals to generate energy, taxidermists do it for the pleasure of hanging them on walls

@knockitoffsusan8329

7 жыл бұрын

bw2950 well not me sooo

@CherylLoke

7 жыл бұрын

there are tons of plants you can eat to gain energy and protein, no need to eat meat

@flor.a_qqq7697

7 жыл бұрын

bw2950 exactly!

@lightsrallon907

7 жыл бұрын

I haven't eaten meat in decades. Plants have everything you need to live.

John did a great job refurbishing an old owl taxidermy that I brought in. It was mounted on rotting wood and needed to be cleaned and remounted.

He's the last one in NYC, not NYS.

At least the dude has pride and is compassionate of his work.

38k for a combined value of collection? Tbh I think that’s wrong. I’ve seen bears go for 20k alone and it looks like he has world class bears.

@Thecircustapes

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah his collection is worth way more

Taxidermy is a dying art, Unfortunately. I'm lucky enough to know the art, being taught by my cousin

@airbornemelody6156

2 жыл бұрын

that’s awesome! be proud! thank you for helping keep this amazing form of art alive :))

@rafaelcruz2188

6 күн бұрын

Not sure if you’ll see this 5 years later but I’m very interested and would love to hear more on where you started and how. Cheers 🍻

He has a young soul vibe

@Scotlandjb

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls he doesn't kill them he gets the animals when there dead.

@tainamarrrero267

7 жыл бұрын

He doesn't kill them

Taxidermy can be so taboo. It's a beautiful artform and extremely hard to make it look right. I don't like taxidermy where the meat aren't used or it's just for show, but for hunters who do so to feed their family, and use every part possible there is a bit of respect for the animal from the hunter I am okay with. Hope this man keeps working, he seems like a lovely and is extremely talented at his artform.

@lightsrallon907

7 жыл бұрын

LOL Hunters feed their families with dead animals they had fun killing? Ever heard of planting a garden and buying beans, peas and rice? DUHHHH

@audrey0554

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls A lot of the time, people have fun hunting. And yes, people hunt for food. Because, when you're hungry you just have meat in the fridge, you dint have to wait months for what, 6 beans to grow? That's not going to feed a family.

@audrey0554

7 жыл бұрын

DinoCookieCat I agree

@kanatapaw

7 жыл бұрын

its not beautiful. its mocking the dead. want your dead grandma mounted in your home? didn't think so.

@audrey0554

7 жыл бұрын

kanatapaw But the thing is, it's not my grandma. Animals aren't people. I mean if you would have said "what if it was your dog." It would have been different. But people actually do stuff dead dogs out of memory. And is it any better to burn someone to ashes and keep the literal ashes of someone on your mantel? Is that not weird?

I sense triggered vegans....

@laurangelina.w

5 жыл бұрын

matanuska high no.

@carrionbone6571

5 жыл бұрын

idk. i’m against killing animals/hurting animals but i’m into collecting the dead parts of them. i feel that it gives the animal a certain sense of respect.

@rachelmadhwan9115

5 жыл бұрын

Carrionbone but he actually kills them

@kaedavv3229

4 жыл бұрын

Rachel Madhwan No? He can hunt an animal and stuff it himself but most of the time it’s dead animals given to him to be stuffed

@Heitere_Sternennacht

4 жыл бұрын

matanuska high no most people who act like this aren’t vegan which makes me as a vegetarian very angry since people like me get blamed for such behavior

This man does amazing work! Great job!

Massive resurgence in taxidermy as more and more folks are into macabre and the arts with new generations. No longer just a memory of a hunt but more and more of an artist rendering of excepted expression.

wow he charges 450 for a deer head that look's like that and that lion wow he really need's to buy good ref pictures

@colepotter86

4 жыл бұрын

Umm ok sure

The movie Taxidermia got me into this shit

@whatababe5996

7 жыл бұрын

one of the best movies I've ever seen.

@blackoutitself5476

7 жыл бұрын

fuck yeah bro

I could see taxidermy having a comeback with the "look how eccentric and retro I am" hipster types

I feel like if the animal passed naturally and was not killed purely for that purpose. It might be ok. Like if you want your pet tonne mounted so you can remember them.

@boywiththebread101

7 жыл бұрын

Caonabban I just don't think you should kill an animal just for the fun

@jacklongwedel714

7 жыл бұрын

isabel p

@supbabe7203

6 жыл бұрын

hunting is usually done to provide food for a family.

@joahwinkler1843

6 жыл бұрын

I own a pet boa and as morbid as it sounds when he passes away I think I’d like his skin made into something beautiful

@loganbutler2851

5 жыл бұрын

Not many people hunt just for the mount, with the hunt comes memories, food, and one hell of a story. Now sure, some hunt solely for that purpose, but to say that the masses of us hunters are doing it just for a head on our wall, is just plain wrong. I respect all animals that I've harvested, and appreciate the meals, and stories that each hunt brings me.

Honestly if you find the animal already dead there’s no harm. If you hunted it to feed your family that’s fine. (I don’t eat meat, but I respect those who hunt rather than eat from a factory where they are abused). It’s scientific. It’s when people trophy hunt for fun and waste the body that it becomes an issue.

Smh...people do realize that every part of the animal is used right? Even then if the animal was endangered I.e big game the money used to hunt them funds animal reserves and is why they even exist and continue to every day.

There is most definitely, 100%, more than one taxidermist in New York. They clearly did no research for the subject.

@Lion718

3 жыл бұрын

He's the last one in NYC.

@melostrich

3 жыл бұрын

sadly its true.

wish he had an online store tbh

I failed to mention the thanksgiving turkey. This thanksgiving when you are carving that turkey up think about where it came from. I myself was a Taxidermist for 20 yrs.

@stratdaddy

6 жыл бұрын

bw2950 From a caged in farm.

I may be weird,but iv always wondered which is the oldest stuffed animal in a museum. Could there be one from like 300 years ago?

@fishstew2573

4 жыл бұрын

Ralph Venter there are some really old ones on display in the natural history museum in nyc.

I used to hang out at al local taxidermist shop in upstate NY, his name was Bruce Madlin. He did work from all over the world. Instead of mounting a real person, why not try to take an impression of their face in a mold? That would work.

I see nothing wrong with this if they sent the meat to the butcher and then did this none of the animal is wasted

@eviebaileys5041

7 жыл бұрын

And hunting an animal from the wild is far more humane than factory farmed animals who are kept in captivity and tortured until they are killed

How can I learn this?

I walked past his shop one day but there were too many eyes in there that felt like they were staring at me I couldn't go in, not sure who in that area buys that stuff also

@Thecircustapes

3 жыл бұрын

Its city residents who hunt outside the city who want to keep in their apartments

If a person spends the $ to have something mounted it's a sign of reverence for the animal.

@birdcult

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I’m getting a duck mounted for 350$ because it’s my first duck and it’s a beauty. It allows me to maintain the memories I got on that amazing hunting trip. I love ducks and it was a beauty!

no cruelty ,my ass

Only 400 dollars that’s awesome mine was 3 grand were I live

@Victor-nd2gj

3 жыл бұрын

Soo cool I want one

Its really not gross for me.. For me its like satisfying to see how many people makes animal know that they are still alive and then can still live even tho they know that they are in a different place.

I pass by here every single day 😂

Taxidermy certainly is a dying art , through the centuries it was a sign of wealth to have these animals mounted and displayed in your home . Museums also used taxidermy to store examples of different species of newly discovered animals for later reference to study . But sadly now it is fast becoming a thing of the past as finding new generations to train in the art is very difficult as there are so many other more interesting careers that are more available to access , it really is a great shame to see taxidermy slowly disapear.

This is awesome, I can't believe there's so few?

@Kingfinehair

7 жыл бұрын

There are probably more of them in other parts of the country

@whosjoe442

3 жыл бұрын

In cities it is alot less common than in rural areas and even some suburbs

The only problem with this video, is that he isn't the only taxidermist in new york. I know at least 4 off the top of my head

The man is a artist, bet all the people with negative comments would love to have his gift 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇹🇻

Song at the beginning please

This is fine as long as the animal hunted was not endangered

@lightsrallon907

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, because not being endangered makes a big difference to the animal who was orphaned or painfully killed and bled out. Then taken apart like an old sofa by a psycho. #LOGICFAIL

@melaniemills4745

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls You do realise that it's illegal to make the animal suffer before you kill it? Your not allowed to use poison or small guns and you and you must always go for a kill shot.

@gaberodriguez3732

7 жыл бұрын

Melanie Mills Hunting big game is why somr endangered animals are still here

@MatanuskaHIGH

7 жыл бұрын

Melanie Mills I only eat tuna safe dolphin.....

@Bradlee297

7 жыл бұрын

Melanie Mills hunting makes them endangered

Imma do this when I get older

@princesspizzacrust

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls , well if you put it that way geez 😂

@GreenGator

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls He doesn't necessarily have to do the slaughtering for 'fun'. Once all the meat is taken out, which can be used, why not mount the rest? Plus, animals kill each other for survival, a human can kill an animal for the meat. It's not necessarily "oh hey let me massacre these animals for no reason"

@lugardo30

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls get a load of this guy

@zoooweeemama1808

6 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls They Are Already Dead Idiot

@alliescott5598

6 жыл бұрын

Candy Colored Clowns hunting wild animals with proper equipment

At first I thought, "what the heck? That guy looks like John Malkovich."

Live around corner from his place just went in recently for first time super knowledgeable guy very friendly

It's fine as long as the animals aren't endangered. Also, it's good because they don't waste the parts of the animal. And if you think this is horrible, the animals are hunted for food. And the fur is bought to him.

awesome..

Well there is like a million taxidermists in Maine, got a fox going in one and a bear in the other

Sunnys and crappys......thats when John said "enough is enough"!!!

i live in new york and do taxidermy, im only 16 but still, hes not the last

Did you make a dear for Typo

The last taxidermy in NY, up next! The new human taxidermy of the actual taxidermist to experience the same luxury experience of being taxidermized!

All the people who are hating on then for killing a deer shut up because if there are to many of they they will eat all the resources and leave none for the other animals I know it’s sad but it needs to happen

I am super happy that he is the *last* and pretty old too.. can we mount him on wall after hes dead too?

@michellewatson5690

3 жыл бұрын

No because thats illegal. And that would not be right

@hoofed3096

3 жыл бұрын

taxidermy is an art, wishing someone death is not.

He's not the last one in new york, he's the last taxidermist in NYC there's plently of us out in the upstate

Tbh I would totally buy that lion lol

I want a taxidermy wolf or coyote so badly

that taxidermy shark is pretty cool, i dont care for taxidermy the animals creep me out but that shark

I know it’s weird and kind of disgusting in a way but you have to admit how realistic it looks

2:56 I just found a dead mole well riding my bike and i want it to become a taxidermy but uh the reason why bc I like how a mole looks and how it feels I found it dead so yah.

Yeah this is great! We should also start doing this with people so that they don`t go to waste.

@supbabe7203

6 жыл бұрын

We do to some extent. We just bury them after.

@MindBlurry

5 жыл бұрын

We already do. lol

I just found a new hobby

I got a guy that does taxidermy. I go threw him mounting the heads. People try and get me to go to other ones. I look at them and say nnnnnnooooooooo

I’ll Join Him My Dream Is To Be An Taxidermist And Live In New York

@michellewatson5690

3 жыл бұрын

Pursue your dream mate

if I was in that room I would be dead in seconds BC I have a fear of animal skin gulp....

There’s a cocktail taxidermy unmmmmm

A duck cost 400 dollars where I live also

Sir you are a true artist. In decades from now our children will see these beautiful animals as they were. 🇬🇧

Most people that are against this don’t understand the truth and value it holds for the hunter. Hunting and fishing is the best way to harvest food for your family because the animal was raised wild. If you think hunting is in humane, just look into the factory farms and how livestock is raised. Hunting is way more humane on getting food for your family then just buying from the store. Also the mount means something to the hunter, it brings them back to that special moment when God blesses them with a beautiful buck.

Taxidermists make these mounts after the animal has been harvested of all meat. Getting a mount is way better than just throwing the deer head away. Means more to the hunter

Cruelty at its peak

this is beautiful omfg

@lightsrallon907

7 жыл бұрын

Devil worship is beautiful. Taking the lives of innocent beings is beautiful. Not having a soul is beautiful. #BRAINDEADZOMBIE

@alduinsmaw3798

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls Please explain why this is satanic?

@lugardo30

7 жыл бұрын

Temple of the Animal Souls b8

@mr.opossum67

5 жыл бұрын

Same! I love taxidermy sooooo much

i would totally buy all the fur 😍😍😍 I'm addicted to furrr

@joshuacoleman8000

6 жыл бұрын

+Farah A.T Uh, that's what he said?

He’s not the last taxidermist in New York

I wish I could learn from him

Taxidermy is used in science museums so it isn't all that bad

He reminds me of lonesome george

Seems like a sweet, hardworking, honest guy, but behind the times. Taxidermy has been elevated to an amazing level with modern technology and many truly talented artists. Check out some of the vids on the world championship taxidermy. Stunning, gorgeous art honouring the animals.

great work

There’s still a few left in NY but not much young stuff.

If it wasn't illegal he would do it

I like this, I want a deer head. But I have a ram head

I drove by this place once

I can smell the store from here

@alliescott5598

6 жыл бұрын

mrzazzaable it just smells like leather 😂??

@whosjoe442

3 жыл бұрын

Its just hides and leather man

Cool

Woah....

Expensive...much more money than a fursuit...damn

He’s the last in New York City not the state

There's one taxidermist in new york three 30 in my city

Wow, is this pretty interesting. He won't be the last. It will just change the way it's done. I can't imagine hanging onto the Karma willingly.

hi greetings to all my good taxidermy friends I'm a supply from Africa

That's crazy to think that there is only 1 left in NY city. I live in Western NY and there is probably 10 within a hr drive. Well I guess I'm going to move closer to the city when I get back into taxidermy. I had a lady call about getting her dog stuffed, wouldn't u know it the lady showed up the next day with the dog still alive and put down a 600$ deposit, then a few weeks later I'm stuffing a dog

Didn't they make James Brown a Statue?....I'm pretty Sure they did

Wow

It doesn't surprise me with NY gun laws

could you please give me chance to work there because I don't want you to be last.

Why people go and watch something they can't stand or hate is beyond me. Why even watch the video if you can't stand what's in it, and then have the nerve to belittle the video and the person in it. I guess it's the "self-important" syndrome. Feel like what you believe is so important that you have to watch a video that you hate, just so you can tell people how much you hate it. But we hunters and trappers are the morons. People want to fuss about eating meat and how it's bad and that you shouldn't eat it, just vegetables and other plants. And how vegetables are so much safer than meat. Well, unless you grew those vegetables, you don't have a clue where they came from, how they were grown, what chemicals were used, or anything else. This argument is about as hilarious as the "organic" meat and vegetable bs. Again, you have no idea what or where that food is coming from or how it was processed other than what is on the label or what fell out of the mouth of someone you have never met but yet you trust everything they say as long as the organic sticker is on it. Hate to break it to ya vegetarians, but plants LOVE meat and blood and everything else that is a part of meat or flesh. But, back to the organic argument. As a hunter and trapper, I know exactly where my meat has been, what it ate, how healthy it was, when and where it was processed, how it was processed, what was used, and how/when it was packaged because I do it myself. That's the only way you'll ever come close to anything organic is if you grow it or kill it yourself. Your lying to yourself if you are paying the ridiculous price for supposed organic anything. Now as far as hunters and trappers being blood thirsty lunatics, just killing stuff to kill it, is so far from the truth it's unbelievable. We have more respect for the animals we hunt or trap than any nature nazi or anti ever would. The extent we go through just to be certain the animal is comfortable in the trap would be mind blowing to most. Just that facet of trapping. Hunting is no different. Taxidermist are the same way. They aren't just killing stuff to hang on a wall. Again, it's showing a sign of respect for the animal. Getting a deer, elk, moose, or even a coyote, fox, or bobcat mounted is merely like taking a picture with family at Christmas. You'll have that memory of the hunt or trapping day with your dad or loved one, for the rest of your life and everytime you look at that animal you will mentally re-create that memory with your family. But in today's society that's wrong. Spending time with your dad/kid/family as part of a tradition that will create memories of a lifetime. but that's wrong. Taking those memories and creating a mount that a hunter or trapper can have as a token of that memory, and at the same time feed your family with the money that you charge to mount the animal for the hunter or trapper. But that's wrong. Taking pride in something that you do, or anything that you do for that matter, isn't wrong. feeding your family isn't wrong. Spending time with your family isn't wrong. Creating some of the best memories of your life with someone you love isn't wrong. Nobody today looks at the big picture when they are criticizing what someone else does. Why? Who knows. I take pride in being able to put food in my freezer without any other resources except for knowledge and determination. Not money and a supermarket. The fur I trap keeps someone somewhere warm, the meat goes in my freezer and sometimes donated to hunters for the hungry to feed people who aren't fortunate enough to buy enough food, and I get a little money in return for the fur that goes somewhere to keep someone warm. That's wrong though right? I guess if I was dependent on other people, then I would be in the right.

In the city. Probably, but not in the state

I understand animals that are common for hunting like dear rabbit cause your eating most of it but a lion thats a little messed up

I used to think that taxidermy was discusding but now I realise this man is trying to show off how beautiful animals are. and their not looked up in some cage as long as the animal was killed for a valid reason eg survival. I think it's OK but off it is killed for just taxidermy that is not ok

God I love taxidermy!

What the point of hanging dead animal in onces living room. Living and kicking that is what is worth enjoying

Kinda want to get into taxidermy after seeing all these videos, as well as much of my family being hunters and taxidermists. Would love to bring back visual life into the bodies of these beautiful animals like they do

@melostrich

3 жыл бұрын

its hard

@DrAnnBlakeTracy

2 жыл бұрын

God did a far better job of making them & someone destroyed His creation so this guy could make them look good again?! Now if he could bring them back to the life they were robbed of it would be worth while.

I wish this guy should be remembered in York, tanned his body skin too in the same shop forever. 😠

@Victor-nd2gj

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao why you mad over an animal loser

@kpina9178

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, because dead animals care so much about what happens to their bodies xD