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I was inspired by the story Sunroom Tappers, submitted by Rachelle, to share my own still-as-death animal story.

One time I went to a weird old couple’s house with my mom. They had a very cute German Shepherd sitting smartly in their darkened living room. We used to have one named Joab so I was very excited to have someone to play with while I was there.

I stood waiting for the dog to notice me and run over, that’s what dogs do with kids after all, but it just stood there in the dark. A happy look on its face but totally still.

It wasn’t until I got back in the car that I was able to ask my mom what was wrong with the dog.
“He was stuffed,” she said. This sounded completely horrifying to me! “He used to be their dog then he died and they had him stuffed.”

Today I’m quite familiar with the process of taxidermy where an animal’s pelt is removed and added to an artificial animal-shaped sub-structure… but at the time I thought they had found their dead dog, crammed him full of poly-fill and posed his ’stuffed’ corpse in the corner. Holy lord!

I guess I should be grateful. They could have had his smiling, glassy-eyed face mounted up on a plaque on the wall I suppose. I at least had the luxury of not knowing I was sharing the room with a mummy dog.

It has been at least 20 years since that day… and it still gives me the gibblies when I remember that happy, frozen dog.

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