I might be a candidate for an appearance on “My Strange Addiction”, but it’s cheaper than heroin and releases tons of good endorphins. This is an excellent gift for all your wacky friends, although, maybe not if they're really into Winnie the Pooh. Photograph: Dave Branfield/Brewdog UK/Dave Branfield/Brewdog UKst Photograph: Dave Branfield/Brewdog UK/Dave Branfield/Brewdog UKst Beer bottle holders, from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su. The reason for the name change, Su explained, is that her book is actually being published by a British publishing house, and that British people don’t use the word “crappy. On March 6th, 2012, the tech news blog Complex Tech [7] listed Crappy Taxidermy as the 56th best Tumblr blog of all time.

On May 1st, 2011, the art and design blog TrendHunter [9] published an article about the Crappy Taxidermy blog. Friends and family found our relationship to be a bit strange, but it was only because they couldn’t appreciate what it was like for me to FINALLY have a fellow book lover in the house. After months of nonstop hard work, Crappy Taxidermy is finally going to live up to its full potential and become a book, thanks to the efforts and talents of the amazing people at Octopus Publishing Group, Ten Speed Press, Inkwell Management, and the photographers, artists and taxidermists who contributed to the project. Additionally, for readers who are curious about how to go about stuffing and mounting dead animals, the last chapter of the book will feature a DIY tutorial on how to stuff a mouse.

It's like trying to read F U Penguin without the snarky insults - just pictures with little to no meaning nor intrigue. Probably not everyone's cuppa but those who liked Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, Awkward Family Photos etc most likely will like this book too. This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DIY "Stuff Your Own Mouse" lesson by an Insect Preparator from the American Museum of Natural History), showcasing the most perverse yet imaginative anatomical reconstructions of the animal kingdom you'll ever see.

Crappy Taxidermy is a single topic blog that highlights photographs of bizarre-looking or poorly stuffed animal skins. It's short, it's visual, it's the perfect thing to thrust at a guest and watch them laugh and laugh before they even crack it open. Since its launch in 2009, the site's popularity has led to the creation of similar online projects devoted to crudely taxidermied creatures. Because quality taxidermy really depends on the skill of the taxidermist, and a simple hunting mount can turn exponentially more creepy if it isn’t done with precision or mild sobriety. If you have the stomach, it’s worth the read: but if you’ve got issues with death and corpse mutilation this may not be for you.Crap Taxidermy makes the promise of an entertaining and comedic read concerning distasteful and terribly positioned taxidermist “art”.