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Taxidermy For Children

This is how serial killers are made.

Bev Potter
4 min readMar 19, 2023

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Source: Medina County Library

Look, I know I live in a rural area.

But it’s not “cornfields of Iowa” rural. It’s not Tornado Alley rural. It’s not Bigfoot sightings rural (unless you count that time I heard something coming up the road in the dark while Hershey and I were outside and we almost knocked each other over trying to get back into the house. Yes, my dog would absolutely sacrifice me to a monster to save herself.).

However, it is, apparently, “teach young children how to stuff dead animals” rural.

Now, if you had clicked on that banner on the library’s website (and the fact that this seminar? workshop? is being held at a library is just a whole other topic) there’s a disclaimer that “no animals will be harmed” during the class.

I think/hope/pray that this is essentially just a very dark, very disturbing Build-A-Bear workshop. The kids probably stuff a teddy bear or the Poly-Fil victim of their choice and mount it on a wooden plaque.

This is how serial killers are made.

Who does this??

And I have several, several thoughts on what this kind of thing is teaching these young…

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Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com