The art of preparing , stuffing , and mounting animal skins is called taxidermy , and it can range from classy to creepy depending on whether your subject is a moose , or , say , a homeless drifter . Of course , proper taxidermy is primarily reserved for hunting and fishing trophies , and it sort of works like this : . Dave drinks two dozen Coors in the woods with friends . Dave shoots bear . Dave pays taxidermist to turn bear into furniture . Dave puts bear in living room . Dave 's kids wet bed until they 're 33 . And that 's if the mounting is done well . Because quality taxidermy really depends on the skill of the taxidermist , and a simple hunting mount can turn exponentially more creepy if it is n't done with precision or mild sobriety . `` Hey ! Hey ! Look what I made ! '' `` Is that ... Danny DeVito looking for a contact lens ? '' `` It 's a deer . '' But even for those of us who do n't necessarily enjoy the idea of killing animals for the sake of impressing dinner guests , somehow it 's not all that difficult to be amused by terrible craftsmanship . So , although I 'm sort of weirded out by this practice ( and , hey , to each their own ) I can absolutely appreciate bad taxidermy . And , now , there 's a new , popular Twitter feed about just that . It 's called @ CrapTaxidermy , and it 's completely dedicated to images of the very worst animal mountings . Not to be confused with @ MileyCyrus . The Twitter account was started by a guy in the UK named Nish , who requested to only be identified by a one-word name . Like Cher . Or Madonna . Or Steve from accounting . He loves taxidermy and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club . Beyond that , we know very little about the man behind the account . But we do understand that Nish started the Twitter account only about a month ago , and was inspired by something that , really , all of us should get to see at some point in our lives . He explains : `` I started the page after I saw the pole dancing polar bear in a museum and thought poorly executed taxidermy might interest others . '' And it does . Soon , people started catching on to his feed , especially in the last week . Which should help him keep it updated with new images going forward . Nish says , `` People send me pictures of creatures they have seen and all I do is post them on my Twitter with a hilarious caption . '' Good effort ! That said , Nish made it very clear to me that he is , in fact , an animal lover and does not condone hunting for sport or animal cruelty . But , you know , if you 're gon na do it anyway ... how 'bout a photo ? Bad taxidermy on the Web is actually nothing new . For example , about five years ago a woman in New York name Kat Su started a Tumblr blog called Crappy Taxidermy . It 's all the same fun , but with an extra `` p '' and a `` y . '' For those of you keeping score -- and God knows I am -- Crappy Taxidermy boasts itself as `` the Internet 's oldest and largest image gallery of crappy and awesome taxidermy since 2009 . '' But Su has a wonderfully positive attitude about the new kid in town . `` We 're completely unaffiliated , '' she says , adding `` I love what they 're doing , though ! '' Su explained that `` blogging is n't a zero sum game , and everyone wins when you spread the love for this particular type of taxidermy . I just like making people laugh . '' And besides , things are going fairly well for Su . She even has a book coming out this fall . However , to confuse matters , the book is actually being titled `` Crap Taxidermy . '' Just like Nish 's twitter feed . The plot thickens . 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 do n't use the word `` crappy . '' Which explains Nish 's use of the word `` crap . '' Of course , despite Su 's carefree attitude toward Nish 's Twitter feed , it might ultimately come to blows when the publishers get involved with marketing the book . In the meantime , Su maintains her day job as an active-wear designer , but says she 's actually going to have to try her hand at taxidermy . For real . And there 's no way out . For the book , she is going to write a tutorial on how to stuff a mouse . And her good friend , Daisy Tainton , happens to be an insect preparatory for the Museum of Natural History , and also a hobbyist taxidermist . Are n't we all ? Tainton will be giving Su a private lesson at her apartment , and Su 's only real concern is that she 'll barf . Which would be bad . But , you know , if you 're gon na do it anyway ... how 'bout a photo ? Follow @ JarrettBellini on Twitter .
A UK man named Nish started his @ CrapTaxidermy Twitter feed about a month ago . Since 2009 , a popular blog about the same thing has existed under the name Crappy Taxidermy . Kat Su runs Crappy Taxidermy and is working on a new book about the subject .