Dead bear

brea1 · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:48 am Post subject: Dead bear

My son found a dead bear. It's been partially eaten already. I'd like to try to preserve some of the bones once the flesh has been eaten but the thing is I have to let it lay where it is and it's frozen.

Does anyone know how I would go about this without desecrating either the bear or the land?

Brea

Hengruh · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:12 am Post subject: Re: Dead bear

nocturne · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:47 pm Post subject:

I had a similar experience last year, but with an owl. For several weeks before, an owl had been appearing to me in trance. Then one afternoon I found a recently dead owl beneath the trees at a relative's house. They live in another state (I was visiting), and I didn't feel comfortable asking them to store it in their freezer so I could take it home with me when I left. Since then I can't shake the feeling that I did not honor what was offered to me.

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nocturne · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject:

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Debbrah · Active Member Joined: Dec 22, 2009 Posts: 89

I once had that issue with an elk... fortunately somewhere I could go back to (near a cabin my grandparents owned.) And I never did figure out what the skull was for... I think it was more about making me hack it off the fairly mummified corpse than actually keeping the thing. It took me two years to do it (I admit to the ewwwwww-yucky factor.) Two years of the thing taunting me.

From this I learned:
1) Know how you are going to get it home.
2) Know how you are going to finish cleaning it
3) Know where you are going to put it.

I also would recomend being prepared to have to finish hacking it apart. I thought my elk would rot, which is part of why I waited two years, but it stayed pretty much the same. Hide and siniew will last.