My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...

So, there's this guy Rick Nadeau who makes custom stuffed squirrels. As in taxidermy squirrels. Holding guns. Machine guns. And rifles. And nunchucks. And knives. Perhaps even a violin, or a deck of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A Rally Squirrel by Rick's Custom Squirrels Among the strange and quirky squirrel-related merchandise flooding the St. Louis ...

Other taxidermists may work with deer heads, but Rick Nadeau prefers putting a squirrel on a polished piece of wood with an itty-bitty beret on its head and a five-inch model M-16 in its paws. Nadeau, ...

If a cop were to pull over artist Kimberly Witham in her Honda for, say, a speeding violation, the officer’s inner dialogue might go something like this. “Nice lady. Pretty, too.” “Wow, that’s a messy ...

Sometimes, a taxidermy deer is meant to evoke the animal in its natural habitat, majestically tearing through woods. But when a fawn boasts a steel gear spliced into its leg, as in Lisa Black’s bionic ...

In the mid-19th century, a German taxidermist named Hermann Ploucquet created an exhibit of anthropomorphized beasts for London’s Great Exhibition. He stuffed a group of squirrels and posed them ...