Computer Mouse + Taxidermied Mouse = Mouse Mouse!

Uh, that's ok, i'd rather not.

This is wrong on so many levels... I like it!

This is just hilarious! I love it.

I'd call this just a taxidermouse!

... Coming after you!!

YICK!
This is stupid and cruel!

Congratulations on finding your demographic.
Goodbye Neatorama.

Thats just gross. Thank you but I will pass on it.

They should name it "Stinky", since that's what it's gonna do.

Is... is the side of that mouse GLOWING?

This is so disgusting. I'm genuinely horrified. brb, linking it to everyone I know so they can share in my horror. :D

To the comment about this being cruel: It's only cruel if the mouse was killed for this purpose alone, and I doubt that it was. It's not like they began turning it into a computer mouse while it was still breathing!

Taxidermy has been around for ages, I mean sure, it's not exactly a thriving hobby now a days. I don't see whats to take offence about, unless people who concider this a human attrocity can explain to me how this is cruel.

This is such an old thing dug up from the archives of Instructables. Zzz.

Dave C., what other purpose might the mouse be killed for? Reptile owners don't carefully de-glove rodent carcasses for their pets. Labs ditto.

It is clever, but it is GROSS!

its tacky

It's a hamster, not a mouse.

I wouldn't be able to find it after my cats got a hold of it.

Alicia: natural death

Elle: why the downer? Not everyone visits Instructables.

This is insanely disgusting.

If I had less tact, I'd call it cheesy.

How is this cruel? Do people seriously think that rodents are being hunted down for this?

Is it cruel to poison them when they are running rampant in your home? I doubt many would think it was cruel, and if they did, I certainly wouldn't want to hang out in their nasty homes. This, by the way, coming from someone that has kept rats as pets.

All this righteous anger at the injustices of the world. Seriously, get over yourselves. Sure, this might be tacky or gross to a lot of people, but that's what makes it kind of neat. It's different.

That's pretty gross.
Having a stuffed animal for decor, sure, using one as a mouse... BLEH

That is awesome.

Sorry to break the thread of is it mean or not, but the "more" doesn't link anywhere.

Eh, taxidermy has always grossed me out, so this didn't push any buttons I haven't already had pushed. Not the kind of thing I'd want in my house, though.

In bad taste.

This is AWFUL. Not funny, not cute not usable. This is using this poor hamster's body animals in a disgusting degrading way. Enough cruel stuff like this isn't funny or clever.

Incredibly old article, but I love it. Looove it. A++!!

It is cruel to do something to a dead carcass? Are you a retired?

#17 Christie - No, that is a mouse. Look at the face/head/ears. Don't go on the colour alone. Duh.

Otherwise, this is...yeah, I just have no words. :/

Surprisingly, this isn't the first time I've seen such a thing. I was in a hospital out west a couple years ago (Something Heart as I recall) and one of the doctors (!) tried selling me one of these. Some guy with a foreign name, Dr. Jan Itor I believe it was. Anyways, I assumed it was some sort of test to single out the crazies as anyone who wants one of these must be nuts!

So what if it's old? That cat-door surprise video was 10 years old, but I'd never seen it!

Is that USB or Firewire up its ass? Left/right mouse click on its eyes?

Imagine a month usage of that thing. All your palm sweat and whatever in the hell else is on your hand getting on that fur. Shit, thats disgusting.

stupid, gross, idiotic and disgusting. let's leave the poor animals out of this.

@Guy

A squirrel army or something like that? Or was it a dog in need of cleaning? ;)

I'm actually still laughing at the comment that called this "degrading", because you know, rats are so sensitive to this sort of thing and would be outraged if they saw their buddy's corpse being desecrated in such a way when he naturally deserves a funeral on consecrated ground.

Wow. I mean... I'm no veggie. I hunt. I used to work at a mortuary, so It takes a bit to gross me out... but this is cold, man.

Btw, how many are you wearing leather on your feet? I certainly know quite a few humans who deliberately wear dead cows on their feet. Not only that, the dead cows now smell of inhumane ugly sweaty food odour.

Now consider the mouse in the same context and think of the double standard if you want to be disgusted.

you know in certain varieties of tibetan buddhism practitioners essentially live in charnal grounds holding human skulls and thigh bones and such. the purpose is to meditate on the transience of life. all life passes, this is the world we live in. to be conscious of it is our fate. for our dear mouse friend, he was not self-conscious and had no expectation of the length of his time on earth, so i doubt he was disappointed with his lot. and most likely he did not die in pain, because most people are not cruel enough to perform that act.

evilbeagle's got a point. there are far more important things to worry about.

Ok, so to all the people saying it is not cruel. Suppose you get your grandma to a taxidermist. There is nothing wrong with that, right? Now suppose that after that, you want to make a nice canoe. Now would that be the same?

However I have to say, cool article, really "neat".

okkk... first of all, a rat is not a human. As much respect as I have for animal life, human life is far more important. Of course, if grandma wanted to be stuffed by a taxidermist, I wouldn't stand in her way. The dead are dead and have no clue what's going on. Do you think I give a flying fig what happens to my body once I am dead? Would I make a canoe out of grandma? No. But you know what, I wouldn't serve grandma up with a side of peas and potatoes either. That's where she is different from a cow.

Please take this post down - it's rather disturbing.

Very cool! It's enough to make me want to learn taxidermy.

Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
ccent

Yeah, no...

i'd love to see the faces of those who think it's hilarious when they'd come face to face with a taxidermied human corpse being used as a coat hanger with a stick up its ass.

just picture a smiling face.

Sounds like anon has some interesting fantasties.

You know what i would really like to see?

A whole `case mod` using an appropriately sized rodent - The Capybara. Or maybe a PDA Guinea Pig?
CellPhone Squirrel?

Ok, I am stopping now....

This will get those gooks from PETA upset becuase their so darn rediculous

In summer camp, we did taxidermy on mice. For 11-12 year old boys, it was pretty awesome.

I brought home and proudly showed it my folks. Mom, sadly , was not impressed. A few days later, it went missing.

Not sure if I'd want this kind of computer mouse though. Don't like to touch the little buggers, they're disgusting!

LOL @LargeFromage's Capybara case mod suggestion ;)))

The meat for sale at my local supermarket is more disgusting than this.

Yuck.

I'm not big on the whole taxidermy thing anyways. And I'm not hugely offended, but yeah, this is wrong.

They really should have made it a cordless one.

Largefromage, I saw a case mod made of a beaver once. Same concept. You could probably find it on Instructables.

@student: Isn't that hinduism? Aghora, the left-hand path? Lots of good corporeal-getting-over fodder in graveyards.

As far as "this is wrong" goes, meh. It's more overt than shoes, but I don't see how you can create a cogent, marginally leak-proof argument that we don't use animals in any way we like, for lots of purposes both approaching crucial and far from it. I guess you were being sarcastic, Ted, but for argument's sake...Jello, anyone?

And I continue to be sick soulmates with Evilbeagle. I say if it's gross and funny and some people will get offended for the sake of random offendedness, celebrate!

Also? When I was a teenager I had some fish, and when they started committing suicide out of the tank, I started taxidermy-ing them with glue on little cardboard plaques.

The more you (didn't want to) know...

Now I have seen everything! I am recommending you for a webbie to the committee when we meet next week! Vote at my Page!

I lol'd...hard.....
Infact.....I almost masturbated to this

GOD IT'S SO AMAZING

OMG i'm sooooo offended by this...yea right
this is awesome!

Make it wireless and you have yourself the perfect office prank in human history

Don't be upset by this. Just keep in mind that not many, if any, mice die of old age. This fellow was probably saved from being eaten alive by a hawk or owl.

Photoshopped.

What a great idea! I am going to will my hands to be made into mouse devices. My wife would love to hold my hand while she surfs the web. And if she goes first I'll have her hand made into a mouse. I can't wait to talk to her about it. She will be so surprised.

This is SICK! NASTY AND GROSS!

I need one,

Send please.

Stumble is wonderful

That is so sick.

Um... very literal? Can i have it!?

funny.. in a wrong sort of way..

this is cruel! Anyone who thinks this is cool or funny clearly has bad taste and no heart ! To take an innocent creature and make it into your computer project takes someone with a really warped mind. I feel sorry for you because one day you will have to answer for these inhuman decisions you have made.

..I...I think I just threw up a little. o.o That's....Wow. Oh, ew, that's just...awful. Wrong on so many levels. Seriously. Ew. I'm...so never gonna eat again, kthx.

haha, im going one for all my family this Christmas.