Through her work on Furever, she’s befriended Mike McCullogh, owner of Mac’s Taxidermy and Freeze-Dry, who specializes in freeze-drying and preserving dead pets. Most people definitely find the idea of having Fluffy stuffed and sitting in the living room totally macabre, but Finkel says the human-pet bond is extremely strong, and people have different ways of handling the loss (including sleeping with their stuffed pet). “People are just just doing what offers them comfort,” she says. “A lot of Mike’s customers feel they’ve cheated death in some way.”
While McCullogh has been interviewed by several journalists in the past, he says Finkel is different because, “She wanted to know about the feeling side. Yes, it’s a crazy thing, but she’s not interested in sensationalism. She’s open minded about this, and I am, too.”
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