What do you get when you combine taxidermy with gadget hacking? Instructables users noahw and canida released the step-by-step instruction on how to make your very own taxidermied computer mouse: Link – via Rue The Day!
Scooter
Uh, that's ok, i'd rather not.
Gauldar
This is wrong on so many levels... I like it!
Evilbeagle
This is just hilarious! I love it.
Foreigner1
I'd call this just a taxidermouse!
I C PETA
... Coming after you!!
Tracy
YICK!
This is stupid and cruel!
Nulla Pax
Congratulations on finding your demographic.
Goodbye Neatorama.
Detroit Indian
Thats just gross. Thank you but I will pass on it.
VonSkippy
They should name it "Stinky", since that's what it's gonna do.
Chandrielle
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. 
Dave C.
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!
Gauldar
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.
Elle
This is such an old thing dug up from the archives of Instructables. Zzz.
Alicia
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.
Gail Pink
It is clever, but it is GROSS!
SenorMysterioso
its tacky
Christie
It's a hamster, not a mouse.
Johnny Cat
I wouldn't be able to find it after my cats got a hold of it.
marishka
Alicia: natural death
Elle: why the downer? Not everyone visits Instructables.
jason m
This is insanely disgusting.
Kalel
If I had less tact, I'd call it cheesy.
Evilbeagle
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.
LisaL
That's pretty gross.
Having a stuffed animal for decor, sure, using one as a mouse... BLEH
A
That is awesome.
Jill Harness
Sorry to break the thread of is it mean or not, but the "more" doesn't link anywhere.
Noelegy
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.
Kathy
In bad taste.
Cathy
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.
Britt
Incredibly old article, but I love it. Looove it. A++!!
Borat
It is cruel to do something to a dead carcass? Are you a retired?
WM
#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. :/
Guy
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!
Johnny Cat
So what if it's old? That cat-door surprise video was 10 years old, but I'd never seen it!
Kerry
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.
Hollene
stupid, gross, idiotic and disgusting. let's leave the poor animals out of this.
Evilbeagle
@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.
Zakk?
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.
Dave of the moths
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.
student
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.
okkk
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".
Evilbeagle
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.
Samantha
Please take this post down - it's rather disturbing.
TimW
Very cool! It's enough to make me want to learn taxidermy.
ccna
Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
ccent
Ally
Yeah, no...
anon
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.
Johnny Cat
just picture a smiling face.
Evilbeagle
Sounds like anon has some interesting fantasties.
Largefromage
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....
Flu-Bird
This will get those gooks from PETA upset becuase their so darn rediculous
oc.stomias
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!
Christophe
LOL @LargeFromage's Capybara case mod suggestion ))
Terry
The meat for sale at my local supermarket is more disgusting than this.
ted
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.
Jill Harness
Largefromage, I saw a case mod made of a beaver once. Same concept. You could probably find it on Instructables.
violet
@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...
Rusty
Now I have seen everything! I am recommending you for a webbie to the committee when we meet next week! Vote at my Page!
anonmymous
I lol'd...hard.....
Infact.....I almost masturbated to this
GOD IT'S SO AMAZING
Rob
OMG i'm sooooo offended by this...yea right
this is awesome!
Ellsswhere
Make it wireless and you have yourself the perfect office prank in human history
Mad Jayhawk
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.
Noob Saibot
Photoshopped.
smashed
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.
warm-mouse-heated-keyboard
This is SICK! NASTY AND GROSS!
marquish
I need one,
Send please.
pHeysh
Stumble is wonderful
Jayme
That is so sick.
Jono
Um... very literal? Can i have it!?
lapuk
funny.. in a wrong sort of way..
freind2animals
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.
Kryph
..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.
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