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    LETTERS

    Feb 20, 2020 2 minutes
    Andrew Bubeer, Northamptonshire

    CRAFT OR CRUELTY?

    re we now celebrating the ‘art of taxidermy’? (). Stuffing an already dead animal through natural causes is one thing – although I have no idea why anybody would do that anyway. But Walter Potter sourced more than 20 kittens from local farms, and then they

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