Bron, the long hair will matter if it is long when you receive it. If it is long and soft, it will mat in commecial tanning unless you find a specialist who knows how to handle it. So it may be worth the hard work of tanning it yourself to keep it from matting, and I am not sure you would salt-dry it first in that case.

Sounds like quite a gift. What do the people giving it suggest?

SINSULL, no Martha Stewart here, and not the Biblical one either. Just an old putterer. Although I did raise hens that lay those green eggs Martha's birds lay. But I did mine before she made hers famous.

Besides, would Martha point out that the anuses make lovely holes by which to hang the finished pelt? Hmm. Maybe she would. But I'd call them a**holes, and I don't think she would. (I was just being polite cuz I don't know Bron too well yet.)

~S~