Vivian Tham and Jivan Jothi run Black Crow Taxidermy & Art, a studio that offers pet preservation services and conducts workshops on butterfly domes and animal dissection.
Together with her husband Jivan Jothi, they run Black Crow Taxidermy & Art, a studio that offers pet preservation services and conducts workshops on butterfly domes and animal dissection.Black Crow Taxidermy & Art "At that point, we figured that to take on more [and] bigger stuff, you will need a physical space and if we get a physical space, then we need to treat it like a business and run it like a business," Jothi said.In Asia, we still have that taboo against death. People even associated us with witchcraft.In 2021, the couple put in about $14,000 to launch the business.
"We also had a situation where people reported to authorities because they thought we were killing the pets to do taxidermy." "If there's a heat wave, there would suddenly be a lot of other pets that pass on by accident," she said. We do live shows for students so they won't view taxidermy as a taboo or something morbid — taxidermy is science.For now, the duo said, the number of animals they can take in is limited, given their full-time jobs. They also recently extended their wait time from six months to a year for pet owners who want their pets preserved.