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Mouse Mouse!

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by canida
 

introMouse Mouse!

Hacked travel-size (hardware) mouse + taxidermied (wetware) mouse = Mouse Mouse!
Fully functional, and furry!

Warning: this project involves taxidermy, dremels, and sometimes graphic pictures of dead animals. While there are no guts in this tutorial, viewer discretion is still advised. If you are offended by this entire idea, please peruse the wallet contest or the laser cutter contest instead.

Concept by noahw
Implemented by noahw and canida.



Mouse Mouse!
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step 1Acquire mice

Obtain a small travel-size (hardware) mouse. This one is a wired mouse that is way to small to use comfortably every day, but perfect for going inside of a mouse.

Obtain a similarly-sized (wetware) mouse. These are commonly available fresh or frozen from pet stores, or any other place that sells reptile food. It's easier to fit a small object into a large mouse than a large object into a small mouse, so err on the side of caution. You can always fill extra space with cotton balls.

If you've got an optical (hardware) mouse, make sure to choose a pale-furred (wetware) mouse for lightest skin pigment - this will be important later.
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May 5, 2007. 4:39 AMlemonie says:
This instructable was featured in Friday's Metro:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=47812&in_page_id=34
(The printed version did have a picture)
So that's exposure to a million bored-commuters.

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May 12, 2007. 6:17 AMLiondart says:
Unfortunately, a bored argentinian journalist published it in a local newspaper too. And that's how i've ended here. (yes, i've just signed up for this, so what?)
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May 12, 2007. 1:29 PMlemonie says:
So what? Show us something better and more worthwhile than this. You could spend your entire life finding things you don't like on the internet and joining sites just to say so, but who really cares? L
May 12, 2007. 10:15 PMLiondart says:
...you. :D
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May 13, 2007. 1:12 PMlemonie says:
You meant that I care?
As in "I value your input here"?
It's just amusing to argue with you (sorry).

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May 13, 2007. 1:54 PMbethehammer says:
One who truly does not care... does not take the time to respond to posts or look. Thanks to Liondart for posting this instructable... kind of morbid, yet somehow compelling and cool at same time. Personally I would probably use a stuffed toy mouse... but kudo's to you for having the rocks to post this in such a politically correct world, where people wear leather, eat meat, etc. and then complain about something like this.
May 14, 2007. 2:38 AMshaboopee says:
This instructable was made by canida and noahw. Liondart just signed up to tell everyone how sick and wrong it is (scroll down in the comments ... try the "view all"). I agree with the gist of your comment, though. Kudos to canida for having the "rocks" :o) to post this.
May 14, 2007. 6:57 AMshaboopee says:
That was a fun thread :o) That is one reason I like this instructable ... take your laptop and "mouse mouse" to a busy coffee shop and sit down to work ... it could lead to some very entertaining conversations.
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May 14, 2007. 1:58 PMlemonie says:
Oh yes. I do sometimes think I could make a USB stick from 'something the cat dragged-in', but it might be a bit nasty... Lucky rabbit's foot USB stick? L
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Jun 1, 2007. 2:26 PMzenilorac says:
now featured in the latest edition of Bizarre magazine
not on the website yet... http://www.bizarremag.com/

good work
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Jun 1, 2007. 2:43 PMcanida (author) says:
Cool, thanks for the heads-up!
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Aug 25, 2010. 11:40 AMslithien says:
lol i should make one for my computer upstairs and my vegaterian sisters will never go on it again!!!!
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Aug 12, 2010. 6:43 PMeulaliaaaa! says:
An awesome and clever idea! Educational!
Aug 5, 2010. 8:01 PMAztalr says:
Hahaha, this is kind of funny. With a larger rodent and full size mouse you could even make a RatMouse XD
Jul 8, 2010. 11:19 AMBrokeTheInterweb says:
This is a very intriguing idea. It would certainly be a way to recycle and use the dead mice my cat brings me, instead of letting them rot in a landfill. I bet the native americans would be rather fond of this instructable, heh.
Jun 28, 2010. 4:33 PMcjackson40934857370750984598 says:
This instructable is BS and here is why: First off the feet and tail will rot off as the taxidermy instructions are not complete and improper. Second the skin/fur of the mouse will wear down very quickly. I'd estimate that this mouse cover will only last 2 weeks before breaking down and will start to smell. This post is just to get people pissed off. Worthless...
Jun 27, 2010. 1:15 PMDrHoppe says:
This is beyond gross and disturbing...besides what happens when the fur rubs off?
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Jun 26, 2010. 1:44 PMsuperjail3 says:
whoever thinks this is gross is just stupid end of story
Jun 26, 2010. 1:43 PMmomoaal says:
well , i have to admit , it's a great work .... but also , it's very ..very .... Disgusting !! how could you kill that poor little animal !! , and use it's skin every day for browsing !!!
Jun 22, 2010. 4:26 PMSephysManda says:
I would love to have one lol This is awesome!
May 30, 2010. 8:48 PMdiegogmx says:
 Damn! Don't take me bad but i thing this is incredibly sadistic i would never do  or buy anithing like this. i mean i don't think it's bad to kill to eat but this, is extremely excesive 
May 26, 2010. 10:11 AMdude123321 says:
 you call that graphic!?! skin a deer already!
May 19, 2010. 8:49 AMcepaxxx says:
ei are you stupid you kill the mouse and use it like computer mouse its very sik
Apr 9, 2010. 2:33 AMdortuh says:
This is SO terrible, disgusting, and effed up. I can't believe someone could lack so much sanity to be able to mutilate a corpse for "art," which is really just twisted and bordering psychopathic. This really disturbs me.
May 18, 2010. 12:31 AManimation303 says:
you didn't have to look at it.
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May 6, 2010. 8:45 PMRotten194 says:
Do you wear leather? That's art (well, technically... ugh leather boots. Anyways.) That's, ahem, "art" made from the skin of a dead animal. Do you eat meat? Cooking (especially at a fancy restaurant, not necessarily though, TV dinner is art in it's own right I guess)  made from a dead animal that spent it's entire life standing in it's own crap, with it's head between two bars, eating chemicals and hormones before being slaughtered, hug up on a hook, gutted, cut into pieces, fire blasted and wrapped. That's a lot more mutilated than this mouse. And we don't eat this mouse.
May 8, 2010. 11:10 PMdortuh says:
Nice try... I don't eat meat or wear leather. It all disgusts me.
Jun 19, 2010. 2:24 PMthepelton says:
FYI if you know anyone who is diabetic, they use insulin from cattle pancreases. If they didn't, they could die. If you want to be a vegetarian, fine, but don't tell us we're killers. I need some naugahide. Anyone know where I can find an unsuspecting nauga?
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Jun 26, 2010. 6:27 PMzigzagchris says:
Im vegeterian but im not offended by this. I dont like the taste of meat. Its a waste of resource and unhealthy. Im fine if their killed painlessly but not brutaly such as McDonald does often (boiling live chiken)
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Apr 11, 2010. 6:53 AMNInja99 says:
Its called Taxidermy to make art out of living corpses and no its not psychopathic. why are you reading this ible anyways?
May 11, 2010. 6:47 AMFashim says:
 Brutal But Awesome.
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Apr 23, 2010. 4:38 PMmr. clean says:
this is great five stars but id sanitize it before i used it lol.
Apr 6, 2010. 6:12 AMrhoaste says:
That's wrong.  Very wrong.
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Apr 5, 2010. 10:55 AMwikipedo says:
 I can't wait till the next time my cat brings me a mouse.
Would it be that bad if their was a little bit of neck missing from the wetware mouse?
Mar 29, 2010. 9:12 AMelectriger says:
I dont think mouses,rats,hamsters are such kind little animals.Especially not made for our entertainment.They are furry little pests.I basicly like the idea of using the dead animals,but i would prefer a cat toy(but only because they have the size,form of a computer mouse,and because it is meant to be (less or more) endurable.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/6249099/Farmer-who-killed-83000-rats-awarded-prize.html
Aug 26, 2008. 10:12 PMsweetkits says:
this is very very cruel. mice are for entertainment and joy,not little computer items!
Mar 19, 2010. 5:49 PMNeurotik2 says:
I agree this is very sick I thought it was a fake mouse\
Jan 17, 2010. 11:49 PMVioletRimbaud says:
 actually no I will go even further and say that animals are for none of the above animals are living things. I'm no vegetarian so maybe I shouldn't say anything but this is defacing a corpse. It's kind of gross and reminds me of this boy I once knew who would torture and kill cats. He was seriously messed up from his childhood so what's your excuse?
Mar 11, 2010. 12:46 PMscalarcharge says:
a desire to create and um.... a love of physical puns?  and again, it was just a mouse.
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