Bart Jansen: Pet Cat-Copter Builder, Building Submarine Using Dead Badger

Bart Jansen gained Internet notoriety for his quirky innovations, turning taxidermy into high flying drones, and he claims to be working on another creation - a stuffed badger submarine, according to the Mirror.

In 2012 the Netherlands artist used his know-how to turn his pet cat Orville, that was run over by a car, into an custom made quad-copter, according to Business Insider.

The bizarre entity was followed by an ostrich-copter, and in 2014 he helped create a flying mouse for a young boy who lost his pet.

"I had to then fit the skin around it and found that in some places I had too much foam and in others not enough. The skin then got a bit 'mildewy' and I had to take it back to the taxidermist to treat it," he said.

Some haven't taken so well to his Frankenstein-like creations.

"People keep on saying it's animal cruelty, but my cat was already dead and I didn't kill him. I really was sad, but that didn't stop me from making a completely absurd monument," said Jansen.

The project, if completed, may not be exposed to the public, as the badger is a protected species in the Netherlands and making a taxidermy animal waterproof is a different obstacle altogether, according to the Independent.

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Build, Cat, Submarine, Frankenstein, Pet, Animal cruelty, Dead
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