Irina's post about the mummified mermaid reminded me of a friend of mine, who mummified her pet rat a few years ago. Here's a few pictures she took of the process-







You can read the whole thing here, although its pretty long. I skipped a lot of the steps, also because they involve taking guts out and stuff. It's sort of gross, so view with caution. But it's also pretty cool. I might be weirded out if she did this with ALL her pets, but she doesn't. I think it was mostly done to see if she could follow the same process the Egyptians used, not because she wanted to preserve the rat forever or something.