Where there is a concern about losing the smaller bones, place a piece
of plastic window screening (or other fine mesh of a material that
won't deteriorate) under the carcass. Worked well for me.

Judy

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:00 AM, SCIART-L automatic digest system
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:02:47 +0100
> From:    Mieke Roth <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: report from the fort
>
>  I sometimes =
> burry
> it very shallow if the animal is cat sized, but I prefer not to because =
> then
> you can loose the smaller bones.


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