I’m very new to taxidermy, I’ve never even had a physiology class or a dissection lab, I find it very interesting though and I’ve recently come into possession of something I want to taxidermy (by chance not on purpose) but first I want to get some more research, some books, videos, if I can a class, but being as I only have 6-9 months to have a chance of getting a well preserved taxidermy from the dead animal of interest, which is in a plastic bag wrapped in plastic wrap and paper towels in a freezer atm

I want to be able to at least practice on one or two things that I don’t care as much about

I’ve been considering buying like a frozen chick or rat that would’ve been used to feed a snake or something, I don’t know, could that work? Do I have other options? I don’t particularly want to go out and kill something just to practice on… I’ve never purposely killed anything before anyway (except ants and mosquitoes that are on me) And killing isn’t why I’m into taxidermy …