the bacteria on the skin will cause hair/fur slip if it gets on the hair/fur
salted and dried or folded up skin on skin and frozen will stop the bacteria
the re-hydration idea was from a tanning kit I had, in the instructions it said to soak the skin overnight if salted and dried out to re-hydrate
or if fresh just tan the bugger, really good little kit but I cant think of the name of it
anyway It looks like a nice skin
I'm sure it will be fine
the bacteria comes from the skin starting to rot
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