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A taxidermist who found fame for creating wild gifts including a pencil case from a dead rat has a new Christmas product - a gingerbread man with a real HEART.

Jack Devaney , 24, runs The World Around Ewe and has been honing his bizarre skills over the past couple of years.

He now takes orders from around the globe and creates his unique taxidermy gifts working full time from his studio.

And his latest festive offering features the gingerbread man made of a resin with a mouse's heart inside.

Jack said he has got such a backlog of orders and was going to disappoint some customers this Christmas.

(Image: The World Around Ewe)

He came up with the product for the festive season to avoid letting people down so he had something to deliver for the big day.

Jack, from Plymouth , said: "I call them gingerbread men with hearts. They're made of a resin with a mouse's heart inside.

"I pour in the resin and leave it for a bit, then pop the heart in before putting more resin in.

"I wanted to make something more Christmasy and I wanted to use leftover bits from my last creations - magnetic mouse earrings.

(Image: The World Around Ewe)

"Right now I've got 12 cadavers on my line, it didn't seem right to waste them.

"You could pop them on a Christmas tree or replace characters in your nativity scene - I'd love to see someone use it as a baby Jesus.

"Business has been mad lately, we've had to put out a message saying that orders made now won't arrive before Christmas.

"That's just for skins - I can get the gingerbread men out on time.

(Image: The World Around Ewe)

"I think people like to freak each other out and they make great secret Santa gifts.

"People think, 'Oh Sandra from accounts would love a pair of magnetic mouse earrings'.

"It became a full time job earlier this year. At the minute I'm doing seven days a week, I never realised it would be this wanted, this sought after."

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