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Plymouth's wackiest taxidermist Jack Devaney is back with possibly his most bizarre creation yet.

The 24-year-old is a master at turning dead rats into pencil cases, and has even turned a dead rabbit into a TOASTER, as well as making jewelry out of rat testicles.

As if that wasn't peculiar enough, he's now started selling mice as earrings.

While some made find it grim to wear a dead mouse attached to their ear, Jack said he has sold quite a few of them.

Warning - readers may find some of the content below disturbing.

The University of Plymouth creative sells the mice in two halves with magnets attached, to produce a fake ear stretcher look.

The pair sell for £18, but Jack said if people don't have the money to part with that amount, they can always buy half of one and use it as a fridge magnet.

On his website, he sells "build a mouse" fridge magnets and you can purchase a "full", "head" or "a**" - or magnetic mouse earrings.

The website warns: "Magnetic earrings made from mice. No mouse will be perfect. Everyone gets something unique."

Jack said: "I had a bunch of strong, old magnets lying around so I tried them on my ear lobe. When I'd managed to get them off it, and the pain had stopped.

"I tried them again, but this time with some fabric to see if they were strong enough to hold and if the fabric stopped the crushing sensation.

"Luckily it was, so then I stuffed the halves of the mouse, sewn them up with the magnets inside and took the photo.

(Image: Jack Devaney)

"The beauty of the earrings is if someone doesn't want to wear them, or they just don't have £18 to spare, they can buy half of one and use it as a fridge magnet!"

Jack gets the mice from the freezer at his local pet shop as they are sold as snake food.

He insists that none of the animals he taxidermies are harmed in the process.

He said: "They're sold dead, I don't harm anything to do it; I'm not a mentalist."

Jack said that he is "desensitised" to taxidermy, as he worked in a butchers from a young age - but he still has limits.

(Image: The World Around Ewe/Twitter)

He said: "I don't get queezy.

"The only thing that has made me question my career choice and also made me feel a bit weird was when I started making keyrings.

"The initial ones were made out of intestines and bits of skin and paws, and they were fine. But I thought people might like it if I squeezed out the contents of the intestines and did hearts and drawings in the resin before it set.

"Turns out that's my 'line' or close to it anyway - never knew I had one. It wasn't the smell of it though, it was the texture. Imagine greasy sand.

"But obviously it's from a recently defrosted mouse so cold, greasy sand."

As reported previously by Plymouth Live, the taxidermist has already sold strange creations all over the world.

If you'd like to view more of Jack's creations, you can do so on his website, here.

You can also visit his art exhibition on Saturday, October 27 at Studio 102.

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