Discover the strange and disturbingly beautiful world of taxidermy through a unique collection of stuffed dogs, bringing a new sense to what it means to be man’s best friend, forever.

Marble eyes and satin bows, furry paws on velvet pillows—explore the whimsical world of Victorian pet taxidermy through the extraordinary collection of J.D Powe in Best Friends Forever. Once much loved, these furry friends were immortalized, outliving their owners, and are now symbols of love, grief, and our complex relationship with the animal kingdom.

Discover hundreds of dogs—and a few cats--from the past, now preserved as cherished reminders of lost furry friends in this large and colorful compilation of exquisite photographs by Zach Ishmael that bring life back to these familiar friends!

Hardcover: ‎ 200 pages
Dimensions: ‎ 5.9 x 0.8 x 7.95 inches

Technology entrepreneur JD Powe has retained a fascination with natural history over his 25-year career in business. A passionate collector of rare and antique taxidermy, Powe has assembled one of the world's elite private collections of unique and historically important specimens. The extensive collection includes examples from a wide range of taxidermy genres, including Victorian anthropomorphic tableaus in the style of Walter Potter, zoomorphic functional objects, and hundreds of extinct and bizarre specimens from passenger pigeons and Carolina parakeets to aardvarks, wombats and binturongs. Powe has loaned specimens to support educational programming and public exhibits at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, and currently, to the Curious Creatures exhibit at the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Best Friends Forever: The World's Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs, featuring examples from his own collection as well as many others, is his first taxidermy-themed book.