7502 West Northern Avenue     Glendale, AZ 85303     602-799-4454

(Banner Art copyright of Allison Strickler.  2nd Place Arizona Junior Duck Stamp Contest, 2003.)

"The thing I like best about taxidermy is how real the animal looks when it is completely finished.   I want people who walk into my shop with what used to look like a nice trophy, and later come home with a mount to cherish for a lifetime.  Growing up, I spent most of my time learning art, whether it was  paint-by-number or (what looked like chicken scratch) pencil drawings.  These skills have become helpful in what I do now, taxidermy.

I am a bit of a tom boy, but what can I say?  I enjoy being in the outdoors.  I'd rather play with trucks than Barbie's when I was young.  I jump up when I get the chance to go hunting or fishing, which is not too often in Arizona.  So far, I have killed a mule deer, bull elk, and a javelina in Arizona.  I killed my first tom turkey in Missouri in the Spring of '05.  Each year I look forward to dove season so I can take my bird dog, Shelby, along.  Shelby is a liver and white English springer spaniel.  Most of all, I enjoy going camping because it is great to be outside breathing fresh air and sharing old stories with my family around the camp fire."

Ally Strickler