If you want a quality hair-on skin for a DIY sporran, then now is the time to start your hunt for fresh road-kill.

Take all the usual proper precautions and considerations on the quality of the kill.

I left the house at 6 AM this morning to go to the Stone Mountain Highland Games. When I came back, I found a fresh dead otter about 200 yards from my house.

The poor girl was bumped by a motor vehicle- there is only a bruise on her; death due to internal hemorrhage. This is going to be a very fine skin for a sporran. And it will honor her life, taken so short, and so by accident.