Losing a beloved family pet can be heartbreaking. Whether your dog's been hit by a car or your cat has died of old age, losing a beloved family pet can be heartbreaking.

That's why many grieving pet owners turn to taxidermy, stuffing their pets and keeping them around the house after they're dead as a memento.

But one Dutch artist took things a little bit far when he decided to turn his taxidermied cat into a helicopter.

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Bart Jansen from the Netherlands turned his stuffed can Orville into a remote-controlled drone.

The drone, called the Orvillecopter, is 'half cat, half machine', with Jansen insisting that his treatment of the cat's remains was to honour its life after it died in 2012.

"One day Orville got killed by a car but I immediately knew as soon as we had his body that I was going to do something with him. I was going to make a point out of his untimely death," Jansen told a Channel 4 documentary in 2014.

To 'make his point', Jansen took Orville's taxidermied body and fitted it with four high-powered propellors to make it capable of flight.

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After the Orvillecopter took off following the popular Channel 4 documentary, Jansen launched his own animal drone company called Copter Company, which saw him turn everything from pet hamsters to ostriches into graceful flying machines.

He just asks customers to taxidermy their pets before sending them to him.

The artist, who works as a solar panel engineer for his day job, even built a helicopter out of a cow.

He said: "If I'm going to fly, I was to fly in something weird. So we've been thinking about animals that are big enough to fly in."

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