3-year wait for elk head taxidermy not ‘reasonable’: CRT [Video]

A B.C. taxidermy business has been ordered to pay a client more than $4,500 after failing to deliver a promised mounted elk head and sheep cape for more than three years.

Dennison Harold Grant Ableson first hired taxidermist Marty Loring, who does business as “Majestic Taxidermy,” to do the work back in January 2021, according to a decision issued this week in B.C.’s small claims tribunal. 

The decision by Civil Resolution Tribunal Vice Chair Andrea Ritchie does not specify where in B.C. the business is located. The CRT dispute resolution process takes place virtually.

According to the decision, Ableson agreed to pay Loring $5,195 for the work, which included “mounting an elk with antlers, mounting a Dall sheep head, and preparing a purchased Dall sheep cape.”

Ableson told the tribunal he paid a total of $4,050 toward the work in installments, but that the work was not completed within six months, as had been promised.

Loring disputed the six-month timeframe, …