Taxidermist spared jail over tiger fur trade

A taxidermist who sold banned tiger furs from a now-extinct species on eBay has been spared jail. Dovile Vaitkeviciute, 31, used her online store Mr Muffin’s Tiny Shop to illegally trade animal hides worth up to £2,500 between May and October 2014. She falsely claimed they were from big cats that died before 1947, which are still legal. But expert analysis revealed they were from tigers that were alive until as late as 1979. One of the furs was from…