Dennis Avner
Stalking Cat aka Dennis Avner was born on August 27, 1958, and died on November 5, 2012. He was an American man who was known for his extensive body modifications which resemble a tigress. He did 14 surgical procedures to achieve his goal, he also held a world record for “most permanent transformations to look like an animal.”
The society named him as ‘Stalking Cat’ he became well known in a community called ‘The furry community’ and after his biography named ‘WikiFur’, he became more famous. But after 2007 August he started facing some financial troubles, he also posted publicly on his online profile that he needed a new place to live.
His body modification was done by an Arizona-based artist named Steve Haworth. He had over 14 modifications, including:
In September 2007, at age 49, Stalking Cat moved to Tonopah, Nevada and on November 5, 2012, he died alone in his garage and at the time he was 54 years old. BMEzine founder Shannon Larratt told publicly that his death was a suicide which was discovered one week later.
- Extensive tattooing which includes facial tattooing
2. Facial subdermal implants which change the shape of his brow, forehead, and the bridge of his nose
3. Flattening his nose, via septum relocation
4. Silicone injection in his lips, cheeks, chin, and other parts of his face
5. Splitting his upper lip
6. Filing and capping his teeth
7. Surgically shaping his ears, making his ears pointed and his earlobes elongated
8. Surgical hairline modification
9. Piercing his upper lip and transdermal implants on his forehead so that whiskers may grow
10. Wearing green contact lenses with slit irises
11. Wearing a robotic tail
Rodrigo Braga
A man in Brazil named “Rodrigo Braga” has undergone surgery to look like a dog. According to reports Rodrigo loves dogs and he wanted to look like them. He stated that the work on him is been created by the use of procedures that contain mixed plastic production and digital manipulation. He stated that during his transformation no animal was caused to suffer or die.
Erik Spargue
Erik Sprague was born on June 12, 1972, and is known professionally by a name The Lizardman. He is an American freak show and sideshow performer who is best known for his body modification, including his sharpened teeth, a full-body tattoo of green scales, bifurcated tongue, subdermal implants and green-inked lips.
Sprague became famous for his heavy body modifications which include tongue bifurcation and tattooing. He also performs sideshow like the human blockhead, fire eating and breathing, gavage, sword swallowing, the bed of nails, the Human Dartboard, the cranial corkscrew, and the insectivore. He also writes articles on his Body Modification called E-zine, he also owns a rock band called LIZARD SKYNYRD.
Erik also has a Guinness World Record for ‘Most weight lifted and swung from the ear lobes’ on the set of ‘Lo Show Dei Record’ in Milan, Italy on 19 Jun 2014.
Mauricio Goldi
Mauricio Caio Galdi was born on August 12, 1988, in Palizzi. He is an Italian actor, voice actor, entrepreneur and the first Human Doll to sign both national and international television contracts. Mauricio was the first human who brings the concept of a living Ken doll in Brazil and now he is officially known as the Human Ken Doll and also demystified the culture of human dolls, showing that it is not linked only to people addicted to plastic surgery. Mauricio won two consecutive awards at the government palace.
Herbert Chavez
In Filipino, there is a man called Herbert Chavez, who calls himself the biggest fan of Superman’s. To achieve superman looks he has already undergone 26 painful plastic surgery procedures to transform his Asian face into a carbon copy of his idol.
Chavez says “Superman has always been my obsession since I saw one of his movies at the age of four”.
In his house, everything contains “S” which includes everything like shower curtains, glasses, toothbrush, cups, combs and every essential item of his house which is situated in Laguna which is southwest of Manila.
“It has always been my dream to be like him and I have done everything possible to become like him,” he explains, with a smile.
Since 1998, Chavez has undergone several surgeries including the nose, lips, chin and hips – besides undergoing liposuction and skin whitening procedures – which give him a radically different appearance from the one he had before the procedures.
Chavez holds a Guinness Book of Records for owning the largest collection of Superman memorabilia in the world with 1253 certified items which in reality is around 5000.
