That's a cute noise. Nice and big too.
Yea, I've got a few photos of our dogs too (I won't go into how many thousands of them I have
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). Most of ours have become service dogs (Bouviers are naturals but usually not thought of because of their long hair). Here are 3 of our Bouviers with the 2 on the left being service dogs for my wife. The picture shows one of the things they like doing to have fun and it's functional too.
What I mean by rolling out a slab of clay is roll it out so it's nice and flat and about 1/4" to 1/2" thick. Then press a number of the dogs feet into it, let it dry like you would do with any clay tile or plate like this. Then fire it to about 1700 in my glass kiln. I've done this with clay before and it's worked pretty well to bisque fire the clay so it can be used as a mold. I use low fire clay but my Skutt kiln won't fire high enough to actually fire it fully. My kiln only fires up to 1800 although I've never gone higher than 1700 and then only a few times. After I've bisqued fired it I would take a sheet of clear the same size as the clay and lay it on top and fire it so it slumps down into the impressions. I could also try filling the impressions with frit and then lay a sheet on top so when I fired it it wold come out with the paws being 3D on top of the glass.
R&R 910 and Hydroperm are plaster material that is used to create castings for molds. They both work real well to create molds with.
On the Sculpey clay, I baked it in my oven. That's how it's made hard and permanent. You could use your kiln although the oven works well.
Haydo, that's a good story and yes, I can see why you wouldn't want to get rid of it. We are the same way with stuff like that.
Mike
It's said that inside each of us is an artist trying to get out. Well mine got out... and I haven't seen him since.