Best bet would be to case skin it like most other furbearing animals. If you don't know how to do that I don't think I could describe it but you could probably look on youtube and find instructions.

As for preserving the skin, you really want a garment tan, not a taxidermy tan on the hide. I would highly recommend Moyle Mink & Tannery in Idaho. They do excellent work and are very well known and respected tanners of wild furs. To send them the pelts you have two options. One is to flesh and dry the skin and mail it to them in this condition. But if you don't already have the tools and experience this isn't going to be easy or worth the effort for two squirrel skins. Another option is to skin the squirrels, roll the pelts up and put them in the freezer until frozen solid. Then you can mail the frozen pelts to Moyle Mink & Tannery and they will flesh the skins for you for a few bucks more. If you visit Moyle's website you will find complete instructions for shipping frozen pelts to them.

Hope it all turns out well for you!

 

You can google your question........ as well.

 

Or there are many books about the "old ways" where you can learn how to tan a pelt. Basically it involves scraping the fat and meat off, staking it out to make sure teh skin doesn't roll up and treating it. As far as skinning- cut off the feet (most folks at the shoulder), head, tail slit up belly, slit out from top & bottom of belly slit to each leg, dress out if you're gonna eat it (recommended) peel skin off the carcass.
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I skin them like a **** cased! like pulling a sweater off of them.