I subscribe to some pet subs to see cute pictures of cats and dogs to improve my mood and then every tenth post or so is “my poor dead cat”. I hate it, I never knew your catdog and now im slightly sad that its dead. Now I have to unsubscribe from all these cute pet subs cause y’all can’t not talk about how dead your pets are. Maybe join a support group or something.
I’d guess he masked off the area with brown paper and tape carefully. Then painted it as normal.
I would’ve covered it in a coat of polyurethane to preserve it. Then added the bronze plate.