Stinky Stinky Stinky day !!

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Andrew Mellor — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:54:28 GMT

Yes it is true I have gone soft, But I have been there , best one ever was a horse that had died in a very remote field, I was a student at the time and the boss sent the locum and I to do a post mortem, turns out it had been dead for at least 4 days in a very hot august. Locum ( NOT VERY EXPERIENCED) got PM knife out , made first incision at which point abdomen exploded because of the built up gas and covered him in more maggots and foetid juice than I ever care to see again. The 15 mile journey back to the practice from the tannery in an old banger in the heat of the day was something I will never forget.

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Busybee — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:50:21 GMT

I did a cleansing at the end of summer this year for an old farmer who must have had a good 40 years + experience on me. Being a young, female, recent graduate, he gave me a smug smile, led me to the cow and stood back to have a good look at how I would cope. I have a pretty strong stomach but still double glove and this was a beauty - been left for a week, very rotten, very smelly and lots of it. As I was working, I noticed the farmer out of the corner of my eye gradually turning greener and greener. Surely not! With all his experience! But yes, he had to 'take himself off' muttering something about the parlour, shortly followed by the sound of retching.....Put a smile on my face for the rest of the week!

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Robin Grimmer — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:37:31 GMT

Yes, you haven't lived until you have done a rotten calving or cleansing. I remember doing one once and for some reason I didn't wear a rectal glove - I did it 'James Herriot' style. And a couple of days later I got nice pustules all over my arm.

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Julian Earl — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:36:42 GMT

Cleansing story alert!

When up in Lancashire many moons ago, I cleansed a cow sometime in the middle of the summer, and the farmer wasn't around but as the cow was tied up in a stall as is the way there it was simple enough to carry on on my own. The rotten cleansing came out okay, nice and "ripe", and I then went back to my car to get some antibiotics and whatever. Walking back in to the barn, I saw immediately that the cow had lay down and was lying on top of the calf - all I could see was a pair of hips and the two back legs sticking out, kicking away desperately. So, I ran across to the cow, shouting and hollering to make her get up when, halfway there, I stepped on the cleansing that I had just removed, and my feet go flying up in the air as I go a**e over elbow and land flat on my back in the cleansing. Luckily, I was still wearing the old style full-length parturition gown. Unfortunately, as we all know, the gowns fasten down the back, so all this red gloop of fetid cleansing soaked my underlying shirt anyway. In July. Several farm visits and embarrassing explanations for the smell later, I managed to get home to change my shirt. And trousers. And wash my hair.

Oh, and the cow got up on her own, probably disturbed by all the excitement.

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Hannah Wynne Richards — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:03:04 GMT

When I was working in Llandrindod, Peter (that was the boss ) never did cleansings-boss' privalege The other assistant , Bryan was an Irishman,with his fullshare of blarney One day I complained to him that I had done the last 6 cleansings,and he said that that was where women had an advantage I asked why,and he said the smell woudn't wash off towhich i agreed He then said I could cover it upwith Chanel No 5 whilst he would get even stranger looks than when smelling of cleansing I said, ifhe bought the Chanel N0 5 we had a deal That's 25 years ago, he's gone back to Ireland,and I'm still waiting for my bottle of No 5

Wynne

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Wren — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:55:40 GMT

There's a rule for LA foetid smells - particularly bad cleansings/rotten calvings etc. etc. It's 3 days and that's that. Nothing you do, no amount of showers, scrubbing off layers of skin or immersing yourself in disinfectant will change that. Double gloving for rotten cleansings so that you can guarantee that not a drop of fluid touches your arms makes not a jot of difference to the smell. For three days every time you raise a piece of food to your mouth the smell will hit you. That's just how it is.

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plantagenet — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:32:47 GMT

We are lucky enough to be able to leave doors wide open and still keep the kennel area safe, nowt like fresh air.

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Noweia — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:12:17 GMT

Baking soda. Works wonders for anal gland stuff on your hands! Works on floors too.

We also sometimes put apple shampoo in with the Trigene when doing the floor - makes the room smell nice and apple-y!

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Mark Rowland — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:10:39 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

. Nothing I have ever experienced in small animal practice even comes close.

[/quote] Clearly you have never had the experience of rotting boa constrictor babies in a snake c section. One of the few times I have had to prop myself against the wall. And yes I've done plenty of LA practice :-)

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Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:47:38 GMT

Last Thursday I spent the best part of two hours removing a very well dead calf from a cow. In the end we managed in three pieces. Nothing I have ever experienced in small animal practice even comes close. Despite a number of Hibiscrub showers (yes I do keep some in the bathroom at home) it took 3 days for the smell to get out of my pores.

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Utlendigur — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:25:59 GMT

[quote user="Andrew Mellor"] It has been cleaned ceiling to floor, and odour eliminated but I can still smell a lingering smell. [/quote]

The best way I've found is crawling round the floor sniffing to try to locate the small spot of anal gland secretion that's been missed - just remember to close the consulting room door if it opens directly onto reception

I've actually been very impressed with Flash with Febreeze (cotton fresh) for cat urine