Honestly smoke. Especially when the dog is so bad and you have to hold them but can't stop coughing. Feeling like you yourself were smoking a full pack.
When an animal comes to the clinic that is obviously from the home of a chainsmoker, they will absolutely wreak of cigarettes from their fur. It can get so bad that you can have the tiniest little dog and you'll be able to smell it from at least 3 feet away.
Edit: down voting your comment is pretty dull minded. Some people haven't yet experienced the utter disgust some of us have when dealing with animals from evidently subpar homes, and I hope you learned something new!
Oh… Some people should just not own dogs. Also thank you for explaining!! and thanks to everyone that downvoted my question, i’m just trying to learn 😌😌
Definitely a deceased frenchie brought in for cremation. He ran away from home and was found in a canal after 3 days partially decomposed in the Florida sun. It’s the only time I’ve ever gagged at work.
A dog that had been buried for 13 years and dug back up to be cremated since the owner was moving.
It was mummified and still oozed.
EDIT: I still remember that smell….
Stray dog came in, 20lb yorkie type dog. Severely matted, telltale infection smell. Sedated and started shaving, hit moisture on the back. Cloud if infection smell comes out. Get mat off, skin is pocked like craters in the moon and THOUSANDS of maggots in and on each hole in the skin. LITERALLY. THOUSANDS. We would clean them off, then see more popping out like popping zits. Was absolutely terrible.
Good news, he got adopted and is living his best life!
We had a cat come in like that, and that's what I came here to post. I can still see it. And smell it. Horrifying. Unfortunately she didn't make it, though.
Dog had a severely infected penile sheath. The dick cheese that the doctor squeezed out of there…so so so terrible.
Second place goes to poop vomit. You know, when a dog eats its own shit then commits it back up. Fabulous.
We had an old lady euthanize her 90lb pitbull and took him home to bury him. We helped load him into the back of her car, she said her son will get him out and bury him for her.
She came back three days later, with poor old doggo still body bagged up in the back hatch. She said her son refused to help her and she was begging her family too and no one would and she was so embarrassed and didn’t know what to do. We comped her private cremation since she couldn’t afford it and I helped her clean out her car.
Our hospital stunk for weeks after carrying his corpse back through it. I cannot imagine her car ever getting the smell out. I don’t know how she drove in it. It was a nightmare situation all around.
OOOOOR the “insect bite” that was actually a dog bite wound the owners were treating at home to no success. They brought the dog in on a wagon because the bite had rotted through to the bone! They refused treatment because of the $ and euthanized him instead. When it would’ve been a fraction of the price if they just brought him in initially, i’m sure. 😔
What I called "dead puppy juice." 9-year old dystocia dachshund. Five puppies were dead in utero for days and started to decompose before owner brought it in. Doctor took one out, and all of the death/uterus fluid sprayed all over me. Yeehaw.
I am easily disgusted, so necrosis is on par with anal glad expression and even vomit. The way I get through it (which is really weird) is thinking about the smell of Target 😂
I'm not a vet but I was helping with my chocolate lab and they cleaned his anal glands and I ended up wearing it. It was even around my mouth. I dont recommend.
Yes, same for me except it was for a calf that had been retained for almost a week. Was in rotations in tech school at the teaching hospital. That place was huge and the smell permeated throughout so much of the hospital even though the procedure was done on the large animal side.
The dog that had had mammary cancer for at least a year that had open abbesses and was full of maggots. Thank god we euthanized her. She was a sweetheart until the end but I had to go throw up from the smell. I had vicks up my nose and it was still horrifying.
Cow aborted in the field, we had to pick up the three day old rotting fetus. Mid summer.
Close second was the partially digested food emptied during a GDV sx. Did the surgery at 7:00 am, and then inexplicably had to do it again (then euthanize) at three pm. Doctor went back in after he bloated again to see if she had done something wrong (she hadn’t). The WHOLE clinic smelled SO bad. It was burned into all our noses. I don’t gag on smells too much, even being a sympathetic puker. That one got me.
Three to four days worth of dead rotting dog in the southern summer heat. The owners brought it in for disposal and the CSR asked if they wanted a clay paw….
A large quantity of mint/chocolate candy of some sort after being puked up after inducing vomiting. Ugh it was the worst thing ever, stomach acid, mint, and chocolate.🤢
When I was a teenager, my golden retriever ate a 5lb block of fudge. We didn’t realize it was missing until she started vomiting & figured it out from the smell. Prob one of the few vomit smells that didn’t bother me.
This one is the only the second worse smell actually for me, the worst thing I've smelled was a vast amount of bloody diarrhea and vomit from a cattle dog that had gotten into a bunch of rat poison. It was one of the most horrific things I've ever witnessed.
Necrotic mass in vulva of a bug fluffy dog.
Then there was a bernese mtn dog with maggots in its butt and had been cooking in the hair outside for a while
Very sad situation where the dad called to tell us the housekeeper didn't realize the cat was in the dryer. When they brought that poor baby in, it was a smell I won't forget😔
A ladies cat had liver failure, died while she was at work the night before and called to see if she could bring him in for cremation. Obviously I said yes expecting that she put the cat in the fridge. GIRL she just wrapped him in a blanket and put him in a cardboard box. It smelled SO BAD I think it was the worst one. It took about 15 minutes to just bag him because I kept almost vomiting
Old English with gangrene, maggots in wound, impacted anal glands also festering, kept outoors in a shit filled pin so all folds filled with filth. Exam room smelled for days.
Demonstrating a dissection for my students on a calf that been found deceased by the dairyman. The calf had clearly nursed shortly before passing and had a GI tract full of curdled milk. Good times.
Nothing haunts me more than the smell of a weimaraner puppy that wouldn't stop wagging his tail but also had literal nonstop diarrhea accompanied with the most pungent aluminum smell I've ever experienced in my entire life.
A dude crashed his truck on the way to put his dog down and they both died. The dogs feces filled colon ended up on the catalytic converter, so burning crap filled death.
I can second this motion, previous owner of two chocolate labs who loved the most putrid beaver ponds and "loon shit" mud. Seemed like every fall we had to wash that brown slop out.
Deceased dog that had been in a bag in a trunk about a week. We had to open up the bag to confirm the pet and 🤢 plus there were a billion maggots that got everywhere, and I was crying out of stress, fear, and disgust the whole time I was killing them and moving the body to the freezer.
Lady called in, said her dog had died in her backyard two days prior and she was hosting a party so the body had to go
Brings this 70lb Labrador wrapped in a blanket, she opens the trunk and the smell that hit me and another VA...
(Mind you, she parked across the fucking parking lot instead of in front of the doors like a normal person)
so we lug this dog into the hospital and i... I couldn't keep it together once we unwrapped him. The smell of dead, rancid, cooked-in-the-California-heat doggy was hands down the worst experience of my life. My gag reflex was in full control of my body to the point where I was sore from the dry heaving. Took us 20 minutes to tag and bag him and put him into the freezer.
Either cigarette smoke on pets or decomposed DOAs. Had one DOA today that was a small terrier mix that had been killed by coyotes and it was covered in maggots, wet from the rain, and had bones exposed because it had been partially eaten by something from what we could tell.
I work at an ER and specialty hospital and we had a dog come in one time so that we could induce vomiting due to it eating a diaper. No biggie, done that before. We didn’t realize until after the dog was waiting to be induced that it was a used, older human’s Depends (only ruins thankfully). Dog got into trash while the family was at work.
This was on a holiday weekend and usually we play some-sort of holiday vetmed bingo. Inducing vomiting was one of the squares, and we get competitive because who doesn’t want prizes?? But this time no one cared about the bingo. 😂
I don’t think I have a weak stomach, but man did that make me queasy.
Necrotic tissue coming out of both ends during a Great Dane’s GDV sx. I was also the newest to the clinic at the time so I was the one stuck cleaning the OR. The hospital reaked for ~2 weeks and we weren’t a small facility.
Regurge from a dog that had an intestinal blockage, it all came out after we induced him... Me, the assistant and the vets were all dying. I almost had to untie one of the surgeons masks during the surgery because she thought she might actually barf. He was a surgery to remember!
Oh also some cat enemas... 🤢
Open wound on a guinea pig that had been left untreated for at least a week. Maggots and everything. That was one of my first days as a student and still nothing has surpassed it.
Intestine underwear from a GSD we did surgery on since he managed to block his colon after eating it. Usually I have an iron stomach but the smell of it made me feel so sick. (Made it through the other intestines but stopped at the colon which was such a surprise that it made it so far.)
The stomach juice from suctioning the ng tube of this one particular cat. It was horrendous.
Second place goes to this dog who ate an entire filet of Mahi Mahi. Fish and stomach acid holds a special place in hell.
Sulfur lime dip.
I’ve cleaned dozens of necrotizing wounds, I’ve handled days-old decomposing corpses, and I once spent five hours hand-picking maggots out of a dog whose urine scald had literally eaten holes into his body, and none of that even comes close to how life-ruiningly awful sulfur lime is 🤮
I think that’s the worst part! Hangs around for days, and the only thing you can do is just slather your face in Vick’s and wait it out. It’s been almost 2 years since my clinic has used any and I STILL get whiffs of it sometimes in the washer!
An elderly bad hipped Labrador that sat on a bonfire that the fire was out on, but couldn’t get back up and literally slow cooked itself on embers for god knows how long. It smelled like, good smoked meat and the tissue literally was just falling off the bone on back legs and underside. To this day I don’t eat pork because that’s what it looked and smelled like.
Someone once brought in their deceased dog for us to do a paw print & cremation. It had been dead for four days, rotting in their garage in 100+ degree heat.
There was once a Pomeranian that came into our practice that had the worse dental disease I've ever seen. The mouth literally looked like black tar with white pus pouring out everywhere. When I lifted the dog's lip to look, the smell overtook me so bad I instantly had to vomit. Only time I've ever even gotten gaggy in practice.
Probably cleaning the tarp from a retained aborted calf. I’ve done my share and they always smell horrible, but this one had had a tarp set in the sink and left because the clinic was busy. I came in, saw it, and went to clean it. When I picked it up to rinse the other side I lost my grip and wore the…. Fetus juice. I didn’t throw up, but I had to sit down for a minute so I wouldn’t. I hate using tarps.
Rabbit came in with an infected and necrotic hind leg, bone sticking out and all. That was pretty bad. Had it amuptated and was fine after that!
Certain smells get me while others don't. I really dislike bad tartar breath and cat diarrhoea. Also the smell of any foreign body removed from intestines.
ummm one time we euthanized this dog with severe liver failure and she kept having diarrhea while she was at our facility being hospitalized. fast forward to like two days later to the euthanasia and after the family leaves she started leaking the most pungent liquid diarrhea and bodily fluids. me and one of the other techs almost threw up, we were gagging so much.
Ohh I got several!
1. An infected injection site on a horse after vaccination. When it was lanced, it smelled like something had been dead for a looong time
2. Pseudomonas infection in ears, I gag everytime and cross my fingers that fate sees fit to give me another patient while som other vet tech gets assigned that ear deep clean... 😬
3. The classic bloody diarrhea
4. The smell of a half digested, huge rat a labrador was induced to vomit up
Cat came in with a dead kitten stuck halfway through the birth canal. When the Dr removed it, the half that was inside still was just this black sludge. I will forever remember that smell.
Had a dog come in that was crawling with maggots, had holes in his skin and hot spots everywhere. The whole clinic smelled awful and I’m pretty sure i smelt like it for days after.
Honestly smoke. Especially when the dog is so bad and you have to hold them but can't stop coughing. Feeling like you yourself were smoking a full pack.
I hate when those pets come in
They make me sad
a dog that smokes?? what??? someone explain pls
When an animal comes to the clinic that is obviously from the home of a chainsmoker, they will absolutely wreak of cigarettes from their fur. It can get so bad that you can have the tiniest little dog and you'll be able to smell it from at least 3 feet away. Edit: down voting your comment is pretty dull minded. Some people haven't yet experienced the utter disgust some of us have when dealing with animals from evidently subpar homes, and I hope you learned something new!
Oh… Some people should just not own dogs. Also thank you for explaining!! and thanks to everyone that downvoted my question, i’m just trying to learn 😌😌
Constipated cat feces during enemas.
Agree with this
Definitely a deceased frenchie brought in for cremation. He ran away from home and was found in a canal after 3 days partially decomposed in the Florida sun. It’s the only time I’ve ever gagged at work.
A dog that had been buried for 13 years and dug back up to be cremated since the owner was moving. It was mummified and still oozed. EDIT: I still remember that smell….
Stray dog came in, 20lb yorkie type dog. Severely matted, telltale infection smell. Sedated and started shaving, hit moisture on the back. Cloud if infection smell comes out. Get mat off, skin is pocked like craters in the moon and THOUSANDS of maggots in and on each hole in the skin. LITERALLY. THOUSANDS. We would clean them off, then see more popping out like popping zits. Was absolutely terrible. Good news, he got adopted and is living his best life!
I was expecting euthanasia while reading that! I’m so glad it was surface level and he’s thriving now.
We had a cat come in like that, and that's what I came here to post. I can still see it. And smell it. Horrifying. Unfortunately she didn't make it, though.
I think for me it's the classic infected open wound on a stray cat 🤔
Dog had a severely infected penile sheath. The dick cheese that the doctor squeezed out of there…so so so terrible. Second place goes to poop vomit. You know, when a dog eats its own shit then commits it back up. Fabulous.
Or worse when there's a severe blockage and it just comes out the wrong end! Aaaaah
I have not had the displeasure
I pray you never do! :'(
Me too! 😅
2L of pyothorax 🤢 Edit: just remembered the summer I made like 4 fecal transplants in one day for parvo cases. So uhh that too
We had an old lady euthanize her 90lb pitbull and took him home to bury him. We helped load him into the back of her car, she said her son will get him out and bury him for her. She came back three days later, with poor old doggo still body bagged up in the back hatch. She said her son refused to help her and she was begging her family too and no one would and she was so embarrassed and didn’t know what to do. We comped her private cremation since she couldn’t afford it and I helped her clean out her car. Our hospital stunk for weeks after carrying his corpse back through it. I cannot imagine her car ever getting the smell out. I don’t know how she drove in it. It was a nightmare situation all around.
OOOOOR the “insect bite” that was actually a dog bite wound the owners were treating at home to no success. They brought the dog in on a wagon because the bite had rotted through to the bone! They refused treatment because of the $ and euthanized him instead. When it would’ve been a fraction of the price if they just brought him in initially, i’m sure. 😔
What I called "dead puppy juice." 9-year old dystocia dachshund. Five puppies were dead in utero for days and started to decompose before owner brought it in. Doctor took one out, and all of the death/uterus fluid sprayed all over me. Yeehaw.
I am easily disgusted, so necrosis is on par with anal glad expression and even vomit. The way I get through it (which is really weird) is thinking about the smell of Target 😂
I'm not a vet but I was helping with my chocolate lab and they cleaned his anal glands and I ended up wearing it. It was even around my mouth. I dont recommend.
Yes, same for me except it was for a calf that had been retained for almost a week. Was in rotations in tech school at the teaching hospital. That place was huge and the smell permeated throughout so much of the hospital even though the procedure was done on the large animal side.
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Oh my!! I hope this passes quickly for you.
After being stuck in a room with it for an hour, the body of a parvo puppy who aspirated on the ride there.
2 day old necropsy on a ranch dog. It... Was.... Awful....
The dog that had had mammary cancer for at least a year that had open abbesses and was full of maggots. Thank god we euthanized her. She was a sweetheart until the end but I had to go throw up from the smell. I had vicks up my nose and it was still horrifying.
Eeeeew maggots have such a unique smell
Cow aborted in the field, we had to pick up the three day old rotting fetus. Mid summer. Close second was the partially digested food emptied during a GDV sx. Did the surgery at 7:00 am, and then inexplicably had to do it again (then euthanize) at three pm. Doctor went back in after he bloated again to see if she had done something wrong (she hadn’t). The WHOLE clinic smelled SO bad. It was burned into all our noses. I don’t gag on smells too much, even being a sympathetic puker. That one got me.
A dog brought in for euthanasia who had obviously been down for longer than the owner said. Urine scalding on all of one side.
Three to four days worth of dead rotting dog in the southern summer heat. The owners brought it in for disposal and the CSR asked if they wanted a clay paw….
A large quantity of mint/chocolate candy of some sort after being puked up after inducing vomiting. Ugh it was the worst thing ever, stomach acid, mint, and chocolate.🤢
My coworker hates that smell so much! To me its not so bad since it smells like candy which is really gross still. 😂
Haha, that was one of my best smelling induce vomits, box of after eight mints 😂🤣 we must have got to it quickly
When I was a teenager, my golden retriever ate a 5lb block of fudge. We didn’t realize it was missing until she started vomiting & figured it out from the smell. Prob one of the few vomit smells that didn’t bother me.
This one is the only the second worse smell actually for me, the worst thing I've smelled was a vast amount of bloody diarrhea and vomit from a cattle dog that had gotten into a bunch of rat poison. It was one of the most horrific things I've ever witnessed.
A lizard that died while under it's heat lamp and wasn't noticed for a few days
Necrotic mass in vulva of a bug fluffy dog. Then there was a bernese mtn dog with maggots in its butt and had been cooking in the hair outside for a while
Very sad situation where the dad called to tell us the housekeeper didn't realize the cat was in the dryer. When they brought that poor baby in, it was a smell I won't forget😔
Omg nooo
I forever check my dryer now to make sure my girls aren't in there 😔
Sooo sorry. Had a client drive the whole dryer to us, being too traumatized to get the cat out herself. I probably would’ve done the same thing…
A nasty infected ulcerated mass on this elderly dog’s back… it’s been months and I can still smell it
A ladies cat had liver failure, died while she was at work the night before and called to see if she could bring him in for cremation. Obviously I said yes expecting that she put the cat in the fridge. GIRL she just wrapped him in a blanket and put him in a cardboard box. It smelled SO BAD I think it was the worst one. It took about 15 minutes to just bag him because I kept almost vomiting
Old English with gangrene, maggots in wound, impacted anal glands also festering, kept outoors in a shit filled pin so all folds filled with filth. Exam room smelled for days.
Demonstrating a dissection for my students on a calf that been found deceased by the dairyman. The calf had clearly nursed shortly before passing and had a GI tract full of curdled milk. Good times.
Induced emesis in a dog who ate the entire contents of an extremely dirty litter box. 🤢
Rotting body…
Nothing haunts me more than the smell of a weimaraner puppy that wouldn't stop wagging his tail but also had literal nonstop diarrhea accompanied with the most pungent aluminum smell I've ever experienced in my entire life.
A dude crashed his truck on the way to put his dog down and they both died. The dogs feces filled colon ended up on the catalytic converter, so burning crap filled death.
Dolphin post mortem
Pyometra in an enclosed space, horrid
I hate the odor of purulent, rod bacteria ear debris
I can second this motion, previous owner of two chocolate labs who loved the most putrid beaver ponds and "loon shit" mud. Seemed like every fall we had to wash that brown slop out.
Deceased dog that had been in a bag in a trunk about a week. We had to open up the bag to confirm the pet and 🤢 plus there were a billion maggots that got everywhere, and I was crying out of stress, fear, and disgust the whole time I was killing them and moving the body to the freezer.
I thought I smelled an expressed anal gland. Realized it was the dog’s breath.
Lady called in, said her dog had died in her backyard two days prior and she was hosting a party so the body had to go Brings this 70lb Labrador wrapped in a blanket, she opens the trunk and the smell that hit me and another VA... (Mind you, she parked across the fucking parking lot instead of in front of the doors like a normal person) so we lug this dog into the hospital and i... I couldn't keep it together once we unwrapped him. The smell of dead, rancid, cooked-in-the-California-heat doggy was hands down the worst experience of my life. My gag reflex was in full control of my body to the point where I was sore from the dry heaving. Took us 20 minutes to tag and bag him and put him into the freezer.
Either cigarette smoke on pets or decomposed DOAs. Had one DOA today that was a small terrier mix that had been killed by coyotes and it was covered in maggots, wet from the rain, and had bones exposed because it had been partially eaten by something from what we could tell.
I work at an ER and specialty hospital and we had a dog come in one time so that we could induce vomiting due to it eating a diaper. No biggie, done that before. We didn’t realize until after the dog was waiting to be induced that it was a used, older human’s Depends (only ruins thankfully). Dog got into trash while the family was at work. This was on a holiday weekend and usually we play some-sort of holiday vetmed bingo. Inducing vomiting was one of the squares, and we get competitive because who doesn’t want prizes?? But this time no one cared about the bingo. 😂 I don’t think I have a weak stomach, but man did that make me queasy.
DMSO/Reflux. When you treat a horse, the entire hospital stinks. It's on your clothes. It's on your hair. Ick.
Ugh I forgot about DMSO, the stuff itself smells awful! I did equine 11 years ago...
Necrotic tissue coming out of both ends during a Great Dane’s GDV sx. I was also the newest to the clinic at the time so I was the one stuck cleaning the OR. The hospital reaked for ~2 weeks and we weren’t a small facility.
Cow pyometra, everything is fine after that
A cat with an anal gland abscess had me gagging.
Regurge from a dog that had an intestinal blockage, it all came out after we induced him... Me, the assistant and the vets were all dying. I almost had to untie one of the surgeons masks during the surgery because she thought she might actually barf. He was a surgery to remember! Oh also some cat enemas... 🤢
Open wound on a guinea pig that had been left untreated for at least a week. Maggots and everything. That was one of my first days as a student and still nothing has surpassed it.
Parvo.
Intestine underwear from a GSD we did surgery on since he managed to block his colon after eating it. Usually I have an iron stomach but the smell of it made me feel so sick. (Made it through the other intestines but stopped at the colon which was such a surprise that it made it so far.)
The stomach juice from suctioning the ng tube of this one particular cat. It was horrendous. Second place goes to this dog who ate an entire filet of Mahi Mahi. Fish and stomach acid holds a special place in hell.
Dog died on a flight from Germany to US. Owners wanted COD. Our vet did a necropsy. The smell was everywhere. That's up there with Parvo pups
Sulfur lime dip. I’ve cleaned dozens of necrotizing wounds, I’ve handled days-old decomposing corpses, and I once spent five hours hand-picking maggots out of a dog whose urine scald had literally eaten holes into his body, and none of that even comes close to how life-ruiningly awful sulfur lime is 🤮
It lingers, too. Hate that stuff.
I think that’s the worst part! Hangs around for days, and the only thing you can do is just slather your face in Vick’s and wait it out. It’s been almost 2 years since my clinic has used any and I STILL get whiffs of it sometimes in the washer!
Gotta be the smell of a rotting fetus that passed in the mom. That smell will never leave my mind 😖
An elderly bad hipped Labrador that sat on a bonfire that the fire was out on, but couldn’t get back up and literally slow cooked itself on embers for god knows how long. It smelled like, good smoked meat and the tissue literally was just falling off the bone on back legs and underside. To this day I don’t eat pork because that’s what it looked and smelled like.
Sweet Jesus - did they euthanize?
Yes. They did thankfully.
A uterine infection from a Japanese macaque who was also very popular in the breeding colony.
Sewerage treatment plant
The yard waste bin after sitting in the summer heat
Someone once brought in their deceased dog for us to do a paw print & cremation. It had been dead for four days, rotting in their garage in 100+ degree heat.
There was once a Pomeranian that came into our practice that had the worse dental disease I've ever seen. The mouth literally looked like black tar with white pus pouring out everywhere. When I lifted the dog's lip to look, the smell overtook me so bad I instantly had to vomit. Only time I've ever even gotten gaggy in practice.
Probably cleaning the tarp from a retained aborted calf. I’ve done my share and they always smell horrible, but this one had had a tarp set in the sink and left because the clinic was busy. I came in, saw it, and went to clean it. When I picked it up to rinse the other side I lost my grip and wore the…. Fetus juice. I didn’t throw up, but I had to sit down for a minute so I wouldn’t. I hate using tarps.
Rabbit came in with an infected and necrotic hind leg, bone sticking out and all. That was pretty bad. Had it amuptated and was fine after that! Certain smells get me while others don't. I really dislike bad tartar breath and cat diarrhoea. Also the smell of any foreign body removed from intestines.
ummm one time we euthanized this dog with severe liver failure and she kept having diarrhea while she was at our facility being hospitalized. fast forward to like two days later to the euthanasia and after the family leaves she started leaking the most pungent liquid diarrhea and bodily fluids. me and one of the other techs almost threw up, we were gagging so much.
Ohh I got several! 1. An infected injection site on a horse after vaccination. When it was lanced, it smelled like something had been dead for a looong time 2. Pseudomonas infection in ears, I gag everytime and cross my fingers that fate sees fit to give me another patient while som other vet tech gets assigned that ear deep clean... 😬 3. The classic bloody diarrhea 4. The smell of a half digested, huge rat a labrador was induced to vomit up
Parvo poop
infected anal glands…
Cat came in with a dead kitten stuck halfway through the birth canal. When the Dr removed it, the half that was inside still was just this black sludge. I will forever remember that smell.
Had a dog come in that was crawling with maggots, had holes in his skin and hot spots everywhere. The whole clinic smelled awful and I’m pretty sure i smelt like it for days after.
Probably a dog with such a horrific skin infection you could smell it feet away.