Dealing with gross stuff ?

Question

Weird question but here we go...

What have you had to do that was especially nasty -

Like I had to take a several day old afterbirth off my bosses dogs after they dug it out of the midden and dragged it round the stableyard.

Answer 1

There is nothing that could remotely come close in my animals that is as gross as what I have to deal with on human bodies in my job.

Nothing......

Now if you want to talk about gross, I can make you barf but will refrain lol.  

Good question btw, I just dont have an animal answer tho lol.

OK OK OK... i just thought of one.

It was this spring and my dog goes with me to the barn.  She hopped into my truck and promptly hurled chunks on my center console.  It was a mixture of mule p**p and who knows what else, and it was all laying there on my console.  I couldn't get out fast enough and I was barfing as I was climbing the truck door to get out.  Then the realization hit that we are at the barn and nothing there to clean it up.  So after saying some not so nice words to the dog and realizing that I had to put the big girl panties on to tackle that.... I used my sons shirt LOL.  

Shhh... he doesn't know it, washed out fine :)

Answer 2

No gross stuff I've handled - but gross stuff I can't handle.

I can never pick up a dead animal, mouse anything...

I had to wait for someone else to pick up our dead rabbit...

...In the middle of the night I woke up my daughter to pick up and throw out a dead mouse that the cat had killed in the living room.  My poor daughter, I'm just a wreck with anything dead!!!! Pathetic

Answer 3

Use a medium to handle it, a broom or something but not with hands...nope, that would be nasty. And don't forget to hold your breath...

Answer 4

Holding my cat while the vet lanced an abscess in his thigh - the swelling wasn't very big but the vet pushed from the other side and the pus hit the ceiling. The cat was screaming there was pus squirting everywhere and the smell was revolting. I don't know if I was closer to passing out or hurling but I had to keep hold of that cat.

i also had a dog who ate gravel and had to have an e***a at the vets -eewww that was nasty.

Answer 5

I work at an aquarium, and it is a daily job to have to clean up after the penguins. Now that sounds fun but they STINK. they go to the bathroom approx every 15 mins and we have 14 penguins. Cleaning out there boxes is also quite gross and honestly you usually end up with p**p on you (its worth it to be close to a penguin) also the seals water gets quite gross and its always fun to be cleaning the bird exhibit and have them p**p on you.

Answer 6

I have had to handle dead animals, like a goat we had died and smelled and had its mouth open and eyes open and flies were in them and junk ewwww!!!!

Answer 7

My buddy paid me 5 bucks to eat a horse p**p milkshake... And I did it. haha

Oh redial, you're such a funny girl.

EDIT:: Thumbs down huh??? haha, for what?! doing something gross...I thought that's what this question was about.. gross sh*t. LAME.

Answer 8

well let's see, I do animal rescue so there's a lot of gross stuff to deal with. inspecting p**p for worms, helping with birthing and cleaning up after birth, dealing with injured or dead animals, cleaning up hairballs and vomit, diarrhea, blood, pus, body parts. I also used to work in a nursing home and as an in-home hospice care worker so I dealt with horrendous people afflictions as well, wet gangrene, mouth cancer that had eaten through the person's face, breast cancer that had erupted through the skin. I was "nominated" to be the one to wash the dead bodies before the coroner and family came as it didn't bother me. I also go fishing and clean fish, I also  learned how to dress out rabbits and deer. The part that bothers me is the pain the animal may be in, if their death was super quick or painless then I am not bothered. I am very upset in cases of abuse but that has less to do with physical gross stuff and more to do with the torment of the animal or person.

I deal with gross stuff all of the time, you just clean up everything and wash really well and get on with it *LOL* I do have to admit though that maggots really turn my stomach, no matter what else I have to deal with.. maggots make me want to wretch.

Answer 9

I volunteer at a wildlife center and it SOO fun during the summer when all the bugs are out laying eggs in the half eaten food! (not really)

One of the worst things I've done was pick up a half eaten Guinea Pig (with gloved hands thankfully) that was filled with maggots...YUCKK! It doesn't help that maggots are the only bug that really creep me out, ever since I saw Ghost Ship *shudder*. Haha lot of fun, and gross stories on here.

Answer 10

Oh yay! This is a fun question.

Well, this isn't something I've done, but it's the one thing that sticks out to me when you ask about gross stuff.

I had neighbors who ran an 'animal rehabilitation' center. I was visiting, for whatever reason, I can't remember now... and one of the young men who worked there came running up with a peacock. When he got closer I noticed that it was maimed and torn up. I suppose a raccoon had gotten him. I guess they wanted to attempt to put it out of it's misery so they grabbed a machete and tried to chop his head off.

Blood splattered everywhere, including all over me.. *shudders* The bird was still alive after the first blow so they continued chopping at it... It was absolutely disgusting to watch, because it was so d**n messy. Blood and peacock insides were scattered everywhere.

I wouldn't say i have a weak stomach for those things, but I almost hurled after that. That was not only gross but sad.

**Edit**

Aww Tammy C.... That story almost had me in tears.... That's terrible.

Answer 11

Well this is a fun question.

I have many hurl - worthy stories from when I worked as a humane investigator.

One of the worst was a farm that was reported to us for abuse and neglect of their horses.

Someone had said there were starving and dead horses laying out in the fields and in the barns.

Upon our arrival, (brace yourselves).

The owner had tried to cover up the extent of the mess by taking a chain saw and cutting up the dead horses and tossing the body parts into the woods and hedgerows in hopes that the scavengers would dispose of them.

Lucky me....I had to collect evidence.

I returned with the head and neck of a foal. Several legs and hooves. Chunks of horseflesh that I couldn't even identify with my Animal Sciences background, all squirming with maggots.

I have done many disgusting things in my life for animal welfare, but this was one of the worst and personally upsetting ones because of my love of horses.

Another story is when we busted a pit fighting ring.

We raided a remote farm that we got a tip on. They had an old stone barn with heavy  iron rings embedded into the walls every few feet. Attached to short chains where the dogs that could only stand and lay down in filthy straw full of f***s. Absolute filth. All these dogs only had half of their noses. The keeper of the dogs would take a can of dog food, open it partway leaving the lid intact and tossed 1 can at each dog. The dog had to force its muzzle into the can to get the food out. These dogs were half starved and out of their minds.

Terribly scarred and beyond rehabilitation. Some stories just don't have happy endings.

Answer 12

There was a stray cat in my brother's neighborhood,and some people were feeding it.Well,one day it showed up on my brother's porch,crying,and it smelled horrible,so he called me right away.The cat had been attacked by a dog ( we think) and it's hindquarters were ripped to shreds and full of maggots,which were eating it alive,and it was septic,so the smell was unreal.I brought the cat home and picked some of the maggots off and gave it antibiotics,then we were taking it to the vet and it died just as we were putting it in the car. It was the most horrible thing.The really bad part was that the people who had been feeding it knew that it was hurt but did nothing,and denied that they even knew the cat.The poor thing,I can still hear it meowing in pain.I have it's ashes still,in a little cat-shaped tin. It was so sad that it suffered so terribly when someone could have helped it had they taken it to a vet right away.

Answer 13

tHAT IS extremly GROSS!

Answer 14

First I gave you a star, this is a good one

second, why all the thumbs down, troll time I guess.

the worse thing I have even seen and had to help with, was in college, we had a girl that was very depressed and she first stabbed herself in the stomach, because she was pregnant, and then she hung herself....

when we found her, no one would remove the knife, and when the paramedics got there, she was already gone, and they did not want to pull the knife out either, our Dean of Women, got hold of it with a rag, then said no I cannot not, the police said since the rag was on the handle there would be no prints from us, so I was elected to do it...

I did it, ran to my room and cried for hours......I have never gotten over that........

I think that is the worse thing in the world for anyone to do, but she had been so sad, and had been to counseling, bless her heart.........

and it was ruled suicide...they first thought the ankle of the knife was in wrong to be suicide, and then determined it was, her and the baby did not survive....

worse day of my entire life...

Answer 15

When I worked as a vet tech, we had to perform a necropsy on a donkey that had been dead for three days laying in the August heat....

Even the vick's vapor rub under the nose didn't stop the vet & I from having to walk away more than once to see what we had had for lunch.

It was not pretty.

**EDIT**

I hear ya Liz.  Maggots instantly give me the dry heaves or I'll even puke.  I hate them!!!

**EDIT**

Hey Kevin, we had a gelding do the exact same thing when I was a kid.  He healed up also, but it took a really long time & ours didn't go through that far.

Answer 16

YUCK DEBI!

um i had to squeeze my dogs clogged anal glands and i couldn't find gloves........oh i feel like throwing up

finding a 5 month old slipped foal in the paddock...sad and gross

Answer 17

STICK MY HAND UP A MARES BUTT TO HELP HER FOAL... I WAS NEARLY SICK.

"OH AND CHANGE MY BABY COUSINS NAPPY LOL!"

Answer 18

This didn't happen to me, but there was a pig that got a wound on its back, and some flys got into it and layed eggs, then they hatched into maggots. the owner had to use a spoon to scrap out the maggots out of the pigs back

EEEWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Answer 19

I haven't had to deal with TOO much gross stuff. Some of the answers on here really made me shudder though!

Once my friend's horse got a rusty s***w [not nail] in his hoof... I was the one that found it.

My horse is accident prone. He likes to get puncture wounds when he is turned out. Keeping them clean isn't always fun.

Once there was blood running down my horse's leg and I couldn't tell where it was coming from. It was really hurting him too because he's usually laid back and NEVER threatens to kick me but he was jumping all over the place. So I had to keep feeling his leg, trying to find the wound. By the time I found it I had blood smeared all over my hands and arms and clothes.

Ooh, and one of the old greys at my barn has tumors in his butt which can cause him to become constapated. Yeah. The vet has to occaisonally come out and stick the hose up his butt. I'm not squeamish, but watching that makes me feel like retching.....

Answer 20

I've had to pick maggots out of a horse that had a neglected wound.  It doesn't sound that terrible, but when it is quite, you can actually hear the maggots eating away at the inside of the wound.

Answer 21

Scrape a dead mouse off a rug... it had sort of disintegrated and rotted into the fabric...

I have also had to scrape a dead mouse off some spilt stockholm tar...

And of course the usual dealing with sick and diahorrea of pets and children....

Answer 22

eww that is gross...

hmm... its not really related to horses but my ducks kill mice and rats and carry them around all day... and guess who has to get them out of their mouths!!? They also do this with frogs... after a few days of not realizing they have been playing with them they are kinda really gross!

Or even better cleaning out their cages on a warm muggy day after they mixed the food water and bedding+p**p together and make a home for all of the flies! What a great smell.. not.

Edit: Looks like we got hit with a troll...

Christy: Really a rabbit hutch? I don't know how that can be really gross... rabbit p**p isn't that bad.

Answer 23

You know what I do for a living, and so I don't want to scare everybody away from the beef, pork, and dairy industry I better not answer this one in too much detail!

So I'll just say anything to do with maggots grosses me out.

Redial, I didn't do the thumbs down either!  Maybe we should give each other a thumbs down?  haha  na, my thumb don't go that way too much

Thank you very much, troll.  Now I don't feel left out!  (I know it wasn't you, redial)

Answer 24

Sheath cleaning. Blech!

Also, my dog LOVES to bring me dead things-raccoons, fish, rabbits...dead for weeks, freshly dead, just bones...anything disgusting and rotting he loves. And I always have to fish it out of his mouth and throw it away, ohhh SO not fun.

I work at a dog-daycare and I could tell you some REALLY sickening dog-poo stories. I'll spare you that grossness though =]

Answer 25

Growing up on a farm and always having animals I've dealt with some pretty gross stuff but it has to done and I've never been one pass it off on someone else. Heck being the youngest of 6 kids I used to be the one everyone else DID pass it off too :-/

I've had to deal with some gross things but several stick out in my mind. Once at a barn I worked at saw a horse get stuck in a fence and cut the artery in the rear of it's pastern. Blood was shooting out  with every heartbeat. Had to get in there fast and try to clamp down on the artery before it bled out. Vet was on the way but I had to try to control the bleeding until he arrived. Horse was of course paniced so refused to stand still, pulling my hand off. Before it was over I was pretty much covered in blood. Soaked my hair my face ect. Even got it in my mouth. Looking back that was a pretty gross day, of course at the time I wasn't thinking about it but you should have seen the look on my Mom's face when I went home to clean up. Guess I should have called and warned her first that it wasn't my blood!

I think the grossest was a foal I had to treat once that had maggots in an eye wound -- not one of ours a rescue. Didn't save they eye but the foal did survive. Vet said the maggots might have actually helped since they eat only the dead tissue. Can't help that, those things had to go as soon as it arrived. Just could not stand the thought of those nasty things crawling around in that poor babies head!

Answer 26

I'm an RN so I have to choose between hundreds of things.  Severe gangrene is probably the worst because of the stench, but I've seen cancers that went untreated and created fistulae (tubelike passages) between intestines, bladder, liver, etc. that are infected and draining, and no amount of morphine would touch it (they do it better these days with continuous drip IV morphine) and in the old hospitals some of the rooms were not air conditioned, so the heat combined with the rest was pretty gross.  What I had to do was clean up the draining wounds and provide care to the best of my ability.

Answer 27

not me, or horses, but my trainer who also works as a vet tech was talking about a dog who had maggots in a wound in his bum, and she had to clean it out and what not-i hear about this during my lesson of course!

shes got some really great/gross stories from vet teching.

Answer 28

:::Laughing:::  Yeah, dealing with placienta is ALWAYS fun!  NOT!  I had to pick Babe's out of the stall and then move it to a bucket because barn owner didn't want to touch it.  Sheesh.

Okay, Mulereiner with her tale reminded me of a horse incident, in Arcadia, CA, back in 1976 and I think although I've seen LOTS of wounds, doctored on most of them wither they were my horse's or not.  I think the GROSSEST thing I've ever had to deal with were a bunch of flooded 12' X 24' box stalls, which of course had dirty shavings, urine and manure all floating about and having to just jump right in, chase the frightened wet horse, catch it up and move it to a drier stall.  I did this for about 20 head and smelled rather rank by the time I finished.  Al the time the ranch owner looked on...

Answer 29

one really gross thing dealing with horses is cleaning the stuff, i think its called "smagma" buildup off of a geldings weiner.

and once one of my horses had a really bad sore on his neck and it festered into this softball sized puss-pocket, so I got a knife and lanced it and had to squeeze all the puss out and then pack it with strerile gauze.  it stank and it looked nasty!!!

Answer 30

one time i had to wrestle something out of my trainer's dog's mouth (she told me to)......

i didnt know what it was......

i got it out of his mouth and then my trainer told me that her dog had just been neutered......

yes they were his balls..... the trainer had buried them and the dog had dug them up like a day later......

GROSS!!!

Answer 31

We had a stud horse that got in a fight with another stud, and got a tee post shoved into his chest and out through his whithers. Well he healed up well. But the gross part was this happened when I was younger, and my hands here the only ones small enough hands to reach into the wound. So I had to wash out the wound by reaching my hand up into his chest and working my way back. All the iodine and scarlett oil and puss running down my arm. Yeah pretty gross.

Good news, he healed up find and was great after that. Infact you had to be told where the tee post went through his chest. Lucky for us and him. Gross for me.

I've had to deal with some pretty gross stuff, but for some reason that one tops it all. Mostly because it happened when I was 7, so it kinda stuck with me.

Edit- Hey trolls! Get the h**l out of here.