Vulture vomit+dead skunk+maggots=worst mess ever

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Vulture vomit+dead skunk+maggots=worst mess ever
What is the worst thing you have had to clean up???

I am a vet in a rural area. One day a lady brings this big a$$ vulture in the clinic and said it was hit by a car. The vulture was pretty stable but very scared, I did not know that they defend themselves by regurgitating their food. Apparently this vulture had been chowing down on a roadkill skunk that was infested with some fish bait sized maggots.

After a couple minutes this vulture hurls all this dead skunk, maggots and who knows what breakfast was all over the floor--the staff clears the building like a bunch of roaches when the lights go on and I'm standing there holding this big bird while it tries to get away. Well, I make my way outside to let the critter go and it flies off seemingly OK. I go back in to clean the mess and make a new rule-- all vultures will be treated outside from now on--no exceptions. That is the only vulture I have ever seen as a patient and hope I don't see any more.

What is worst thing you ever cleaned up???

That dirty jobs dude gets some dandy side jobs, if I ever need blood, I want his!!!! He has been exposed to more stuff.

Keep on stinking- BLATT

 

[repete34]

You Win!

 

[Shadowrider]

I would have to agree with the implementation of his new rule if I worked there.

 

[rlongnt]

Other than CS Gas, the inside of a vulture is without any doubt the worst smell I have ever come across. And yes you win!

 

[itzkwik]

Yep,that one takes the cake.

 

[jbarnett]

Not sure anything can top that.

 

[VitruvianDoc]

Sure that smells bad, but not as bad as a festering 1 month old corpse that has to have whatever autopsy done on it that is possible.

Picking up intestines and having them dissolve in your hand... yeah

 

[rlongnt]

That sounds horrible. I have smelled all stages of decomposition of a horse albeit not in my damn hands for sure though; but seriously you simply have to smell the sharp sting of Turkey Vulture bile/acid to understand. Nothing I have ever smelled triggered vomit as fast.

I am however thinking I should stop complaining about my job so much.

 

[Scapegoat]

I once dissected a road runner for school ...that was really gross with the lizards and stuff in it ....cant imagine a road kill skunk inside vulture would sell like

 

[HMFIC]

I'll have mine on some toast with a nice merlot pairing please.