We had a stinky odor in the utility room where I had a caribou cape drying under a fan. It held lots of water after I spun it in the washer and Liqua tanned it. The customer just wanted the cape tanned to keep as an extra. We thought it was putting out an awful stench with the fan filling the house with stank for two days. Today I put the cape away and started to clean the room up. Well next to the freezer under a pile of shoes and boots, I found a plastic bag with a familiar identification tag. Here on the floor sat a thawed raw deer cape that someone took out of the freezer, who knows when, to get to some food items berried in the bottom. A competition cape, the only one I took in this year that I had plans to use on a form I have. Quickly I thought that it might be a good candidate for a Stop Rot test. I took the bag outside, opened it up and gagged. As I rolled it open onto the snow, the hair blew away off the slimy skin. I was livid. Moreover, of course nobody knew who left it out. Oh well,,, I love my wife,,, I love, my wife,,, I LOVE my WiFE!
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I think we have all done that at one time or another.I know I have on my own work, thank god.
Sorry about the cape. Can you trade the wife in for a new cape? I am sure someone would go even up on that one! LOL!
From the get go my wife insisted on seperate freezers; no way was she putting her food in there with "dead animals"!
All that means is I never had anyone but myself to blame when that happened; I hate that!
I did the same thing with a boar cape a few years ago . I found it in a bag on the basement floor about 4 days after I took it out looking for something else . I fleshed and salted it and shiped it to a tanner . It still held up and was in great shape . Not a hair missing . Rick
I did that to a customer's order of skulls. Cleaned out the freezer and put them aside and then forgot about them. Luckily the customer was using the maceration method to clean skulls; I jump started their order by 3 weeks. Should have charged the full cleaned skulls price, live and learn! Getting the order in the shipping container was a heck of a task.
I also did this with a headless, skinned raccoon carcass. Discovered it sitting out a week later... luckily it was triple-bagged. Hauled a** outside with that one. Yuck!
Im w/ Mike D on this one. Ifin that wife lets you share freezer space... Shes a keeper. I have two freezers for myself and the wife has a brand new one for foodstuff. Wish I had a way off the grid. hehehe
You can always get a replacement wife ! LOL I did it with a bob cat, and if I wasn't the only one who goes into my freezer I would have blamed also. I don't remember doing it. So, don't throw her out !