Have you ever been in a home that smelled really foul?

[bleedingheart]

I visited one of my neighbors, (our kids were visiting with each other) and I was appalled at how bad their house smelled.

It was so bad it left a stench mark on my kid's clothes. I had to wash them when we got home and I made him take a bath..

The smell was of rotten dog feces...and it permeated the entire house. The house looks clean but the smell is overpowering. I can't believe that anyone can live with that smell. I love animals but I don't understand why people would keep pets when they can't clean up after them.

My son's asthma was affected by it...if I had known about this before he went over to play I would have not let him go there..

[madison2000]

1. Yes. I know someone whose roommate is slighly mentally ill

and she let her 2 noisy little dogs soil every rug and piece of furniture in the house. Add to that litter boxes for 4 cats that aren't changed often enough. Add to that smoking, and the smell of the house stays on your clothes after you leave. I couldn't stand to be in there for more than 10 minutes or I would get a headache.

[bleedingheart]

4. I wanted to vomit after I left that house...

[Midlodemocrat]

2. You aren't talking about my house, are you?

Because that is why I always have candles going.

[bleedingheart]

6. This wasn't normal doggie or kittie odor

this was stench....candles would not mask this...

Ripping out the carpet might be a start...

[TNDemo]

21. Hopefully there is not a body buried under the floor.

Just something to think about in the wee hours... :)

[ChickMagic]

3. Yuck!

I heard a story about air fresheners. The way they work is they numb your sense of smell. That freaked me out! Maybe she had sprayed and couldn't smell the dog crap.

[the Princess]

5. I asked you not to talk about my housekeeping skills

You promised you wouldn't

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Worst place i've ever been in...

woman I know had to move some stuff, but I wasn't warned her mother had 100 or so cats in the house. No litter boxes, of course, just lumps of cat diarrhea all over the floor.

I lasted a few minutes, and then ran out to the van and puked. Had to keep the windows open because the furniture stunk of cat pee and spray.

For years she kept collecting strays until the neighbors complained about the stench, and then the health dept. showed up for its semi-annual cleanout of the cats.

[bleedingheart]

8. there is a house like that down the street from my mom...

it is being gutted.. The old lady that lived there was put in a home and her cats were taken to shelters and some were destroyed because they were too far gone...

[TreasonousBastard]

10. That bothers me more than anything else...

it's bad enough so many cats and dogs get destroyed, but these "animal lovers" keep them in such dreadful conditions that they are usually sick, and end up destroyed anyway.

These people have severe problems, but they are affecting the health of the animals, and possibly even the neighbors.

[bleedingheart]

12. I think that it is good that these people are finally being diagnosed

with a mental illness. Basically it is a hoarding complex that compells them to collect pets like some people collect glassware...

Sadly the woman in the case above had two kids who ignored this problem until the authorities got involved and then they were pissed that they had their pictures in the paper..

[madison2000]

14. Well theres a distinction between a house you can still walk thru

and a house that is so filled with garbage that you can hardly move. I had a neighbor like that. I had known her for years but never been inside her apartment. She asked me to look after her dog while she went out of town for a few days. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Full of garbage- old dead plants, old newspapers, old dishes, piles of clothes - there was a path from the back door to the couch and that was the only passable place in the apartment. Layer upon layer of depression...

I can't even describe the smell. She was a lovely woman and I just never expected her place to be like that. I kept her dog at my place till she came back so I wouldn't have to go back in there.

[bleedingheart]

16. I have been in a house like that...but it was just clutter but no stink

the couple that lives there doesn't throw anything away...absolutely nothing is thrown away... but they do clean what surfaces aren't covered in stuff.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. That sounds like my place...

I do try to keep it clean, but I've got a woodshop, photo lab, office, electronics lab, and a few other things in a one-bedroom apartment.

I try to keep up with the trash, though.

[MissMillie]

9. Yes, and ferrets were usually involved

ick.

[datasuspect]

11. i'm sitting in one

anyone know where i can get a deal on a vat and some lye or sulphuric acid?

[medeak]

13. Dead cat under bed was found

after making home visits to adorable little old lady.

Finally found source of horrible smell after moving her into nursing home.

Never have been overcome by odor like that before.

[radwriter0555]

15. Isn't that CRAZY? What is it with people and hygiene and general

sanitation and the LACK THEREOF???

Or worse, wealthy people, and I mean million dollar house, fancy private school and head of nuerosurgery at a MAJOR US hospital, and a dirty house, dirty dishes and no maid?

Last time I had dinner with these people, the dishes we ate off of were CRUNCHY. Glasses were filthy.

Of course, they are closet republicans who work hard to hide their right wing leanings because our shared school is VERY liberal.

I don't GET it. I have a housekeeper and make in a year what they make in a WEEK.

Unbelievable.

Even though my mother was indeed psychotic, she kept a clean house, which I now deeply, deeply appreciate. Even my daughter has a strong sense of order and clean. I NEVER have to harangue her for weeks to clean her room or any such nonsense. And we're NOT clean freaks. We just like things CLEAN. It can be messy as all get out... but it must be CLEAN.

oy. end of rant.

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. sigh

i try not to be judgmental but that is just gross

I just melted a plastic spatula

Talk about STINKY

[cmf]

19. Ew.

we have some acquaintances whose house we just avoid going to. We got suckered into helping them move out of their last apartment, holy hell, the stench was bad. The cat litter box was in one of the bedrooms and the cats had a problem with missing the box when they peed. I think that when they entertained, the kept the door shut so that the smell wouldn't get out, but when we helped them move, we were hit with it full force. Now, in their new house, they have managed to get two more dogs, so now the sum total of pets is 5. Even though the place is bigger, the smell is worse. Their house reeks. Did I mention that they are renters? If I was their landlord, I'd be livid. Of course, I'd probably never rent to them in the first place.

[CanuckAmok]

20. dear god, yes!

We filmed in a house last summer...it was a nice place in an expensive area.

But it had a den at the end of the hall, and the people who loved there allowed their small dogs to pee in the den unpunished. On the carpet, on the sofa, on the plants...wherever. The air was acrid with the smell of dog piss, and the carpet was so saturated that when I had to kneel on it for a moment, i had damp patches on the knees of my pants.

It was absolutely disgusting.

[radwriter0555]

22. What in HELL is wrong with people? Who raised them, and why are they SO

insane as to allow such filth and foul conditions in and around themselves? What's WRONG with them?

[Midlodemocrat]

23. Seriously, I did know someone who had a foul smelling

house. Very heavy smokers and all kinds of pets. It just reeked. Thankfully, they moved, but the poor new owners had to rip out all the carpets and flooring and repaint the entire place. It was simply disgusting.

This woman's daughter came over to swim in our pool one day and when I stepped outside the stench from the towel the kid had was unbelievably overpowering. It was an awful experience. Now they live in an apartment, so hopefully, it won't get that bad. Yuck.

[Speck Tater]

24. Mine, once...

I opened the door to let the dog in and he ran past me before I caught a whiff of him. He had tangled with a skunk, gotten sprayed, and spread that smell all through the house before I could grab him and shove him back out the door. It took days of airing the place out to get rid of the smell.

[bleedingheart]

26. the smell of skunk would have been pleasant in comparison

[Maine-ah]

25. yep. when my husband and I were house hunting a few years ago

I can't even believe 1. how much they were asking for the place and 2. that the realitor bothered to show it to us. the back hall had trash up to the ceiling, and I have no idea how many cats this woman had, but we reeked like cat piss after we left that place. ICK!!! too bad 'cause it was a really nice house (with a little work) all hard wood floors, beautiful woodstove, but there is no way you would be able to get that smell out of that house.