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And I'm talking from a recent experience. We were smelling that dead smell in our backyard. It was coming from a storage area we have which is semi-enclosed. Not clear as to where the smell was coming from but looking in from the open end nothing could be seen. Not sure if it might be just a small animal or a larger one I still had to do something to solve the issue.

The area needed a good clean out anyway as things were just stacking up there and all real access was gone. So at 12:30 I started in, at 5:15 I came in for a shower and to wash my clothes. There was a large opossum dead, not playing deal but for real dead as in maggots and all and quite the smell. After cleaning up a path to it the real fun started. At least most of it was intact.........

Now it has been quadruple bagged for a few days waiting for Thursday when our garbage gets picked up. It looks like it had made a nest back in there with dry vegetation and plastic bags???? Anyway one bag of dead opossum and two bags of smelly material. Still working on getting all of this stuff out of the yard so we can enjoy our flowers again.

So this one appeared to be larger then the ones in my videos but after blotting maybe it was that one????? No idea why it died and no idea how long it had been trying to live there. Now working on how I can block that area off so nothing else decides to go there to die. We have had some critters die under our shed before I places 16 x 16 blocks all around so nothing bigger then a chipmunk can get under it. Can't do that here.

While it is fun most of the time there are those other time.

Ed

That reminds me of the time that I found a big old dead skunk in our front woods, maybe 75 feet from our front door. It was still fresh, with no marks on it except for a drop of blood on one nostril. No major smell yet, and it looked like a natural cause of death to me.

After pondering my newfound problem for a couple of minutes, I decided to get my longest-handled shovel, scoop up the dead skunk, and bury it deep in the far corner of our back woods. But while carrying Mr. Skunk to the back woods (at full shovel-length, I might add), I had an evil inspiration. Halfway there was a hole belonging to a big fat groundhog that I wanted to get rid of. The perfect instant gravesite, and a lot less work! So I deposited Mr. Skunk into the groundhog hole, and filled the entrance with dirt. There was a faint skunk odor coming from groundhog’s back-door hole for a couple of weeks (which I didn’t discover until much later), but the front door didn’t get dug out for a looooong time.