What made you smile today?

Armadillos have stinky feet?

By the bye, as long as we're on the subject of insects and such, have you (or anyone else on this thread) looked in on this thread yet?

isn't it amazing the amount of zoology you can learn here?

Yes they do. At least in their natural habitat. Texas highways.

When domesticated they can obtain Odor Eaters for a small sum. Takes two pair though.



Plus four shoes, of course.

Yes, it is. As good as taking an adult continence course in night school.

Indeed...but it all seems to be nasty zoology at present. What animals smell GOOD?

I love Clarke and Dawe - such a wonderful view on things! Thanks for that!

Elephants r probably good smellers.

The young of almost every species smell good - nothing to beat the smell of new puppy fur!

Elephants 'd probably be most adroit
at appreciating it.





David

Horses smell good....even their pooh isn't too bad!

Horses smell wonderful! As does their tack - saddles and bridles in a tack room ... leather soap ... mmmmmmmmm. And the warm smell of a hot horse when you wisp it down after a ride - oh, I remember it well!

You've carried me back in time, vonny. I was raised in a cobbler's shop, that being the family business. Dad taught my four brothers and me (the runt of the litter) the trade. Eventually he opened stores in five other towns in the surrounding area and put a brother and my brother-in-law in charge of them. I was the sole (?) exception. I was too interested in sniffing the leather to advance far. And the glue, oh yes. Mixing and heating 'cement' (as Dad called it) and brushing it onto roughened leather for soles and patches.

Years later, one brother and I had a small farm where we boarded and pastured a coupla dozen horses for folks. We didn't actually work with the horses, each hobby-horser being responsible for the care of their own mount(s) and mucking out the stalls, but we were around them much of the time, fetching vets and farriers, as needed. I commandeered the tack room, simply for the smell of it. Walking into the barn on a cold winter morning was pure headiness. Sold the farm last year; I hadn't been on it much in several years, only for family get-togethers and to pitch horseshoes.

Young ladies in starched, flower-printed frocks held up by two bows on the shoulders.

Take it easy vonny.

Of course, one of his more famous Somerset characters was Miss Sadie Thompson -

Here is a list of good smelling animals:

Best detective – The dog (Bloodhound)
Best ‘mate’ detection – The Moth
Best lunch detector – The Shark
Champion sniffer – The bear
Best bird sense of smell – The albatross
Best landmine detector – The rat
Best air sniffer - The snake

And you, me! Cobbler's shops, saddlers, farriers - all the scents of my youth! The smell of leather is still one of my top favourites - even headier than Chanel No 5 (and I love that!). Add the sweet smell of hay, freshly forked into nets or racks, the crisps smell of straw as bedding in stalls, the smell of woodsmoke from the tack-room stove .............................

What about Bisto vonny? Ah Bisto!!

Have you seen that ad where two middle-aged women on a strict diet are using binoculars to watch somebody in a flat opposite eating their dinner?

Obviously we be sensualists, vonny; in the best senses of the word, of course. Shoe repair shops are none too plentiful these days. Very few shoes are constructed in such a way that they can be repaired. Most have glued on soles and no welts. But when I do happen upon one, I take time to stop in, on the pretext of talking shop with the owner. But actually I'm there in to take in the smells. Then all at once I'm in my teens again.

My grandfather ran a livery stable and was also a harness maker, a trade he learned from his father. My grandpa was born in 1860. Thus our leathery blood goes back at least to the early-1800's.

Ah, alas for thee, poor Debacle. You now have but those shoes upon your feet.