Rutless Steel

Bucks smell.

Sometimes they smell like a teenage boy.

Sometimes they smell like they have been rooting around the local garbage dump for the entire month of August.

Sometimes they smell worse than that.

During rut they do unspeakable things to themselves that gives them an odor beyond description.

Couple that with the fact that for about four months out of  the year they have absolutely no blood flowing to their brains, and you can see that it makes them really hard to love.

And yet you do.

Because under all that stink they are still sweet little buckies, and they make such great little babies.

Even though they are downright disgusting, you still have to get your hands on them from time to time.  Sometimes, when you are trying to avoid touching them, they beg you to scratch that spot at the top of their head under their scurs that they can't reach.

Oddly, the funk can reach that spot, too.

When you are done messing with them, you smell like...guess what?  Rutty Buck.

It is a smell that lingers.

And lingers.

And lingers.

Rutty Buck makes strong onion, garlic and three day old fish seem like petunias.

Mere soap and water are no match for this odor.

It is a very difficult thing to get rid of.

Several years ago, ALA brought me a prezzy from her trip Abroad.

I never knew it before, but when you rub stainless steel under water, a chemical reaction of some sort takes place, that washes odors away!  Did you know that?

Guess what?  It instantly removes Rutty Buck!!!

It is the only thing i have ever found that kills the smell...quickly!!!

It was so awesome, the next year, when ALA went Abroad again, i asked her to bring another so i could share it with Susan Dear Susan.  ALA was so cool, she brought back several, and i was able to share them around with all my friends who work with smelly stuff.  Every one of them keep this in the kitchen sink soap dish and use it regularly. 

Don't tell anyone, but i stashed the last one away so that if anything ever happened to mine, i would have a back up, because it would be far less efficient to have to take my stainless steel mixing bowl into the shower when Moon marks me as his own.

This past year i saw something similar in one of those fancy kitchen gadget shops.  Might i suggest, that if you deal with anything smelly, or even if you cut onions., that you procure one of these little gems?

Once again, i would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to ALA for what is probably the most useful gift you have ever given me, and for the generosity that allowed me to share it with others!!  Whatta friend!