For a little background, I live in the suburbs of Houston, which will come into play later, and I have 2 large dogs and 2 older cats.
I have loved the West Texas Saddle Leather scent for years, but the situation I found myself in last month is what made me feel compelled to send this. One of our cats has cancer, which means he doesn't always make it to the litter box. Needless to say, it's, um, noxious and the smell is rather pervasive. That being said, the saddle leather scent covers that stench with no issues.
Now for the main part, roughly 4 weeks ago Hurricane Beryl hit Houston, and we were one of the millions of people that were out of power for literal days. Because of the afore mentioned cancer cat, we already knew we were going to be in for a bit of a stinky ride. Little did we know how much of a rollercoaster it was going to be. Monday morning, after the worst of the storm had passed, we let our dogs out in the backyard to answer the call of nature they hadn't been able to answer in forever. My 130 lbs pittie mix refuses to go outside if his precious little pibble paws might get wet. So both dogs come barreling out of the back door only to find there is a new "friend" waiting for them. A large skunk had taken up residence under our log stand to get out of the rain and wind, and to say the fart squirrel did not want to be introduced to 225 collective pounds of overenthusiastic dog is the understatement for the year. This wet, ornery, bedraggled fart squirrel vehemently made his unfriendliness known by spraying the "little" (see: 95 lbs Great Dane mix) dog in the chest and the overly friendly pibble in the mouth. This was at approx. 9:30 am Monday morning. We didn't get power back until noon on Thursday. At that point, because the skunk had laid claim to the backyard, we had to drag all 200+ lbs of skunked dog back into the house and wrestle the first one into the tub. All we had was Dawn dish soap and apple cider vinegar to try and combat the stench. While my husband and I wrangled the pittie into the tub, the long boy decided to try and get the smell off of him by rubbing himself all over the one thing he could think of. Our bed. So we have one wet, skunked, vinegar inundated, sad-faced pitbull, and another skunked, but slightly less so, Dane mix ON OUR BED, and it's only Hour 5 out of 90+ hours without power. While bathing the second dog, we didn't realize that the first one had eaten the cancer cat poo, then promptly vomited it up.
Our house now smells like cancer cat poo (because pooping on the carpet was the only thing that could make this day any better, according to the cat), fart squirrel, wet dog, regurgitated cancer cat poo, and vinegar. All of it was super pleasant and not at all an eye watering, nasal stinging assault to ALL of the senses, I tell you what. I relate all of this to say, we lit the West Texas Saddle Leather candle because if nothing else, at least leather would take some of the bite out of the horrendous concoction of foul miasma that has now taken up residence in my home. Because we have no power, it's not like we could wash the second-hand skunked bedding, blow dry the dogs, or even run a fan to circulate fresh-ish air towards our overstimulated nostrils.
Y'all. It took maybe 20 minutes before all we could smell was leather. We had no power, no AC, no anything, but OUR HOUSE DIDN'T STINK. The most rousing endorsement I could give is this nectar of the gods-sent candle covered the smells of cat poo, dog vomit, and fart squirrel ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Thank you!! Whoever came up with that scent deserves an annual feast in their honor, possible canonization (but without the martyrdom), and the gold medal in the "saving my whole dang...
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