Five Years Worth of Nose Slime

[catbirdseat]

We have four cats and a dog that come and go, as they please, through a doggy door set into the bottom of our back door. The doggy door has been there for about five years. We recently acquired a second dog, a Dalmatian, named Maggie. Maggie is new to dog doors and somehow she managed to dislodge the flexible plastic door flap so that cold air was coming in. Before snapping the flap back into place, I decided it would be a good idea to wash it because it had a brownish grey goop on it. So I took it to the sink in the kitchen and ran hot water over it and used a sponge with some baking soda to it. It turns out that the grey goop was congealed snot and drool from countless passages of animals back and forth. When wet it reverted to its native conformation which is essentially snot-like and gelatinous. It had a pungent odor which is very difficult to describe. Suffice it to say you would have had to have been there to get the full effect. Anyway, the flap cleaned up nicely and is again doing its job of collecting nose slime and keeping the cold out, hopefully for the next five years.

[chirp]

Excuse me... I resemble that remark.

 

[Dru]

ah i bet it's just a biofilm and nothing to do with snot. its a byproduct of your slovenly lifestyle

[E-rock]

I had a sinus infection from allergies a couple years ago and hocked one of those flourescent orange lugies out my driver-seat window. Only it stuck to the back window of the car in a gleaming, orange snail-trail. I left it there and it dried. However, every time it rained the old lugie would rehydrate, and resemble it's former slimey self all over again. I had it there for a couple of weeks and it went through a couple of rain/dry cycles.

 

Gawd I loved that lugie.

[thelawgoddess]

that's all pretty gross. thanks for sharing.