Blood Hounds
I dry my hands carefully so I can put a fresh plaster on my finger, post washing up and then nip upstairs to bed down the smalls. I whip up the ladder to start with the smallest one on the top bunk.
“Night, night luvvy.”
“Agh!”
“What’s the matter dear?”
“Dat is dah worstest.”
“What is?”
“Dat smell?”
“Hmm sorry about that. I was a bit heavy handed with the garlic tonight.”
“Not food smell.”
“Which smell?”
“Yur finger stinks.”
“My finger?”
“Dah one wiv dah band aid.”
“Can’t, I’ve only just washed them. Is it the soap? Doesn’t smell much too me.”
“No dah blood.”
“You can smell the blood?”
“Yes it is being still wet.”
“So if it was dry you wouldn’t be able to smell it?”
“Duh!”
“!”
“Scabs smell differenter.”
“Do they indeed?”
“But wet blood smells strongest and yours is badest?”
“Other people’s blood smells ……er…….nice?”
“My blood smells nice.”
“What does my blood smell of that’s not nice?”
“Too much…….. metal.”
“What does your blood smell of?”
“Stones.”
“!”
“And…..more of…… salt.”
“Does everyone’s blood smell differently?”
“Duh!”
“!”
“I think you’ve missed your calling as a tracker dog.”
“Tracker cat!”
“!”
October 19th, 2009 at 5:10 am
He’s such an interesting fellow! I’m enjoying getting to know his thoughts – how wonderful it must be for you, too, to hear him speak and tell you who he is.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:35 am
I wouldn’t know about it since your fellow ND bloggers are posting articles that say I’ve tossed my Autistic kids in homes because we live in Canada…..
Yep.. still seriously PO’d. http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/711632
It must be the “American way” b/c Canadians who have moved there lie too.
S
October 19th, 2009 at 6:05 am
He is amazing! I’m glad I can’t smell so well. I think I’d go crazy. But he might have a job in a field which requires such skills.
Um, I love watching crime and forensic shows. I wonder if he could go into a crime scene and smell two or more different blood types?
October 19th, 2009 at 7:47 am
I’m thinking he has a future as an intuitive healer. I bet you take supplemental iron, hence the extra-metallic scent?
October 19th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Hmmmm…that makes ya wonder, doesn’t it? Stones, metal, salt, that’s interesting!!
October 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
wow, what an interesting perspective!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I can relate! Jack has a very acute sense of smell, too. Which can make things like goodnight kisses and good morning kisses particularly difficult! He’s only been able to distinguish between good and bad smells this year (5 years old). Though he can tell me what I’m making him for dinner – without fail. Love your post!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Hmmm… is he reading the Twilight series?
Impressive lad, he is!
October 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
That is extremely interesting to me. What an observant fellow!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I’ll have to agree with your little guy on this one. Blood smells, and the more metallic it smells the ickier/stronger it smells.
Unfortunately, my own blood tends to smell quite metallic, so maybe it’s a mommy thing.
I can’t smell most scabs though. If it’s infected I can smell it, but not plain scabs.
I can also smell when my kids are sick, which comes in handy.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
That is fascinating.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Ah.. for perhaps a part in “True Blood” beckons!
October 20th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Bit yukky though isn’t it!! I’m terribly squeamish…!
CJ xx
October 20th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I’m wondering if he can tell the difference in taste too…because I have heard…
October 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I’m all for voting that it was the bandaid that smelled; they do, you know.
And I’m sure YOU never do, not even on your insides.
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:00 am
That is really amazing.
October 24th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Oh, I wish my boys could have conversations like this with me! I’d be picking their brains all the time! LOL!
October 25th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Tracker Cat. Perfect. Andy wants to be purple chipmunk. Maybe he can meet up with the tracker cat…
October 25th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
He’s got a good nose. I don’t like the smell of blood either, reminds me of pennies.
November 1st, 2009 at 10:24 am
This made me laugh, because my AJ has been quite disturbed lately by all sorts of smells I can’t even scent, and I thought I had a sensitive nose.
December 12th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
make me a blood houwnd webkinz just give me the code
January 29th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Brilliant read, I just passed this onto a co-worker who was making a little research on that. And he actually purchased me lunch cause I saw it for him.