“This won’t do,” Tina sighed. “You have got to sniff better.”
Spinner tried, but there was nothing. Or at least, nothing he could make heads or tails out of. And making tails was the whole idea.
He shrugged and spun around. Perhaps he’ll glean a clue from his surroundings. Perhaps it’ll settle the tension that trying to sniff things often awakened.
Tina groaned. “Mama was right. You will never amount to anything.”
“Hey!” Spinner whined.
Tina lowered her head. That had been below the belt. Still, it was true, and someone had to confront Spinner now that Mama was no longer there to instruct them.
“Look, Spin,” she tried to soften her frustration with a bit of guilt. “It really shouldn’t be so hard. You sure there’s nothing wrong with your sniffer?”
“I think it’s broken,” Spinner whispered, shamefaced. “What kind of a dog can’t tell the smell of poop?”
For Crispina‘s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Note: Anosmia, or the lack/loss of sense of smell, is a real condition that was made famous by the pandemic but is certainly not limited to the current virus. Nor is Anosmia limited to humans. Like humans, dogs can live without a sense of smell, though for many of them it carries a significantly higher ‘sensory price’, because their sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 more acute than that of humans.
Na'ama Yehuda 
Oh poor Spinner. All those joys he’s missing by not being able to sniff! According to Zeke there is much more than just poop out there. Matter of fact, sniffing pee is way more interesting… You can find your soulmate. Or pee over a competition’s. There are all sorts of necessaries to having a good sniffer!
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My deepest thanks to Zeke about these illuminating facts. I will not tell Spinner, for he is devastated enough by the poop he can see but not smell, to add to it the reality that there are total universes of soaked fluids he is missing on … 😉
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Poor thing. Do leave that info a secret from him. We don’t need him fretting more than necessary 😉
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Yeah, he’s spinning enough as it is … 😉
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Poor beastie… 😉
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Yeah … 😉
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A beautiful and imaginative take on the prompt. And also apt given the symptom common in covid. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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My mind works in mysterious ways … even to me … 😉 I never know what’s gonna come outta it … 😀
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So lookingforward to this week’s take!
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🙂 We shall see … 😉
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