Hurricane Sandy hasn't officially hit mainland yet, but flood pictures are preparing residents for the brewing storm.
After Frankenstorm, water damage professionals, such as sewer inspectors, will have to audit putrid tunnels to make sure there are no waste backup or plumbing problems.
This job requires trekking through a lot of waste, but there are other dirty jobs out there.
Host Mike Rowe from the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs joins horse castraters, skull cleaners, and other workers who "overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks." We've compiled the dirtiest ones here.
When researchers want to most accurately test a horse's pH level, these guys need to get the "freshest" manure sample which requires forcibly retrieving it from the animal.
Horse castrators remove the animal's testicles by grabbing the parts, making an incision, then removing the testicles with "the emasculator." This is done to make the horses calmer.
Sheep castrators actually pull the animals' testicles out with their teeth, because the parts are extremely "slippery" and this is the best way to grip them.
This is done while the sheep is fully awake.
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