It is not a problem for me. Just keep and eye on fleas and especially ticks.

Most of mine goes through the freezer after skinning before it is fleshed and stretched. Otherwise, ticks could be a problem on canines especially. If I am going to put canines up fresh, I bag and bug spray them before skinning.

I haven't since my wife found a couple fleas on her from it, 35 years ago!

That ain’t happening here....they ain’t called a fur shed for nothing...The rats and mice can play out there......

Living in rural Ak lumber cost an arm and a leg so for the first 20 yrs i was married I never had a shed all fur was skinned and put up in the house no basement so mostly skinned on living room floor everything from weasels to wolves fur was generally strecjed in the bathroom someplace I have a pictures of most of this including a bathtub full of beaver otter and a fox on top thawing out from the sled ride home. ya there is some smells that come with it but they can be kept minimal can’t do anything with a green bellies fox other than skin as quick as humanly possible and get the carcass bagged and out the door . My wifes dad was a trapper and he never did have a shed so it helped that she was use to it . It also helps that i give her all my fur every year to sew with😁

My wife is tolerant to a lot of things I do. But processing fur in the house would be grounds for a divorce.

When I was a teenage trapper. We sold to a local buyer (Cashous Silbaugh) that processed everything he bought in the basement of his small house. there were lots of strong smells emanating from that place. I can only imagine what the next buyers of that house thought? Probably were thinking Jeffery Dallmer was living there? Must have cleaned up ok, cuz the place is still standing today.

My basement is my base of operations. Never had a complaint from my wife or anyone else who has visited about smells. Keep all my lures, baits and urines down there as well. I think th ebest thing you can do is to keep it clean. I had running water and a sink put in, I had floor drains. After I finish skinning for the day, pelts go in the freezer or to the fleshing beam, and I clean up everything throroughly. I do not need that fight with my wife, and I do not like the thought of rotting flesh in my house. So I clean up and I dispose of carcasses, daily. Never had an issue with smells with this practice. As they say "Cleanliness is next to Godliness"

^^^^^ That's the way to do it.

Lots of Fan action while drying

You can be the cleanest person in the world and all that but your still going to smell the leather and fatty oils of drying fur throughout the house. My drying room is half of my garage framed out room, insulated and all that but if I don’t have the attic door open so that those smells can air out I can smell it in the house, and my Wife sure can too lol, especially when I have some skulls goin in the beetle tanks, the furs not that strong to me at all but the wife hates it. I can imagine doing it underneath my house let alone in it, it’s not a stinky rotten smell just an certain oil, grease, leather smell. Y’all know

If you keep things clean in the processing room,and dry the fur in a cold room at about 10c there are no smells.

The only smell is if you nick a mink or weasel gland.

Hubby used to do his fur in the basement of our old house and it was never a problem. He bagged and sprayed for fleas and kept the room very clean.