A. Dead animals will smell until they are completely decomposed or until they are dried out, whichever comes first. It goes without saying that the larger the animal, the more biomass there is to rot, the stronger the smell will be, and the longer the smell will last.
When cells are damaged by disease or injury, large amounts of these leak out, causing blood tests to show that enzymes are elevated above normal. (You can roughly compare this situation to a car that's leaking oil. Leaks in many parts of the engine can have the same result: oil all over your driveway.)
Now, one of the downsides of the CPK Blood Test is that itâs ânon-specificâ for muscle death. This means that a high CPK does not tell you WHERE that muscle death is coming from or whether it might be normal or abnormal. Muscle is muscle and every muscle in the body, from your leg muscles to your heart muscle cells will release CPK when they die.