Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > North Carolina > Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary
 [Register]
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary The Triangle Area
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 12-04-2010, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
12,475 posts, read 32,191,857 times
Reputation: 9450

Advertisements

I had an inspector tell me once that if it is a mouse or a bird and it smells like it has died, instead of paying someone to take the remains away, it will disintergrate within a couple of weeks and you won't smell it anymore. Ewwwww.

As for bat droppings, they are VERY TOXIC. Make sure if you remove them yourself, that you wear gloves.

Vicki
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 12-04-2010, 12:23 PM
 
809 posts, read 2,184,720 times
Reputation: 1510
Quote:
Originally Posted by VickiR View Post
I had an inspector tell me once that if it is a mouse or a bird and it smells like it has died, instead of paying someone to take the remains away, it will disintergrate within a couple of weeks and you won't smell it anymore. Ewwwww.

As for bat droppings, they are VERY TOXIC. Make sure if you remove them yourself, that you wear gloves.

Vicki
And a mask over your mouth and nose.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 01:16 PM
 
17,825 posts, read 15,486,584 times
Reputation: 26580
It's not a bat, I'm fairly sure. That is...if it's even still there. Will have the critter hunter check things out top to bottom. I won't be removing any critter or their droppings or any carcasses myself, of that I can assure you. {{shudder}}
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Durm
7,104 posts, read 11,570,114 times
Reputation: 8050
I'm having the same exact problem in my third floor apartment. I admit I've been hesitant to tell the property manager because I don't think they're going to do anything about it, and in truth I hate the idea of them killing the critters (I know, I know...). But, they are getting...heavier. I don't know what's in there now but it seems heavier than squirrels or bats. I guess I'll tell them because what if it chews through.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 05:49 PM
 
Location: Oxxford Hunt, Cary NC
4,477 posts, read 11,600,705 times
Reputation: 4263
I could tell a story about how a mouse chewed a hole through the drywall in my bedroom when I was a kid.. but it's probably best that I don't! :-)
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 06:34 PM
 
8,583 posts, read 15,980,904 times
Reputation: 11355
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nativechief View Post
Could be a mouse. I caught one one time in one of those new glue traps. When the mouse saw me coming after he got caught in the trap he TRIED TO IMPRESS ME BY DOING PUSH UPS.. I think did toomany and died of a heart ATTACK
We had flying squirrels in my attic once . I decided to use a glue trap
but when I checked it the most adorable flying squirrel with huge brown eyes
looked up at me with those terrified gorgeous eyes..

I spent the next hour getting him safely out of the glue trap with oil
and the next 3 days rehabbing him to be sure he was strong.

Then the kids and I took him deep in the forest and released him...
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 06:46 PM
 
6,297 posts, read 16,070,788 times
Reputation: 4846
My cousins once had a hamster who got caught in a heat vent and died. No one could easily get to it, so it sort of disintegrated.

I used to babysit my cousins. It took months for that stench to go away. Sometimes I think about it when I hear about dead bodies found in houses. If that little tiny hamster made all that smell, egads... I can't imagine anything worse than the hamster stench.

I'd pay someone whatever it took to try to take remains away.

Quote:
Originally Posted by VickiR View Post
I had an inspector tell me once that if it is a mouse or a bird and it smells like it has died, instead of paying someone to take the remains away, it will disintergrate within a couple of weeks and you won't smell it anymore. Ewwwww.

As for bat droppings, they are VERY TOXIC. Make sure if you remove them yourself, that you wear gloves.

Vicki
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 08:43 PM
Status: "Made the Retirement Run in under 12 parsecs!!!" (set 22 days ago)
 
Location: Cary, NC
43,176 posts, read 76,826,386 times
Reputation: 45533
Talking True story

My late FIL was the shootinest man I have ever met.
One year they had a problem with a rat that got into the house from the drain culvert in front where they had holed up. "Briefly" had a problem, that is.

One of the rats got into a wall, behind panelling in the basement. It woke him up one night and irritated him with its scratching and gnawing. He could hear it, and it was all the way down in the basement.

So, he and his .38 revolver went to the basement and he felt the panelling until he located the intruder. And he took it out of his misery with one shot into the wall.
I am certain the act of execution was accompanied by a detailed narrative rife with colorful and colloquial references and metaphors more appropriate for the barnyard than for CityData.
Years later, after I came a-courting and suggested I marry his daughter, I got to see the bullet hole.

Suffice to say, as long as he lived, I never woke him up once. He seemed to awaken ungracefully.
And I'm keeping the girl, lest he come back to visit with me on that topic...
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 08:57 PM
 
1,751 posts, read 3,682,709 times
Reputation: 1955
Default Ugh, that reminds me

Quote:
Originally Posted by VickiR View Post
I had an inspector tell me once that if it is a mouse or a bird and it smells like it has died, instead of paying someone to take the remains away, it will disintergrate within a couple of weeks and you won't smell it anymore. Ewwwww.

Vicki
When I was a kid I went to Governor's school at Salem College...we had an awful awful smell in our room, maintenance told us it was a dead rat in the wall and there was nothing they could do. I'll never forget that! Which I'm sure is not the memorable experience those folks who run Governor's school were hoping for.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 12-04-2010, 09:35 PM
ERH
 
Location: Raleigh-Durham, NC
1,696 posts, read 2,518,777 times
Reputation: 3984
Default Smell Ya Later

Quote:
Originally Posted by lovebrentwood View Post
I used to babysit my cousins. It took months for that stench to go away. Sometimes I think about it when I hear about dead bodies found in houses. If that little tiny hamster made all that smell, egads... I can't imagine anything worse than the hamster stench.
I'll see your hamster and raise you a dead squirrel. In the middle of July. In Florida. Hoo-boy.

This topic is very timely, as we have a little family of rugrats making themselves comfortable in our master bathroom wall. I couldn't figure out why the cat stayed in there all the time until I was up late one night and heard them for myself.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:



Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > North Carolina > Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary
Similar Threads

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 01:03 AM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top