Something's in the Crawl Space...or the Wall... (Cary: mattress, living)
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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.
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.
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}}
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.
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...
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.
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Originally Posted by VickiR
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.
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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...
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.
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.
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