Posted on 08/12/2010 7:04:14 PM PDT by txroadkill
Yeah, Its a good time to go to the movies.
I don’t live in the desert, I live in a swamp. Humidity is NOT your friend.
I liked living in the high desert.
Never even had AC.
Used swamp coolers
If it is a mouse or a rat, suffer for the next 24 hours or so. Then, the odor will go away.
Or, you can tear the wall apart.
It’s up to you!
Have you changed your underwear lately?
If you hurry there might be some good eatin’!
Nuke the house from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Once every two months is fine, thank you very much.
Find some lavender scents to mask the odor until you can fix it. Don’t ask me why it works.....but it does.
My daughter had what we think was a dead squirrel in her all causing one bedroom to smell horrendous. You felt really sick to your stomach going into the room. This was 5-6 yrs ago so I may be incorrect on what was used. I had a friend who owned a pest control company and he told me to take cotton balls....soak them good with witch hazel(pretty sure that was it) and throw them around the room. Within a day the smell was much less and before we knew it we hardly noticed anything.My pest control guy said “try witch hazel..if that doesn’t work we may have to cut out the wall”...fortunately it worked. Good luck..
If you don’t wanna tear down a few walls trying to find it then you just have to wait for it to dry up and stop stinking. Hope it is a mouse cuz it’ll dry up a lot faster than a squirrel.
Hope it wasn’t a snake! We had one get into a car and die, never could get the smell completely out even after changing the carpet and renting an ozone machine. Snakes stink a long time.
Look around for any empty wine bottles.
If you find one labeled “Amontillado”, you got a problem!
Lol!
As one who has drilled holes in walls looking for tiny mouse corpses. The stink is usually bigger than the mouse, and it’s easy to come up with nothing but a bunch of holes all over.
Not sure what part of TX you are in, but as hot as it is in TX right now, the critter should dry up pretty soon.
I tried the ‘just lt it rot’ strategy once. A few weeks later I was treated to a swarm of flies that rivals any Hitchcock movie. I’m talking five pounds of flies (after
I vacuumed them all up), and I had to evacuate the house for a few hours.
I strongly suggest finding the animal and getting rid of it.
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