One would think that my brother's in-laws would be so embarrassed by this incident that they would not tell anyone about it. Oh no! Not these people! Thinking it absolutely hilarious, the FIL emailed the story to their friends & relatives, adding that his wife had actually brought the dead squirrel in a bag to work to show to her colleagues, laughing when they all responded in grossed-out revulsion.
My brother, his wife & her other siblings have repeatedly tried to intervene with limited success. The in-laws attempted to resolve their clutter problem by renting out a storage locker. Last year while visiting it to obtain some of her stuff, the MIL slipped on the ice and broke her arm, later needing surgery on it. So clutter can also injure! <g>
I just sent this article link to my brother in hopes that it will give them more ammunition to combat his in-law's problem. In the meantime... decline all of their dinner invitations!
I suffer from the opposite problem - the need to clean up other people's stuff :) My idea of fun is to bid on abandoned storage units and then throw away/donate/sell all the crap that comes out of them. I do about one every year, usually during the depths of winter. It's always a blast.
" a squirrel died and remained dead in the house undetected! "
It cudda been worse. I heard on Rush's show yesterday about a guy who caught a mouse in his house and tossed it into a pile of leaves he was burning in the yard. The mouse, on fire and ablaze, ran back into the house and the man's whole house burned down - everything!
Solved his clutter problem instantly if he had one.