They certainly honk when they die after hiding from the cat in the workings on the back of a fridge. Been there, have several of those T-shirts....
It won't be too disgusting to handle just yet Tootles - so I'd have the cooker out & use a torch to see if you can locate & remove it. If you can't you might just have to leave the windows open for a week or so....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Get a couple of Neutradol jars and put them near the cooker - they neutralise smells without making the house smell like a bordello and it doesn't seem to affect people with dodgy chests
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
when I was a wee boy,we once noticed the fridge was smelling. ( the fridge had been replaced by a new fangled Fridge Freezer and had been relegated to a cupboad to keep the dog food in)
It got worse and worse and my dear late Mother kept telling us she'd emptied it, washed it out , moved it washed the floor and wall behind, but it still honked.
Many years later after she died , removed the fridge to find a dried out skeleton of a mouse wedged inside that black metal grill affair you have behind them.
I had a friend doing research work into the rat population in/ on Equatorial Guinee.
After months of monitoring traps etc, one of the locals said " go look at the price in the market. If it's going up, there aren't so many and if it's going down , there's more of them again"
Thanks for the responses. Just got in from work and my goodness I've never smelt anything like it! Who'd have thought that such a small thing could cause such a stink?!
We've had the cooker out and just can't find it but that's definitely where the smell is coming from. Does this mean a new cooker? Surely it can't be safe to cook with that somewhere inside?
I'lol phone the cooker company tomorrow to see if they can help. Think it's a range master. After that, the insurance company!
Good luck with finding the dead mouse. We saw one under the freezer this week, so hubby bought a trap from Woolworths and used peanut butter and within an hour it was in the trap.(dead). It's been thrown over to where the kookaburras hunt. He set the trap again, and got a second one the next morning. At least the birds benefit and our problem has been sorted. (Sounds cruel, I know, but the spring in the trap would have been very quick). Better than using poison, I think.
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Mine stuck around for a couple of weeks and drove the terrier mad trying to get to it.
Oh dear....do dead mice honk? There is the most awful smell coming from the cooker. Like when a dish cloth goes manky.
It hasn't been out to get any food. I'm fearing the worst, both for the mouse and the cooker!
Dead mice absolutely stink
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They certainly honk when they die after hiding from the cat in the workings on the back of a fridge. Been there, have several of those T-shirts....
It won't be too disgusting to handle just yet Tootles - so I'd have the cooker out & use a torch to see if you can locate & remove it. If you can't you might just have to leave the windows open for a week or so....
Get a couple of Neutradol jars and put them near the cooker - they neutralise smells without making the house smell like a bordello and it doesn't seem to affect people with dodgy chests
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
when I was a wee boy,we once noticed the fridge was smelling. ( the fridge had been replaced by a new fangled Fridge Freezer and had been relegated to a cupboad to keep the dog food in)
It got worse and worse and my dear late Mother kept telling us she'd emptied it, washed it out , moved it washed the floor and wall behind, but it still honked.
Many years later after she died , removed the fridge to find a dried out skeleton of a mouse wedged inside that black metal grill affair you have behind them.
I had a friend doing research work into the rat population in/ on Equatorial Guinee.
After months of monitoring traps etc, one of the locals said " go look at the price in the market. If it's going up, there aren't so many and if it's going down , there's more of them again"
So much for research grants eh?
Thanks for the responses. Just got in from work and my goodness I've never smelt anything like it! Who'd have thought that such a small thing could cause such a stink?!
We've had the cooker out and just can't find it but that's definitely where the smell is coming from. Does this mean a new cooker? Surely it can't be safe to cook with that somewhere inside?
I'lol phone the cooker company tomorrow to see if they can help. Think it's a range master. After that, the insurance company!
Good luck with finding the dead mouse. We saw one under the freezer this week, so hubby bought a trap from Woolworths and used peanut butter and within an hour it was in the trap.(dead). It's been thrown over to where the kookaburras hunt. He set the trap again, and got a second one the next morning. At least the birds benefit and our problem has been sorted. (Sounds cruel, I know, but the spring in the trap would have been very quick). Better than using poison, I think.