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Skinny rooster
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What's that smell???

Post by Skinny rooster » Sat Nov 11, 2017 3:54 pm

:barf:
For the last two weeks or so, I have been picking up an odour, sometimes it's was like old stale water, like when the washing machine breaks down and doesn't empty out, at other times it was like something had died. I couldn't always tell where it was coming from. Sometimes the basement but other times it seemed to be upstairs. I finally found it by accident. I went to start the dehumidifier and noticed some water still in the catcher, I had turned it down but it must have come on once or twice during last spring. When I pulled out the tray, even though the water wasn't that deep, three mice had jumped in and drowned! Barf! I never had that happen before, gross! I certainly found the smell. I totally bleached the tray after.
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by kenya » Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:15 pm

I had a smell I couldn't locate, finally found it ,I had set a mouse trap up top in a cupboard and low and behold I caught one. Very smelly by this time. Yuck!
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by Skinny rooster » Sun Nov 12, 2017 6:01 pm

I never even though of something like that before. It's never happened before, maybe they were having a mouse pool party and things got out of hand. Anyway others can learn from my gross out experience. Lol.
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by Flat Rock Farm » Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:03 am

Oh :barf: :barf: . It always amazes me that for how small mice are they smell BIG time, I find they have a very distinctive odor. Our barn was overrun with mice about 5 years ago, once we started getting them under control.......peeeeeee.....youuuuuu!!

Glad you found the them!!
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by Shnookie » Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:03 pm

You have a good nose. It picked up the stale water and the dead mice. :)
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by Farrier1987 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:46 pm

See and you didint even have to have a pop can with peanut butter on it.
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Post by baronrenfrew » Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:52 pm

So last year we had a "smell" (nobody goes in the old dirt basement) and had a RAT take a permanent swim in a pail of water (and we didn't have to trap the bugger).

So the count is two rats in 30 years here.
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Re: What's that smell???

Post by windwalkingwolf » Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:10 am

:sSig_censored: :gaah:
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