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Topic: HELP?? Remember my rats???

Topic Posted by: Lisa P
Date Posted: Tue Nov 3 19:19:54 2009
Additional Comments: Okay people this is not funny. I am still sick and can't even breathe good. However, if I walk out of my house and walk back in it stinks. It smells sort of musty, but it has not rained in a few days (Believe it or not) and we have a brand new roof. I can't see any leaks. Could it be the traps the rat dude set? It's not a good smell at all :(((

Posted by: Kerston
Date posted: Tue Nov 3 21:17:55 2009
Message:
I so hear ya! I have the same troubles with the rats. They have ventured into my attic! I use D-CON, hate them buggers. And in Leroy's house, it smells like pee. I know that is gross, but rats are everywhere around this area. I've tried to block holes and any way they could possibly get in. I've even cut away the ivy and all bushes from the house and outbuildings. BUT, with the creek...you have rats. Do you guys have woods behind your house?
~Kat

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We live near a forest. We have bears, cougars, and rats :-) I don't smell pee. It smell musty or musky. Foul I tell ya :(( Lisa P

Freebreeze!! or how every you spell it, spray that stuff works good. But maybe you need to call the trap guy. ~~B.

Posted by: sandy
Date posted: Tue Nov 3 20:55:44 2009
Message:
You may have a decomposing rat. Can you have Chris check? Notice I didn't suggest you do it LOL!

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ok i know that LisaP is not feeling like laughing...but Sandy you crack me up.....Nichol

That is what I am thinking. Oh, he'll love me if I suggest this when he gets home. I'll tell him you said to go look ;-) Lisa P

I've experienced decomposing mice...I wouldn't call that musty. I'd call that freaking stinking. A rat is bigger...I'd think it would stink worse...maybe it's mold? eom (ML)

ML you are right, decomposition doesn't smell musty. One time I noticed my ''new'' bathroom rug was messed up and straightened it out. It was in the summer and very warm in the house. I usually kneel by my bathtub to wash my hair and as I was there I started to smell a ''dead'' something. I lifted the rug and discovered I had been kneeling on a fermenting mouse. Obviously the rug was messed up due to the cat catching the mouse, and I should have looked. It is a smell you won't forget and I had to throw the new rug away.~~sandy

Blecch....we had a dead mouse under some floorboards. Mr. ML took the floor apart and found remnants of a tiny little mouse...maybe a little over an inch long. It stunk unbelievably...I was thinking of this post this morning when I was reading abou that guy in Cleveland who apparently is a serial rapist-murderer. The neighbors said that there was an incredible smell in the neighborhood...they've found 10 bodies on his property. I can't even imagine what that would smell like...eom ML

ML as you know a few years ago the old lady next door died and was in there for at least a couple of August days. A neighbor and I called the police, the jerk came, knocked on the door. She had a mail slot in the door and he must have had a suspicion she was dead but said

''I don't smell anything''. The daughter arrived and even though I was on the sidewalk in front of my house, the minute the door was opened there was no doubt. It was almost overwhelming and a smell you never forget. I'm sure the Cleveland people had to be sickened.~~Sandy