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To wonder how people can cope with smells worse than this!?

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DurhamDime · 11/09/2026 15:30

Just got home from being out for the day.

As I entered the dining room I was hit by an awful smell. Immediately started looking around for a mess. Maybe the cat had thrown up etc. Nothing.

So shone a torch under the side table/cabinet. Tiny dead mouse.

Have got it out and thrown it away. It wasn’t badly decomposed or anything, not actually decomposing visibly yet thank goodness.

But the smell was awful. Like a food bin in hot weather. I disinfected the floor and I’m now sat in another room, outside doors open in both rooms, and I can still smell it (or feel like I can….)

Not the first time we’ve had it. (Aren’t cats great 🤣)

Every time this happens though I can’t help but think how awful those houses you see where everything they move there are dead mice/rats etc. Or worse, how awful it must be for people who have to find (and smell) dead bodies.

Just crazy how bad one teeny mouse can smell.

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DurhamDime · 11/09/2026 15:52

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Seemingly! I didn’t go into the dining room this morning before going out, so could have been overnight too I guess. Perhaps the cat brought it in a couple of days ago and it ran under there and died it takes a couple of days to get smelly? I’m not sure how fast something decomposes/gets smelly etc?

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Muffsies · 11/09/2026 15:46

Yesterday I was sat in front of a man on the bus that reeked of stale beer and cigarettes, with some BO thrown in. It wasn't just a whiff, it was as if he'd bathed in old lager dregs and ashtrays. There were people moving seats.

That on it's own might not be that surprising, but this guy was wearing work gear and a hi-vis jacket, and he was on the phone to a friend or colleague talking about work. It made me wonder how on earth he could hold down a job and smell like that? He must've worked outside on his own! He didn't appear drunk at all, the beer smell was old and stale (might even have been in his sweat). I felt utterly sick for a couple of hours after that journey. I have no idea how someone could smell that bad, but i'm guessing his home smells worse.

Whowhatwhere21 · 11/09/2026 15:41

Should try living in my house.
In the space of half a mile we have the water sewage plant, an animal incinerator/by products and rendering processor, surrounded by fields so cow muck in the summer, a dead rat seems to crop up in the cellar now and again 🤮
I'd like to say you get use to it but we haven't!
We just watch it kick off on the local fb page every now and again when environmental health have been contacted and you get
the sewage plant and rendering factory enployees battle it out to pass the blame 😅

Relaxemente · 11/09/2026 15:39

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Alwaystired23 · 11/09/2026 15:39

I know the smell you mean. I found half a dead mouse in a basket of cat toys in my house because of that smell. 😩