5 weeks ago I saw a mouse in my bathroom. I rang the pest control man and he came round and laid some mousetraps down, one in the bathroom and a couple of others in other rooms in my home. The same day after he left I went in to use the toilet and I saw what I assumed to be a pooh in the toilet. I thought the pest control man had done it so after thinking how lazy and unhygienic he was not to have flushed the toilet I flushed it myself.
As the weeks have passed I was surprised not to have discovered the mouse in any of the mousetraps. However what I did notice as the days went past was a strange smell in the bathroom that seems to come and go. Sometimes it smells a bit sickly sweet and other times it just smells stinky. I am now wondering if the 'pooh' in the toilet was, in fact, the dead mouse. I guess one thing I do kind of remember upon discovering the 'pooh' was that it was lying on the bottom of the toilet, not floating in the water. Does a dead mouse float?
Does anyone know how long I can expect to smell the dead mouse? I would have thought it would have just been flushed away like a pooh. And seriously, don't dead mice disintegrate? What can I put down the toilet to speed this process up?