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Original poster

Help! Dead mouth in a hoarders room... Oh the smell...

56 replies

Sparklfairy · 22/08/2019 12:54

A friend of mine has got a mouse, he thinks the cat brought it in and let it loose. He's twatted about sorting it, buying traps and not setting them up, then setting them up but them not going off, so resorted to poison. I don't agree with this, I think it's cruel but I also pointed out that the mouse then wanders off and dies somewhere else in the house!

Naturally, he ignored me and now his office has the most horrific smell. He has a huge house (lives alone) that is kept relatively tidy, and he has a cleaner, but his office is his man cave and looks like a teenagers bedroom. Stuff everywhere, all over the floor, he thinks it's a charming kind of organised chaos but now it's come to bite him in the arse as that mouse could be anywhere.

He wants me to help look for it. I can't bear the smell (especially in this heat!) And really don't want to! I can't think of anything I'd rather do less today!

Wwyd?

Envy not envy!

OP posts:
Original poster
Sparklfairy · 22/08/2019 12:54

Mouse not mouth!

OP posts:
UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 22/08/2019 13:05

Just say no!

GiveMeAllTheGin8 · 22/08/2019 13:06

Say no way!

FelixFelicis6 · 22/08/2019 13:09

Why would you agree to this?! Is this someone you’re seeing romantically?

milksoffagain · 22/08/2019 13:12

The smell will fade!

Original poster
Sparklfairy · 22/08/2019 13:14

The smell will fade!

You mean if he just leaves it? Grin after its rotted and the place becomes invested with maggots and flies? Lovely! Grin

Platonic friendship! Not that it matters, maybe I should have said friend was a woman? Grin tbh I still wouldn't want to do it even if he had solid gold dick Grin

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SweatyUnderboob · 22/08/2019 13:15

@FelixFelicis6

I thought the same! He must be laying some pretty good pipe for OP to volunteer for such a task!

DontCallMeShitley · 22/08/2019 13:16

It will only take about 6 weeks to decompose, just keep away for a while and leave him in his tip.

goldenlabs · 22/08/2019 13:17

Could me more than one.

Aderyn19 · 22/08/2019 13:18

This is not your problem to fix. He's a grown man and can look for his own dead mouse!

onedayiwillmissthis · 22/08/2019 13:19

There will be maggots!

This I know from experience.

Whilst decorating, the cat must have brought in a rodent it had caught. Left it under table behind all the stacked furniture😼

By the time I found it there were maggots...eughh

Had to be vacumned out of the carpet pile

Original poster
Sparklfairy · 22/08/2019 13:19

I have not volunteered! He's hinted, not outright asked. Says he spent an hour looking for it and can't find it, works long hours and hasn't got time to deal with it blah blah. Basically making excuses and being useless so I'll help.which I wont

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Feelsdeadpeople · 22/08/2019 13:19

But you kept saying “he” 😐

Feelsdeadpeople · 22/08/2019 13:20

Oh. Misread. Friend is a man. Ignore me.

Is there a cat you can borrow? They’re usually good at sniffing these things out.

ginghamtablecloths · 22/08/2019 13:23

Say no and tell him strongly that this is the reality of his so-called charming disorganised chaos.

"Your effing charming chaos, your dead mouse. Grow up and sort it," or words to that effect.

Chouetted · 22/08/2019 13:23

I once had this - found a dead and rather mummified mouse in a disorganised pile of paperwork. I can confirm that the smell fades, as I hadn't noticed it at all until I needed to look through the paperwork. Nor did it smell when I binned it.

How I missed it, I have no idea... maybe it died in the winter when it was too cold to really decompose.

MerryChristmasHarry · 22/08/2019 13:25

Just refuse to search someone else's shithole house for a decomposing rodent. Simple as that. There's something I never thought I'd write...

messolini9 · 22/08/2019 13:25

Wwyd?

I'd tell him that I'm disinclined to help people who feel it's ok to poison an animal so that it suffers a protracted & agonising death, & who chose this option in preference to preventative hygiene.

HopeClearwater · 22/08/2019 13:27

Get him to ask a male colleague. Bet he won’t.

BarbariansMum · 22/08/2019 13:29

My sister once poisoned a mouse that turned out to be an edible door mouse, which them crawled into an inaccessible place under her kitchen cabinets and died served her right. Tell your friend no, and that he either finds his own dead mouse, or can expect the smell to last for 8 weeks.

namechange5575 · 22/08/2019 13:30

What's going on in your friendship dynamic that he would even ask you to clear up a revolting mess of his own making, without him, and you are even considering it?!

Drabarni · 22/08/2019 13:30

Is friend a man or woman as you call he but said it was a woman.

NoTheresa · 22/08/2019 13:31

I thought you said your friend was fairly tidy and has got a lot of space and a cleaner. That is not my definition of a “hoarder”.Confused

FurrySlipperBoots · 22/08/2019 13:31

Ignore any hints, if he asks outright say:

;No, I'm sorry, I couldn't bear having to deal with that. Maybe though, when you've sorted it, I could help you Marie Kondo everything so it's easy to keep on top of things?'

That way you're firmly distancing yourself from maggoty corpses while maintaining your friendship status.

Derbee · 22/08/2019 13:33

How bizarre. Don’t go and help. Gross