Rotting corpse, moaning children and yoga

[BigBaublesGalore]

I woke up today and decided I would start a new positive routine, healthy eating and yoga (as I'm overweight and my health is suffering) I got up early with ds, sat down in the lounge with my morning coffee and could smell something REALLY FUNKY!

I kept getting whiffs of it but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Anyway... got the yoga mat out from the back of the sofa, Sat on it and again I could smell this funky smell... now I'm thinking it might be me as I'm in a different room...

Anyway as soon as I start the yoga the kids decide to start a bickering session about whose going to eat all the Pringles later... (because I told them they're not having them for breakfast)

So 3:15 seconds into the yoga I just gave up because I couldn't even hear adrienne telling me to breath calming deep breaths over the children bickering and even when I could the stench of that smell was horrible...

I sniffed the mat some more and yep I finally remember... it's the smell of death! I've experienced that smell before when the cats bought in a mouse and hid it behind my washing basket... Ive traced the smell to the back of the sofa where the mats are stored... the ends of the mat that touch the carpet smell rancid...

I pulled the whole front room out, Xmas tree and all, lifted all the sofas (at least I got a workout) but fuck me there's not a single corpse down there but it stinks!

Not even fabreeze is covering it up

What could it be?

Aibu to eat the whole tub of Pringles in spite

Apparently cauliflower cheese smells of nekrosis, so broccoli isn't too far off the mark.

That's not it... got that out it was a mouse and it did not smell.. there's rat droppings under though

Yikes!!!! That is vomit inducing!

I say to my children before yoga

“Unless there’s blood, no one to bother me during yoga.”

Could the yellow fluff be loft insulation? Rats can roam from the loft, through wall cavities, to basically everywhere 😩

If you hear noises in the loft/walls, you’re gonna need a pest controller.

@user1471565182

Dead mice dont actually smell that strong they dont even smell really bad, its more like a faint sweet smell in my experience.

Tell that to the one that was stuck to the underside of my sofa. Putrid is the word I'd use, not sweet smelling.

Really wish I hadn’t seen that before dinner 🤮

Another one shamelessly place-marking. I need to know how this resolves itself!

Yuk. Glad you found the source though

Marking place

I can confirm that cauliflower cheese smells rank if you leave it in the food bin and then forgot to hold your breath when you open the bin the next day 🤮

I've just remembered the time someone found a dead rat in the warmer in my church chicken. I was out the back feeding my baby and I heard this massive shriek from the poor woman who opened the warmer oven.
Funnily enough though, it didn't smell. It looked like it had been expertly mummified.
Next to it we found half a very mouldy quiche. That did smell.

These a reason why there is the saying, I can smell a rat, they honk, my cat used too love bringing them home.

I think that yellow stuff is insulation material.

Oh no! We are waiting for the plumber to bring a joiner tomorrow because the dishwasher was leaking - turned out rodents have gnawed through all the outlet pipes. The damage is so extensive I think it must be rats, so DH has put lots of poison blocks down under the skirting board. Whenever we look, the blocks have gone, so the rats have obviously taken them off to eat and then die in the inaccessible spot under the kitchen sink. We are awaiting the smell with great trepidation. Hope you get rid of your smell soon OP.

Found a decomposed bat 🦇

@HomeSliceKnowsBest

Apparently cauliflower cheese smells of nekrosis, so broccoli isn't too far off the mark.

I wish the smell I remember was broccoli, or anything close. Alas, it really is not :(

@BigBaublesGalore

Found a decomposed bat 🦇

Oh poor mite, I love bats. Was it the smell?

The poor thing, wonder how it got there ? At least you know it's not a festering pair of manky socks or something equaly rank.

Was it the decomposed bat that stank then!? Eek how horrible

No it wasn't the bat or the dead mouse which I thought was a rat... the zoom on the camera is making everything look huge

Found the beast though and now trying to get it... any ideas what it is?

How many species have you got under your boards OP?

This thread is the best entertainment! How many dead things are under your floor boards 😂

I had a dead rat, a massive one under my kitchen units last year and oh my god the smell was absolutely horrendous. Made me ill. Thankfully it was found and disposed of because the size of it would have taken months to go. 🤢🤢. You need to find it! Nothing covers that smell, nothing!

We get "the smell" about once a year - totally rank for about a week and then the bluebottles come. Old houses with many ways in and out for critters. It's a great excuse to burn my massive four-wick candle.

Never in my life have I been so grateful for my concrete floors.