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

@BigBaublesGalore

Oh no I posted loads of pics

The pictures all show up if you click on the “see all” under one of Big baubles posts.

But be warned, they are not for the faint hearted.

Oh God this thread! I want to go and live in a sealed box suspended in the air like David Blaine!

@Theimpossiblegirl

I want to see the pics but don't want to see the pics. Schrödinger's rat?

THIS :)

That is one HUGE dead rat. shudder.

Activated charcoal will help with the smell. If you have a shop that stocks fish supplies you can find it pretty cheap.

Luckily you found it quickly!

This is like some kind of macabre advent calendar! What will tomorrow's prize be?!

@BigBaublesGalore

Dp is shuddering! I'm putting the room back together

Minging!!!! Hope the smell will go ... anything I should shove over where it was before I re lay the floor boards?

Crucifix and bottle of Holy Water?

Another vote for rotting critters, also, the stench of death is not a symptom of Covid, if you had Covid you wouldn't be able to smell anything....although that sounds like a blessing right now.

My friend kept going on at her partner about his feet.
Until they found a half decomposed mole under the sofa that the cat had brought in.

Good grief, that was traumatising.

I wish I had your stomach for that sort of thing OP.

I struggle with trying not to retch while changing the litter tray.

It's got to be under the floorboards?

doctorhamster ... macabre advent calendar!

😂😂

Has the Cat been peeing in the corner?

@BigBaublesGalore

Dd 11 thinks I can smell it because the grim reaper has arrived for me (even though she can smell it too)

This is hilarious. Google the clean club, we can help you

Deepest sympathies - nowt worse than funky smells first thing in the morning. I can’t help identify yours via the World Wide Web but i can empathise !!- we’ve had a few... rotting cucumber stuck to the underside of the sofa- how?? Why?? Who knows.... and once a really danky one, turned out to be the rug- it had got wet from my son previously soaking his sore toe in a bucket of water???!who knew water could wind up smelling so bad... so whereas I can’t really help here’s sending motherly fortitude 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏻😬... I only hope it’s not a dead rat in the wall cavity- that’s apparently a ‘thing’😳❤️🙏🏼

Omg - I am Morbidly fascinated by this goes sniffing around the house
Very impressed w your getting up floorboards and disposing of the revolting corpses though. I would’ve left it to dh and teen DS to sort 😆

This is the best thing I've read for ages! I feel for you about the stink, it's absolutely vile, but I'm so pleased that I'm not alone in having these dramas! Hope you sort the whiff out soon.

I’m hoping you’ve eaten the Pringles . Shouldn’t be the main point .
However , a farm worker tells me that fresh uncooked sweet potatoes cut up in smaller pieces will kill rodents . Apparently in their raw state it causes chemical reactions in the rodent stomach similar to rat poison ..
Might be worth checking domestic animals don’t like them or have the same reaction

Dead rodents under the underlay somewhere? They do stink awful, even a mouse. And seem to just suddenly start stinking as well.

Something up your nose?
I have had surgery which has left a space stuff can get stuck. One time I had a smell that followed me round. Neri pot and heavy blowing eventually removed the said gross thing from my nose.
I felt physically sick and the object had to be sealed up before putting in the bin.

@WiddlinDiddlin

...... I can confirm *@StanfordPines* if you have an uncovered tank or a tank where the cover isn't secure, has holes in it...

Wondered why the tapwater wasn't running so well, eventually tank was checked. Outlet blocked by SEVERAL dead mice and evidence of more in the bottom of the tank.

We'd been drinking and bathing in dead mouse soup for I don't know how long.. weeks by the amount of remains tied in with poisoning the mice. Bleurgh.

That's it. I'm dead. not envy.

Reminds me of a rancid smell we had for months. Could not find the source even with pulling the kitchen apart.
Until we used the food processor and found a lot of mince trapped inside the spindle where some meatball mixture had got inside.
Nice! 🤢

Jesus. Just skipped through OP's posts like oh it's a mouse, nope it's the bat, fuck me she's got a full pet cemetery going on down there, holy shit the RAT.

To much for a Monday this.

This thread is interesting. Every few months our main bathroom has a really weird smell for about a week at a time, it's literally like sprouts that have been cooking for days and are starting to rot down or something, and it's so strong. We have always assumed its something to do with the drains, as the plumbing in our house isn't great, but now I'm wondering about dead rodents somewhere? It hasn't happened for a good while now though...

Jesus Christ that picture of the mummified rat upthread (with the leaking insides eeeeeek!) looks like something out of a horror film! 🤢