Rotten smell in hallway, neighbours away and I’m concerned about missing cat

[ohyesido]

Just that really. I’ve noticed a nasty fishy smell in the hallway of the apartment building I live in. My neighbours are away, they regularly go to their home country in Eastern Europe. Haven’t seen them for a couple of weeks.

This is relevant because they have a very friendly cat who I have not seen for a while and I know they won’t have taken her with them

i am thinking the worst, what should i do? DH says I should ring 101, would they care?

Or merely mumsnet's own?
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You do realise it was the OP who made the ageist and derogatory pearls comment?

I had a similar problem some years ago - really vile smell coming from neighbour's apartment when they were on holiday.

Looked through the keyhole, and saw their fridge door was wide open and full of what looked like many plastic bags of meat.

I tried the door and the place was actually unlocked. I thought I'd better pile all those bags into garbage bags and get them out of the building ASAP, so started on that task.

Wasn't long before I noticed that the contents were actually human body parts. I had a peep in the bag containing the head and instantly recognised the face - it was Ringo!

Into garbage bags it all went, then into their wheelie bin. I maybe should have called the police but I really wanted nothing further to do with this whole caper, whatever it was.

Luckily there were no repercussions, and people still don't seem to worry that we haven't seen Ringo for years.

You're right to be concerned- hopefully its rotting food! Can you update us regarding the outcome...

The 'Cigarillos of Satan'...love this 🤣

I agree, a dead body wouldn't be a fishy smell, more likely it's something gone bad in the bin or fridge.

Eastern Europeans love a bit of fish. Lets hope they haven't forgotten about some.

They'll be lucky to get through the door for the cloud of flies.

The police would do nothing if you felt there was a genuine welfare concern. I’ve been there with an elderly neighbour. Her son was furious but the police supported the neighbour

Lets have a real dose of reality now.
If this was a serious thread OP would have called the Police by now, as would anyone with a modicum of common sense.

Good heavens she has been advised to do this often enough by people who actually care, and all she does is glibly respond to the comments.

If the Police were called and it happened to be a false alarm then no harm done and everyone would be relieved especially and including the Police.
If it happened to be something worse then, at least it would have been discovered early enough.
If I'd been a resident there the Police would have been called immediately and the outcome sorted or discovered one way or another.

I'm just glad and grateful that I don't live in a complex, or area with such dithering neighbours.

In my experience ( a huge dead rat under the floorboards) it smelled like a mix of glue and poo. The rat catcher said as soon as he walked into the house he knew it was something dead under the floorboards, and it took weeks for the smell to go completely.

Before the nightmare ended, we had maggots coming up from the area the rat had died, which turned into blue bottles. We often went away to escape the stink, and sometimes on return there would be hundreds of dead insects in the house.

"there is the smell of death coming from a neighbours flat and neither of them have been seen for a fortnight"

How would the man downstairs know it’s a bin left has he been in their apartment?

Why is it ageist?

If you had a genuine concern you would ring the police surely?

There is an update of sorts but probably not a satisfactory one.

the cat’s climbing apparatus is now outside waiting collection from some agency presumably. A van has been parked outside their garage for some hours. The smell is gone but no one has seen either of them …

Have you see the cat recently?

Oh noooo....😔

😭

Do they rent? Could they have been evicted?

How mysterious. Do let us know of any further developments!

My thoughts exactly.

Defo get hold of the landlord

Contact your landlord straight away. A rotting fishy smell can be an electrical issue. Your landlord will want to protect their property.
It could also be rotting fish.

This thread is weeks old, I'm sure it's been resolved by now.🙄