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?

This happened me years ago. My elderly neighbour was discovered deceased in her flat.

A. Food. Bin.
Can I have a refund please? 🥱
(Glad the neighbours and cat appear to be OK)

Ha! Is this why cops on TV shows look at each other and say, 'Can you smell burning, Dave?' in order to break into somewhere when they have not got a warrant?
I'd think it perfectly OK to break into neighbour's flat in an emergency.
Is this an emergency though? Could possibly play a bit dumb, I suppose.

Maybe the old boy downstairs has killed your neighbours and has come up with the food bin story to throw you off the scent (pun intended).

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If you live in a flat that doesn't have a special bin room, you can only take the bin out on bin day. If I go on holiday my bins have to stay inside unless it's the day for that particular bin.

You'd leave an unemptied food bin for 2 weeks?

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Most cats would only fly first class. Lol.

@QuintadosMalvados Are you on the right thread ? 🤔

"Somebody up thread mentioned moral fibre.
The thing is that it can be argued that monogamy only makes sense while raising kids and, even if you disagree with this, cheating is nowhere near the same level of moral 'crime' as murder or torture.
Simply put, we don't need any barriers to prevent us from murdering or torturing others. Unless in extreme, and I do mean extreme, circumstances would the vast majority of people do these things.
We do, however, need them to stop us sleeping with other people because when all is said and done all of are capable of it given the right circumstances because monogamy is not a natural state and like I said despite of the pearl clutching around it is hardly the worst thing people can do.
Just 50 years ago the notion of actually being friends with an opposite sex would not be on.
Back then people had the f-ing common sense to realise hanging out one on one regularly with a member of the opposite sex was a dumb idea."

What has this ^^ to do with a stinky hallway and a missing cat ??

Who is supposed to be looking after their cat? Poor kitty

I'd have no choice (unless I had a nice neighbour willing to take it out for me). If you leave a bin out on the wrong day, you can get a fine.
I actually leave my food bin bag in the fridge and have also used the ice compartment in the past, but you absolutely cannot leave your bin out on the street on the wrong day just because you're going on holiday.

Big apartment blocks have communal bins that a cleaner take out on the right day, but many smaller ones don't have this.

When we bought our house it was a fixer upper that had been uninhabited for a while. There was a very fishy smell in one bedroom which we initially thought was the wiring - turned out to be a large dead rat in the loft above the room. I’d suggest it’s very likely something dead - hopefully not the cat but I don’t think there’ll be much you can do if you can’t access the flat!

Maybe the neighbour is of the opposite sex and the poster is horrified they have spoken one-to-one?

Or there is a much more scandalous thread going on somewhere else...

More likely explanation is that the neighbours have probably forgotten to empty the bin. It's so easy to miss doing this job when you are in a rush and stressed packing for a holiday. Hopefully it is the bins and not a dead cat!

Oh! Just read some more of the thread - it is the food bin! Pleased you found the source.

There was a decomposing cat in the field behind my childhood home once. We came back from a holiday and the smell in the garden was horrific. You could smell it from quite a distance.

I would investigate or call the police if I were you.

Euurgh that's like something out of Luther <not envy

Vegetables going rotten stink , potatoes are rank like a fishy ulcer .

This is rude. People are reacting because if your DH had broken in he could be done for breaking and entering.

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I think I'd also call 101 in this case, just because of the smell.

It's exactly the same as my neighbours. They've very recently returned from an extended trip away, I'm guessing to their home country. It was quite a few weeks until I realised I hadn't seen them in a while (they keep very different work hours to me, and mine often chop and change regularly), nor their own 2 friendly cats.
It was probably a month they were away. They are back now, as are the noticeably fatter cats!
I wasn't concerned, but if there had been a smell, I would have been.

Oh I didn’t know that. I had a “disco rice” problem with a bin once and didn’t notice a smell. Maybe it depends on what they’re eating e.g. vegetables vs a dead animal 🙈

Decaying flesh is horrendous and can smell lukewarm you've described. I had a rat that decomposed under the floorboards in the back of my previous house and you could smell it for about 6 weeks from the front door 100m away. Call 101.

I read about this happening to someone once. There were dead animals in the loft and the infestation was so bad that the maggots started coming out of the light fittings and a socket, I think it was the TV aerial socket

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