Dead mice - horrific smell!!!

[Rzim]

Think I have a dead mouse somewhere lurking in my kitchen. Of course I am hunting for the little terror - but what happens if I can't find it? Smell is HORRENDOUS (only since yesterday!) thx

Urgh - my sympathies - we've had this before and no mistaking the smell, nothing quite matches it.

Hope you find it soon.

Had it in my tiny bathroom once. Afraid to say we just had to wait as it was somewhere inaccessible. I still think of it - one of the worst smells of my life. Lasted about 2 weeks…..

Urgh yes, rotten musty gone off peas. It will go eventually.

We had a dead rodent smell emanating from the understairs cupboard (something the cat had brought in and then expired). We couldn't find it, the smell lasted two weeks.

A few months later I found it in a carrier bag - it was a tiny shrew. I couldn't believe the stench from something so small.

We had that last year - you could taste it! Couple of weeks and it will fade. Sympathies!

Amazon.co.uk : dead mouse smell remover These are pretty effective. There is still a smell but less offensive.

We had one in a cupboard in the office. It was a huge office, but it still stank. It will pass eventually unless you can find the little bastard.

You could cover up the smell with a wax melt my mum bought that was supposed to be rose.

If an entire bunch of roses were dead, mixed with a lot of dead lilies, left out for compost and a colony of mice pissed on it for six months, that is.

I wouldn't recommend it.

We had this when our cat let a mouse escape. I knew where the dead body was but could not access it.

In the end I put fresh coffee grounds in bowls near the worst smelling part
Replaced them a few times and the smell eventually went as the body dried up.

Coffee idea is a great one thank you! Xx

We had a dead rat at work , we think it died on the heating pipes ,the smell was horrendous and we resorted to putting Vicks under our noses to try to cover the smell .

Start looking for bluebottles and you’ll find it

We used to work in a really shitty office and rats regularly used to die in the roof. The smell was absolutely rank. Once a colleague sat on the loo and maggots started to drop through a hole in the ceiling onto their feet. Grim. Fortunately we moved to brand new premises soon after that.

It might not be a mouse. We had a similar disgusting smell - and I mean BAD, Turned out it was the drip tray at the back of integrated fridge/freezer.

Gross mould growing!! It did involve my DH and grown up son undoing several screws and managing to get to back of fridge - not an easy task, but so glad we were able to find the source

Thank you we think it is coming from a pipe/tunnel from the outside into our larder so are currently DIYing!!! Seems much better already!