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Chin Diesel said:
I remember a few times hamsters got out of the cages in our houses and ended bbq'd in the radiators along the floors.
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I ate a spit-roasted guinea pig in Cusco, Peru. Not enough meat.
 
When our daughter was really young, like 5 or 6, she went to a B-day party where they had a crawfish boil. She decided to "rescue" one of the crawfish. She brought him home and named him Dinkleman. The first night he escaped from the small bowl he was in and was nowhere to be found. We looked everywhere. Amost 2 days later we found him in the front hall coat closet that was absolutely at the opposite end of our house from where he escaped from the bowl. And we had a cat at the time who was an accomplished hunter. No idea how he covered so much ground undetected. (We had him for a solid 2-3 months before he passed.)
 
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87Xfer said:
When our daughter was really young, like 5 or 6, she went to a B-day party where they had a crawfish boil. She decided to "rescue" one of the crawfish. She brought him hoe and named him Dinkleman. The fist night he escaped from the small bowl he was in and was nowhere to be found. We looked everywhere. Amost 2 days later we found him in the front hall coat closet what was absolutely at the opposite end of our house from where he escaped from the bowl. And we had a cat at the time who was an accomplished hunter. No idea how he covered so much ground undetected. (We had him for a solid 2-3 months before he passed.)
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When our youngest was five we brought her (and our other daughters) to Crawfish Fest, a New Orleans-inspired, camp-on-site food and music festival in New Jersey. On Friday night they give each camper a ticket for a free serving of crawfish. My other two daughters wouldn't touch the things; our youngest ate all of hers and her sisters'. People were in awe watching a five year old peel and plow through them--myself included!
 
My pest control guy in Truro was late to my appointment for carpenter bees. He explained that the stop before me took a long time. The owners had just come back from Florida and had dead animal smell in the front of the house. The pest guy couldn't find it until he was walking around the house and saw a critter stick his head out of a small hole in the roof eave. It was a weasel which had caught about a dozen chipmunks and brought them into its nest to munch on over time!
 
My parents trapped a squirrel in the basement and let it go on the other side of the river. It was screaming the entire time. Later during spring cleaning, they opened a box and it had 4 dead squirrel babies.
 
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nomar said:
I ate a spit-roasted guinea pig in Cusco, Peru. Not enough meat.
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Edward Sargent said:
Taste like chicken?
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More like rabbit. Cuy also came with a pepper in its mouth that the guide dared us to eat - and since I eat everything (at least once) I did. Lit me up. Hot as any habanero or any other pepper I've eaten.
 
tykurez said:
I can smell a dead animal somewhere in my house and can’t pinpoint it. I’ve confirmed all the usually suspected places: chimney, eaves etc. I’m not sure I’ll ever locate it. Does the smell just eventually go away?
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I had a dead squirrel in my chimney last spring...took 6 weeks for the smell to go away and two months for the flies to stop.....it was a crappy experience. I now own a "bug assault" salt gun because of it.

And now I think I have had two incidences over a 10 day period of squirrels falling into my attic furnace system and disappearing into the walls of my house. All we know is we heard scratching and gnawing in the middle of the night and then we found holes in the air supply ducts where they chewed their way out (two different occasions) the next day. The tracks left behind suggest it was a squirrel. My house is new and well sealed up but for my furnace and chimney flues. So where did they go? No good idea, so I'm afraid this most recent incident is far from over.....new chapter ahead.
 
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Waquoit said:
My parents trapped a squirrel in the basement and let it go on the other side of the river. It was screaming the entire time. Later during spring cleaning, they opened a box and it had 4 dead squirrel babies.
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH...
 
Here's my squirrel story. I have a screen enclosure over my pool. One day we saw a squirrel stop on top of the enclosure while over the center of the pool and relieve themselves in the pool. Not sure if they knew what they were doing but they appeared to be mocking us. We used some extra chlorine that week.
 
Rather long winded, but here goes:
When I was working in the early 90's at Glen Gery brick in Berks County PA, there was a guy they called Snapper, who was one of those Fred Sanford types, he'd always be asking if you, or anyone you knew, needed to have a garage or house emptied, he kept everything, and apparently kept his own home packed to the gills with shit from emptying other folks properties. Dirty, smelly fella pushing 250 lbs. He lived in a house with his wife and 2 kids, and apparently, they didn't have running water in the place, so he'd bring the family in to shower when the off shifts were running the 12 hour burn at the plant a few times per week, when there were only like 5 guys in the place. He was the guy on your shift, that everybody hurried to beat into, and out of, the shower house, he was a real slob. I was never present to see it, thankfully I was fast enough to shower, dress and split, but guys told me he was fond of digging toe jamb for a good 20 minutes, naked as could be, before getting showered.

Any way, they used to hand out turkeys at Thanksgiving, hams at Easter, etc....to the workers, and one Thanksgiving year, he takes his turkey home to the wife and kids. His old lady is prepping the bird for the oven, and if I recall details correctly, she realizes that she doesn't have something (like sliced pineapple or some shit for on top of the thing) before it went into the stove, so the entire family piles into his truck and off to the local grocery to pick up whatever it actually was that she needed. Problem is, she left the bird on the kitchen table when they split. Upon returning home, she finished and stuck the bird in the oven. After a while, they smell something that certainly wasn't normal aroma from a turkey. She pulls the thing out of the oven and they realize that a rat crawled into the bird and was what they smelled cooking. The unreal part of my story? They still finished cooking the thing and ate the turkey.

Now I know what you are all thinking, I am full of it, no way anybody could be that disgusting. Lemme tell you all though, this story WAS NOT made up by a co-worker of the dude who lived like Fred Sanford, this story was actually told by Snapper himself, during lunch break one afternoon after the Thanksgiving holiday break, circa 1990.

All that I can say, hearing his words, with my own 2 ears that day, from the dude whose family actually ate the free turkey partially baked with a rat inside of it, is that I thank the heavens above that I wasn't eating turkey leftovers during lunch break that afternoon. Oh, yeah, and how can anybody be that desperate, too? Back then we were all making like $22/hour, could've went out and bought his wife and kids a fresh, uncontaminated bird.....not Snapper, though.

30 years on and I still feel as though I lived through an audition for a Chevy Chase, Vacation type movie that day, and I have never looked at the Thanksgiving holiday the same since.
 
Update - I’ve used my covid-free smelling skills to pinpoint it to this vent in our range. Opened up about 5 panels on the thing and can’t get to it.

Call a professional or let it ride out?

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temery said:
Try a shopvac or snake?
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Or inexpensive snake inspection camera (look at Amazon)? If you're 100% sure its in the stove it seems like a no brainer to do whatever you need to get it out.
 
nomar said:
I ate a spit-roasted guinea pig in Cusco, Peru. Not enough meat.
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What did it taste like? I'd imagine a chicken thigh, or rabbit if you've had that.

My daughter had two guinea pigs and when I was searching for different cage options, pictures of the guinea pig shish kabobs came up. Always been curious about it....and never ate her pets.
 
Waquoit said:
My parents trapped a squirrel in the basement and let it go on the other side of the river. It was screaming the entire time. Later during spring cleaning, they opened a box and it had 4 dead squirrel babies.
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Your parents were animals.
 
uconn13 said:
Rather long winded, but here goes:
When I was working in the early 90's at Glen Gery brick in Berks County PA, there was a guy they called Snapper, who was one of those Fred Sanford types, he'd always be asking if you, or anyone you knew, needed to have a garage or house emptied, he kept everything, and apparently kept his own home packed to the gills with shit from emptying other folks properties. Dirty, smelly fella pushing 250 lbs. He lived in a house with his wife and 2 kids, and apparently, they didn't have running water in the place, so he'd bring the family in to shower when the off shifts were running the 12 hour burn at the plant a few times per week, when there were only like 5 guys in the place. He was the guy on your shift, that everybody hurried to beat into, and out of, the shower house, he was a real slob. I was never present to see it, thankfully I was fast enough to shower, dress and split, but guys told me he was fond of digging toe jamb for a good 20 minutes, naked as could be, before getting showered.

Any way, they used to hand out turkeys at Thanksgiving, hams at Easter, etc....to the workers, and one Thanksgiving year, he takes his turkey home to the wife and kids. His old lady is prepping the bird for the oven, and if I recall details correctly, she realizes that she doesn't have something (like sliced pineapple or some shit for on top of the thing) before it went into the stove, so the entire family piles into his truck and off to the local grocery to pick up whatever it actually was that she needed. Problem is, she left the bird on the kitchen table when they split. Upon returning home, she finished and stuck the bird in the oven. After a while, they smell something that certainly wasn't normal aroma from a turkey. She pulls the thing out of the oven and they realize that a rat crawled into the bird and was what they smelled cooking. The unreal part of my story? They still finished cooking the thing and ate the turkey.

Now I know what you are all thinking, I am full of it, no way anybody could be that disgusting. Lemme tell you all though, this story WAS NOT made up by a co-worker of the dude who lived like Fred Sanford, this story was actually told by Snapper himself, during lunch break one afternoon after the Thanksgiving holiday break, circa 1990.

All that I can say, hearing his words, with my own 2 ears that day, from the dude whose family actually ate the free turkey partially baked with a rat inside of it, is that I thank the heavens above that I wasn't eating turkey leftovers during lunch break that afternoon. Oh, yeah, and how can anybody be that desperate, too? Back then we were all making like $22/hour, could've went out and bought his wife and kids a fresh, uncontaminated bird.....not Snapper, though.

30 years on and I still feel as though I lived through an audition for a Chevy Chase, Vacation type movie that day, and I have never looked at the Thanksgiving holiday the same since.
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Yeah, no.
 
mussels said:
Or inexpensive snake inspection camera (look at Amazon)? If you're 100% sure its in the stove it seems like a no brainer to do whatever you need to get it out.
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tykurez said:
Update - I’ve used my covid-free smelling skills to pinpoint it to this vent in our range. Opened up about 5 panels on the thing and can’t get to it.

Call a professional or let it ride out?

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The range vent/fan exits on your roof or side of the house. You gotta check that exit point and find where/how that bird or animal got in. Then you gotta go get chicken wire or steel screen and cover that entrance. That’s how birds , etc get in sometime. Shouldn’t cost much
 
Horatio said:
The range vent/fan exits on your roof or side of the house. You gotta check that exit point and find where/how that bird or animal got in. Then you gotta go get chicken wire or steel screen and cover that entrance. That’s how birds , etc get in sometime. Shouldn’t cost much
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They’re not coming from the vent above the range that goes outside ... when I pulled the oven out there were droppings back there and a hole I imagine is big enough for those little bastards to squeeze through so I’m going to fill that in with foam.

There’s a fan/vent on the back of the range itself when the oven is on. Unfortunately it’s about the width on a pencil and it bends inside the range.

I took off almost all outside panels last night and still couldn’t get to it - seems like an ordeal and might cost some money to have a guy deconstruct this thing just for a mouse carcass.

The smell is getting stronger - so there’s that. Thinking of riding this run out by burning candles and running the exhaust fan most of the day - if I get desperate I’ll try a snake but I think the outcome of that is I’ll just be poking holes in it’s rotting little body.

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Waquoit said:
My parents trapped a squirrel in the basement and let it go on the other side of the river. It was screaming the entire time. Later during spring cleaning, they opened a box and it had 4 dead squirrel babies.
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File this under "Anecdotes to Never Tell Again"...
 
tykurez said:
I took off almost all outside panels last night and still couldn’t get to it - seems like an ordeal and might cost some money to have a guy deconstruct this thing just for a mouse carcass.
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Those vents on top are for releasing air and moisture and proper circulation in inside the oven. are there no panels inside the oven that can be removed ? Did you go online to try and find a diagram of your particular oven?

If the smell is getting worse, sounds like you might just want to call a pro. Look at the bright side, if this happened to Fishy, it would cost him a whole new kitchen.
 
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