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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?
 
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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You have to find the entry point and block it from happening again immediately, if not sooner . The smell going away depends on the size of the animal. Squirrels are notorious for climbing in Walls, living there, and having babies in there. They’ll damage wiring, plumbing, etc. I’d say any animal from a squirrel and up creates that smell. I’ve been at homes and you can literally hear the squirrels running around in the walls. You are Doomed.
 
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Horatio said:
You have to find the entry point and block it from happening again immediately, if not sooner . The smell going away depends on the size of the animal. Squirrels are notorious for climbing in Walls, living there, and having babies in there. They’ll damage wiring, plumbing, etc. I’d say any animal from a squirrel and up creates that smell. I’ve been at homes and you can literally hear the squirrels running around in the walls. You are Doomed.
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We had this happen a couple of times. Finally hired a pest exclusion company. They found mice, bats and flying squirrels in the attic. These things breed rapidly. All of them. Big grey squirrels have no need to be in the house really, not where I live in the woods, it's the small flying squirrels. Can't kill the bats, so they set up one way doors that block return. They went all over the house and sealed up everything. It was not cheap. But we've had no problems since.
 
HuskyHawk said:
We had this happen a couple of times. Finally hired a pest exclusion company. They found mice, bats and flying squirrels in the attic. These things breed rapidly. All of them. Big grey squirrels have no need to be in the house really, not where I live in the woods, it's the small flying squirrels. Can't kill the bats, so they set up one way doors that block return. They went all over the house and sealed up everything. It was not cheap. But we've had no problems since.
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Yep. Grey squirrels got in my attic by finding a slight opening created by a pigeons nest. Lol.
We would hear them as soon as the sun came up. During the day they search for found and come back. I hired a guy and all he did was seal the hole during the day when they left. All done. In the couple of days they were there they dug and tunneled through the insulation in the attic. If I didn’t address it when I did, the guy said they would’ve become roommates with kids.
 
temery said:
It's in the walls. Give it a week.
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Or there's some kind of demonic possession going on. It could be either one really.


(We had a chipmunk get into the air intake on our high efficiency burner. You could vaguely, sort of smell something but because of where it was located you really couldn't locate it. After a few days even the nominal smell went away. Then one day my furnace wouldn't run. The desiccated chipmunk corpse got light enough to move to the point where it was blocking enough of the intake that the furnace wouldn't light. I called for repair and it was one of those "well here's your problem" moments as he pulls out what is essentially a chipmunk mummy.)
 
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Waquoit said:
In case you haven't heard this classic recently, I learned the world "olfactory" from it:

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Love the Wainwright’s - and that Loudon Wainwright album is awesome.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
@tykurez, if you live in within a 30 minute radius of Danbury, send me a PM and I can send you the contact for my pest guy. Consistently good work for our "Swiss cheese house" and a genuine nice guy. Contracts good people too for when it goes beyond his expertise.
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I could have used this when we went through a 2 year, 3-pest guy ordeal with bats in our Easton house. What a s'show that was. But I have to admit there are some pretty hilarious stories that endure from it.

I appreciate bats for their mosquito eating prowess, but yeeeesh, when they are flying around inside your house. Do not want.
 
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The smell will definitely go away. But then comes decaying seepage.
 
Dove said:
The smell will definitely go away. But then comes decaying seepage.
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I feel like it is seepage first and then the smell goes away.
 
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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Yes depends on what died in your walls or attic. Mouse will go away in a couple of days. Rat could take a week or more.
 
No seepage, no seepage.

It's 1987 and the NY Giants are making their run to become superbowl champs. During either one of the playoff games, or I think the superbowl itself, light snow is falling, I have guests over, and I decided to have the first fire of the season in my seldomly used fireplace. I opened the flue and a sort of petrified squirrel drops into the fireplace. Not wanting to miss the game, I took it out the front door and threw it into the road.

Apparenty, I had been observed, because when I came home from work the next day the squrirrel was on my stoop. I threw it back into the road, and sure enough, it would be returned to my stoop. This went on for a while and I don't remember how it ever resolved. Given how I was living at that time not sure I would have noticed, but I don't recall any seepage.
 
I had a dead possum in my attic. could smell it from below, but couldn't smell in attic. Was below the insulation and had to have ceiling replaced because of decay in drywall. Was when the house was brand new and got in before we moved in.
 
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mussels said:
I opened the flue and a sort of petrified squirrel drops into the fireplace.
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I've told this story before here but, one year in December we had been hearing a scratching sound on and off for a few days and finally tracked it down to the chimney. I guessed that squirrels had been getting in and out of the chimney looking for a place to nest. My wife had a holiday party and I was home with the kids. I had put them to bed when I decided to build a fire thinking that the squirrels would be naturally afraid of it. I rolled a newspaper tight thinking I would open the flue a crack and get some smoke going up there. I did and didn't hear anything. I figured that they were out so I thought that I would build a roaring fire which would dissuade them from coming back. I opened the flue a bit more and started the fire and... still nothing. Confident that they were gone for whatever reason, I opened the flue fully and got a big fire going. It was going pretty well when all of sudden a smoking squirrel hops out looks around the room in a panic and scampers right up my Christmas tree. I thought to myself, aw f----, the whole house is going to go up and I was prepared to grab the tree and throw it outside, whether that would have helped is debatable, but as it turned out the squirrel self-extinguished before he got to the tree.

I closed off the interior doors to the family room and grabbed a bucket and ladle and prepared to do battle when... my wife called. That call went something like this:

Hi honey.
Hey how's the party?
It was good, we're wrapping things up now. I was talking with Helen and ....
Yeah, can we talk later? I've got a flaming squirrel in the Christmas tree and I sort of need to deal with that.
What???!
Kids are fine, I'm fine, the house is fine, but I gotta go. Talk to you later.

I open the door to the garage and start pounding the bucket and heading to the tree. The squirrel takes off runs around the room spots the garage door and and runs in there. I slam the door the closed and was feeling pretty good until I realized that wife was undoubtedly heading home and would open the door only to be greeted by Satan's squirrel. Realizing I had to deal with that, I open the door and put on the light. The squirrel sees the light and starts running toward me. I slam the door. I realize that I had to open the garage door to let him out but the opener switch is located right outside the door I just had identified to the squirrel as a way out. I took a deep breath opened the door and see the squirrel running for me, I slap the switch and slam the door closed.

The next day we spotted the squirrel in the yard with a big black singe mark but otherwise none the worse for the adventure. We nicknamed him Bernie.
 
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CL82 said:
I've told this story before here but, one year in December we had been hearing a scratching sound on and off for a few days and finally tracked down the chimney. I guessed that squirrels had been getting in and out of the chimney looking for a place to nest. My wife had a holiday party and I was home with the kids. I had put them to bed when I decided to build a fire thinking that the squirrels would be naturally afraid of it. I rolled a newspaper tight thinking I would open the flue a crack and get some smoke going up there. I did and didn't hear anything. I figured that they were out so I thought that I would build a roaring fire which would dissuade them from coming back. I opened the flue a bit more and started the fire and... still nothing. Confident that they were gone for whatever reason, I opened the flue fully and got a big fire going. It was going pretty well when all of sudden a smoking squirrel hops out looks around the room in a panic and scampers right up my Christmas tree. I thought to myself, aw f----, the whole house is going to go up and I was prepared to grab the tree and throw it outside, whether that would have helped is debatable, but as it turned out the squirrels self-extinguished before he got to the tree.

I closed off the doors to the interior doors to the family room and grabbed a bucket and ladle and prepared to do battle when... my wife called. That call went something like this:

Hi honey.
Hey how's the party?
It was good, we're wrapping things up now. I was talking with Helen and ....
Yeah, can we talk later I've got a flaming squirrel in the Christmas tree and I sort of need to deal with that.
What???!
Kids are fine, I'm fine., the house is fine, but I gotta go. Talk to you later.

I open the door to the garage and start pounding the bucket and heading to the tree. The squirrel takes off runs around the room spots the garage door and and runs in there. I slam the door the closed and was feeling pretty good until I realized that wife was undoubted heading home and would open the door to be greeted by Satan's squirrel. Realizing I had to deal with that I open the door and realized I had put on the light. The squirrel sees the light and start running toward me. I slam the door. I realize that I had to open the door but the opener switch is located right outside the door I just had identified to the squirrel as a way out. I took a deep breath opened the door and see the squirrel running for me, I slap the switch and slam the door closed.

The next day we spotted the squirrel in the yard with a big black singe mark but otherwise none the worse for the adventure. We nicknamed him Bernie.
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Thats great. All I can think about is this:

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