MW wrote:My stupid cat likes to bring mice and rats into the house. For the last few days there has been a stench we could not find the source of. The assumption is a dead mouse or rat in the house somewhere, but we could not find it. Daughter needed to wrap a present, so she has taken a roll of wrapping paper from under our cupboard, and there it is... a 6" long rat was stuck in the tube and had starved to death.
When I was 18 my girlfriend and I moved into a rental and we thought we were pretty domesticated etc.
One Sunday we invited her parents, grandparents and an aunty & uncle over for roast lamb.
I hadn't used the oven in the house but fancied my cooking skills, I had a couple of roasts just starting their journey when there was a terrible smell in the kitchen whenever I walked in it, I got the roasts out, gave them the sniff test and general inspection, they seemed fine as the FIL also thought.
This smell was getting worse, a couple more inspections revealed nothing, I then took the trays out of the oven, flicked the oven light on and stuck my noggin in and there it was, a mouse was trapped and stuck to the element, it was the mouse and it's fur creating a Chernobyl effect. Once discovered we felt very ill from the stench, we left all the windows open, went to the parents house and they ordered pizza........................I was devastated, I'm not sure that I ever used the oven after that.