A few days ago I was cleaning the house and went to put something away in me and Stephen's bedroom. I walked over by the bed and noticed that it smelled realy bad around that area. I kept trying to figure out what it was causing the awful stench, but couldn't find anything that was stinky in the room. I decided to forget about it for a while. Later that day I pointed it out to Stephen and he said it smelled like a dead animal. I then realized that yes, it definetely did smell like a dead animal....yuck!!!! We looked so hard trying find the souce of the stench and still couldn't find it. Stephen finally thought to look in the shelf that holds our sheets, blanket's, and pillow cases. He searched through the bedding and couldn't find anything, but quickly realized that the smell was coming out of the vent below the shelf! A mouse or some other small rodent must have found it's way from under the house into the vent system! Stephen then told me that he remembered hearing something the other night that sounded like a mouse running on paper. Steve got up and looked around to see if there was a mouse in the house, but couldn't find one and went back to bed.
Stephen and I are realy upset that there is a mouse in our vents! As anyone that has smelled a dead rotting carcass knows, it does not smell pleasant at all, it's down right awful! Stephen has tried to find the mouse ( or other small rodent ) in the vent, but it is too far down for him to find. Now instead of just the bedroom stinking, the entire house does when the heat kicks on. We try not to have the heater on much due to the smell and keep the vent in our bedroom closed. We have been spraying febreze all over and even pouring it down the vents, which actually helps quite alot. I have been lighting scented candles too.
We were thinking we would have to wait out the smell until it goes away but now we think that maybe we can suck the mouse out of the vent with my father inlaw's shop vaccume. Hopefully the shop vaccume idea works!!!!
