It smells like a rat, a squirel, or maybe a cat crawled inside my walls or inside my air ducts and died because my apartment reeks of a decomposing animal. For a few nights in a row last week I was awaken to something large squirming and banging around inside my walls. I think it was trying to find a way out… smells like it didn’t find one. Thanks a lot you stupid rat. Not only did you invade my apartment but you had to die in it and stink up the place! What can I do to get rid of the odor? Should I tell the management to have someone come in and try to locate the dead animal? I doubt they are willing to bust into the walls to look for one dead rat. Should I just buy some air freshiners and candles and hope the smell goes away soon? Help before the neighbors smell it and think I have stuffed a corpse in my closet!
haha…that happened to me back in college. I came back early from Christmas break to discover a terrible odor. It took a while to figure it out. I opened up the door to where the furnace was and half of a squirrel was sticking out of furnace panel. I guess they are attracked to the warmth from the roof vent and then get over taken by the exhaust gas and die. The smell went away when I grabbed it using a garbage bag and threw it in the trash dumpster.
However, your case sounds like a mouse or two died. Not much you can do if it is inside your walls. If you can locate it, free-breeze (sp) will get rid of the smell if you can find the source…I actually read this in the home section of the local paper a of weeks ago.
Yep I’ve had that happen before in those hellhole I used to live in. Not much you can do, just tough out the week or too for the stench to disperse.
Maybe if you don’t shower for a week, you won’t notice any other smells…
Just a thought.
Wait… we’re suppose to shower more frequently than once a week?!? Maybe that’s why my apartment reeks!
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You might want to ask the landlord if there’s anything they can do. (There might not be anything, but you never know.) They may at least want to know that something got in there so that they can try to find and plug up the hole where it came in. Also, they’ll know what’s going on if your neighbors do complain about the smell.
I found out that our former landlord had a regular contract with a pest control company (it was a large complex), so perhaps your landlord does as well.
I’ve heard that peppermint oil (not extract) soaked cotton balls will keep mice away. Perhaps that might also help cover up the bad smell.
A slight hijack: My neighbors have a hole in their roof (not the shingled part, but the board that runs along the side) over their screened-in porch. I can see this hole from my deck, and I have seen three squirrel heads poking out of that hole this spring! They run in and out of this hole. I have not had a chance to tell the neighbors about this, since they apparently work odd hours and are never about when I am home. Still, I can’t imagine how you would not notice at least three squirrels running around in your attic! I’m wondering if I should leave a note, but, then again, it’s not really hurting me any. Maybe they like the squirrels. It would be hell if one of them died up there, though!
Call one of those Critter Getter types & ask them to come get it 
People with stinky medical conditions benefit greatly from… duh, duh, DUH… putting kitty litter under the bed and around stinky places. Or charcoal.