The smell of a decomposing mouse somewhere forward of the firewall

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"Peter R." wrote:

Marco Leon mmleonyahoo.com wrote:

My only suggestion after you find the dead mouse is to keep a fresh supply
of poison around the walls of the T-hangar.

Thanks, Marco, for the suggestions. I had set two D-Con poison baits along
the back wall of the T-hangar and two days later one was completely empty
and the other one disappeared??? The next two fresh packs I set to
replace the empty one were still full a week later, so it appears that the
population may have been temporarily controlled.

One interesting point raised by my mechanic is that normally here in the
Northeast US, temperatures are typically cold enough that mice are in some
type of hibernation.

However, this year we are experiencing a much warmer than average winter
(much to the disappointment of power companies and their huge increase in
natural gas heating prices) and this is allowing the mice to remain active.

Another thing that mice LOVE is peanut butter! Mix some poison with that.

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Remve "_" from email to reply to me personally.

When I bought my Mooney I got a bill at the first annual for "rat
socks". I thought it was a jock. I guess they are cloth coverings in
the gear wells to prevent rats from climbing up into the plane. I guess
they sometimes get up there a pee. The pee rusts the insides pretty
quickly and kills the plane.

-Robert

After landing today I noted that the smell was still just as putrid as it
was last Thursday night. How long does it take for a mouse body to
decompose past the point of the nasty odor?

I had a mouse make his nest in the starboard exhaust pipe on my Honda
Goldwing, one winter.

He apparently died in there, and when I started up the cycle in the spring I
was greeted with all sorts of stuff shooting out of that pipe -- including
the mostly-mummified body of the stupid rodent.

How in the HELL it climbed up into that hole is still a mystery. They can
get anywhere.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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