Mice mess...Had to replace the insulation in my stove-found this unlucky critter(dead critter photo)

[Boxerfan]

I live in a rural area & mice make there way inside at times...

Wife doesn't want a cat so we have traps set up etc..The clue was a sick smell when I went to bake some bread.

I figured it would be an easy job to remove the soiled insualtion. not so much. A total teardown to get it all out. And we found a live mouse in the insulation after hours of noisy work.

But this guy was just not aware of the dangers of live 220V wiring...I normally wouldn't take such a pic-but his little hand is still reaching out to the live red wire-and he's standing on the grounded metal-Pffft!

Stove is back together & working fine with no stinky...

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[rrneck]

1. RIP. Never knew what hit him. nt

[HappyMe]

2. When we first moved in,

I found some evidence of mice. They were getting in under the kitchen sink. I got some of those poison pellets, steel wool and that expandy yellow stuff. No more mice here.

[Kali]

3. I fucking HATE mice in the stove

one year we kept smelling this kind of stale greasy smell every time we used the oven. Turned out the area below the "sealed" burners of the stove top was FILLED with stashed cat food.

back in the OLD days stoves had 8 or 9 inch legs so the cats could get under them. now they are just a bunch of crappy sheet metal with built in hidey holes and are filled with nesting material.

I just found a mumified one in the framed area of an old wall heater. We are trying to track down some slow gas leaks so we can meet possible pressure testing before we get tht gas turned back on. we found the two main leaks. jebus this place is so old and decrepit.

[HopeHoops]

4. We've got cats. We get mice in the house. They get the mice from there.

[ohiosmith]

5. Found a mummified rat when I cleaned the dryer vent las year. It must have crawled in from the

outside and gotten trapped.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Will they never learn?