Never thought I'd write a post with a title like that! This morning my husband discovered a dead, rotting rat on our back deck. It looks like it's been decomposing for weeks, which is weird since we were out there yesterday and it wasn't there. We are trying to figure out how to get rid of it and how to clean up the deck after we remove it. Anyone have a similar experience and can talk us through it?
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Ick. I found something like that on our lawn once and had the same "where did THAT come from" moment because it hadn't been there an hour before, but we have a ton of crows in our neighborhood so I think one of them dropped it there. I'm no help on getting rid of it, though, because I just avoided it for a day or two and it disappeared. I don't know what took it but I only cared that it was gone and I didn't have to touch it!
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@purplepeony: That was totally our reaction! We actually had DS playing on the deck yesterday. I was wondering if an animal like a raccoon dropped it. I never even considered a bird may have!
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Disposable gloves, garbage bag, metal dust pan -- scoop & dump. Double bag and put in your outside garbage.
Rinse deck, dust pan, gloved hands with hose. Then rinse with a bucket of dilute bleach solution. Done.
Blech! Sorry you're dealing with this.
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Power wash the deck after disposing of the animal?
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I have no advice other than maybe use a shovel to scoop it up and into the (outside) trash?? Just maibly commenting to say this post title kind of made my evening.
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DH found a dead possum. He made a glove out of a trash bag. And then picked it up and out in another bag. Then put in the lawn trash bags so the trash people would take it.
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Yuck! Invite the neighbor's cat over? Sorry, I'm no help
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Yuck! I agree it sounds like something else dropped it there.
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@Katrocap: I never thought of it, either, until our neighbor whose house is up the hill from ours mentioned she'd seen crows sitting on our roof eating something. Nasty, nasty birds. I should also have mentioned that when it happened, DH was out of town and I was 5 or 6 months pregnant, so there was NO way I was going anywhere near it...we're not actually that lazy to just leave it there forever, haha!
Good luck getting your deck cleaned up!
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Matches.
I'd set that ish on fire and move.
My advice also applies for spiders.
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Oh, Baltimore...
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Throw lime on it, shovel it up, double trash bag. Then scrub deck with bleach. Or at least that's what my dad did when a skunk died under our deck!
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