Bit of a weird one for you guys but I figure this is the best place for it.
I'm renting, I've got a boot room that we use to enter the house. We've let the landlords know we have heard rodents (hard to tell what exactly, we've got chipmunks, eastern grey squirrels, mice and rats all in this immediate area, but it doesn't really matter other than size and how much flesh there is to decompose) in the walls of the boot room a couple times, no dice. Anyway, one finally died, and of course the smell is pretty bad. Anyone who's dealt with this before - how long did it take to dissipate? I'm in Ontario, Canada, is the cooler weather on the way going to prolong the process? Attempts to deodorize have been fruitless - incense did cover it up, but the small confined space of the room made the fragrance of the incense too intense for comfort. We're currently using Air Sponges and they're barely doing anything. Cursory Google searching shows a mouse can potentially fully decompose in a week or two - but if this is an eastern grey squirrel or a large rat, we're looking at an animal at least five times that size.