Caught Red-Handed

[Dibbons]

Yesterday found a small slit in the bottom of a 20 kilo bag of dog food. This morning the culprit kinda "confessed".

 

[Richard Cranium]

At our first house, we started getting a stink out of the oven when we were cooking and over time, the stink would get worse and worse. It didn't look dirty inside, but one day we put it on self clean and it really stunk the house out. Well, it was fine for a couple weeks and then it started stinking again. I looked closer and I could see a smoke trail that had come out from one of the seams, so I took the interior apart. What I found was that a mouse had burrowed into the insulation underneath the oven box and was bringing in the dog's food into the oven. Turns out it was the dog food that was cooking. It grossed my wife out knowing that a mouse was living inside the stove.

 

[kiwigtx]

I hate doing stove and oven repairs for that very reason......I used to do a lot of them.

Mice are the main culprits.....they tear away at the insulation to make a nice home, but they also create a fire risk in doing so.

It's funny to find them crispy and out-stretched across two live terminals.....but not enough to make me want to do that work again.

 

[Dibbons]

My '65 Valiant Bracket Racer stunk to high heavens for quite a number of weeks that I could not source. Much later, after the stink had subsided, I was doing some work on a door panel when I found a dead mouse had fallen inside the bottom of the door-mystery smell resolved.