mouse issues

[StinkWater]

About a month ago I began to notice signs that mice had infiltrated my apartment. It began with finding droppings and ended with seeing two of them in my kitchen – one of which I caught in a spaghetti sifter. I rigged up a crude trap to go after the other, but had no success, so I purchased some mouse poison. I set it out and have not seen a mouse since.

The problem is that I didn’t really think this through. There is now an odor in my kitchen that though bearable is quite unpleasant. I have to figure that this is the mouse carcass and it is in a wall or a cabinet. So what do I do? Will the mouse simply decompose and will the odor just go away on its own? Or is it only going to get worse and am I eventually going to have to search for it?