Horrifying and Appalling!

Golfer and I have GE appliances that we bought a couple years ago from a very nice store in our area - Shawel's.  Good service, good deals.  We recommend them.  Our refrigerator/freezer has the ice and water dispenser in the freezer door.  The water stopped working recently, so I set up a service call.  Turns out the water line that runs up the side of the freezer door was frozen and had to be thawed out.  The very nice man said this happens sometimes.  Nothing needed to be replaced.  It works fine now.

However...this was a multipurpose service call.  For several weeks Golfer and I have noticed an odor in the area around our refrigerator and dish washer.  Sometimes so bad we could smell it down the hall.  Other times just faintly in the area.  We checked and there was nothing spilled and not cleaned up and no other messes in the area or under anything. I think everyone that knows us would say we are clean and neat and orderly.  Our floors are cleaned a couple times a week; more often if needed.  But there was this persistent odor.  I wondered if it might be sewer gas from one of the drains.  

Anyway, I explained to the nice man that I would like him to check the plumbing connections and drains.  He said "no problem!" and started looking.  At first he said he couldn't smell anything.  Then he got a whiff.  He pulled out the refrigerator and got down on the floor behind it.  The smell was stronger there.  He said he had never had any issues with a refrigerator putting out nasty smells but he was checking it all out.  He took part of the back off.  The odor got stronger.  He got down there and started poking around and looking and then there was a gasp and he hollered "I found it! I'm gonna' need some plastic bags!" 

What he found was a frickin' dead mouse!!!!!  In the back of our fridge!!!!!

GROSS!!!!!

A mouse.  In our fridge.  The nice man said he must have crawled next to the condenser to get warm.  He also said there was no other mess.  No mouse "droppings"  Nothing.  And in all our floor cleaning we have never seen any mouse poo or unexplained messes.  And there's no obvious holes where one could get in.  It is a mystery.  Golfer said he must have beamed in like on Star Trek!

So that's all been cleaned up and he sprayed down things with a deodorizer.  It is better this morning in our kitchen, but ICK.  GROSS.

And we have four cats in our family.  Four loveable, happy, indoor only furry kids.   Obviously they are not hunters.

Stay safe!