We receive a lot of calls about “something” that has died in an office or restaurant. If you have used poison to control your rat problem, that “something” is likely a dead rat. The odor can be nauseating. Some offices literally must close until the dead animal is removed. And if your business is a restaurant, you won’t have many customers with this kind of an odor!  If the rat is not removed and the location deodorized, it can take months for the smell to go away on its own.  That’s a lot of money to lose over a dead rodent.

When rats die inside an office or a restaurant, they can fall down into the wall void. The rat’s final resting place is usually at the bottom of the inside of a wall between the studs. It is much more difficult to find a dead rat than a live one! Live rats make noise, but dead ones… well, they just smell!