The smell is the symptom. We find the cause.
It starts as a faint odd smell and becomes the thing you notice the second you walk in. A dead rat in a wall void, a dead opossum under the porch, a dead squirrel in the attic — in Florida heat, decomposition moves fast and the odor moves through the whole house. Air fresheners don't touch it. You need the source found and removed.
How we locate it
Smell is the primary tool, refined by inspection: we narrow the area by where the odor is strongest, check attic spaces, crawl spaces, and wall voids, and look for the secondary signs — flies gathering at a particular spot, staining, or pets fixated on one wall. Experience matters here; the smell doesn't always come from directly above the source, because odor travels along joists, ducts, and plumbing chases.
Removal and sanitizing
Once located, we extract the animal — sometimes through a small, surgical opening in drywall that gets patched after — and remove all contaminated material: nesting, droppings, soaked insulation. Then the area gets sanitized and deodorized. The goal isn't to mask the smell; it's to eliminate the biological material producing it.
Preventing the sequel
Most dead-animal jobs trace back to poison (a poisoned rat dying in the wall — another reason we never use it) or an animal that got trapped and couldn't get out. After removal, we find how it got in and seal it. A dead animal in the wall is also a sign to check for the living ones that used the same entry.
Send the form — describe the smell and where it's strongest.