There is one other place I know of you are likely to read about composting animals. The humanure handbook website forum. It wasn't till I started humanure composting that I learned how to get a really good hot compost pile that would easily handle rotting carcass and control smell and other animals digging it up. So what have we composted. I really can't even count the bones and scraps of animals we have eaten since we always compost all food scraps that don't go to the chickens or worm bins. It is a firm rule here to avoid putting anything stinky in the trash can. So, animal bodies in our compost bin lately. 3 sick chickens we didn't want to make the rest of the flock sick. Any dead squirrels we find around the house. 12 rats we caugh And all fish parts that the chickens don't get, I've found that burying fish parts causes critters to dig up the yard or whatever plant I put over it so composting seems to be the best way for use to take care of it. I agree that this is an advanced composting thread. No one who is not confident of their ability to manage a hot compost pile should be putting dead bodies in it.

I have a worm bin in the house. I just love my worms. If you have holes in your container for drainage when the food they want is all gone they might move on and leave through the holes. Maybe add a little coffee grounds for them? Worms love UCG I dug out a bush yesterday and had a bunch of worms in the roots. I was so happy! Worms were not in my yard much when I moved here. Adding organic matter made them want to hang around. Karen

We had the same problem in our last home and my parents had it in their current home. Ours, we believe was a small rodent that got caught up in the insulation and died. My parents had a dead squirrel in their wall. The odor we had was near an outside wall in the laundry room. I would not smell it until mid to late afternoon, when the sun hit that side of the house. It lasted for weeks! My parents had a horrible time, because the squirrel died inside their wall between two rooms. It put off a very nauseous odor, so they had to put out all kinds of air fresheners until it decomposed. Yuck!

'm glad I'm not alone here. There are ELEVEN HOURS in a row of Dirty Jobs today. My Cat from Hell is my favorite and I used to really like It's Me or the Dog. She was such a good dog trainer. I always thought they should bring Victoria Stilwell on Bad Dog o coach them how to train their dogs or rename Bad Dog stupid, lazy owners. If you're going to own a dog you have to train it, at least know how to care for it. I used to have Animal Planet on all day on Saturday but not anymore. Time Warner has now added new channels to show shows like Hoarding, I Didn't know I was Pregnant, Sex sent me to the ER, ER in different cities. 500 Pound people. Please send the Nude people to one of the porn channels.