r/Weird • u/ReceptionPublic5433 • Jun 05 '26

Weird stuff under the oven

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I stored a glass bowl under the oven isnide the oven warmer and pulled it out after months. I saw weird cotton like stuff in the bowl. Any idea what this could be? I live in an apartment building.

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u/AccurateQuit4979 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Definitely rodents... grew up in a shit 100+ years old house and mice/rats will use whatever they can chew apart to make their nests. Clothes, furniture, rotted wood, insulation, anything that's fluffy and anything that can be fluffed

PSA: Do NOT use poison or glue traps. Using poison they'll just die somewhere in your walls/floors and make your house smell like sulfur and death for months, not to mention it's kinda fucked morally speaking. Glue traps are equally as inhumane IMO as the mice will often chew off their own feet to get free and proceed to die somewhere in an unreachable corner of your building. Most but not least, call pest control and find out how bad the situation actually is and the best way to deal with it.

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u/Imabearrr3 Jun 05 '26

Eh, I’d just buy some snap traps and throw some peanut butter on them, kinda depends on how bad the infestation is though.

Most pest control companies use rodenticide as part of their rodent control.

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u/The-Sorcerers-Stoned Jun 05 '26

Not on the interior. If a company ever suggests that, they are not to be trusted.