lizard died in my car....

i was just at the havre de grace reptile show last weekend and my manager decided to be an idiot and play wit one of his lizards as i was driving. well it jumped off and escaped and after 3 hours of searching we never found it. a week later, the thing is dead and smells horribly. i have done a thorough search with no luck. any ideas? how long will the smell be here?
thanks
tyler

Poor Lizard....try running your { gloved} hand thoroughly under the seats....meaning the bottom of the actual seat. When people but from me at the shows I tell them NEVER open box in the car,that's what can happen.Try under the dash as well.

Originally Posted by redskinsdude

i was just at the havre de grace reptile show last weekend and my manager decided to be an idiot and play wit one of his lizards as i was driving. well it jumped off and escaped and after 3 hours of searching we never found it. a week later, the thing is dead and smells horribly. i have done a thorough search with no luck. any ideas? how long will the smell be here?
thanks
tyler

Unfortunately long after it has lost all of it's fluids. It is more than likely under the dash, (I have heard of similar escapees and lizard to snake ended up crawling up there and expiring) Short of finding it and cleaning the area where it died it is going to somewhat of a permanent fixture (especially during the warmer months).

If you were looking for a reason to buy a new car I think you might have found it.....

Back in 1993 I had a five gallon bucket with some mice in it sitting on the floor of my truck. I had the lid off so they could get some air. The bucket had stucco or something on the inside and I never thought the mice could climb up and get out. It was night time so it was dark, all of the sudden I feel something run accross my foot. So I turned on the dome light and to my suprise, mice all over the place. I never found them all, so you can guess what happened. The smell lasted for over a week. Now that it is summer, leave your windows down, it will help dry it out faster, and air it out. I would drive with the a/c on and the windows down. After the animal dries up the smell will go away. It's a bummer, but they say, crap happens. Good luck.

I'm so sorry you lost your little one!!

One the positive side, to get rid of the stench, stick a couple of the Renuzit Super Odor Killer gel deodorizers in your car. That should take care of it-or go to an auto part shop and buy a can of Ozium deodorizer. We used to use that to cover to smell of weed in our cars...way back in the Stone-Age.

Originally Posted by SamanthaJane13

We used to use that to cover to smell of weed in our cars...way back in the Stone-Age.

There you go, smoke some weed to cover up the smell of the dead lizard. And if you smoke enough you'll forget it ever happened.

i dont even mind if it takes a few weeks for the smell to go away, i just want to make sure that it isnt there forever... its in my moms car and i dont get my car back until i get the smell out of there.

Originally Posted by garweft

If you were looking for a reason to buy a new car I think you might have found it.....

mom just bought me a bmw and she is driving that until i can get the smell outta hers...

Originally Posted by DAND

There you go, smoke some weed to cover up the smell of the dead lizard. And if you smoke enough you'll forget it ever happened.

Unless smoking was the cause of the lizards escape in the first place.