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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/MistAndMagic on 2026-06-28 06:53:05+00:00.

It's my wife's birthday tomorrow. We've been avoiding using the oven in our new place because a mouse had made a nest in the back of it, and I finally got to cleaning that out and everything looked good once I did. So I figured I would run a self clean cycle tonight while I was going to be awake for a while to keep an eye on it, just to make sure there were no mouse remnants left in the oven itself. Bad choice. Apparently there was more mess than I expected and the whole house now smells like smoke and burnt rodent piss despite having all the kitchen windows and doors open since I turned the oven off. She's considering sleeping outside in her garden and I feel absolutely awful.

Tl;dr- tried to clean the oven on the night before my wife's birthday and now everything smells awful and she's considering sleeping outside.

Edit: I have all the windows in the house open, bathroom extractor fans running, kitchen door open, and have doused the place in glade. It's smelling a bit less acrid already.