By Samantha Wright Allen, Ottawa Citizen, August 19, 2014

Joy Clarke remembers the smell of mice. The last time she had a mice
infestation, she was a poor student living in a downtownToronto apartment. They
used poison then, and the “mousey smell” worsened with death, never mind the
unenviable task of picking up the scattered carcasses. via
Of mice and Ottawans: City’s rodent population on rise | Ottawa Citizen.