We have one of those very cool Dyson vacuum cleaners. You know the ones, they never lose suction....very powerful..yada yada yada. They're expensive too!!
Trouble is, it's bulky. We've never really have a good place to store it, so we tend to leave it out on our back verandah.
It turns out Lynda goes to use the vacuum cleaner to clean the rug in the lounge. As she turns it on, foul smelling urine sprays from the exhaust over "everything". And lots of it apparently. On the walls, rugs, couches. (I am just so glad I was at work and not there to witness or smell it) :-) It took Lynda hours to clean up, deodorised and disinfect everything.
What we think happened was this...
Ben (who is completely toilet trained) has just a couple of times in the past month or two dropped his dacks wherever he's standing and proceeded to relieve himself. Our theory is that he's peed out on the back verandah at some point, directly into the exhaust of the vacuum cleaner (which points up), remaining there for that ill-fated moment when the vacuum cleaner would next be used.
The smell hung around the house just for the day. Everything (except the vacuum cleaner) is back to normal. The vacuum cleaner still smells each time it's used.
