I'm completely disgusted!!!

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Yesterday was laundry day. Now, for the past few days, I've been seeing flies. This is nothing new for this time of year. For some reason, when the weather starts to cool down, the bugs and rodents come in. So, I've been noticing the flies. I bought some fly strips and to my dismay, the one in the kitchen was full within two days. I noticed it, but I didn't process it. So, yesterday, I went to the basement to do laundry. When I opened the basement door, I noticed an odor. It grew stronger as I walked down the steps. I put the first load into the wash and started sniffing around. The odor was strongest by the heating duct, but I couldn't get to the duct. When my husband got home, I told him what I was smelling and asked him to see what he could see. He opened the heating duct and there was a dead racoon, stinkng to high heaven and covered with flies. I was sooooo grossed out, still am. Mark put it in a bag and threw it out, but the dead racoon flesh is in my heating ducts and the flies have been released and are looking for a place to roost. Now, I have to hire someone to clean the ducts and I should get an exterminator and I'm just totally grossed out. So, has anyone ever found anything dead in your house? What did you do and how did you react??