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I tried to find the fireplace thread, went 19 pages deep, I can't find it. The search thing is not cooperative.
Anyhow....here goes. when we moved into this house, we were here for a while, and a squirrel got stuck in the chimney. At night, on the weekend. It was thumping around and making a helluva racket and we didn't know what to do. We looked in the phone book...animal control....pest removal.....there was nothing there that exactly matched our situation. About 14 beers into a case of beer, I called the land line number for the Cleveland cops.
I said we have a squirrel stuck in our chimney. We're new to town, don't know anybody, who would you call if you had that happen? The lady dispatcher said, "We'll send out a unit." I said, no no no, we don't need a unit, I'm only asking a question. She said a unit was on the way.
Well, here comes the cop, the nicest guy in the world with a sense of humor. Said he worked in roofing before he joined the force. He convinced me to go get the long straight ladder and he was up on the roof in the dark with a flashlight looking down in the chimney. Yep, it's a squirrel alright. No means of rescue. That squirrel lived and thrashed around in that chimney for about a week and a half before it died. And then there was the fly infestation. Flies in the house. Thousands of them.
Anyhow, we caught another squirrel this past weekend. Same thing. It didn't live but two days in the chimney, thumping around. Here's the setup:
Anyhow....here goes. when we moved into this house, we were here for a while, and a squirrel got stuck in the chimney. At night, on the weekend. It was thumping around and making a helluva racket and we didn't know what to do. We looked in the phone book...animal control....pest removal.....there was nothing there that exactly matched our situation. About 14 beers into a case of beer, I called the land line number for the Cleveland cops.
I said we have a squirrel stuck in our chimney. We're new to town, don't know anybody, who would you call if you had that happen? The lady dispatcher said, "We'll send out a unit." I said, no no no, we don't need a unit, I'm only asking a question. She said a unit was on the way.
Well, here comes the cop, the nicest guy in the world with a sense of humor. Said he worked in roofing before he joined the force. He convinced me to go get the long straight ladder and he was up on the roof in the dark with a flashlight looking down in the chimney. Yep, it's a squirrel alright. No means of rescue. That squirrel lived and thrashed around in that chimney for about a week and a half before it died. And then there was the fly infestation. Flies in the house. Thousands of them.
Anyhow, we caught another squirrel this past weekend. Same thing. It didn't live but two days in the chimney, thumping around. Here's the setup:
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