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Five bucks says you find him again.

Right after my stove got cleaned last year we got a bird inside, the cat was having a ball watcing it but a PIA to get back outside.

Bird every spring in the Firebox 32' class A through T and a 90 your right Cats get hours of enjoyment but hard to get out of house.

Isnt there easier ways to clean the stove pipe than that? :lol:

Had a raccoon under my daughter's bed..

I got an excited call from the nieghbor lady one night. She's a school teacher, small, and lives alone. Seems she was sitting on the floor next to the fireplace with glass doors closed grading papers.

After an hour or two she's feeling uneasshe's being watched.... She gets up and draws the drapes, and blinds....

After another our she glances into the fireplace and sees a pair of large yellow eyes blink at her--- She launches straight into the air and out the door to call me.

Turns out an Owl about 16" tall made it all the way down the chimney and though the damper...

It flew away when released. Thanks god for welders gloves!

Mike

mhrischuk said:

Had a raccoon under my daughter's bed..

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You just gave me a great idea how to handle teenage boys.

mhrischuk said:

Had a raccoon under my daughter's bed..

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OMG You aren't kidding, yikes! How the heck are you/that guy grabbing him!? Scary!

Soon discovered a flying squirrel in the Jotul which has yet to be fired up this fall.

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My parents built a house in the woods in 1980 that I grew up in. For about a decade we never saw a flying squirrel, and didn't really know there were flying squirrels in the woods until my dad was cutting down a standing dead for firewood. He looked up as the tree starts to fall and dozens of flying squirrels are gliding around the tree.

That winter, we began hearing scratching noises in the walls. Finally, in the middle of the night, we awake to the cat chasing a flying squirrel around the house (cat didn't stand a chance with the cathedral ceilings but was a help in finally cornering it). Long story short, my dad has been battling flying squirrels in the walls every winter for the last 20+ years since he cut down their home in the woods. He used to set the ones he caught free, but after not sleeping for a good chunk of a couple winters they no longer escape alive.

I will also bet $5 you will see him again. ;-)

$10 on the barrelhead so far.

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mhrischuk said:

Had a raccoon under my daughter's bed..

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OMG You aren't kidding, yikes! How the heck are you/that guy grabbing him!? Scary!

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you can't quite make it out but he;'s holding a pole snare, got him by the neck.

Bird in a stove with a glass door--like TV for cats! :lol:

Duck in the stovepipe. Had to pull the stove and extract the duck. Had a chimney cap installed the next day.

Kind of glad I have three chimney caps.

So far in my years of servicing chimneys, I have come across racoons, numerous birds, bats, a duck, chipmunk, mice, and bee hives.

Twice found a dead bird at the bottom of the stove.

few years ago we had 4 baby raccoon's in the basement and the mother was growling at us through the ash clean out door . they pushed it open . i quickly shut the door and got the little ones into a laundry basket with my fireplace gloves on using a broom to move them and let them into the back yard. the mother climbed out of the chimney and was collecting them. all this happened so fast as i was still waking up on a sunday morning. needless to say we had a cap installed shortly after.

Found the remnants of a squirrl in my cleanout this year.

btuser said:

Five bucks says you find him again.

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I was going to say the same thing... so... +1

Them things are like raccoons, you have to drive them a friggin' hour away to get rid of 'em.

I've caught a lot of flying squirrels at night in the nets I use to catch bats - they are absolutely beautiful, but bite like holy hell! Cheers!

NH_Wood said:

I've caught a lot of flying squirrels at night in the nets I use to catch bats - they are absolutely beautiful, but bite like holy hell! Cheers!

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Why do you catch bats? What do you do with them?