Help some critter got into our woodstove

[Manly]

Please let me go.
I'm not gonna bite you, I promise...

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This is exactly why I say gas. Good old fashion gassing.

 

[Rearscreen]

I was away and the same thing happened. I assumed it was a mouse which we had plenty of before the cat was adopted. I told her to smoke the mouse out. Turned out to be a beautiful blue bird. One of my many regrets. Can't believe I didn't think bird. I've saved many a bird even in a house. Once on a smoke shelf in a fireplace using a mirror & gloves. Birds tend to go into a shock state and freeze. With a slow and steady approach I've never had a problem catching them.

 

[Sodbuster]

Put on a pair of leather gloves reach in and grab whatever it is, walk outside give it a stern talking to and let it go.

 

[beatlefan]

This is exactly why I say gas. Good old fashion gassing.

My wife hates when I do that...

 

[Simonkenton]

No word from the OP. I think the critter is dead. Bad way to die, bad.

 

[Bigger_Al]

Someone is, hope it’s not the OP.

 

[firefighterjake]

No word from the OP. I think the critter is dead. Bad way to die, bad.

Either the critter or the OP . . .

Eagerly awaiting the outcome to this one . . .

Had some gray squirrels (note squirrels with a "s") come through a broken exhaust fan vent in our upstairs bathroom. Those are challenging buggers to catch when you're only armed with a beach towel and a clothes basket. In my mind I looked like a Roman gladiator . . . in reality I probably looked like the squirrel was winning.

Didn't figure out where they were coming from so after dealing with Rocky the first time around I had to deal with Peanuts a couple days later.

 

[ryanwc]

If you haven't listened to the Squirrel Copper episode of This American Life, do so now. One of the funniest stories I've ever heard.

 

[begreen]

If you haven't listened to the Squirrel Copper episode of This American Life, do so now. One of the funniest stories I've ever heard.

Link?

 

[ryanwc]

googling squirrel cop this american life would get you there, but here's a link:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/510/fiasco/act-three-0

 

[begreen]

Thx! That's hilarious. Stay calm and have a plan B.

 

[Prof]

I heard a rodent in what I thought was the dryer vent a few years ago. I thought "turn on the dryer and the little bugger would run right out." BIG mistake, the poor thing was inside the dryer. I spent the rest of the night trying to explain my thinking to my wife as a picked squirrel burger out of various parts of the dryer.

 

[jetsam]

I heard a rodent in what I thought was the dryer vent a few years ago. I thought "turn on the dryer and the little bugger would run right out." BIG mistake, the poor thing was inside the dryer. I spent the rest of the night trying to explain my thinking to my wife as a picked squirrel burger out of various parts of the dryer.

Are you telling me that I can load my dryer with squirrels, put a piece of bread under the dryer vent, and it will turn into lunch?

I learn so many useful things here...

 

[Manly]

My wife hates when I do that...

Maybe so but it a sure fire method to dispatch rodentia, pests and other malcontents.