Critter in our ducts
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Not sure how it got in there, but its trying to get out. Its moving from grate to grate and can’t climb them. Driving the cats nuts.
I suppose it will take care of itself if it cant get out.
@Mik Open a vent? Or are they large enough that one of the cats might go in after it?
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I once had two critters that somebody called 'field rats'. They chewed a hole in the ceiling of my pantry (where food was kept). They were bigger than mice, and certainly noisier.
They were incredibly destructive. Forget the cats; they drove ME crazy for weeks -- made a horrible mess in the pantry. I tried everything to get rid of them without resorting to cruel or painful methods, and nothing worked. Till finally with great reluctance I applied the poison pellets from D-Con. Those worked. I have no pets, so I could use them; obviously you can't.
Point being, if they get in the house, boy howdy. The cats will definitely earn their 9Lives then.
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Mr. Critter decided he likes the dining room vent and was apparently able to reach either his paws or his snout up through the louvers. Saw it several times.
Hated to do it, but we chased him away from there, and I set a glue trap with a string attached down into the duct. That should get him and I’ll whack his head with a hammer to put him out of his misery.
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Mr. Critter decided he likes the dining room vent and was apparently able to reach either his paws or his snout up through the louvers. Saw it several times.
Hated to do it, but we chased him away from there, and I set a glue trap with a string attached down into the duct. That should get him and I’ll whack his head with a hammer to put him out of his misery.
@Mik said in Critter in our ducts:
Mr. Critter decided he likes the dining room vent and was apparently able to reach either his paws or his snout up through the louvers. Saw it several times.
Hated to do it, but we chased him away from there, and I set a glue trap with a string attached down into the duct. That should get him and I’ll whack his head with a hammer to put him out of his misery.
More humane than dehydration in the ductwork.
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THE PLOT THICKENS!
We heard it rumbling around and were sure he was caught in the trap. So we pulled up the vent cover and viola!
It was a Grackle!!!
How the heck a Grackle got into our heating ducts I will have to investigate.
Well, I wasn’t going to whack an innocent bird’s head with a hammer, so I took him outside and poured vegetable oil on the trap, which dissolves the glue. After a few minutes he was mostly loose and flapping, I used the string to pull the trap off his last talon and away he went…on foot. He’s got some oil on him and I hope he can shake it off eventually, but he managed to get himself over the fence to some shelter so he may be ok.
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If a bird pulls a stunt like that in my house he probably won't survive.
I like birds and everything, but he probably just wouldn't make it.
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