My son heard a noise in the chimney, and he panicked.
- He thought Santa may have gotten in the chimney and gotten stuck.
He wanted me to shine a light into the chimney and see if Santa was in there. I tried my best to convince him that Santa wasn’t in the chimney, but he insisted. When my husband got home, he shined the flashlight up in the chimney. He said he didn’t see Santa, but something more frightening. There was a raccoon in the chimney. He quickly put the screen up and blocked it off so the raccoon couldn’t get into the house. He stood there with the poker in his hand while I called the HVAC company. I wanted to know who we would should call to remove the raccoon without it getting injured, and he gave me the number of a live capture exterminator. I called the number and told them what we could see in the chimney. Two hours later, the exterminator was at the door. He went up on the roof and looked down the chimney and said there didn’t seem to be any obstruction. He wanted to set a smoke bomb off about three feet in the chimney and hoped it would make the raccoon move. If it didn’t, he was going to need to put a noose down from the top. Either way, he did it didn’t matter. I just wanted the raccoon out so we could use the furnace that night. It was going to get cold, and I wanted the fireplace to be usable while watching television with my two favorite men.
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