How do you get a dead cat out of your heating vent?

well, as most of you have been wondering for a long time....i have the answer for you from personal experiance.

So my Future wife had a cat crawl into her heating vent and try to sneak its way into the house. She did not let it. But upon returning that night, she relized that the cat had died and started to smell up the house. The heater had kicked on so it wasn't the best situation. So who does she call...??

well...me.

Failry simple kids so pay attention.

1.)Finding the cat. you have to make sure that you know where the cat is. I used a standard mirror to reach down the vents with a flashlight to find set dead cat. You can use the mirror to reflect the light down the vents.
---first mistake---
You must prepare your self for the cat being right next to the vent. So when i put the mirror down and looked...the first think i saw was a dead cat face with glazed eyes getting eaten by ants. I screamed like a girl.

2.)Geting the cat out. Easier said that done. I rigged a few coat hangers to grab the lifeless cat and drag him to the vent where you can extract it. Make sure you use gloves becuase that is nasty.
---mistake---
MAke sure you have a trash bag becuase you don't want to walk through the house holding a dead cat.

now....go out and do your best. Feed your roomates.


dkt

 

I used to live in the sticks. I've had to fish poor animals out of the pool, fireplace, attic, under the porch, etc.

It's a horrible experience all around.

 

Oh... youre serious?



sorry dude, that really sucks

 

Who needs heating in Nevada?

 

kat killer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Put a dead fish near the heater vent and wait for it to come out?



We had a squirrel fall down our chimney stack that went to the furnace.

He managed to crawl into the pipe that connects the chimney to the furnace and got stuck.
This pipe gets HOT!
He was still alive. One day we were in the basement and heard some scratching. I thought my daughter had come downstairs.
We finally figured out that it was something in the pipe.
I had to unscrew the pipe and take the whole pipe outside.

It finally crawled out of the pipe covered in grey soot and missing the fur from much of it's body.
It crawled away into the snow.
We called him Burnie.

 

It finally crawled out of the pipe covered in grey soot and missing the fur from much of it's body.
It crawled away into the snow.


It was so happy it was alive, the whole world seemed different, the snow whiter, the trees bigger, and his girlfriend, who he could see running after him, so much cuter. Then the hawk ate him.

 

a flame thrower might work.

 

hey snerd...whos's story is this......JK

it actually gets cold down here in nevada. For me its ok. For cats...not so ok i take it.


dkt

 

What you're really supposed to do is turn up the heat and cook him.

THEN you get him out and eat him.

 

You might as well as burn your whole house down dude. The smell that cat is going to leave after you remove it is going to be putrid. Remember it's stuck in your heating duct. Every time you turn on your heat at night it's going to slowly roast that dead cat like a chicken and permeate everything in your house, including your clothes and carpet. Have fun with that.

 

i won't have a problom becuase the cat is now out.

I got it out before it cooked and baked. The heater just made the smell come up through the vents.

dkt

 

We had swallows...or bats... in our chimney that chittered demonicly every time you knocked on the wall where they could hear it...so my genious dad decides the quickest and cheapest way to take care of them was to put a cap on the chimney so they couldn't get in.

Unfortunately there was still a good number of them still in the chimney and couldn't get out, so they starved to death and filled the house with the sickening perfume of rotting animals.

The bottom of the chimney is boarded up so I can only wonder how much worse it could have smelled if there wasn't a sheet of wood between me and the corpses.