KITTY RESCUE!

Jeff came over to assess the situation with the cat - which happened to actually be a kitten. Poor little guy :( Well Jeff didn't think he was going to be the hero of the night. He was just seeing what could be done with out having to tear our fire place apart. Earlier in the day we had a Chimney Sweep come out and see if he could pull the kitten out with his snare. Well that was unsuccessful. The kitty pushed itself into the corner and was hissing and putting up a good fight. He did tell us that if someone was small enough they could possibly go through the damper and get the cat out. But we would have to break the damper. And put someones face at risk of getting clawed off. So he recommended we have the fire department come - which there was no way we wanted them over. They would bring in hammers and axes and break our fire place to pieces to get the cat out. We know this because we called a fire fighter who is a friend of Jeff's. So then the other recommendation Gary Poppins ( The Chimney Sweep guy) had was to call his friend Jimmy who does masonry. He could give us an estimate and let us know what it would take to get the cat out. Which was cutting a hole in the fire place, reaching in and pulling the cat out and the repairing the hole. Well we were not about to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to get a cat out that wasn't ours. So we didn't have Jimmy come out and give the estimate. So we were kind of at a loss with what to do. Around 6 p.m Jeff called me and said he was going to come over to check it out. He shows up in a white t shirt and tan shorts! haha! Anyway- This is bad, but he brought a gun over with him to possibly kill the cat and take it out of it's misery. And then light a huge fire and see if it would burn the cat and the smell. When he got here he poked his head in the fire place and noticed that he could fit his hand up into the damper. So he went to the roof and used the 2 by 4 to poke the kitty and try to get it cornered so he could reach in and get it from inside. So about an hour went by and he was still trying to figure out how to get the cat to stand up and he could yank it out. It was so funny! Very comical night - watching and listening to him and his son converse about how to get the cat cornered. All of the sudden Jeff arches his back and shoves his arm further into the damper yells out and then pulls out this screaming meowing kitten! We put it in the cat trap and offered it some tuna. Which it would not take, still scared out of its mind. Poor kitty! But Jeff got it out alive and we don't have murder of a cat on our hands! Such a relief. And we didn't have to leave our house! It was an amazing event. A life was saved and we have peace and quiet in our fire place again. Jeff looked like a coal miner when he was all done. The area around the fire place was covered in soot. And Jeff left my shower and bathroom messy with soot. And he left his clothing here for me to wash - while he wore home Reyn's clothing. But we didn't have to pay any money, we didn't have to kill anything and we got to sleep at our house with out a cat meowing loud as ever.