Raccoon in my chimney.......

Heard noises coming the fireplace on Saturday then again yesterday about 6:30 pm. I went outside to look and waited about 10 min and a head popped out of the chimney. Went back inside and told the GF "yep we got a critter" . So I went and and opened the damper and looked up....he's moving around, not stuck. Now I have to figure how to get him out SOON before a litter comes along.

Any suggestions? Don't want to do a fire cause what I read on the web is there are shelves in the chimney and they'll move up and stay on a higher shelf til the fire is out. Don't think shooting him in there is good idea either. I don't want him to die in there. Then I have a dead carcass with odor.

I'll probably have to call a critter control company to remove and take him away.

Wished I would've capped the chimney when I first got in here. Had alot going on at that time....new house, interior updates, yard work up the ass, engine being built, work, life in general.......just venting and pissed

Bait it out and Close off the hole.....

Tuna Fish..... Dog Food..... Ect.

I would think that a small but smokey fire would run him out...like some newspapers or a couple of magazines. Not much heat, but he'd have to come out for air.

Put a live trap on the roof with a honey bun inside.................. Tractor supply has them here for $25.00 (traps not he honey buns)

IDT-572 wrote:Put a live trap on the roof with a honey bun inside.................. Tractor supply has them here for $25.00 (traps not he honey buns)

Is that the way you get a date

Friday Night in Tennessee........

dfree383 wrote:Friday Night in Tennessee........

Lem Now you see why Dave spends so much time at my house.................

Lem Evans wrote:

IDT-572 wrote:Put a live trap on the roof with a honey bun inside.................. Tractor supply has them here for $25.00 (traps not he honey buns)

Is that the way you get a date

Yes it is but I have to change the bait.........................

IDT-572 wrote:

dfree383 wrote:Friday Night in Tennessee........

Lem Now you see why Dave spends so much time at my house.................

need a good dog , no coon round my house , they tend to shy away from a 108lb rottweiler , and if not they become dinner

Yeh, come to think of it, I could loan you a Catahoula named "Bugsy". He's got NO sense of humor when it comes to racoons.

Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

That I want to see.

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

He will tear yo lil azz up........................... Go for it

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

racist! they like happy meals too.

Got em out . Cap installed on chimney

I had some smoke bombs from TSC left over from last year (designed for critters). I lit one, it pushed him up but not out. So I got my 30' tape measure out. I'm laying on my back in the fireplace looking up the chimney, safety glasses on and trying to coax up with the tape, he didn't like that and came back down So I gave it a rest and tried my last smoke bomb. Same result up but not out I decided to light a fire and that got him out. Too much heat in the kitchen

....One Less Cook....

IDT-572 wrote:

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

He will tear yo lil azz up........................... Go for it

I'd pay to see that show !!!!!!

dfree383 wrote:

IDT-572 wrote:

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

He will tear yo lil azz up........................... Go for it

I'd pay to see that show !!!!!!

Me too

D. Sea wrote:

dfree383 wrote:

IDT-572 wrote:

bb429power wrote:Don't coons like grape koolaid and watermelon? Bait em with that stuff. once you get em out get some of that really coarse metal mesh junk. Not sure if its considered chicken wire or not, put it on the chimney with a brick on it. That's what we put on ours and nothins gotten into it. Or I could come over, tie a rope to my foot, you can lower me into the chimney and I'll get the critter out!

He will tear yo lil azz up........................... Go for it

I'd pay to see that show !!!!!!

Me too

me 3 lmfao

Justin, that coon would turn you inside out. They get plum mad dog mean when they get cornered.

Darnit why'd you have to get it out? Raccoons get pissed I know I'm a little bit of a neck round here.

Oh there would be more than red on that neck if you decided to tackle that coon.

schmitty wrote:Oh there would be more than red on that neck if you decided to tackle that coon.

Yep, on the neck, and elsewhere, and brown in his drawers time that coon turned him loose.

schmitty wrote:Justin, that coon would turn you inside out. They get plum mad dog mean when they get cornered.

X2.......a big mean dog may kill one but it'd wish it hadn't.