Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2026 Poal.co

1.4K

I live in a shitty ass apartment and was woken up around 7am this morning to what I thought were sounds of someone shoveling snow - but it turns out that it's a wild animal stuck in my oven's fan air duct - I can hear it scratching as I'm typing this - I've already called and left a message for the property management company but they probably won't respond until tomorrow and I'm hoping the animal won't be dead.

I don't know WTF it is - a bird, squirrel, chipmunk, mouse, rat - but I'm not gonna take apart the fan and air duct to find out - and I'm dreading having a maintenance guy or an HVAC tech come do it.

How the fuck does something like this happen? Especially when I'm on the 1st floor.

EDIT: The creature is stuck in the air vent that connects to the little hut that's (sometimes) above stoves - The fan on mine connects to a very small air duct - only big enough for animals mentioned above to get into.

I live in a shitty ass apartment and was woken up around 7am this morning to what I thought were sounds of someone shoveling snow - but it turns out that it's a wild animal stuck in my oven's fan air duct - I can hear it scratching as I'm typing this - I've already called and left a message for the property management company but they probably won't respond until tomorrow and I'm hoping the animal won't be dead. I don't know WTF it is - a bird, squirrel, chipmunk, mouse, rat - but I'm not gonna take apart the fan and air duct to find out - and I'm dreading having a maintenance guy or an HVAC tech come do it. How the fuck does something like this happen? Especially when I'm on the 1st floor. EDIT: The creature is stuck in the air vent that connects to the little hut that's (sometimes) above stoves - The fan on mine connects to a very small air duct - only big enough for animals mentioned above to get into.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (26).
[–] • 0 pt

Set the oven on 500 and let it run for 12 hours. Mummify that motherfucker. You'll never even smell it's desiccated corpse.

[–] • 2 pts

It's in the air duct above my oven. And I don't kill helpless animals - I feel bad about trapping mice.

[–] • 0 pt

Well then, set it on 350 and run it for an hour while pounding on the duct periodically. Maybe it'll drop down and you can have a free rat roast.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Sure, if you like living in a crypt

[–] • 1 pt

I'm pretty damn sure there are rodent skeletons galore in the walls of my house. I hate the little bastards. Rat poison is regularly replaced in my kitchen cubbyholes. At least once a year I'll smell another dead one in there somewhere. Then the smell goes away after a few days and suddenly the window is filled with fat, slow, retarded flies. They're fat, slow and retarded because they gorged on poisoned rodent meat in the maggot stage. lol You get used to it.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yes, that blocked vent should back up all the gasses into the home. You either die in a house fire or suffocate in the stench and die. Problem solved.

[–] • 1 pt

Nah... if it's got enough room to scratch around there's enough room to let the heat kill it and slowly dry it out. Once all the moisture is baked out of their little bodies, they lose 90% of their volume.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Just like with my neighbor's bratty kid, but that's another story. Dehydrated kid fits in a shipping tube. My shed has no smell.

But I don't talk about it. Shhhh!