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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.

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[–] • 5 pts

It vents outside, something climbed in because it smelled food now it can't get out.

[–] • 1 pt

How ironic - It really was a stupid bird Now the next challenge is getting it out of my apartment because it won't stop flying around. Trying to coax it outside with a small bowl of water and a piece of lunch meat - do you think birds like turkey?

[–] • 0 pt

It's probably scared stupid. Last time I had one fly down the vent stack I had to throw a towel on it and drive it about a mile away. Stupid thing kept trying to get in.

[–] • 1 pt

Finally got it outside by throwing a bedsheet on it. It didn't even fly away, just chirped at me and hopped away. They're probably attracted to the warm air in the ducts. And it sounds like the rest of the flock are welcoming it home because birds are chirpping like crazy outside my window.