Okay, so maybe I shouldn't have giggled so hard about your rabbit delima (sp?)
Cause here's what happened to us yesterday.
I kept hearing a cat cry and I though it was in my front yard but I couldn't find it - then later as I walked by the fireplace I heard scratching.
No way - a cat in the chimney -
I call my DH, Kevin and he just laughed at me. He said there was no way a cat could get into the chimney and he wanted to know what kind of substances I'd been abusing during the day
He came home to assure me absolutely no way could this happen. He went up on roof to prove to me I was wrong --- where low and behold something had torn a hole in the cover screen to the chimney.
And a flashlight inspection confirmed that there was indeed a cat in the chimney
No way he says hah
So we tried lowering a bucket of food down hoping he would get in and we could pull him out. Nope he wasn't having any of that. We lowered old drapes all the way from the top to the fireplace hoping he would either climb up and out or down where we could get him and we waited
Nope didn't work, that cat just spent the night in our chimney. So we were awoken several times during the night by cat howls.
Finally this morning the cat peered off the ledge in the chimney enough for Kevin to reach up and grab him
That poor thing was solid soot
hmmm, note to self, might need to call a chimney sweep