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Every year, we go through this nonsense. We keep our yard clean, yet they keep coming into our heating ducts. They must get in through under/beside the heat pump outside, and get up into the ductwork. We have plugged the hole with concrete; they still get through. We just had a new heat pump installed last August, and asked the workmen to plug up the hole, which they did; I checked when they finished. Today, I was sitting in the living room, watching TV. I kept hearing noises coming from the electric fireplace, which is against the stairway/pantry wall. We had a mouse/rat in that interior wall last year. It chewed a mouse hole in the wall. The year before, the same thing--and I came home to a dead rat in the foyer. (I think it was Sarah Jane's kill!)
Funny--even though several cats are near that area, none of them are hearing the noises. It's something near wires and hitting against metal--which would make sense there (the fireplace has a metal "fire" box inserted into a mantel surround). Did I mention that I'm terrified of rodents indoors?
I'm mostly afraid of my cats touching it. I don't want them to catch any germs and/or get in a fight with a rodent.
I'm ready to sell this house. I'm so sick of this every year. I feel as if I'm living in some sort of rodential Amityville Horror house!
P.S., dear rodents: we have ten, count 'em, TEN cats in here.
Funny--even though several cats are near that area, none of them are hearing the noises. It's something near wires and hitting against metal--which would make sense there (the fireplace has a metal "fire" box inserted into a mantel surround). Did I mention that I'm terrified of rodents indoors?
I'm mostly afraid of my cats touching it. I don't want them to catch any germs and/or get in a fight with a rodent.
I'm ready to sell this house. I'm so sick of this every year. I feel as if I'm living in some sort of rodential Amityville Horror house!
P.S., dear rodents: we have ten, count 'em, TEN cats in here.