Hey Gang, It's our first winter living in our house we spent last year renovating. We have a fireplace in our living room, but since we have not had the flue cleared yet, we're not using it. But something is living up there, or maybe stuck in there. We hear it scurrying around, dropping dirt and tiny bones into the fireplace. Maybe it is an ogre. Probably a squirrel. We would like to get the poor little guy safely out of there before our cats crawl up there and get him. Any ideas? Thank you!
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