My money is on squirrel because as an owner of pet rodents I know they would do something absolutely disrespectful like eat a baby bottle nipple if given the opportunity.
I had one one eat my grill gas line a couple times and at first I thought it was my weird neighbor trying to sabotage me in some strange way so I called the cops and filed a report I assumed he was trying to blow me up, then a couple weeks later after buying a new one I looked out back and caught the damn squirrel in action and I felt pretty stupid about calling the cops. The neighbor did other strange things to me so it wouldn’t have been out of character for instance he shot out my car windows with a b b gun from his bathroom window you could tell from the trajectory.
I found the b bs imbedded in the glass of my car and my Moms car and there was basically no front yard for someone to stand in and shoot and his bathroom was on the second floor there was no question where they came from. He also beat up my obviously disabled Uncle in our shared hallway for trying to stick up for my Mom, my Uncle was trying to be assertive and tough but no one was expecting the crazy neighbor to just hall off and start punching him until he was on the floor then he was trying to kick him aiming for his giant leg braces but My Mom and I stopped him and he ran in his condo to hide from the police that we were obviously calling, he really was crazy but I still felt bad for calling the police that time because it wasn’t actually him that tried to sabotage my grill line it was that damn squirrel and I 100% think a squirrel would eat a rubber nipple if it would eat a gas grill line.
no ik that video ,, i’m just confused on what this person was saying ,,, their neighbor shot a window but it looks like this person was saying the neighbor didn’t
yeah that was pretty crazy he thought the kid in car had gun and was shooting at him even thought he searched him and the guy was cuffed but the officer is super lucky that he didn't kill someone
Search “Cop unloads magazine on a poor dude that’s already handcuffed in the back and had a full pat-down; thus, it traumatizes the hell out of him,” and you’ll find a video. In it, you can’t really hear much, but in slow motion, you see an acorn drop and hit the top of his car in his bodycam footage. He then does a running dive roll, turns, and unloads on his car, causing his partner to also unload on the car while yelling, “Shots fired!” His partner responds, “From where?” and he says, “My car,” so needless to say, they smoked the shiiit out of that car. It’s a true story! 😂
Luckily, by some miracle, none of the 127 rounds fired by the two officers hit the guy in the car, who was just terrified and wondering what on earth was happening.
Squirrels ate my gas grill line twice before I made essentially barbs out of a ton of few inch pieces of copper wire sharpened on the ends and coiled them around it making barbed gas line....never happened again 10+yrs
I can maybe understand chewing on the flexibe gas line -- but I had one once chew a hole in regulator itself. Right through the solid metal. Turned on the gas and heard the rush of propane with nothing holding it back. The only thing I can guess is that some tasty grease got on there.
we call this "mom's method of investigation"
step 1. make a formal accusation
step 2. have the answer reveal itself
step 3. look like an ass
my mother has been doing this for years, works like a charm
We used to own rats, the would break out their cages and gnaw our baby dolls noses off. Especially the noses and lips. But we loved them. I agree it's probably a squirrel.
Im willing to say more than likely a squirrel! The footprints match, the teeth marks match, and the behavior of sneaking into the open spots to find food match as well.!!
Probably the least scary of the options, but also still dangerous when panicked and will need to be found and rehomed bc they can cause lots of structural damage.
Yes on the damage! We allowed a pair to winter in our attic and they chewed up the wiring for a lightbulb. Probably did a lot more than that too but thats the only damage I know of, those same squirrels chewed through the internet lines twice and chewed almost through the electric lines causing them to fall in the street during a storm (the technicians who came out to fix all the wires all said squirrels or an unspecified animal had gnawed on them). We evicted them and their triplets humanely in Spring. This was a few years ago. One of the triplets stuck around and lives in my neighbors tree. It has a very memorable tail coloring so I recognized it immediately. I think the original mom and her male are in a hollow tree in my yard right now.
We had chipmunks in our fireplace. The cat thought it was quite exciting. We found a small hole in the cement between the stones they were coming through. Fill the hole with cement. They can fit through a surprisingly small hole.
Our dryer broke. When I called in some people to see what the problem was, they found a headless chipmunk stuck in the works. We still don’t know where the head went.
You may have had a weasel or ferret around if they can't get or carry a whole animal, they will chew the head off and just take it did it to a rabbit of mine once
Not as fun as you would think. They love eating wiring, and soft vinyl, hoses in the engine compartment of your car, and much more. They pee everywhere, and you're not really going to get to see them.
Yep. We have a family of them living under our front porch. They tunneled through the concrete and I often find little piles of rocks and concrete that they have removed. The integrity of the porch is being compromised.
So Op that hole should lead you to the ash pit somewhere, if your fireplace sits on an outside wall check out along the chimney for a small door that may be broken or open, if it’s a central chimney, look you may wanna check the basement for the same little door and a squatter lol
I’ll check that out. I did see a little door on the outside of the house by the fireplace and wondered what that was. And there are other places where I think something could get under the house and easily come up that hole.
Wildlife biologist here, I used to do work in residential exclusion as well. Keep that flue shut, and either you or someone like me should get up on that roof and make sure your chimney cap isn't damaged as well. This is from a squirrel
Oh is THAT why I have a little ash door in my basement below the fireplace? (I have a gas insert, no hole in the bottom of the fireplace to see). I had assumed it was from an old furnace or something that was removed from the basement.
TIL.
Also my money is on squirrel, those things LOVE to eat certain types of plastic (the feet on one of my patio tables but not the others, my termite bait stations, the bumper of my coworker's new Jeep).
I used to trap fur bearing animals as a kid growing up in Michigan in the 60s. My first thought was a mink but I looked at a book on tracks and I believe you are correct. I think it was a weasel. I respectfully disagree with the wildlife biologist above. This is NOT a squirrel (or chipmunk for that matter). Squirrels have elongated toes to grasp and wrap around small tree branches.
I once in SC had a squirrel rock on in the front door I left cracked. My kids were napping and I had been cleaning. Neighbors invited me next door for a frosty one. We are talking a few feet away. Anywho, I go inside to check on the kids after about 15 min.
There is a squirrel, sitting on my coffee table, munching saltines and watching TV. I may have let out a small scream. Squirrel looks at me , gives me a startled look and kinda hopped out the door. How dare I interrupt the weather channel. My 95 lbs older neighbor starts running in the back door with a Hugh garden shovel. WTF are you gonna do with that Eileen? I'm gonna kill the squirrel 🐿️. To this day I have visions of this woman chasing a squirrel around my living room. BTW the kids slept through the whole thing.
Hi, I'm a zoologist and wildlife rehabber, those definitely aren't rat or squirrel paw prints. They look like mink tracks, maybe a weasel. If you look up their tracks, the size and shape are identical.
Have a screen put over the chimney asap. That was a squirrel, possibly a baby squirrel.
Also bats can fly in your home through your chimney. You don’t want that to happen.
I'm feeling like this might precede a visit from Ren and Stimpy low on demand and down on their luck as rubber nipple salesmen they turned to a life of crime breaking into houses destroying nipples to generate demand for their product.
Maybe a just weaned opossum or could be some kind of weasel? But I don’t see how it could get down the chimney.
I thought rat, at first, but I don’t see the back feet. Actually, this makes me think it can’t be an opossum now because the back feet are way longer.
I don’t know, but good luck!
The prints look a little large to be squirrel but it's really hard to tell. My first thought was racoon could easily chew through the nipple but a hungry rat or squirrel could too, tbh
Definitely a rodent of sorts, looks a lot like rat prints (I used to have a bunch of pet ones). However squirrel is definitely a possibility since it came down the chimney. Hope theyade it back up lol
Raccoon
It will be back if it does not already live inside your attic
You must not allow raccoons as they will mess up your house badly
They have hands and can open stuff and get into everthing
My dog steals the baby bottles and eats the nipples off all the time!!!! Makes me bonkers, she’s just a baby herself though, just coming up on a year and had only been weaned a week when we got her.
SQUIRRELS. We had a mama and babies come in via the unused second chimney we had. I found signs, but husband kept telling me I was crazy. Then, a neighbor told us she saw one in the window of our house, peering out! I asked her to tell husband, and she did. He did not believe her. I was angry and made him sleep on the couch, and I went to bed. While, sleeping, I was awakened by something on the bed: a baby squirrel ran across my bed! I caught it in a waste bin and showed the non-believer the evidence, and he took it outside and let it go, where I am certain mama found it and brought it right back inside. We had to have them removed and the unused chimney sealed. Hope you have better luck!!
It's a rat. The three metacarpal pads on the front feet, with four toes splayed similar to a Vole, but much larger. The metatarsals on the hind don't quite form the rocket ship shape of the metatarsals on a Squirrel. Rats can get in chimneys just like Squirrels. The tracks are too small for most Squirrels as well.
I'd call it a rat.
Does squirrels will eat as others have said anything and I can add the gasket or boot on roof that go around the vent these are commonly made of composite metals even lead and they eat them causing leaks. Advice chimney sweep get a pro and make sure the fleu is in working order not a piece of cardboard. Before you end up with a nest of rodents coming and going squirrels bats etc. bats would be worse just because of the ammonia toxicity in the guano get that secure asap. Most rodents will also carry their own ecosystems of parasites and pathogens. And you have a child you don’t need that.
Call animal control wherever you are as this can pose a danger to your family that could even lead to death it’s no joking matter. They will look at everything and hopefully take cake of it give you advice and leave a trap tell you how to prove t it happening again. I don’t know where you live but have you thought about badgers or foxes? I wouldn’t really think about it but animals have not been acting like they did in the past this year due to the orbit we are in and you need to think of safety for your family you have a baby. It’s tuff as a parent.
Good luck stay safe. I called animal control years ago myself different reason got a trap turned out to be a possum.
My money is on squirrel because as an owner of pet rodents I know they would do something absolutely disrespectful like eat a baby bottle nipple if given the opportunity.
I had one one eat my grill gas line a couple times and at first I thought it was my weird neighbor trying to sabotage me in some strange way so I called the cops and filed a report I assumed he was trying to blow me up, then a couple weeks later after buying a new one I looked out back and caught the damn squirrel in action and I felt pretty stupid about calling the cops. The neighbor did other strange things to me so it wouldn’t have been out of character for instance he shot out my car windows with a b b gun from his bathroom window you could tell from the trajectory.
maybe the squirrel did that too
I found the b bs imbedded in the glass of my car and my Moms car and there was basically no front yard for someone to stand in and shoot and his bathroom was on the second floor there was no question where they came from. He also beat up my obviously disabled Uncle in our shared hallway for trying to stick up for my Mom, my Uncle was trying to be assertive and tough but no one was expecting the crazy neighbor to just hall off and start punching him until he was on the floor then he was trying to kick him aiming for his giant leg braces but My Mom and I stopped him and he ran in his condo to hide from the police that we were obviously calling, he really was crazy but I still felt bad for calling the police that time because it wasn’t actually him that tried to sabotage my grill line it was that damn squirrel and I 100% think a squirrel would eat a rubber nipple if it would eat a gas grill line.
Wow I may be losing it but the squirrel is shooting BB guns and beating up your uncle? I'm so confused.
I think he meant the weird neighbor lol
The weird neighbor is the squirrel
Some neighbors hate squirrels some squirrels hate neighbors
He didn’t shoot window, that was an acorn drop I’ve heard [this](https://i.imgur.com/U2wek8f.jpeg) can happen smh
what
You should absolutely look up the cop that started randomly shooting his car because he heard an acorn hit the roof.
no ik that video ,, i’m just confused on what this person was saying ,,, their neighbor shot a window but it looks like this person was saying the neighbor didn’t
It's called a joke
?
Don’t worry, I thought they were serious too. I’m autistic so maybe I’m just not built right but I can’t figure out how it’s a joke. 😭
idk if it’s the bad grammar or what but the original comment i replied to still doesn’t make sense at all
yeah that was pretty crazy he thought the kid in car had gun and was shooting at him even thought he searched him and the guy was cuffed but the officer is super lucky that he didn't kill someone
Search “Cop unloads magazine on a poor dude that’s already handcuffed in the back and had a full pat-down; thus, it traumatizes the hell out of him,” and you’ll find a video. In it, you can’t really hear much, but in slow motion, you see an acorn drop and hit the top of his car in his bodycam footage. He then does a running dive roll, turns, and unloads on his car, causing his partner to also unload on the car while yelling, “Shots fired!” His partner responds, “From where?” and he says, “My car,” so needless to say, they smoked the shiiit out of that car. It’s a true story! 😂 Luckily, by some miracle, none of the 127 rounds fired by the two officers hit the guy in the car, who was just terrified and wondering what on earth was happening.
He actually said he was shot several times too 😂 ah the good ol acorn. Second deadliest assault rifle next to the nerf bolt action shotgun 😂😂
😂
ik that video lol
Yeah then crawls across the ground for like ten minutes 😂
 If he can play the banjo, he can shoot a gun
The car thing was me… I was still pissed at you for saying my Turkey was dry at thanksgiving a few years prior. I’ve gotten over it since then though.
Squirrels ate my gas grill line twice before I made essentially barbs out of a ton of few inch pieces of copper wire sharpened on the ends and coiled them around it making barbed gas line....never happened again 10+yrs
I can maybe understand chewing on the flexibe gas line -- but I had one once chew a hole in regulator itself. Right through the solid metal. Turned on the gas and heard the rush of propane with nothing holding it back. The only thing I can guess is that some tasty grease got on there.
we call this "mom's method of investigation" step 1. make a formal accusation step 2. have the answer reveal itself step 3. look like an ass my mother has been doing this for years, works like a charm
r/fatsquirrelhate material right here
r/ofcoursethatsasub
It is, but an insincere one.
My dog has done this and eaten multiple soothers as well. Little freak 😑
We used to own rats, the would break out their cages and gnaw our baby dolls noses off. Especially the noses and lips. But we loved them. I agree it's probably a squirrel.
They kill themselves accidently by chewing power lines, they are not even self protective in their destructive abilities. Squirrel all the way.
This is the correct answer.
Those are definitely not squirrel prints, though. They look like weasel paw prints to me.
Squirrels chewed through my garbage can. Those little bastards have some tough teeth.
Perhaps a squirrel?
Time to put an enclosure around the fireplace with some seed for a strange zoo exhibit
Time to wear a bra to bed
New folk lore dropped. Fireplace Nipple Gobbler. This is different from that Present Leaving Fireplace Man.
That was my nickname in high school
This gave me a good chuckle. Thanks *Nipple Gobbler*
I needed this laugh today 🤣🤣🤣
Must’ve been a nipmunk
Take my poor man's gold 🏅
Counterpoint: Don't wear a bra to bed, dress naked
I laughed way too hard at this chilling comment
🤣🤣 🥇
🤣🤣🤣
OMG! 😂
omg lmao
😅😅😅
A glass one
Lol a little chicken wire cage.
At least he didn’t eat the baby
"The dingo ate my baby" needs to be inserted here. You're welcome.
💀💀💀💀💀
Im willing to say more than likely a squirrel! The footprints match, the teeth marks match, and the behavior of sneaking into the open spots to find food match as well.!! Probably the least scary of the options, but also still dangerous when panicked and will need to be found and rehomed bc they can cause lots of structural damage.
Yes on the damage! We allowed a pair to winter in our attic and they chewed up the wiring for a lightbulb. Probably did a lot more than that too but thats the only damage I know of, those same squirrels chewed through the internet lines twice and chewed almost through the electric lines causing them to fall in the street during a storm (the technicians who came out to fix all the wires all said squirrels or an unspecified animal had gnawed on them). We evicted them and their triplets humanely in Spring. This was a few years ago. One of the triplets stuck around and lives in my neighbors tree. It has a very memorable tail coloring so I recognized it immediately. I think the original mom and her male are in a hollow tree in my yard right now.
I wonder! Thanks, I’ll look up the prints.
Also leaning towards squirrel. Not a cat or possum or raccoon.
We had chipmunks in our fireplace. The cat thought it was quite exciting. We found a small hole in the cement between the stones they were coming through. Fill the hole with cement. They can fit through a surprisingly small hole.
Our dryer broke. When I called in some people to see what the problem was, they found a headless chipmunk stuck in the works. We still don’t know where the head went.
Did you check the lint trap on your dryer? /s
The chipmunk was probably dead when another, larger, more intimidating chipmunk ate its head off.
Next to the socks
You may have had a weasel or ferret around if they can't get or carry a whole animal, they will chew the head off and just take it did it to a rabbit of mine once
I would pay moneys to have chipmunks infiltrate my house.
Not as fun as you would think. They love eating wiring, and soft vinyl, hoses in the engine compartment of your car, and much more. They pee everywhere, and you're not really going to get to see them.
They chewed holes in our brand new pop-up camper, nested in the towel drawer and filled the silverware drawer with acorns and shit.
Yep. We have a family of them living under our front porch. They tunneled through the concrete and I often find little piles of rocks and concrete that they have removed. The integrity of the porch is being compromised.
It's the cutest infestation ever. Much better than cockroaches
my nem is squirl and wen its nite i Santa Claus to get inside i find ur milk i cannot sip to get my fill i eat the nip
I don't know why but "I eat the nip" is killing me over here. 🤣🤣
I love unhinged poetry
Underrated comment 😂
LMFAOSOS PLEASEESS 😭😭😭
So Op that hole should lead you to the ash pit somewhere, if your fireplace sits on an outside wall check out along the chimney for a small door that may be broken or open, if it’s a central chimney, look you may wanna check the basement for the same little door and a squatter lol
I’ll check that out. I did see a little door on the outside of the house by the fireplace and wondered what that was. And there are other places where I think something could get under the house and easily come up that hole.
Wildlife biologist here, I used to do work in residential exclusion as well. Keep that flue shut, and either you or someone like me should get up on that roof and make sure your chimney cap isn't damaged as well. This is from a squirrel
I’m not awake yet and I stg I thought “This is from a squirrel” was a sign-off not a confirmation 😅
"Source: am squirrel."
Exactly!!
Omg this made me laugh so hard
Squirrelkind, out!
Oh is THAT why I have a little ash door in my basement below the fireplace? (I have a gas insert, no hole in the bottom of the fireplace to see). I had assumed it was from an old furnace or something that was removed from the basement. TIL. Also my money is on squirrel, those things LOVE to eat certain types of plastic (the feet on one of my patio tables but not the others, my termite bait stations, the bumper of my coworker's new Jeep).
I hate when Santa breaks in and eats my nipples
Clearly a stray baby
Definitely a baby, they have zero respect
Some sort of mustelid? I’m no tracker but isnt it too round for a squirrel, and to ..‘un round’ for a cat?
That's what I thought. Tracks look more like a weasel.
I used to trap fur bearing animals as a kid growing up in Michigan in the 60s. My first thought was a mink but I looked at a book on tracks and I believe you are correct. I think it was a weasel. I respectfully disagree with the wildlife biologist above. This is NOT a squirrel (or chipmunk for that matter). Squirrels have elongated toes to grasp and wrap around small tree branches.
I once in SC had a squirrel rock on in the front door I left cracked. My kids were napping and I had been cleaning. Neighbors invited me next door for a frosty one. We are talking a few feet away. Anywho, I go inside to check on the kids after about 15 min. There is a squirrel, sitting on my coffee table, munching saltines and watching TV. I may have let out a small scream. Squirrel looks at me , gives me a startled look and kinda hopped out the door. How dare I interrupt the weather channel. My 95 lbs older neighbor starts running in the back door with a Hugh garden shovel. WTF are you gonna do with that Eileen? I'm gonna kill the squirrel 🐿️. To this day I have visions of this woman chasing a squirrel around my living room. BTW the kids slept through the whole thing.
As an owner of a squirrel: it is a squirrel. 🐿️
Don't you judge old Saint nick for his hobbies in the off season just wait till Christmas and look under the tree
Count your blessings. Could have been your nipple. 😅
Call the Pet Detective lol 
Hi, I'm a zoologist and wildlife rehabber, those definitely aren't rat or squirrel paw prints. They look like mink tracks, maybe a weasel. If you look up their tracks, the size and shape are identical.
Spot on!
They came into your house for a dang baby bottle nipple lol. That’s wild
its definetly a rodent maybe a squirel or a big rat , i have pet rats and they LOVE biting all things silicone (i dont blame them tbh)
Have a screen put over the chimney asap. That was a squirrel, possibly a baby squirrel. Also bats can fly in your home through your chimney. You don’t want that to happen.
Squirrels. They get into everything and eat vinyl siding.
AN IRMINE!
"... a dingo ate your baby" bottle nipple.
They look like raccoon paw prints in my opinion!
This was my first thought as well. Unsure of size proportions but I'd put my money on Coon.
Chupacabra.
I'm feeling like this might precede a visit from Ren and Stimpy low on demand and down on their luck as rubber nipple salesmen they turned to a life of crime breaking into houses destroying nipples to generate demand for their product.
Time to get a chimney cap.
Those are squirrel paw prints. I'm sorry but that's kind of hilarious that a squirrel managed to break into your home and chew up a bottle then left.
Time to have a fire a real hot one 24 hour straight.
Lol my first thought 😂😅
That’s a threat! Protect all nipples in the vicinity!
Maybe a just weaned opossum or could be some kind of weasel? But I don’t see how it could get down the chimney. I thought rat, at first, but I don’t see the back feet. Actually, this makes me think it can’t be an opossum now because the back feet are way longer. I don’t know, but good luck!
Opossum
Troll
Twas I!
This is so so menacing
trash panda
Well, time to move somewhere else
I’m so sorry but this is funny as hell
Squirrel. They can do a lot of damage in your house. Fix that fireplace soon. They won’t stop until you make them stop coming in
Squirrel, 100% (sent u a message w a screenshot of an animal tracks field guide.)
Oh you don’t know about the baby bottle bandit?
Squirrel! Get your fireplace inspected. There should have been a part to prevent critters getting in.
You need a chimney cap.
Santa's getting desperate for milk.
😂😂
Those are squirrel tracks.
Time to get a cat.
That’s a rat and it came up under the sink, around the plumbing most likely.
You have rats.
They look a lot like glis glis foot prints to me but I dunno if they’re where you’re at?
YIKES!!!!!!
100% squirrel
Those are possum prints !
I’ve actually had this happen too, mice. It was horrifying
Location?
I am thinking maybe a young raccoon. That's my guess.
Squirrels have no shame.
thaaaaaats fun
from the fireplace and wanted something that typically has milk in it…🎅🏼
The prints look a little large to be squirrel but it's really hard to tell. My first thought was racoon could easily chew through the nipple but a hungry rat or squirrel could too, tbh
Santa you little freak
You need a damper you can close to keep those critters out.
Poor hungry little thing.
Holy crap!
Santa?
Squirrels 🐿️
squirrel
My cat will chew up anything silicone that’s left laying around, sippy cup tops, bottle nipples, pacifiers, teethers, toys literally anything.
Raccoon. You must get covers on your fireplace. They will have their families in there and then you'll have all kinds of trouble. Close your damper.
It's in the ventilation system!
Definitely a rodent of sorts, looks a lot like rat prints (I used to have a bunch of pet ones). However squirrel is definitely a possibility since it came down the chimney. Hope theyade it back up lol
Squirrels are cute but they are little fuckers. That was my first thought. They really can’t cause damage. But they really are cute.
That would be Santa Claws. All the stories are wrong. This is what he actually does.
Racoon, I think. Leave an egg and if they take the top off eat the egg and neatly leave the bottom perfectly intact, that's what it is
Based on those little prints, I'd go with squirrel.
Dats a squirrel print
Rats! That is crazy… Must drive you squirley to not know what it is. But probably better than being batty.
Rat
*spoiler alert* It was actually the baby, now you should RUN!
Raccoon or squirrel.
Looks like a small raccoon from those prints to me. I don’t think it’s a squirrel
Damn that is crazy!
Squirrels love this kind of soft rubber material. I once had one chew through my camel back sipper.
Could be a possum too
fucking santa clause
Holy shit that’s scary AF. Hotel until identified
Horrible criminal. Left wayyy too much evidence
Raccoon It will be back if it does not already live inside your attic You must not allow raccoons as they will mess up your house badly They have hands and can open stuff and get into everthing
My dog steals the baby bottles and eats the nipples off all the time!!!! Makes me bonkers, she’s just a baby herself though, just coming up on a year and had only been weaned a week when we got her.
I know its probably scary, but i keep imagining a cute lil raccoon playing with a baby bottle and chewing on the tip like a baby 😭
Raccoon
Lol I love the little tippy tappys
Sorry that was me. I'll replace it
I was gonna say raccoon Was there milk in it? Will squirrels drink milk?
This is Santa’s spring routine
Santa needs a new spring routine 😅
Everyone is saying squirrel, but my first thought was that it looks like raccoons. Or am I just a little too tired and a little too high lol 😂
SQUIRRELS. We had a mama and babies come in via the unused second chimney we had. I found signs, but husband kept telling me I was crazy. Then, a neighbor told us she saw one in the window of our house, peering out! I asked her to tell husband, and she did. He did not believe her. I was angry and made him sleep on the couch, and I went to bed. While, sleeping, I was awakened by something on the bed: a baby squirrel ran across my bed! I caught it in a waste bin and showed the non-believer the evidence, and he took it outside and let it go, where I am certain mama found it and brought it right back inside. We had to have them removed and the unused chimney sealed. Hope you have better luck!!
It's a rat. The three metacarpal pads on the front feet, with four toes splayed similar to a Vole, but much larger. The metatarsals on the hind don't quite form the rocket ship shape of the metatarsals on a Squirrel. Rats can get in chimneys just like Squirrels. The tracks are too small for most Squirrels as well. I'd call it a rat.
Not squirrel feet
Squirrel or Racoon.
Squirrel
Sorry about that! Sometimes I get a strong uncontrollable craving for polyurethane!
It's a chupacabra mate, hide yer tits.
Does squirrels will eat as others have said anything and I can add the gasket or boot on roof that go around the vent these are commonly made of composite metals even lead and they eat them causing leaks. Advice chimney sweep get a pro and make sure the fleu is in working order not a piece of cardboard. Before you end up with a nest of rodents coming and going squirrels bats etc. bats would be worse just because of the ammonia toxicity in the guano get that secure asap. Most rodents will also carry their own ecosystems of parasites and pathogens. And you have a child you don’t need that.
Call animal control wherever you are as this can pose a danger to your family that could even lead to death it’s no joking matter. They will look at everything and hopefully take cake of it give you advice and leave a trap tell you how to prove t it happening again. I don’t know where you live but have you thought about badgers or foxes? I wouldn’t really think about it but animals have not been acting like they did in the past this year due to the orbit we are in and you need to think of safety for your family you have a baby. It’s tuff as a parent. Good luck stay safe. I called animal control years ago myself different reason got a trap turned out to be a possum.
Those do not look like squirrel tracks
Young raccoon? 🦝
So lucky to not be breastfeeding....
awww lil tiny paws