Raccoons usually like living in chimneys, they can carry their babies there and you will occasionally hear movements or you will hear the babies calling out their mother. Birds also like to build nests in chimneys but they can usually be stuck in them so you may hear fast movements and flapping their wings. Bats love dark places to live in and that kind of places are perfect for them. Although Fairfield County squirrels can be stuck in the chimney, they can also build nests in them. They are famous for their tightly packed nests that are hard to remove.
The danger of having a wild Connecticut animal in your house
- Raccoons can be very aggressive and they can carry rabies and other diseases that can harm you, such as: salmonella, leptospirosis, raccoon roundworm and other diseases that can affect you, your children or your pet. If you get bitten or scratched by a raccoon you have to immediately seek a treatment.
- Birds also carry a lot of diseases such as hiptoplasmosis or salmonella. They can spread the disease with their feathers, feces and nests. You can also be affected by touching a dead bird.
- Bats carry more than 60 human infecting viruses. They carry diseases such as rabies, also a research suggests that Fairfield County bats may be the original hosts of deadly viruses like Ebola, which causes deadly brain fevers to humans.
- Although squirrels carry a lot of diseases only a few can affect humans. This doesn’t mean you should let the squirrel live in your house. Their diseases can affect you, your family or your pet, so it’s best just to get rid of the squirrel.
How to know if you have an animal in your chimney
The Connecticut animals that live in the chimney will cause noise, even though you’ll be able to hear it occasionally. Some afraid animals that somehow fell in the chimney without their will, will make loud noises like flapping their wings, scratching or fast movements.
Removing the animals
Most of the Fairfield County animals that live in chimneys can be very dangerous, they can bite, scratch or infect you. To avoid these kinds of things it’s best to call a licensed animal removal expert. Never try to smoke an animal out of your chimney, that will just burn and kill them, also if a bird has a nest on your chimney you shouldn’t remove it as in it’s against the law.
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