Have you ever had an animal get somewhere it didn’t belong?
I’ve taken 2 robins out of drainpipes in our neighborhood. The first one I was standing on my patio and heard a scratching noise in the pipe and didn’t know what it was. When I unscrewed the pipe from the building, a tired looking bird poked its head out before taking off. The next summer I heard the same sound from the building next to mine, so I fetched my screwdriver to free that bird too.
I also had a chipmunk get in one day. Not sure how that little guy got in, but I made a ramp to the window and headed it up with a broom. The cardboard was too slippery, so I had to earn its trust a little to get it to hang onto the briatles, but then out he went.