As an HVAC technician, I end up with a lot of people who want to watch what I do.
Many of them ask questions and they will even tell me what happened that they needed an HVAC technician to work on the air vents, ductwork, or even the air conditioning.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a young man hanging around when I was cleaning the ductwork. AFter about ten minutes he asked me if he could ask a question. He wanted to know if I had found his cat. I turned and looked at him while waiting for him to expound on his question. I told him that I hadn’t seen a cat. That is when he told me he thought his cat was in the ductwork. I was a bit shocked to hear that a cat could be in the ductwork and now I worried that I may find a less than healthy kitten inside. He told me that he had opened the air vent in his bedroom to take out his toys before his mom hired the HVAC company to clean the ductwork and they sucked out his Army men. He told me his cat was really fat and if it had gotten stuck in the air vent, it may not have been able to get out. I asked him to go get his dad and have him come downstairs. His dad explained that his cat had kittens and it was hiding under the porch. There wasn’t anything in the ductwork except for dirt. I breathed a deep sigh and went back to work on cleaning the ductwork.