What do you do???

What do you do when you go down into your basement thinking there's a belt squealing in your furnace only to discover that your cat has cornered some kind of screechy animal, but your husband is still 15 minutes away, your mom is absolutely no help over the phone and you're terrified that it's going to run up your leg if you find it or eat your face off in the middle of the night if you don't???

Other than writing a completely pointless and very short blog post,

WHAT DO YOU DO???