Hell, christmas don't come for three more months. This gives you plenty of time to lay out your trap. A chimney trap. The whole chimney will suddenly shut when he gets half way down it. Only a blow torch or dynamite is going to free him from this one. You shall then own your lab rat. A fat jolly lab rat! You build the trap and you leave cookies and drugged milk for Santa when you go to bed early xmass eve. You hear the trap bang in the middle of the night! Santa is trapped inside it and auto-hog tied. You wind the crank that drops him to the chimney floor. You have him right where you want him. You also have his magic bag of gifts!