Insp by the snake thread, what strange critters have come into your house

[hrh_disney_queen]

uninvited?

Here we have had tree frogs (one in the toilet!) and green anoles in the house, and a hummingbird in our garage. One fatality-one of the tree frogs dried up in a dust bunny before we found him.

At our old house we had mice, a snake UPSTAIRS (still trying to figure that one out), blue tailed skinks, and a praying mantis. A couple of times a hummingbird flew into our garage. Everything relocated safely outside except the snake who disappeared , so I have no idea what became of him.

 

[singnring]

I'll bite on this one!

Here in Ohio, I have had a mouse, numerous bats scared1, and a couple of birds. I think most of them get in through our power vents on the roof.

Now, on a more interesting note, back in Jan, I was visiting my parents in FLorida, and when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, I heard a clicking sound.
I turned around and found a ~10inch land crab bashing himself into the side of the tub, I assume to get away from me.

I of course screamed and ran from the room. DH caught him and returned him to the wild from whence he came!!

My parents live on a canal, and my mom leaves the downstairs sliding doors open for her cat to go in and out.
Unfortunately, other visitors can do the same!!

 

[NMAmy]

When I used to live in southern New Mexico, I'd get scorpions and tarantulas in the house. I'd stomp the scorpions but my neighbors used to laugh at me with the tarantulas. I'd get a broom and sweep them across the street to the desert.

 

[5 'LIL *TWINKERS*]

2 bats and 2 mice

dh thinks they are coming in through one of the vents.

 

[BabyTigger99]

My kids.....

 

[Jockaroo]

Copperhead snake in the garage--dispatched it with a shovel. A small frog/toad that scared the dickens out of me. It was trapped in a bag of pine bark mulch I'd scooped up several days earlier. It scared me due to the aforementioned critter. A few years ago, I went to pull the leaf blower out of its storage area in the garage. When I picked it up a stash of Milk Bones fell out. Yes, I had a mouse that apparently had found a bag of dog treats that were years old we had forgotten in the garage. We used a humane trap and relocated the mouse. And cleaned out the garage.

I'm glad they stay in the garage.

 

[freckles and boo]

My husband left the cashews on the shelf below a kitchen window. A squirrel chewed a big hole in the screen and managed to get in the kitchen for a snack. It promptly freaked out when one of the cats went into the kitchen and ran all over the counters before it found its hole and ran away.

We also had a bird that got in at some point while we were on vacation. We had three cats at the time and not one of them greeted us when we returned so we went looking for them. They were lined up in front of a window which had the blinds down. The bird was stuck between the window and the blinds. We saved the poor thing and set it free. Unfortunately it had spent a LOT of time in the bathroom sitting on the shower curtain rod, which we know for obvious reasons.

 

[Darsa]

We just had a chipmunk that one of our kitties brought in and the two of them proceeded to torment the poor thing. Then I got involved, I can only imagine what that poor thing was thinking I rescued it and tossed it into the woods from the plastic cup that I had scooped it into. What an exciting evening that was at our house!

 

[clutter]

One day many years ago, I had hundreds of earthworms aiming for my front door. They were on my walk, going up my steps, and a few of them acutally crawled into my foyer, where they died. I got home in the middle of this supernatural phenomenon, and hosed them off the walk. I think that beat some sense into them. But it was so weird. I was in a townhouse, and it was just my house. But it was like all of them were simultaneously programmed to aim for my door. Very strange.

 

[MIGrandma]

We've had a few field mice over the years, and I discovered a dead mole in the garage a year or so ago.

At our previous home we had a raccoon in the garage once. I left the door up when I backed the car out, and he was gone when I got home.

 

[CF'er]

A bat and 3 snakes got into our old house.

 

[mtdevine615]

Left the basemant door open one night and the next day DW is down there and tells me we have a skunk in the basement. I of course tell her she must have seen our black and white cat. So she goes back down there and tells me again there is skunk this time I'm looking at the cat....then it hits me that I left the door open. The first time I have ever had to set a trap inside the house. The thing was so little an cute.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We had mice, chipmunks and bats growing up in the country. Those never really freaked me out. However, the albino ferret really did! Who knew those things even existed let alone in my house!!!

OMG - I just remembered that thread with the opposum!! Someone needs to dig that one up again. No matter how many times I've read it I still laugh until I cry!!

 

[GeorgeG]

Just an occasional anole. If I get to it before the cats do, I try to put it back outside.

 

[pixiewings71]

Just mice usually, we've had a HUGE moth that the cat brought in, a dragonfly that the other cat brought in, spiders but nothing more exotic then that. We do get possums in the backyard tho, late at night, but they can't get thru the cat door to the garage so after they eat the dog food that might be out they leave.

 

[Pigeon]

My daughter's only 12--I'll let you know after she's started dating.

We've had a legion of slugs marching up the screen to the patio doors. Ick. As to getting in the house, we've had a skunk, mice, and a neighbor's cat that we let in one night by mistake.

 

[daughtersrus]

The worst was a few years ago when we had a mouse inside the wall above our fireplace. The fireplace is in our family room that it two stories tall with no attic above it. Somehow the mouse must have gotten in the wall of our loft from that attic above that room (the loft overlooks the family room) and fallen. For over a week, we had this squealing sound coming from the wall. DH decided to get a roaring hot fire going to "cook" it but forgot the the firebox around the fireplace doesn't get hot. Instead, he just aggravated the darn thing. About a week later, it smelled horrible for a few days. A few days later, we were finding these maggot bugs on the carpet in the family room. It was SO DISGUSTING! They had to been coming out from the tile around the fireplace. We vacuumed them up and finally had someone come in and clean/disinfect. There was no way to get to the mouse without tearing the wall down so the tech somehow sprayed some stuff in there and it's been fine since.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My daughter's only 12--I'll let you know after she's started dating.

We've had a legion of slugs marching up the screen to the patio doors. Ick. As to getting in the house, we've had a skunk, mice, and a neighbor's cat that we let in one night by mistake.

over the DD comment. My dad could tell you stories with 3 DD. He started calling every boy who entered the house "George" because he couldn't be bothered to learn their names after awhile.

Anyway, back on topic. A neighbor called us once and asked if we had a cat and then went on to describe it. My dad said "Yep, that's our cat." Guy said it was under his kitchen table and what did my dad want him to do. Dad replied "It's a friendly cat. Feel free to pet it, feed it or throw it out the back door." Cat ended up staying so I guess they fed him. And he was HUGE so I think dad was happy to stop feeding him.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Left the basemant door open one night and the next day DW is down there and tells me we have a skunk in the basement. I of course tell her she must have seen our black and white cat. So she goes back down there and tells me again there is skunk this time I'm looking at the cat....then it hits me that I left the door open. The first time I have ever had to set a trap inside the house. The thing was so little an cute.

That reminds me of Pepe le Pew!

We had mice, chipmunks and bats growing up in the country. Those never really freaked me out. However, the albino ferret really did! Who knew those things even existed let alone in my house!!!

OMG - I just remembered that thread with the opposum!! Someone needs to dig that one up again. No matter how many times I've read it I still laugh until I cry!!

Actually wild (Black footed ) ferrets are almost extinct. They used to live out west around pairie dog towns (their food). What you saw may have been an albino mink, or maybe someone's lost pet ferret!


But anyway, I wanted to post this for you. It's definitely my favorite, and quite possibly the funniest post on the Dis. Enjoy!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=912594&highlight=jim+fitz

ETA: By some bizarre coincidence, that thread will be 4 years old tomorrow!

 

[jen0610]

Knock on wood....we haven't had anything visit that would make me want to leave any of our homes.

However, the geicko's that would come and go from the house when we were stationed down in Panama, were often startling. The worst little guys were the ones that would hang out in the shower. It was a poorly designed shower. You had to step into the shower and turn left and go about 5 feet before you got to where the shower head was. There was no light in the shower, no window. The only light was just outside the door that you stepped thru. More than once, I would step into the shower, turn and outta the corner of my eye, see one of them stuck on the wall, usually eye level. One time, there were two little guys in there, one on the wall and one on the floor. The little one on the wall was runnig to get to the door, straight outta total darkness. Scared me to death and almost made me step on his buddy that was running on the floor, making for the doorway.

And yes, I always looked in there before I'd actually get in the shower, but the ceilings were 12 foot tall and the little suckers either hid out up there or just blended in really well with the ugly greenishgray color that the army used to tile the shower in our quarters.