Totally OT but...

[3boymthr]

I just have to tell someone....

We had a TREE FROG in our living room tonight. Ick, Ick, Ewww! I'm so not an amphibian or reptile person. I just don't like em. We've had a couple of snakes in the house in recent weeks too, but they at least were in the basement. This was right there on the carpet by DH's chair.

The funny part was watching DH and oldest DS (14) try to catch it and not touch it. Man was that thing fast.

 

[DisneyMomma81]

And you live in MA? We've been watching Billy the Exterminator - he's based in LA - all sorts of critters *some kinda cute most scary* are there. I wouldn't mind a frog but snakes I guess they aren't venomous right?

 

[3boymthr]

Nope not poisonous and I feel really bad about one of them. I managed to scooch it out the door with youngest DS' nerf sword and into the driveway where it happily slithered away. Unknown to me it settled down for a nap under my parked car. Both of the snakes were the same kind. Our friends looked up the type of snake from the corpse and said they were Milk Snakes. Though we did have a copperhead in the basement last year.

 

[Cruise]

I remember trying to catch little tree frogs while we were growing up on visits to my grandmother's in Alabama. I think I just have too many good memories associated with them to be scared of them now.

On the other hand, the massive, hairy spiders that we're dealing with at my sister's house during her renovation.... I caught one in a jar and took it to the local university extension office and the "bug man" there was good enough to tell me it was one of the three poisonous spiders in the area... Needless to say, there's been a lot of foot stomping around here lately.

 

[SandrA9810]

After hurricane Rita struck Ft Lauderdale in 2005, it caused a lot of flooding. Yeah, nothing like having one of those things hit the bottom of your butt while sitting on the pot. Scared the heck out of me. It was really funny to watch Kari try and catch it, of course half the bathroom walls were tiled, and it could stick to the walls. We eventually got it in a bucket and sat it outside for it to go free. Now I never sit on the pot without looking in it first.

 

[Cruise]

After hurricane Rita struck Ft Lauderdale in 2005, it caused a lot of flooding. Yeah, nothing like having one of those things hit the bottom of your butt while sitting on the pot. Scared the heck out of me. It was really funny to watch Kari try and catch it, of course half the bathroom walls were tiled, and it could stick to the walls. We eventually got it in a bucket and sat it outside for it to go free. Now I never sit on the pot without looking in it first.

 

[mamaLori05]

I live in WI and we had them all over the place by us all summer. We probably had about 5 of them get in the house, and one toad (througout the summer, not all at once thank goodness). After a while it became kind of funny. I came down the stairs one morning and was greeted by the toad on the foyer hallway. Had my dd5 run over to the neighbors house to have their son 8 come and get it out of my house. LOL!! With the tree frogs, whenever we heard our cat running around chasing something, we knew it was a tree frog. They would stick to our patio door and eat the bugs by the back patio light. Whenever my dh opened the back patio door at night to water the grass, go visit with the neighbors, etc... he always seemed to let one in, and I'd find it in the morning after he'd gone to work. The neighbor boy got very good at rescuing frogs out of our house. At least the tree frogs were little. I'd much rather find the tree frog than the toad!!

 

[3boymthr]

After hurricane Rita struck Ft Lauderdale in 2005, it caused a lot of flooding. Yeah, nothing like having one of those things hit the bottom of your butt while sitting on the pot. Scared the heck out of me. It was really funny to watch Kari try and catch it, of course half the bathroom walls were tiled, and it could stick to the walls. We eventually got it in a bucket and sat it outside for it to go free. Now I never sit on the pot without looking in it first.

Okay at least mine was just in the living room.

 

[figment3258]

where in ma are you? I have never thank goodness had snakes in my house. Or frogs. UGH I can not imagine snakes in my house!

 

[Local_Girl]

After hurricane Rita struck Ft Lauderdale in 2005, it caused a lot of flooding. Yeah, nothing like having one of those things hit the bottom of your butt while sitting on the pot. Scared the heck out of me. It was really funny to watch Kari try and catch it, of course half the bathroom walls were tiled, and it could stick to the walls. We eventually got it in a bucket and sat it outside for it to go free. Now I never sit on the pot without looking in it first.

LOL!

 

[Pigeon]

I'll trade you my mice and spiders for your tree frogs and snakes any day.

 

[pampam]

After hurricane Rita struck Ft Lauderdale in 2005, it caused a lot of flooding. Yeah, nothing like having one of those things hit the bottom of your butt while sitting on the pot. Scared the heck out of me. It was really funny to watch Kari try and catch it, of course half the bathroom walls were tiled, and it could stick to the walls. We eventually got it in a bucket and sat it outside for it to go free. Now I never sit on the pot without looking in it first.

One time I was sitting on the can, reading. I heard a gurgle of air in the water, sounding very much like an air bubble coming up in a water cooler. "What is wrong with the plumbing now" I thought. I stood up and looked and there was a wet squirrel looking at me. I swear it took years off my life. It had fallen in the air vent on the roof, down an 18' copper pipe and couldn't climb out, so it swam the other way into the toilet. I wasn't long making my DH climb up and put screening on the roof air vent pipe.

 

[3boymthr]

where in ma are you? I have never thank goodness had snakes in my house. Or frogs. UGH I can not imagine snakes in my house!

I like to tell people we're in the shadow of Gillette Stadium - I drive by there every day on my way to work.

We have an older house (WWII era) with a walk out cellar which is why we have so many critters I think.

I'll trade you my mice and spiders for your tree frogs and snakes any day.

We have those too, and while I hate them at least they don't make me cower and shriek.
Our cat just died but I think we need to investigate a new one. The critters are trying to take over my house. He might have been a big PITA but at least he kept all the critters away or ate them More than once we heard him running and crashing around in the basement but we never once saw a critter for as long as he was around (well except for the copperhead but he was smart not to mess with that one).

One time I was sitting on the can, reading. I heard a gurgle of air in the water, sounding very much like an air bubble coming up in a water cooler. "What is wrong with the plumbing now" I thought. I stood up and looked and there was a wet squirrel looking at me. I swear it took years off my life. It had fallen in the air vent on the roof, down an 18' copper pipe and couldn't climb out, so it swam the other way into the toilet. I wasn't long making my DH climb up and put screening on the roof air vent pipe.

Just the thought of that poor squirrel.

 

[Mickeypooh99]

It must be a good year for tree frogs. We had so many this year. One day DS and I were sitting at the kitchen table, and out of the corner of my eye I saw something fall onto our deck. (we have a sliding glass door) So I got up to go look, and it was a tree frog. It was so funny. It looked like it had just fell from the sky. I'm sure it had been in our gutter.

My DS's are always catching them. They have brought them in the house, and of course I always have to tell them no frogs in the house!

 

[MandM-Mom]

Wow I think a may be checking my potty before I sit from now on

 

[Stargazer]

Eek -- I agree though that they're out in force this year! We have them on our sliding door every afternoon and if I don't watch when we open the door, they'll slide into the house and then we'll find them clinging to the walls later.

I despise frogs, but especially tree frogs

 

[runwad]

Ya well last week DS10 left for school in the morning and left the door open. An hour later I'm walking by the family room and saw a chipmunk sitting in front of my recliner chair. I screamed bloody murder (never been so scared in my life) and the thing took off. I went and got a broom, opened the sliding glass door and started moving the furniture out from the corners and poking around and out he came took off up my recliner chair then jumped onto my shelf on the wall tried to climb up a picture popped back down on the shelf (all the while I'm still screaming bloody murder, still mad none of the neighbors came to my rescue) dropped on the floor and thank goodness out the family room door. Ruined my whole day I can't believe I didn't have a heart attack right then and there that's how scared I was!!

 

[Coll0610]

We had a squirrel in the building at work yesterday. Someone was coming in the revolving security door and didn't see that it was in the compartment ahead of him until after he had started the door. Somehow it made it up to the second floor and caused some havoc until someone caught it and took it back outside.

At least it wasn't in the toilet!