Encounters with wildlife - Page 2

ilovemyglo · #16 10-02-2001, 01:40 PM

There are tons of albino squirrels on our campus and U of L's campus. They are in intiation wear all the time....
Heehee... BE NICE TO SQUIRRELS!
Nothing like bears or anything, but my family has a houseboat at a lake in KY and went there one weekend and my uncle's snoring must have ticked a raccoon off because it was scratching and squealing at his window... and he didn't even wake up!

Thrillhouse · #17 10-02-2001, 01:49 PM

Squirrels aren't really a problem. They don't cause too much harm but it is bears and racoons I don't like. Can't leave any food sitting out when they are around, which ruins the camping expirience

Lil_G · #18 10-02-2001, 01:57 PM

Albino squirrels, wow i wouldn't try to kill those little guys. I'd even put fresh food (stolen from my roommates) out for them to munch on. Shouldn't they be in zoos or something?

Dejajeva · #19 10-02-2001, 03:45 PM

I've had a couple scary encounters with the "wildlife" of southern florida....

Okay, so a little background story first.

I grew up in Arcadia, Florida. It's in the center of the state about an hour south of Sarasota. Anyways, it was just my mom, little brother, and I. We moved from sebring, and when we were looking to build a house in Arcadia, we chose a lot about two miles from my grandparents, in a tiny little subdivision out in the woods. Absolutely beautiful. So, anways. Little did we know, but when it rains constantly, like all floridians know it does- our subdivision would flood, literally.

Okay, now, cut to junior year of high school. Our subdivision is like a big circle....and two parts of the road were under water and could not be driven through. So we had to park on the north road, and walk through the woods and some houses to the SOUTH woods, through ankle deep water, just to get to our house.

Back to my point. A alligator sounds like a bullfrog...kind of has this deep croak for a voice. Florida is very noisy at night. So I was comming home from a late football game, at 2 am with my mother and younger brother. It was flooded so we parked on the north road and walked to the south road to get to our house. WE walked slowly, becuase we had to wade through water.

I kept hearing croaking noises....a LOT of them. I mean we were practically walking through a swamp. I was FLIPPING Out. I kept screaming we were going to be eaten by alligators. lol. It was horrible.

I ran and left my mom and brother standing behind me looking at me like I was a moron. They were only frogs.

lol

THE OTHER TIME...we were walking to the north road because it had flooded to our fourth step, overnight. So we were walking through waist deep water. WE get out the road (our house was set back away from the road) and my mother say she forgets her medicine. I look at her like she's crazy, but walk through the heavy currented water back to the house. I get the meds and come back...and I swear....a alligator swam right in front of me. Oblivious to me. I didn't want to move!!! It swam on though, and I honestly thought I was going to die!

lol
It could have cared less about me though.
It went and curled into the mud.

I never walked through river water again.

BTW. the reason it always flooded was because we lived less than a mile from the PEace River.

Dejajeva · #20 10-02-2001, 03:48 PM

PS- I know it sounds dumb for not leaving the house BEFORE it flooded, but sometimes it would just go up nine inches just overnight. It wasn't ALL the time though, just maybe once a year.

We finally moved out.
We would have sooner, but nobody would buy the house.
hehe.

jess

SparkliiQTMTSU · #21 10-02-2001, 03:55 PM

my grandparents have a cabin in Michigan up on a lake in like the middle of nowhere and my cousin and I went and stayed there for a weekend. Well I decided that since it was nice out I would leave my window open which doesn't have a screen and a rabbit somehow climbed*or maybe hopped*

in and ended up sleeping on my bed!!! I woke up to a rabbit walking around on top of me!! That was one wake up call I won't ever forget. Thank goodness it was only a rabbit and not a bear or something!!

Nichole

Tom Earp · #22 10-02-2001, 04:51 PM

I have had some of the Soros have run into wild life but cannot remember wich Fraterity they mentioned!!!!

AlphaGam1019 · #23 10-02-2001, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ilovemyglo
There are tons of albino squirrels on our campus and U of L's campus. They are in intiation wear all the time....
Heehee... BE NICE TO SQUIRRELS!

I used to see a squirrel with a brown body and a white tail in my neighborhood at home! It always seemed to show up randomly. It was before I became an AlphaGam, maybe it was a sign. hehe

juniorgrrl · #24 10-02-2001, 05:23 PM

I haven't had too much experience with wildife, I try to stay away from the outdoors.

Although, my boyfriend has a photo he took of a squirrel sitting on a garbage can, eating a pop tart. Kinda funny, I guess.

carnation · #25 10-02-2001, 06:39 PM

Well, my grandmother sat down on the toilet at our beach house one night and a possum bit her on the butt.

AlphaGam1019 · #26 10-02-2001, 07:14 PM

lol carnation!

I've heard of other rodents appearing in toilets, wonder how they get there. Luckily, I haven't seen them

crazyleggedsigma · #27 10-02-2001, 07:20 PM

I am from Southern IL, where hunting is (as it is in most less-than-urban places) very much the norm. Hunting everything. Deer, possum (oh my I sound redneck, but I assure you I am not!

), raccoon, squirrel, you get the picture.

Black squirrels are apparently rare, and I guess gray ones marked with black are as well. My boyfriend's brother was hunting and bagged a gray one with a black stripe down its back. The whole family was impressed. He wanted to mount it (yes, they have wildlife staring down at them from their walls-takes some getting used to, but adds to the ambience-their house is a lodge-looking place) but didn't have time immediately (he's in the Air Force, and well....they are somewhat busy at the present...). So what did they do with it? They froze it. Yes, they just plopped it into a Ziploc freezer bag and put it in the chest freezer.

So I go downstairs to the freezer to get some peaches for ice cream, open it, and SCREAM, because nobody warned me that I would be greeted by a rock-hard squirrel. The whole family got a huge kick out of it, and always ask if I want to go check the freezer.

curiouss · #28 10-02-2001, 07:46 PM

I like live in the suburbs, like miles away from water and woods. When I was eleven I like rode my bike up the street and I like thought I saw a chain. When I got up there I like saw the "chain" move and it turned out to be a SNAKE!

curiouss · #29 10-02-2001, 07:52 PM

Hey, I have a key chain that says "Support wildlife THROW a party!"

I just wanted to share that.

Lil_G · #30 10-02-2001, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by curiouss
I like live in the suburbs, like miles away from water and woods. When I was eleven I like rode my bike up the street and I like thought I saw a chain. When I got up there I like saw the "chain" move and it turned out to be a SNAKE!

what a bad encounter story.