I am traumatized!

[DigitalAngel126]

I can't even read the rest of the thread. That picture just did me in.


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Call the coroner, I'm gone.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by sageofages
We moved into our new house, and discovered there were some mice.

Daughter #1 insisted on HUMANE TRAPS. You know the kind the mouse crawls in and then the door closes and you can take it out and dump it.

Trap catches mousey...stupid Mr Sageofages wants to show it off to spawnlings "see look at the mouse that is alive!". Shows the trap to spawnlings tipping it around to see from all sides. Somehow mousey gets loose in the livingroom.

Daughters SCREAM...son shrieks. Sageofages is NOT happy. Mousey is scurrying around the livingroom floor from sofa to chair and back and forth. Daughters scream more and jump on furniture, standing there telling Mr. Sagesofages to protect them from 2 ounce killer mousey. Mr Sageofages is trying to figure out how to catch mousey. Son is hysterical and crying as he cowers standing on back of couch. Sageofages is even more UNHAPPY. Mousey has run a livingroom marathon at this point.

Mr. Sageofages gets the CATS. Daughters scream some more at the thought of cats eating mousey. Cats see mousey and the chase is on. (cue chase music and screeching tire and toenail sounds) Dog sees cats trying to corner mousey and want to get in the action. Son is sobbing "don't let Spike eat the mousey" Daughter #1 is crying "don't kill the mouse, it is just a baby" (who cares!)

Mousey has circled the room enough to make it transatlantic at this point. Takes refuge under the entertainment center. Cats assume the siege positions. Dog is barking at the floor.

Sageofages says "enough!!!" gets kill trap and yummy peanut butter, sends redeyed snotty nose spawnlings to their rooms.

Twenty minutes later, mousey is in heaven and calm returns.

I'm sorry, but that is one of the funnier "mousey goes to heaven" stories I've ever read! I was really lmao!!!


I did not even try to look at that centipede or whatever. They are disgusting creatures that shouldn't have been let on the Ark!! Yes, I too would have had major nightmares if I had.



adpiucf - shall I send a crate of depends your way? Being in geriatrics & all, we get them in major bulk!

[aephi alum]

There are wetlands behind my house, so in warm weather it's pretty much bug city. I'm not too squeamish to dispatch post-haste anything with six or eight legs. My husband calls ME to dispatch bugs!

Mammals are another issue... When I was in college, most of the dorms (including mine) had a problem with mice. One morning I walked into my suite kitchen, half awake, to fix breakfast, and Jerry the mouse went scurrying across the floor in front of me. I woke up in a hurry! I contacted the house manager, but he would only put out those sticky traps. Thanks, that's just what I need, a half-dead mouse stuck to a trap in my suite lounge, screaming for its life...

Cats (actually, all pets other than fish) were forbidden in the dorms, but a few people in my building had them anyway. Notice that the suites with resident cats never had problems with mice... I knew I should have gotten a cat!

I discovered a worse problem than the mice, the hard way. I was on my way back from lab at 3am one night when I heard a rustling in the bushes. I saw something the size of a cat, and I had just gotten through thinking "aww, a kitty" when the "kitty" emerged from the bushes and turned out to be a RIVER RAT!!! Those things are immense! I think I broke the sound barrier running back to my dorm...!

[wrigley]

They're all God's creatures but if I see an icky one in my place all bets are off.

Never go rent the movie Willard. It will creep you out.

Thanks for the pic of the centipede, I saw a one every once in awhile at an old apartment and never knew what it was.

[PhoenixAzul]

Ugh, let me also mention that those house centipedes like dark wet spaces....a'la my darkroom. I get super freaked out when I'm in there working alone. I always try to bring one of the dogs in there with me, that's how afraid I am of them. CREEP tastic.

I was just pissed because it ruined the mood between my boy and I

[Jill1228]

What she said! Rodents scare the isht outta me! So do snakes. I hate spiders and roaches too

Originally posted by astroAPhi
I'd buy Depends.

[adpiucf]

Thanks for the offer to send Depends, but I spent an hour cleaning my very tiny bathroom last night with all sorts of disinfectant and bleach (I'm a clean freak, so the idea of having creepy crawlies in the house is not fun!), and I think I finally kicked my toilet fears...

[sageofages]

Not to stress you all even more over the centipede...keep in mind two things....

If you have centipedes, you won't have roaches, as they feed on those nasty icky disgusting roaches!!!

Centipedes *do* bite and the bite is really really nasty. (Imagine something like that nibbling on sweet roach flesh, it has to be industrial strength!)

Given my choice, I take the centipedes.

[AKA_Monet]

So at my dad's dental office, some old "bag" lady opened her 1972 black purse and all the roaches ran out of there into his office... So here go the roach motels...

Then somehow a mouse got into the office and one of the dental assistants caught it with a broom and told my dad to do "something"... My dad "stepped" on it and squashed it like a bug... An unapproved usage of euthanasia...

Once while walking to my dorm room in California, my folks and I were walking through one of the pathways and this little green reptilian head "peeped" up--it was somebody's pet snake... Freaked my mom out...

Then finally, has anyone had larger animals roaming their neighborhoods???

Well at my mom's house, it had a really stinky smell... The smell persisted all day long... Later that afternoon, my folks walked around the house and there was some black and white fur laying under the fence... It appears that a skunk tried to go through the fence, but it was so fat that it could not get through the fence!!! So there a scratch marks on the fence... Then the thing died... It looked like his little skunk buddies tried to push him through...

And at my current housing location, my husband and I have seen one coyote roaming the streets at least 3 months ago... And since that time, posters of missing cats and dogs have been up a long time... Oh well...

[AGDee]

Originally posted by sageofages


Centipedes *do* bite and the bite is really really nasty. (Imagine something like that nibbling on sweet roach flesh, it has to be industrial strength!)

Given my choice, I take the centipedes.

My son got a centipede bite once, under his eye, when he was only like 4 years old. He got a bump the size of a golf ball under his eye because it was infected. The doctor said it was probably a centipede because they are such dirty bugs, they would cause the infection.

Mice... mice... mice.. When I was still married, they started building new houses on the street behind ours. Suddenly, I started seeing mice. I could sit at the kitchen table at night and watch them come from behind the dishwasher and go along the baseboard and scurry behind the fridge. We were going on vacation so we set traps before we left and got 3 mice while we were gone. Then the (now ex) hubby got the great idea to use the glue traps. We caught two with glue traps, but it was so gross to have this live squeaking thing struggling to get off the trap. I used a broom and long handled dustpan to dump the traps into the trash in the garage. One night, I watched 3 mice start their usual route along the baseboard and when each one go to the glue trap, they jumped right over it and kept going!!!! I insisted then that the cheapskate FINALLY call an exterminator, after screaming at the mice that night to "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!". The exterminator put some good poison out and we saw no more mice.. phew!

Dee

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by AGDee

Mice... mice... mice.. When I was still married, they started building new houses on the street behind ours. Suddenly, I started seeing mice. I could sit at the kitchen table at night and watch them come from behind the dishwasher and go along the baseboard and scurry behind the fridge. We were going on vacation so we set traps before we left and got 3 mice while we were gone. Then the (now ex) hubby got the great idea to use the glue traps. We caught two with glue traps, but it was so gross to have this live squeaking thing struggling to get off the trap. I used a broom and long handled dustpan to dump the traps into the trash in the garage. One night, I watched 3 mice start their usual route along the baseboard and when each one go to the glue trap, they jumped right over it and kept going!!!! I insisted then that the cheapskate FINALLY call an exterminator, after screaming at the mice that night to "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!". The exterminator put some good poison out and we saw no more mice.. phew!

Oh, don't get me started with the glue traps. I would rather have the snap 'n traps or the humane traps than glue traps. They're cheap, which is why they're used so often.

I saw a certain type of insect in my apartment, so I called the super. A few days later, what shows up in my place but GLUE TRAPS?! I didn't want them, and now they're cluttered with flies and small spiders.

[kk_bama]

If I found a mouse in my house, I would name him Squeaky and put him in my old hamster cage. A free pet!

I'm not really freaked out by mice. Rats, on the other hand...

And cockroaches. I had never really experienced cockroaches until I got to college. This summer, my boyfriend was sleeping one night and one CRAWLED ON HIS HEAD and he had to jump up out of bed and kill it.

Tuscaloosa= cockroach capital of the WORLD

[trojangal]

When I was about ten years old, my family and I were driving our van from Arkansas to New York to visit my grandparents. My father is one of those drivers who will drive, stop for a few hours to rest, then start driving again ( or let Mom drive). We pulled over in a rest area or something to get out, stretch, walk the dog, etc. Dad decided this was a good place to get a few hours rest, so sis and I went to lay down in the back of the van. We hear this strange sound, and something hits the ceiling. We start freaking out, and my dad says its nothing. Next thing we know, my mom, sitting in the passenger seat, feels something moving around her down near the console area. She opens the door, and starts screaming her head off..

a bat had somehow flown into the van and was trying to get out.

I stay far away from them since...

[PM_Mama00]

In my old house, I heard something rumbling in the attic one nite. So I asked my mom and she said that it was prolly just mice. The later it got, the louder the rumbling. So I woke my mom up again, and my dad came in my room. Then we called my neighbor, and he came over and said it's prolly just a mouse in the wall. Eventually I said screw it and slept in my mom's room because I was afraid whatever it was was gona end up in my room. The rumbling got so loud that it sounded like bowling balls being thrown around. The next day, I don't know how, but we found out there was a family of raccoons up there. How they got there, no one knows. So we had racoon traps all over our yard, and eventually they all came out. It was pretty funny watching my brother and his friend with hunting guns, in our backyard, trying to open our outside attic vents so they would come out. Being in a very residential neighborhood, I'm surprised we had a huge racoon problem.

Oh yeah, same house, lonnnnggg time ago, we had a behive inside of our walls also. A normal behive wouldn't have been bad, but it was so large that if an adult tried to puts their arms around it, they woudln't go all the way around. It was huge.

[PsychTau]

Originally posted by sageofages
We moved into our new house, and discovered there were some mice.

Daughter #1 insisted on HUMANE TRAPS. You know the kind the mouse crawls in and then the door closes and you can take it out and dump it.

Trap catches mousey...stupid Mr Sageofages wants to show it off to spawnlings "see look at the mouse that is alive!". Shows the trap to spawnlings tipping it around to see from all sides. Somehow mousey gets loose in the livingroom.

Daughters SCREAM...son shrieks. Sageofages is NOT happy. Mousey is scurrying around the livingroom floor from sofa to chair and back and forth. Daughters scream more and jump on furniture, standing there telling Mr. Sagesofages to protect them from 2 ounce killer mousey. Mr Sageofages is trying to figure out how to catch mousey. Son is hysterical and crying as he cowers standing on back of couch. Sageofages is even more UNHAPPY. Mousey has run a livingroom marathon at this point.

Mr. Sageofages gets the CATS. Daughters scream some more at the thought of cats eating mousey. Cats see mousey and the chase is on. (cue chase music and screeching tire and toenail sounds) Dog sees cats trying to corner mousey and want to get in the action. Son is sobbing "don't let Spike eat the mousey" Daughter #1 is crying "don't kill the mouse, it is just a baby" (who cares!)

Mousey has circled the room enough to make it transatlantic at this point. Takes refuge under the entertainment center. Cats assume the siege positions. Dog is barking at the floor.

Sageofages says "enough!!!" gets kill trap and yummy peanut butter, sends redeyed snotty nose spawnlings to their rooms.

Twenty minutes later, mousey is in heaven and calm returns.

THAT is the funniest story I've heard in a while!!!!!! Just the way you tell it is priceless.....I'm laughing my a$$ off at midnight in a room by myself....I'm sure my husband thinks I'm crazy.

LOL!!!

PsychTau