OMG! I had a close encounter last night!

[the 4th hanson bro]

Haven't had wild creatures in the house, but we've got plenty around the house. We live in the city near a park with a large lake and creek.

I've seen 4 coyotes walking down the middle of the street one night - utterly fearless they were.

We've got a dead tree with a colony of bats living in it behind the house.

Years ago the dogs cornered and killed a raccoon in the backyard - a big one, about 2 feet from nose to butt.

Used to have possums nesting near the neighbor's house.

Dogs killed a 6 foot long rat snake once. Our oldest was 4 at the time, he thought he found 2 snakes in the yard.

All this within a 10 minute drive of downtown.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

My brother used to live with me, that's about it.

Randy, you kill me!!!!

I've seen 4 coyotes walking down the middle of the street one night - utterly fearless they were.

We've got a dead tree with a colony of bats living in it behind the house.

Years ago the dogs cornered and killed a raccoon in the backyard - a big one, about 2 feet from nose to butt.

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Oh man! Coyotes! I honestly don't know if i would be able to tell if they were dogs or coyotes. Very cool....but it does make me sad. It's just proof that we've encroached on their land once again.

COOL about the bat tree!!!!! That is freaking awesome!!!!

You were soooo lucky the dogs didn't get seriously hurt by that racoon!!!

 

[ancientone51]

Two stories. Years ago I was in a theatre group in Burnsville NC. We were doing "Spoon River" whcih is set in a cemetery. Baby bat got in the theatre. I wish we could have gotten it to work itself into the show, but we chased it out.

Fewer years ago a small squirrel got into the house. We spotted it sitting in my step son's sneaker. Bit of a merry chase to get it outside, but successful. Do wish we'd been able to get a picture though. It was so cute.

 

[T'Bonz]

Nothing in the house other than ants or palmetto bugs (fortunately, the latter haven't been in this house, they were in the townhouse and I hated them) but once the husband was standing out front watering the lawn and a ferret walked up to him.

Turned out he was tame and belonged to our next door neighbor. We took it in and fed it and I put up flyers the next day, and my neighbor came over to the house and got his ferret back. It had slipped out of their house when company came to visit them. Before that, I didn't even know what a ferret was. I know now, as my daughter now owns a pair of them.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

You were soooo lucky the dogs didn't get seriously hurt by that racoon!!!

Our female dog got a scratch on her snout, that was it.

I forgot about the red tailed hawks and owls in the neighborhood.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Two stories. Years ago I was in a theatre group in Burnsville NC. We were doing "Spoon River" whcih is set in a cemetery. Baby bat got in the theatre. I wish we could have gotten it to work itself into the show, but we chased it out.

I lol'd.

Nothing in the house other than ants or palmetto bugs (fortunately, the latter haven't been in this house, they were in the townhouse and I hated them) but once the husband was standing out front watering the lawn and a ferret walked up to him.

Turned out he was tame and belonged to our next door neighbor. We took it in and fed it and I put up flyers the next day, and my neighbor came over to the house and got his ferret back. It had slipped out of their house when company came to visit them. Before that, I didn't even know what a ferret was. I know now, as my daughter now owns a pair of them.

FUNNY!!!! I've been trying to convince my almost 26 year old (lives in another state) to get a ferret b/c he's dying for a dog but can't get one where he lives. If i didn't have to Cairns i'd get one myself.

You were soooo lucky the dogs didn't get seriously hurt by that racoon!!!

Our female dog got a scratch on her snout, that was it.

I forgot about the red tailed hawks and owls in the neighborhood.

Glad the dogs didnt get seriously hurt! Hawks and owls. Now THAT'S cool!!!!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hawks and owls. Now THAT'S cool!!!!!

Owls are here and you can't fool them:

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[Yeoman Randi]

^ LOL!!!!!!! What the heck is that from????? What a HOOT!

*crickets*

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ LOL!!!!!!! What the heck is that from????? What a HOOT!

It's from a site called Weebls' Stuff. They have a whole load of funny Flash videos like that. Some of them are recurring series (like 'Weebl and Bob'), others are just one off songs like that one.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Cute! I'll have to check it out. Heh, i love stuff like that.

(sad you didn't get my 'what a HOOT' pun.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

(sad you didn't get my 'what a HOOT' pun.)

GAAAHHH!! I'm getting careless! I should be the master of puns!

Oh, and about the HOOT:

 

[Lookingglassman]

When the Army moved our HQ across post our new building had a bat living in the basement. I ran when I saw it.

 

[Skywalker]

When I was living in Alaska (this was in the early/mid '90s), me and my parents were all woken up in the middle of the night one winter by these loud cracking and smashing sounds. We all went out to the back door and looked outside, and lo and behold there were two huge bull moose right in our backyard! They were charging each other and locking antlers, while a female moose stood farther back, just at the edge of the woods, watching the males go at it.

 

[Lookingglassman]

^The mooses were lucky there wasnt a helicopter with Palin in it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They sound like majestik møøse.

 

[watermelony2k]

Have you ever seen that scene from the Galactica series finale that had Lee Adama chasing a bird around in his apartment with a broom? That happened to a me and my roommates. A bird got in our house and we had to chase it with a broom for about 20 minutes before we got the dang thing outside.

Were you guys also drunk and angsty?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

When I was living in Alaska (this was in the early/mid '90s), me and my parents were all woken up in the middle of the night one winter by these loud cracking and smashing sounds. We all went out to the back door and looked outside, and lo and behold there were two huge bull moose right in our backyard! They were charging each other and locking antlers, while a female moose stood farther back, just at the edge of the woods, watching the males go at it.

OMG! That must have been AWESOME to see!!!

They sound like majestik møøse.

Thank you! I needed that laugh.

 

[B.J.]

Twice we've had a hummingbird get stuck in our screened-in porch at our last house. Poor things would zoom all about and just end up getting their tiny beak stuck in the screen. They would eventually find their way out, but it was just odd seeing a hummingbird look absolutely exhausted!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ When i worked at the greenhouse we'd sometimes get hummingbirds stuck in there. It was awful! Like you say, they would get exhausted and weaker as time went on. We'd do everything we could to help them find their way out.

Luckily they always eventually did.