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User saw a tarantula in her house! Oh my gods! I had a wolf spider in mine on 2 separate occasions and now that I'm thinking about them I will be looking at the ceiling of every room I walk in to today because that's where I saw them before. *shudder* In my mind, they are the size of a basketball.
I once saw a dead hawk in the washing machine in the barn and my boss had a snake in her toilet bowl. What kind of weird shit have you had in your home?
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Not in my house, but I saw a hawk about to fly off with a squirrel when walking home through the park. The hawk dropped the squirrel and flew off without his prize when he saw me watching him. Happened so fast. Wish I had time to grab my phone from my pocket and take a picture.
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Supposedly Tarantula's make for wonderful pets.
Not for me, no thank you- but spider pet owners swear by them.
I love the short video of a seagull entering a convenience store and swiping a bag of chips and then
exiting with them.
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A Caucasian shepherd when I lived with my dad. He never closed the sliding glass door from the porch and the dog wandered in and jumped on the couch while I was sleeping there. I was terrified when I saw him, those dogs are massive. Luckily he was really friendly and it turned out he escaped from someone’s house a mile away.
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Yeah, I feel a little badly about that tarantula. I was with my first husband at the time and the stupid spider was just crawling across the floor in our living room (I’ve never seen them run; don’t know if they can). Anyway, my then husband managed to scoop it up and then I think he flushed it. 
If I saw one again (would rather not), I’d want it thrown over our fence or something.
We have 1,000’s of lizards that scurry around the property. One got in the door leading into the laundry room inside. Took us a day to get that thing out. It kept running under the dryer.
Wolf spiders scare me. I have an outside pest control service and I’m not sure if it’s those (or is a brown spider different?) but we also get black widows. The pest guy said the brown ones can kill the black widows.
I don’t like any of them inside. No fat spiders!! The pest company sprays some natural product around the house perimeter. Something’s working cuz I haven’t seen any inside.
I’m very careful (and/or refuse to) move stuff around much in our garage or sheds. I know they’re in there waiting to pounce.
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We’ve had a yellow lab show up on our property twice. My dog is lucky labs are generally friendly cuz my dumb dog has about attacked that dog both times. I’ve managed to reel her in both times before biting occurred but the dog has probably 35lbs on mine
A week or so ago I’m pretty sure we had another bobcat on the property (it was either that or the very biggest house cat ever). My dog charged it and thankfully it took off up and over our fence.
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(07-28-2025, 03:31 PM)username Wrote: We’ve had a yellow lab show up on our property twice. My dog is lucky labs are generally friendly cuz my dumb dog has about attacked that dog both times. I’ve managed to reel her in both times before biting occurred but the dog has probably 35lbs on mine
A week or so ago I’m pretty sure we had another bobcat on the property (it was either that or the very biggest house cat ever). My dog charged it and thankfully it took off up and over our fence.
I always imagine if Sinister reincarnated she would return as an angry Bobcat and haunt your property.
Lady Cop? A friendly yet protective yellow Lab.
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The bad one is Brown Recluse.
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(07-28-2025, 04:27 PM)OnBendedKnee Wrote: if Sinister reincarnated she would return as an angry Bobcat and haunt your property.
She came back to Mock a few years ago, she even did an intro. At that time many years had passed since she was a Mod and she wanted to be the same ol' Sinister. I tried to tell her that Members weren't going to put up with that stuff, they would ignore her and that's exactly what happened and she left.
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Here’s a tip!! Don’t ever get a liquid disposable fly trap. I use them for yellow jackets on our property (aggressive fuckers) and they work well so I bought a similar one for flies near the back door we use most. It caught some flies but within a week we were all noticing a horrible smell (like death) in that area. It took a day or two to figure out it was the damn fly trap. Smelled so bad!!!
Don’t recommend.
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You can put them out of smell range and they still work.
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(07-28-2025, 05:20 PM)BigMark Wrote: You can put them out of smell range and they still work.
Flies in general don’t bother me except when they get into the house so the idea was to prevent that. I put the yellow jacket traps around the property because those bastards will sting u anywhere.
It wasn’t worth the smell for the flies.
My dog does a reasonable job either eating them or chasing them out of our French doors. She’s good at that although it’s been tough teaching her that yellow jackets aren’t prey too. I think she’s getting it though! One will fly around her and she’ll snap at it and all I have to say is “oh no, that’s a baaaddd idea” and she’ll usually leave them alone (or run, lol). I think she’s learning some discernment.
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(07-28-2025, 05:22 PM)BigMark Wrote:
Love that song!!
I hear “have you seen our ass?” in the lead up, lol. My husband’s best friend who passed away early last year had a similar accent. I couldn’t understand half of what he said.
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They will chase you! I am not kidding about that. They are the reason I'm supposed to carry an Epi-Pen. Those little bastards will sting you repeatedly.
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(07-28-2025, 05:58 PM)Duchess Wrote: They will chase you! I am not kidding about that. They are the reason I'm supposed to carry an Epi-Pen. Those little bastards will sting you repeatedly.
Yellow jackets or wasps? Yeah!! They’re bad. None of us are technically allergic but my son has been stung a few times and immediately gets horrible swelling in the area of the sting. I got stung a couple years ago and the area (my arm) swelled mildly and hurt and itched for days.
They’re nasty and I take some pleasure watching them swarm to the traps and meet their death.
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Yellow jackets. My beagle stirred up a ground nest of them and those fuckers chased me across a field. I thought I couldn't breathe because I had been running, but it was my airways swelling shut.
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Other people on our property get stung pretty regularly, I hear and see those fuckers and avoid them.
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(07-28-2025, 07:31 PM)BigMark Wrote: Other people on our property get stung pretty regularly, I hear and see those fuckers and avoid them.
Yeah. I try to avoid them too.
I joined some other moms at a lake somewhat nearby and we all brought our then tweens (years ago).
The other moms were breaking out picnic baskets and I was scared/kept my distance from all the yellow jackets swarming the food. I escaped unscathed. The other two moms got stung multiple times, lol.
IDK how people don’t see them as a threat.
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I had a wasp nest on my breaker box once and thought I could sneak past them and flip the breaker back on without any notice. Well I was wrong about that. I didn’t even make it to the box.
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