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Last night after removing the ornaments and lights DH was carring the tree through the door when a large rat jumped out. I screamed like a little girl. DH goes "What was that all about?" and I screamed "A rat just jumped out of the tree and is running in our livingroom." The kids ran into the living room to see what the comotion was. The rat hid near some storage bins and I grabbed the broom and swiffer mop. DH used the broom to try and push it out but it ran under the door and hid between the wall and door. We moved the door and tried to guide it out but it jumped the broom and DH hit it like a golf ball. By now the baby wanted to see what the fuss was about and our other two kids had her pinned between them. Once the rat was outside I place a bowl over it and slid a piece of cardboard under it. Then me and our boys (ages 6 and 7) took it to the orange groves across the street and let it go.

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Thats funny!!! Sounds like when our cat caught a mouse. There is me on the couch screaming at DH and Son get it, get it! We have a glass entertainment center and it ran under there. Cats can see it through the glass and are trying to get it. Me Im still screaming on the couch. My son finally got a pasta strainer and a plate and coaxed him out and trapped him. We put him outside. Pasta strainer and plate went in the trash.

So do you think it was it hiding in there all through the holdays? I think I would have had a heart attack!

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do you know how long it was in there ? ICK!

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OMG...I'm sorry this happened to you, but reading what you wrote was so funny! I almost wet myself here! I can just imagine all of that going on! Too funny! I'm glad you got it outside! I think I would've passed out! I remember once when I was a kid, I was laying on the floor watching TV (when TV's used to be those console things). I saw a mouse run under the TV. My Dad went after it and took off his slipper and smashed the poor little thing. Then he picked it up by the tail and flushed it down the toilet! I'm surprised it didn't clog the toilet up! I still have vivid memories of that. ~Lisa

Ewwwww! You said you screamed like a little girl? I would have screamed bloody murder!!

We had a live pigeon fall through our fireplace one year, it was not burning of course! It landed inside where you put the wood, walked out through the metal mesh curtains and started trying to fly!

I about peed myself, as I was reading a book sitting on the sofa near the fireplace! I could not think of what to say to dh, who was in the family room. I just screamed, "It's alive!!!" He was like?? WHAT'S alive??

Makes me giggle just remembering this. Glad you got your rat out!

Paulette

OMG!!!! I WOULD NOT BE BREATHING.....LOL I grew up in the city and still hate those rodents. I feel so bad this has happened to you. My heart is racing at the thought.

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Oh H. E. Double hockey Sticks NO!

I would have DIED!
Rodents are my worst fear. We have NEVER had a rodent in our house ( that I Know of anyway!) and I swear I would MOVE if we did. The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up just thinking about it.

We have 2 cats, so hopefully that is why. A lizard came in a few weeks ago, and I almosy had a heart attack.


I don't "do" things. Bugs, rodents, dolls with big eyes, large groups of small things.. etc ( I think I need therapy!) LOL!

Made me think of the squirrel jumping out of the Griswold's family Christmas tree on Christmas Vacation! I would have jumped thru the roof if that happened! We had a real tree this year and that's the one thing I worried about....something alive coming out at me!

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We had a mouse that gave us a run for our money.. Dh was a mad man determine to get the mouse.. he set up traps along the walls...& the darn thing manage to eat the food and not even set off the traps...DH did manage to catch it in a box and release it over the fence that darn thing came back ..We was getting ready for bed and there I saw it come running out behind my dresser.. I scream the mouse jump up on our pet 's gate. Turn around and look us and took off running.. Needless to say..My house look like the movie Mouse Trap .. Dh set off 20 traps and laid them all over the living floor and finally caught it

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Hey all who posted here...

I really needed something to laugh about and thanks to this post, I got it. OP, if that had happened to me, I wouldn't be sitting here typing right now! All to all you other posters, some of your stories were equally humorous. Loved the pigeon one!

The last "thing" that was in our house was a field mouse, spotted the night of 9/11. DH and I were sitting in the family room watching the news of course... I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye and told DH something ran along the molding in the family room. He blamed it on my nerves and everything that had happened that day.

The next morning, I was standing looking in the pantry to get the stuff to make coffee - I had just gotten up. I was standing there wondering WHY there was a long string dangling at the back of the pantry on the top shelf? O....... my..... gosh....... It wasn't a string................

It was the TAIL OF THE MOUSE FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I truly screamed bloody murder and told DH to KILL IT! I honestly don't remember what happened next, blacked it out from trauma I guess! But I do know we had an exterminator there THAT DAY, laying traps and telling DH what areas to correct (like where a mouse could get in).

Don't fret - I do know that the mouse was QUICKLY caught and disposed of. There have been no incidents since.

Oh - that AM, after I spotted the mouse, I took EVERYTHING out of the pantry and either threw it away or, what was safe, put in Tupperware boxes. My pantry after that looked like a Tupperware catalog! LOL

Thanks very much for the laughs.
Suzanne

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dear lord this reminds me of yrs ago ,I was at a clients home and he was a 40 something yr old paraylized man. I was standing beside his bed when his son came in from the barn carrying the christmas tree in a big box. He dropped the box in the floor beside me and what looked like millions of baby mice ran out of it! " move over bubba, I 'm a getting in with you" the next thing I know, I am in the bed with this client and him and his son both are dying laughing at me. I dont like them things!!!!!!!!!! I know it wasnt a million of them but there was a butt load anyways! even one is way to many for me.!

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I would have freaked!! I mean really freaked and probably would have been up all night making sure there weren't any friends hanging around. Then our Orkin man would be out ASAP. I'm such a chicken when it comes to creatures in the house!

Thanks for the warning to not be drinking anything! Can't tell you how many times I have almost ruined our computer with a mouthful of Diet Coke or nearly choked to death trying to contain it!

Very funny stories! We don't have mice...we have snakes in our basement! The last one...well half of our basement is finished and we host a bible study in it Friday nights. So, I am down there cleaning up a bit in preparation...get up on a stool to straighten the curtain and find a snake skin peeking out. Okay, I dealt, gave me the willies, but I handled it okay.

Later that night during Bible study I was sharing with everyone what I'd found earlier...pointed to the window where I found the skin and low and behold there is the snake that left the skin behind laying there checking us out! That time I didn't deal so well! About 30 people in my basement and a snake too!!! One of the gentlemen was kind enough to remove him for us, took it outside. I asked where he put it...in my kids SANDBOX!!! Not sure what in the world he was thinking!

Om, I think I would have had to stay in a hotel last night if I were you. I hate rats! I saw one running in Sam's Club a few weeks ago, and screamed. Luckily no one was nearby to hear me. Another time, I was on the phone w/ my mom and saw the cat really trying to sniff around under the kitchen sink. All of a sudden, I dropped the phone and screamed. I could just hear my mom saying, "What?, What, What?" Once I composed myself, I told her it was a mouse and she just started laughing. She said that from the way I was screaming, she thought I must have gotten stabbed or something. Yikes!

That was to funny!! I had to think of the bowl and the people that are on another topic that do not buy anything new. I thought what about if they got this bowl!!!! (I know that this post will not make sense unless you have read it, but that topic was our dinner conversation.) Outside animals inside our houses make for the funniest stories.
Once a chipmucnk was in our basement a.k.a. BarbieLand. There is this poor thing that I would love to watch outside scampering in my house and it starts across the wall where all 16 Babie cars are parked and during my screaming and swatting just takes a rest in the pink Jeep. To this day when I look at those cars I think of him. (He safely returned to the backyard.)

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I am laughing so hard with your stories..reminds me a few weeks ago ,I hear some noise in the laundry room ,behind the dryer..I climb on top of it to check .and here it is staring at me: a huge possum.
I run to the bedromm where my husband is and tell him about it.he slowly go to check and comes back to the bedroom and tells me: yep you right ,it is a possum.and he sits back down.I am looking at him and he tells me: what the heck do you want me to do?
hello!!! get rid of it.he went back inside the laundry room and tried with a broom to get him out.but that darnm thing was playing dead..it took him a while to get him out.that possum came thru the doggy door and was eating the dog food..

OMG!! I feel for you! We have been fighting with a mouse (mice) for a while now. Like one of the above posters said, the mouse would eat the food out of the traps and keep going. Drove us nuts! Finally, reluctantly, I agreed to put poison out (very carefully of course!).
I walked into my laundry room today, looked down as I had one foot in the air, and realized I was about to step on a DEAD MOUSE!! EWWWWWWW!!! I screamed and got out of there so fast you would think it was still alive. I still shudder thinking what if I had stepped on it!

ROFL...Our dh can't move fast enough for us ...Can they?

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Nellyhill,

Thank you so much! You gave me a wonderful laugh and you made me feel better about the thousands of bugs that infested our xmas tree this year. Of course they took a couple of weeks to get used to the warmth of our home and then POOF just started to make themselves at home. It was horrible to get rid of them.


I cant wait to tell Sparky your story. He is going to love it!


Darlene

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That's hilarious & I can imagine how frightened you must have been. Rodents don't scare me like spiders. If a large spider had run out of that tree, I would still be screaming.

Aren't you very puzzled as to how that creature ever got there?

OMG - these are all hysterical!!!! I'll share mine..

When I was in junior high and very much a "girlie-girl", my family went on a camping trip to see my uncle. We had a pop-up tent and set that up outside my uncle's cabin (he lived in the woods). WELL, my little sister had a thing for animals - just loved them - and she was about four or five at the time. She thought it would be great idea to catch a chipmunk, so she put little pieces of food (like a trail) from the woods INTO the pop-up tent. I was in there laying on the bed reading a book when ALL OF A SUDDEN, she slams the door. Immediately, it's like a freaking hurricane is in there. She had lured a chipmunk in there and then "caught it". It was making laps around the SIDES of the tent. In the meantime, I am freaking out - yelling to high heaven as it keeps running by me and over me like it's lost it's mind!! I'm yelling at her to open the door and let it out, but she keeps telling me "No, I'm gonna keep it!!! Stop yelling - you're scaring it!!!!!" Finally, my parents come running out and open the door. It's still freaked and runs around for a little bit longer (during which NONE of the adults would come in and rescue me!), then finally runs out the door. Quite the traumatic experience - obviously one I've never forgotten...

I found a field mouse in the washing machine after I did a load. I asked my brother to remove it, he just picked it up and threw it out. I asked why didn't you going to use gloves? He told you have already cleaned it to death didn't think I needed any.

I think the grosses thing I ever saw was a headless roach still alive. I was like how? and then I found out they can live up to a week that way!!

OH MY GOSH!!!! If any of these things had happened to me (especially the rat and the chipmunk) I would have pissed my pants, screamed, cried then died. Holy Crap!

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While remodeling our living room, I discovered a LIVE BAT sleeping soundly in the wall near the front door!!! OH MY was I terrified, screaming my fool head off, shaking like a lunatic! DH came to the rescue and "speared" the bat with a nail on the end of a 2 x 4 and hauled the lifeless critter outside. I was so freaked out!!! We had taken off the plywood frame that went around the arch in the entryway and there it was. Thank heavens it couldn't have actually gotten inside the house, I would have really crapped if I saw that thing flying around in here!! Funny to think about now, but at the time it was super creepy! This was only about 2 years ago!

I'm with you. I'm much more afraid of spiders (and roaches).

A few months ago, I opened our kitchen door to go out in the garage and a bird flew in. DH was actually afraid of the bird, so I had to get it out. LOL The only other creatures we have had in our house are lizards and tree frogs (DH doesn't like them either, so I have to get them too). One time we had a snake on our screened in porch. DH went to get a shovel and when he got to the porch with it, the snake was gone.

When we used to rent, we lived in a townhouse that was on a hill. The back of the townhouse was actually up on stilts and we had practically no insulation left underneath the floor (it was freezing in the winter and we had keep shoes on). We used to hear something scratching on our downstairs bathtub from underneath and just assumed that a cat had gotten up there to stay warm. One night I went outside with a flashlight to look and see what it was for sure. There was lattice along the side of the townhouse and when I got down even with where the bathtub was, I put my face right up to the lattice and shined the flashlight underneath to get a good look. There was a giant possum staring back at me about a foot from my face! I screamed and jumped back. When our landlord finally had the insulation replaced underneath the townhouse, the possum moved to a tree right outside of our kitchen window.

I haven't posted on here for about 4 years - but this post has made me !! LOL I had a good friend who would only have live trees- One night while sitting in the dark living room sipping a cup of tea enjoying the peace and the tree lights - she started to hear the ornaments hit together - she flipped on the room lights seperated the branches and looked into the tree - to find an 8 foot black rat snakes looking back at her! You have to her tell the story of how her husband picked up the tree - decorated and all and took it to the front yard and pulled the snake out of!!

I'm with you !

This reminded me of something. I used to work for Anthropologie (a women's clothing and housewares store) and one year in one of the New York, NY stores they had huge gingerbread houses in the windows for decoration. Until customers started coming in and saying when they walked by the lighted windows at night they saw rats eating the houses. Only in NY!!

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I'm so sorry for you! The post about the snake would have done it for me. I fear nothing like I fear snakes. We built a new home about 10 years ago in an area that was once a field from a farm. My sons found a snkae in the front year - they and a neighbor boy removed it before I flipped out, but when my husband came home I was nearly demanding him to call the owner of this "relatively exclusive" neighborhood and find out why ther was a snake in this neighborhood. Thank God he loves me, he probably thought I was insane!!!!

This is all too funy!
Mine was a little field mouse. Hubby was working mid-shift and came home at one AM to find the kitchen torn apart and me washing everything twice!
I had reached into a drawer to grab a towel and found mouse droppings on them so off I went on a cleaning spree!
We set traps and caught the bugger by the next night, hubby dropped the trap with the corpse into an empty cat food container and into the trash can but it was late/cold so he failed to put it out of the house, and failed to mention this to me!
The container was basically a pop-top cardboard box type thing, can't think of the cat food brand at the moment.
Well, kitty got into the trash for the first time ever that night! I heard her tearing up "something" and went to investigate. I reached down in the dark to pick up whatever it was and got a handfull of dead mouse !!

I screamed when I realized what it was I had just grabbed, hubby was laughing hysterically in bed as he figured it out too! grrr!

Normally only roaches bother me much, but that was too gross!

I actually got a call from a friend in Okinawa to come to her house (off base, I lived on base) to get rid of a gecko at 10 pm since her Dh was away....lol She was on the dining room table when I got there....lol!

You're not the only one grabbing a handfull of something weird...
Many years ago, I think it was mc'er ITSMESUE that posted that she had reached down to pick up something in the dark and it turned out to be a dog turd!--

I laughed so hard my sides hurt. Can't imagine how grossed out she was!----OMGosh!


Thanks for the laughs ya'll!

X

I would have had a heart attack and died right there on the spot.

We have had a rat problem for a few months now. Ever since our cat turned up missing. I have had the extermanators put out snap traps and bait boxes. We have caught about 8 total but only 1 in the past three weeks. I thought maybe we had finally caught all of them until the tree episode. Now we are looking for a good indoor cat.

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LOL!!! Thanks for all of the laughs. Ds had to tell me about his experience this past week at work. While crawling under a house he put his hand on something other than dirt. (Thank goodness he had is gloves on.) He told his co worker to shine the light on his hand only to find it was a very long dead rat.

When I was child we lived out in the boonies. They starting clearing land to build on and all of a sudden we had trouble with rats. So my dad had this idea that he would get his gun and just shot them as they come out of the crawl space. He was seating there on Saturday morning and a very large rat came out, so he took aim got the rat along with the main water supply to the house. That was the first and last time he went hunting for rats. So for the rest of the day they work to repair the water line.

We have a lot of reptiles and had several snakes (until we started running out of room). So rats, bugs, and snakes don’t bother me. Use to have the big Madagascar hissing cockroaches (2-3 inches), which I refused to feed or touch (used them to as feeders for other reptiles). I’m okay with big spiders as long as I know they’re there, small ones don‘t bother me. Dh on the other hand…I have heard scream like a little girl when he’s seen a big spider. He refuses to go in the crawl space or attic because of spiders.

We had a bird that kept coming in house, I don’t know how many times I had to chase that thing out. It freaked me out the first few times. I’d be walking through the kitchen and it’d take off flying, running into everything including me. Found that stupid bird upstairs in our bedroom, in the basement, and several times in the kitchen or living room. Ended up finding a baby bird trapped behind a shelf in the basement, so the bird was trying to get to her baby.


If you don’t like snakes, stop reading now…
One night I had to go to the bathroom (of course I waited until I couldn’t hold it anymore). I went downstairs and as I turned the corner to the hall I seen our big 8 foot long, 10 inch around Columbian Red tail boa in the bathroom doorway. I had to pee really bad so I hopped over it and started peeing. Then I thought of our little 5 lb dog, and without thinking I yelled out her name. She comes running down the hall so then I’m sitting on the toilet peeing while throwing rolls of toilet paper at the poor dog and yelling at her to get out so she wouldn’t be snake food. After I finished, I found the poor dog hiding in the living room, I locked her in another room while I got the snake and put him back in his cage. I don’t believe DH anymore when he tells me something can’t get out of it’s cage.

Just before we married, my husband found a mouse in his apartment, and had the bright idea of just trapping it in the cupboard it had run into. As it turned out, he'd also left a giant bag of M&M's in the pocket of a coat in that cupboard, which the mouse apparently lived on until it snuck into the next apartment, where our more efficient neighbour dealt with it. I had to spend a whole afternoon cleaning out mouse poop and candy shells that had been left behind. We've since got two cats, and I'm grateful for their services. Then again, I went to get a sweater out of our closet a couple of nights ago and found a giant wolf spider sitting on top of it, staring at me. We had to try to vacuum it up, and tell the guests that had just arrived to stay back. I guess that's what we get for keeping the cats out of our bedroom. Lizards I like, and fortunately, the rather large scorpions here haven't gotten into the house yet.

Okay, now you have made me laugh so hard I have got to go home from work and change my pants! That is the funniest story I've ever heard!

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Anyone else have the creepy crawlie feeling reading these?
Shudder.. ewww.


Gotta share my own of course

On one of our moves we had stored our stuff in a garage for a month.
While unpacking we found half eaten packages of yeast.. not a good mouse food.. didn't seee any live ones and figured they died in the garage.

Sitting reading one day and my then 2 1/2 yr old DS came walking up, something in hand and said "look". Doing the typical mom thing, I reached out while not really looking at what he had. He hands me a dead mouse!

I screech, throw the thing on the floor and DH comes running.
DS is looking at me all bewildered and DH is scolding me for scaring our son.

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Our first apt was in an old Victorian house, lots of trees right next to our windows. There were times during the day that we heard squirrels climbing the side of the house.. didn't think anything of it.

Being a relative new housewife, I made and burned a batch of peanut butter cookies. I left them in a paperbag to take out to the trash later.

My friend was sleeping in the living room and we heard a shout.
We ran out from our bedroom and saw a squirrel running out the now torn window screen with burnt cookies in his mouth.
Crafty little animal ate thru the screen and came in for a treat.

We kept the window closed all that summer until we moved!

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I was telling someone about this thread and she told me that her mom's neighbors had a bat get in their house. They got it and put it in a plastic bag.
Not knowing what to do with it , they came up with the idea to put the plastic bag in their FREEZER

What on earth were they thinking??? I would think that one of them had to be smarter than that!!
What is wrong with the garbage can??

I would never eat at their house,LOL

Sams?? YUCK Did you tell anyone? What did they say?