posted on May 17, 2005 02:11:52 PM new
I saw the Cat Story, but this is different
A couple hours ago, while I decided I was going to do all the laundry and clean the entire house.... I was walking downstairs with a handful of hangers for the laundry room, when I see my cat at the bottom of the stairs with a RAT.
I yelled at my cat and my dog, (who was barking at them) and the CAT RAN OFF!!! AND SO DID MY ROTT/SHEPARD!!!
It wasn't a mouse, it was a med size rat, so I threw a hanger down, and it scurried away. Well, never was afraid of them before, but it bugged me, I have sandals on, and there was no way I was going to catch it... called my bro, he didn't get off till 3, (but he thought it was funny) Mike doesn't get home till 6, so I called my daughter and it just so happened that my Son in Law was home! They came right over, and he literally had to tear the downstairs den and my computer room apart! He had a pair of plyers, and he was going to get it by the tail, well he finally got him, and the rat FLEW out the downstairs door outside, where the cat was, (btw, as soon as the rat went out the door running, the cat went running in the other direction!)
DANG!! So we were upstairs, and laughing by now, when 2 Mormon Missionaries came to the door (No offense to Mormons, but I can never seem to get rid of them) so my SIL answered the door, they said some stuff about Christianity, and he just looked straight at them, and said 'this whole household is Jewish dude' LOL!!! they didn't know what to say, and he shut the door.
Now I don't know if I'm up to cleaning the place, or putting it back together..
My cat, who do love dearly and is 19 years old, still is on the prowl, but always wants to bring his 'prey' in the house. The birds hes brought in, I can handle, and he never kills them.
posted on May 17, 2005 03:00:58 PM new
what I wanna know is why you let crowfart in the house in the first place
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on May 17, 2005 03:36:15 PM new
Classic! I did not let HER in, the cat dragged her in! And then, believe it or not, SHE SPOOKED the cat! and the cat and dog took off!
posted on May 17, 2005 04:48:36 PM new
well....as the old saying goes-"looked what the cat dragged in" doesn't surprise me the cat was spooked.
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on May 17, 2005 06:41:45 PM new
Oh NearTheSea - Gives me goose bumps just thinking about your story.
I would never catch a rat or a mouse for that matter, by it's tail. Those things are quicker than....you know what...and could turn and bite the hand that holding it's tail. But the reaction of your animals....was funny. Brave creatures they were.
No animals involved in my story...but somehow a big snake got into my house a couple of years ago. I came out of the bedroom, passing through the livingroom on my way to the kitchen. As I did, I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. No noise...but then I saw IT!!! It had been in a curled up position under the center coffee-table when I first saw it...but it slowly started to unwind and head towards me. [SCREAM OVER AND OVER ] I've never seen anything other than a small garden snake in my life...and even those sightings were only twice. This was a first for me and I had no idea what kind of snake it was - only that it was long, very long and dark.
I screamed at the top of my lungs....opened the front door to scream for my husband, who at the time was out bush-hogging the land. He couldn't hear me at all....and I was panicking BIG TIME. I ran out to the garage, grabbed a flat end shovel and BRAVELY went back in. Found the snake had moved and was now hiding under my china cabinet. As I stood there watching, he again started to approach me....slowly. With everybit of strength I had in me, I watched until he had his head right over one of the slats/groves that separate the wood planks....[didn't want to make marks in my nice wood floor and held him there for over an hour until my husband came in and saved the day by killing and removing him from the house.
Have no idea how he/she got in...but we had family visiting for about a week at the time, just a day or so prior to this....and when they were leaving the front door was open for quite a while, as they took their belongings out to their car. Because when we moved here I asked my husband to go around each room and fill any gaps/holes/openings around the sink faucets etc...before I would move in here, and he had.
I hope neither you or I ever have to relive our experiences. That was enough excitement to last me a lifetime.
[ edited by Linda_K on May 17, 2005 06:51 PM ]
posted on May 18, 2005 04:49:42 PM new
Wow Linda! I'd be scared too!!! damn!
When I lived down in the 'southwest' (OK, TX) we had scorpions, tarantulas and CENTIPEDES (capitilized, cuz these were the huge snakelike dangerous ones) I believe OK was the BUGGIEST state I've yet to be in! LOL!
Right before we moved back here, we were in OK and truley 'out in the sticks' I had the 2 girls, they were babies, and a scorpion walked across the living room floor. I put the kids UP, and took a dictionary and wham, right on it... by the time my ex got home, I had stacked all the heavy books I could find, and the stack was up to my waist! LOL! I wasn't taking any chances!
] I've never seen anything other than a small garden snake in my life...and even those sightings were only twice. This was a first for me and I had no idea what kind of snake it was - only that it was long, very long and dark.