[NormandyMary]

I hate it when Freddie brings in live presents. However, it does keep the other two girls occupied for hours, just sitting and watching waiting for it to make an appearance. I usually find it dead a day or so later. Only twice in six years have I had to put poison down for one, usually behind my oven. Lovely!!!!!
Ive had a couple of small birds these last few months, dead, which I have no problem with, I just dread the day that Fred brings a frog in. Then I will have a problem on my hands as Im scared stiff of anything reptilian, especially frogs and toads, no matter how small they are.

[Bionic]

And the frogs scream so much. I know from experience when ours bought one in.  Each time she pounced on it it screamed like a baby.
Sally

[Daisy]

Ooo ungrateful little mouse  hope your thumb is better soon

Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous  and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain

[OhLaLa]

Years ago, we used to find dead, dried up, frogs in all sorts of new 'hiding places'. Once or twice I put them out on the front wall to freak the kids out on their way to school. Then one day I saw a young lad pick one up and sneakily pop it into the schoolbag of one of the girls in front...........

I soooooo would have liked to have been in the classroom when she reached in and pulled that out!

I know, mean, but funny.

    

[deepinthewoods]

you should have used the wellie trick!!
hope the thumbs ok.

[plumseverywhere]

fab stories, did make me smile!!

thumb is better thanks - just bruised.  This morning hubby got up to find snowball lying on the kitchen floor 'hugging' a HUGE (decapitated) rat.   lovely.

[doganjo]

When I had a cat flap - thankfully new doors put paid to that - I was on the phone one morning when the catflap flapped and in walked Rio with a junior rat hanging from his jaws.  I told my friend nonchalantly what had just happened - HE screamed and told me to get off the phone and bag it and put it in the bin.  (a full grown, 6 footer, married, with dogs - and he SCREAMED)

As I put the phone down, Rio put the rat down - and I screamed!  It was still very much alive and started to box Rio with it's front paws. 

Just then the phone rang, Peter came back on, and I said, 'it's still alive and they are play fighting'  'OK,' he said, 'keep talking and keep an eye on it.  if it comes near you just hang up and run.'  They ran all over the kitchen, well the rat did, Rio just sat on top of the dog cage and watched it.  Then he pounced.
'Peter?' 
'Yes'
'The rat is dead' 
'Thank goodness, now what were we talking about'
'He's eating it'
'Oh for goodness sake, Annie, stop watching the bloody thing'

All was devoured before my very eyes except the tail!   

[jaykay]

OMG 

[Miss Piggy]

OMG too, I would have been dead of a heart attack

[jaykay]

I have had baby rabbits and junior rats running bout the place courtesy of my cats. Plus shrews, which they caught but didn't like to eat, so they released them, shrews then ran into gaps in the house stone walls and just added to the livestock I can hear walking about behind my bedhead when I'm trying to go to sleep! 

[OhLaLa]

Mice, frogs, rats, I'm not freaked out by them and would rather remove it than have it running around my kitchen.

I don't leave the cats to eat rats, any poison digested by the rat which may not have quite had the desired effect could in turn be ingested by the cat - not a risk I am willing to take (I don't use poison, but I know others do).

Least pleasent rat experience I had was when moggie came home (via catflap) during the very early hours, trotted into the bedroom, and gave a hello meow (which woke me up) - at which point the very large and very angry rat took it's chance to jump out of his mouth - onto my head and through my hair...........

Apol, bit off topic.

[TheCaptain]

When I was moving our chickens out of the end stable I had to move a load of last years hay which was being used as an area for them to lay/get on top/get into the rafters. When I got down to the second to last layer I found the nest. When I got down to the last layer, above a couple of pallets, two of the biggest rats I've ever seen scrabbled like hell to get underneath the pallets. I spent the next few minutes doing the crazy 'quick, grab and drag' of the bales off the pallets. Then, with shovel at the ready, I moved the first pallet, nothing. I then moved the second one and they both scamplered past me, and straight up the wall and out underneath the gables with me squealing/ screaming/ shouting/ bashing at nothing with the shovel.

I'm the Captain, and I'm a 6ft 1" wuss!!!

[Sylvia]

Ooo ungrateful little mouse  hope your thumb is better soon

Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous  and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain

Yes, Daisy, I do live in Britain It was a wolf-spider, the kind you usually see in baths, and,I think had been poked about by a nervous grandson, he was trying to get it to go back down the plug-hole. They don't usually bite! I've always just picked them up and put them outside(I don't now I trap them in a glass)

[TheCaptain]

My eldest is terrified of spiders after being bitten by one, much likes yours, in the bathroom a couple of years ago. Nasty little b$£%ard, I swear it was wearing Doc Martins!

Ooo ungrateful little mouse  hope your thumb is better soon

Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous  and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain

Yes, Daisy, I do live in Britain It was a wolf-spider, the kind you usually see in baths, and,I think had been poked about by a nervous grandson, he was trying to get it to go back down the plug-hole. They don't usually bite! I've always just picked them up and put them outside(I don't now I trap them in a glass)

[sabrina]

Sorry for your pain but it is funny