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Originally Posted by mistergreen

It's February, about 20ish outside, snowed over night and I woke up to my first spider of the year. A brown one, kind of fat if you ask me. Just hangin' out on the ceiling as if he owned the place. Makes me wonder where he could have been living, and does one mean twenty more!

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Sounds like a 'mom-to-be' that's been munching on the things you didn't see but she did? And don't worry, if she has too many offspring, they'll eat each other too. :D Gotta love spideys!

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Originally Posted by Lord Sorril

4 days ago I was cleaning my rodents, and while I was moving one of my mice-I had a bad muscle cramp in my arm. I ended up dropping the mouse and he immediately fled into a tiny gap in the wall.
I saw no trace of him until yesterday-when I noticed something had uprooted one of my gfs orchids in her frog room and chewed most of the roots off of it (making a huge mess).
The loose mouse also *climbed* up to the top of a large aloe plant and ate most of a *dried leaf*.
There was a mouse trap with peanut butter literally two feet away that was ignored, and I know he had to have passed several other traps on the way...

Last night I got up to use the bathroom and heard the mouse in the bathroom radiator.
I let my two cats in the room and I could hear the mouse scrambling around-dodging their paws as they tried to dig it out.
It was early in the morning-so I left the cats continue their efforts while I returned to sleep.

When I got up later this morning-I assumed the cats had killed the mouse, but I saw no indicator of success.
As soon as I got downstairs I saw the two cats sleeping in their beds and the mouse (unscathed) was *there* slowly sneaking past them-inches away from both cats.
I whispered to the cats and one opened an eye and immediately struck-and missed! The mouse immediately ran under the kitchen refrigerator.

My silver cat sat in front of the refrigerator all day and periodically fell asleep while poised to strike.
At sunset the mouse came out and was killed instantly.

I'm just amazed that the mouse managed to survive for 4 days in my house...it had zero interest in any of my traditional traps...and would rather eat orchid roots and dried aloe leaves rather than peanut butter...never would have guessed it...:rolleyes:

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What a palaver !!

We had a similar incident but with a flamin’ squirrel who got into our house via the attic/ loft

Sooooo me and our Italian Greyhound ( miniature greyhound) chased him around the house for a few minutes then he sought sanctuary behind a radiator near the front door .

I sat for an hour with the door open hoping it would make a run it but to no avail ..

Eventually I got a bendy branch and poked it around till he dashed to freedom squealing as he went ..

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No squirrels were harmed in this production

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It's been ages since I posted but I just wanted to drop in and say hello to any new/old members. Hope everything has been good for everyone.

Hey, Neal- it HAS been AGES! You still keeping snakes? or just birds now?

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Originally Posted by Neal

It's been ages since I posted but I just wanted to drop in and say hello to any new/old members. Hope everything has been good for everyone.

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Hey !!!


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Since I had a holiday today in the USA (Presidents Day): I took my gf to some antique stores and snapped a few photos:
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I thought the wax plate was pretty interesting. I have not seen anything like it before. It was quite large and heavy-smelled vaguely of honey.
I looked up Fulda Dom and discovered it is a cathedral in Germany. This plate was some sort of souvenir. You learn something new every day...:)

That last photo sent my mind back 50 years to my grandmother’s Pears soap !https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6bc4c19e07.jpg


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I've never seen or heard of a wax plate, even as a souvenir. I think I'll stick to Pyrex... And I think that cobra was crossed with an anteater? :D So much fun shopping in these places.

Wtf !!

MichPlat again



This is Zincubus incidentally !!


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