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    WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS

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    • JumpscareJ
      Jumpscare
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      I don’t know why, but every week or two, a spider will crawl up the back of my laptop and emerge into my view, walking over my screen like it’s trying to be one of those jumpscare GIFs.

      This has happened so often that I’m no longer startled by seeing an insect crawling around near me. I have an empty candle jar nearby to scoop them up and toss them out into the wild again. And I always talk to them, too. “Hey little guy, let’s get you back outside.”

      Why they love coming up the back of my screen I have no idea, haha.

      Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
      https://silentheaven.org

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      • SnacknessS
        Snackness @KarmaBum
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        @KarmaBum One time I found a freezing little bat in the carport. I put him in a hatbox with a heating pad until he warmed up and left.

        I wore heavy leather gloves for this btw.

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          lordbelh
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          I have a hedgehog that plods around in my garden in the evenings. It’s friggin’ adorable.

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          • tsarT
            tsar @lordbelh
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            @lordbelh said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

            I have a hedgehog that plods around in my garden in the evenings. It’s friggin’ adorable.

            I AM JEALOUS

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            • ToriT
              Tori @tsar
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              @tsar said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

              @Tori said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

              Right now, I have major stress about something apparently LIVING IN MY ATTIC and omfg it’s the worst while they try to figure out WHAT and HOW

              Oh man, I want to know what it is!!

              Palm rats, which upon googling them look ADORABLE but not in my attic 😞

              she/her, them/they - not super particular

              I have been here the whole time

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              • tsarT
                tsar @Tori
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                @Tori said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

                @tsar said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

                @Tori said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

                Right now, I have major stress about something apparently LIVING IN MY ATTIC and omfg it’s the worst while they try to figure out WHAT and HOW

                Oh man, I want to know what it is!!

                Palm rats, which upon googling them look ADORABLE but not in my attic 😞

                Oh nooooooo

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                  lordbelh @Tori
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                  @Tori Yeah, no thanks. No rodents in the house, please. Unless they’re in a cage/enclosure. Then they’re cool.

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                  • saoS
                    sao
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                    My cats have been murder spreeing my rodent problem. As of last night they have killed 13 since I brought them home. … so I definitely have/had a rodent problem. @Tori can you set Lizzie loose in the attic or would this risk her precious wiggly body?

                    let it be a challenge to you

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                      lordbelh @sao
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                      @sao Serial killers in action.

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                      • SnacknessS
                        Snackness
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                        Porch lizard!

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                        eta I’m pretty sure I airdropped this to a complete stranger, I hope they enjoy it.

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                        • saoS
                          sao @lordbelh
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                          @lordbelh I’m afraid so. At one point I witnessed my 14 month old cat, Heimdall, shove a mouse back into its hiding place with his big paw because he decided he wasn’t done playing cat-and-mouse with it. Really awful. I thought he was a himbo but actually he’s a terror.

                          let it be a challenge to you

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                            lordbelh @sao
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                            @sao My old cat was a terror, too. I know their ways from first hand experience. 😉 If only all they murdered were pests! Anytime he brought home a lil birdie, though, I felt guilty as hell. I know its a wildlife problem.

                            They’re so cute and loving at home. Outside the door, they’re mass murdering psychopaths.

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                            • saoS
                              sao @lordbelh
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                              @lordbelh mine do not go outside! but they’re definitely awful murderers of intruders. never mind that some of these mice have probably lived here longer than they have (oh god).

                              let it be a challenge to you

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                                lordbelh @sao
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                                @sao Mine was always an outdoor cat, I inherited him. Never got another once he passed. If I did, it’d have to be some indoor cats, though.

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                                • ToriT
                                  Tori @sao
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                                  @sao said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

                                  My cats have been murder spreeing my rodent problem. As of last night they have killed 13 since I brought them home. … so I definitely have/had a rodent problem. @Tori can you set Lizzie loose in the attic or would this risk her precious wiggly body?

                                  She is such a SKITTISH cat, even now! I think she would claw me apart before I could get up the ladder to the garage 😆 It took months to even get her to go into the garage to use the potties.

                                  I’d try to put Piggy up there, but he’s nearly as much as a scaredy cat and, y’know. Big boi. Plus he isn’t a killer. He just likes to play and then gets bored.

                                  My pest guy has put traps up there and will be back again Friday or Monday to check them again. I really REALLY hate mouse traps, but they don’t like re-release them into the wild or anything 😕

                                  she/her, them/they - not super particular

                                  I have been here the whole time

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                                  • EvilgraysonE
                                    Evilgrayson
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                                    We lived in the country - mice in the house was standard - when we gained a crotchety old tomcat who was ludicrously intelligent. We rapidly came to an arrangement with Zappa; he brought us dead mice, he got tuna. 14 mice in 10 days, worked like a treat.

                                    Unfortunately, this cat was too smart. After he’d emptied the house of its rodents, every time he wanted a bit of tuna in his diet, he brought us a dead rodent. So after a while he was getting a bit podgy, and we stuck him on a diet.

                                    5 mice in one day.

                                    He got his tuna, and we decided that a cat who can catch five mice in a day probably didn’t need a diet. Diet ended, everyone was happy, and we realised that our cat had grasped the basic principles of economics.

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                                    • SolsticeS
                                      Solstice
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                                      Got out of my car today, and noticed a belly-up bug that had passed on in the parking spot next to me. Understandable, as it’s a billion degrees out, but holy heck I had no idea we even had these where I live. It’s like the size of a really thick thumb.

                                      My partner absolutely loves to draw from life, and doesn’t shy away from bugs, so I scooped this poor passed-on little dude up and on my way to my apartment, a neighbor stopped me to chat. Imagine trying to hold a serious conversation while delicately holding one of these fellas by the carapace and basically hiding it behind your back like a bad sitcom:

                                      9efbb4db-a699-47f4-9c0b-0db7af83e733-image.png Eastern Hercules Beetle, Male - Courtesy of Google Images

                                      For like 10 minutes. I do not know how I got away with that.

                                      My ‘gift’ was absolutely adored when I got home, though.

                                      Squeal, eyes lighting up like it was Christmas, and everything.

                                      Worth it.

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                                      • SnacknessS
                                        Snackness @Solstice
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                                        @Solstice I love this story so much.

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                                          lordbelh
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                                          Whales pass through the sound between my island and the mainland. I barely caught one on film from my terrace. Checked it afterwards, so pleased with myself, and it’s basically a black blotch briefly breaking the water. 😄

                                          Made it into a lil gif

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                                          • tsarT
                                            tsar @lordbelh
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                                            @lordbelh said in WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:

                                            Whales pass through the sound between my island and the mainland. I barely caught one on film from my terrace. Checked it afterwards, so pleased with myself, and it’s basically a black blotch briefly breaking the water. 😄

                                            Made it into a lil gif

                                            I love this!

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