Horrible Creatures

[Janice]

What is the worse animal or creature that actually got inside your house. This is not a snake or something you brought in. This critter found his way on his own.

I guess a bat flying around was the most terrifying for me.

[Windswept]

4' Savannah Monitor ( 4' nose to end of tail)
Nasty little bugger -( best guess is it was and escaped "pet") - decided to cool off in my garage one afternoon and was inadvertantly locked in. I washed two loads of laundry the next morning before I spotted his tail sticking out from under my car. I bent down to take a look and must have jumped 4 feet straight up ...screaming things I won't repete here !

I called a friend who was an exterminator. He and 4 other men cornered the snarling, snapping, mean creature and took it away.

Who in their right mind would want something like that for a "pet". Ugh..shiver...

[JenBayles]

That would actually be a snake! Dave was out of town, and I was home while we were having bathroom tile installed. The workers got so far as to remove the toilet and set the tile but the adhesive had to cure overnight before the grout could be installed. In the meantime, we got a flooding rainstorm that afternoon. That night, as I got ready to hop in the shower before bed, my dog, Travis, started barking hysterically at the corner of the bedroom where his pallet lay. I thought it might be one of the huge Palmetto bugs (roaches) that are so common here in Houston. Wrong.

It was a small copperhead snake, coiled up in the corner. The adrenaline started pumping, and since Dave wasn't there, I knew I had to get rid of thing myself. Travis was of no assistance, bless his little cowardly hide! I grabbed a shoebox and a closet dowel rod and start poking at the snake with the closet dowel. The snake ran behind the bed along the baseboard, then turned and headed right up the dowel rod toward me. Once it reached the end of the rod, I slapped the shoebox down and the snake slithered into the box. I slammed the lid on the box and ran screaming through the house to the back door where I heaved the whole mess out into the pitch black of the back yard. I stood there for a minute just trying to catch my breath, when I realized I was outside completely stark-staring naked. OMG! What would the NEIGHBORS think?!! Whereupon, I ran screaming right back into the house.

[tropicana]

a mouse (ok there i said it i'm afraid of mice) i dont care who laughs. Actually, the other day i found out one of my friends is terrified of ..of all things... squirrels. And hes a big, huge guy... and he can't even be in the same backyard with a squirrel.

Just goes to show ya... everyone has their fear of some animal.
-justin-

[JonathanBelles]

We had a mouse during Charley that left after charley. We have had many lizards in our house since we have lived here that are really hard to catch.

[azsnowman]

Psssh...this is easy! My ex WIFE "LOL!"

[tropicana]

up here in toronto, raccoons get into people's attics and the mother's have their baby raccoons. Major major problem, since raccoons are very destructive, and can tear up your baseboards in a matter of a few minutes.
The only thing to do is call the Pest Control to get rid of them.

[DaylilyDawn]

This so easy for me to say: FIRE ANTS!!!!!!. One day I went to get a pice of clothing out of my closet and it was covered with Fire ants. The ants covered every piece of clothing in the closet. I bet I emptied a whole can of ant spray into the closet and shut the door. A few hours later I had to clean them up and I bet I had over a shoebox sized container filled with dead ants.. I absolutely HATE fire ants!!!!

[Janice]

AZ..... I'm telling..

Hey, we have horrible fireants too. They are all outside tho, usually around the garbage cans. They can bite as bad as a bee sting.

[CajunMama]

I've been lucky (knock on wood) that the worst has been those big tree roaches. Now if one of the big green grasshoppers got in, i'd be moving out in a nanosecond. I'm scared to death of those ugly things.

Daylily....I have my exterminator spread ant poison all over my yard in the spring and fall. It's been years since i've had any fireants in it.

[Tstormwatcher]

I would say my stepson.

[AnnularCane]

Nothing spectacular. I guess the worst for me was a wasp that got into the bathroom and stung me.

[vbhoutex]

That would actually be a snake! Dave was out of town, and I was home while we were having bathroom tile installed. The workers got so far as to remove the toilet and set the tile but the adhesive had to cure overnight before the grout could be installed. In the meantime, we got a flooding rainstorm that afternoon. That night, as I got ready to hop in the shower before bed, my dog, Travis, started barking hysterically at the corner of the bedroom where his pallet lay. I thought it might be one of the huge Palmetto bugs (roaches) that are so common here in Houston. Wrong.

It was a small copperhead snake, coiled up in the corner. The adrenaline started pumping, and since Dave wasn't there, I knew I had to get rid of thing myself. Travis was of no assistance, bless his little cowardly hide! I grabbed a shoebox and a closet dowel rod and start poking at the snake with the closet dowel. The snake ran behind the bed along the baseboard, then turned and headed right up the dowel rod toward me. Once it reached the end of the rod, I slapped the shoebox down and the snake slithered into the box. I slammed the lid on the box and ran screaming through the house to the back door where I heaved the whole mess out into the pitch black of the back yard. I stood there for a minute just trying to catch my breath, when I realized I was outside completely stark-staring naked. OMG! What would the NEIGHBORS think?!! Whereupon, I ran screaming right back into the house.

[Brent]

That would actually be a snake! Dave was out of town, and I was home while we were having bathroom tile installed. The workers got so far as to remove the toilet and set the tile but the adhesive had to cure overnight before the grout could be installed. In the meantime, we got a flooding rainstorm that afternoon. That night, as I got ready to hop in the shower before bed, my dog, Travis, started barking hysterically at the corner of the bedroom where his pallet lay. I thought it might be one of the huge Palmetto bugs (roaches) that are so common here in Houston. Wrong.

It was a small copperhead snake, coiled up in the corner. The adrenaline started pumping, and since Dave wasn't there, I knew I had to get rid of thing myself. Travis was of no assistance, bless his little cowardly hide! I grabbed a shoebox and a closet dowel rod and start poking at the snake with the closet dowel. The snake ran behind the bed along the baseboard, then turned and headed right up the dowel rod toward me. Once it reached the end of the rod, I slapped the shoebox down and the snake slithered into the box. I slammed the lid on the box and ran screaming through the house to the back door where I heaved the whole mess out into the pitch black of the back yard. I stood there for a minute just trying to catch my breath, when I realized I was outside completely stark-staring naked. OMG! What would the NEIGHBORS think?!! Whereupon, I ran screaming right back into the house.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL at stepson and ex-wife too.

[MSRobi911]

Every once in a while we get those see thru little slimy a$$ mini-lizard time things, I call them skanks, but my husband says that is not the right word, but they really give me creapy crawlies since you can see thru them. I also hate flying cockaroaches.....aka Palmetto bugs! I will kill them, I just don't like them flying around. I did kill a baby snake, about 6 inches long that was on the ground right where I stepped out of the car at our house in Pascagoula, Robi was at the FBI Academy and told me the snakes Momma was gonna come after me for killing her baby....I kept watching for her, but she never showed up, thank the Good Lord above for that!!

Mary

[O Town]

We had a mouse during Charley that left after charley. We have had many lizards in our house since we have lived here that are really hard to catch.

I have gotten really good at catching them, besides the fact that I grew up catching them outside I now catch at least 7 a week and put them outside. I think me cat drags them in through the doggie door. My kids don't like them much, but I always save them because if you don't get them back outside you end finding them dead in the closet or somewhere in a few weeks.

We had a baby flying squirrel get in the house at our friends pad, and he was the coolest thing. After we finally caught him, we totally checked him out. I had never seen a flying squirrel before. Very cool. Not many animals I am afraid of, I love them all even the scary slimy ones.

[alicia-w]

in the US, those horrible huge cockroaches....

when we lived in SE Asia, these rats that are the size of small dogs... it only got in once but it was disgusting.

[artist]

lg. scorpions and squirrels playing in the attic. (after they gnawed their way in)
The squirrels would play chase with each other every night at bed time until we finally caught them.

[GrimReaper]

Developers are clearing 100+ acres right across the road from me!! It is sending over all kinds of creatures...rats, mice, deer, wild hogs....etc. However I haven't had one IN the house yet. I say yet because lately I have been hearing a scratching, scampering kind of sound from under the crawl space of my house, and in the walls. My home is a stick built house, but from the 1950's era... I bet anything can get in here!!! I'll let you know when I see the whites of whatever's beady little eyes...lol!