Critter Stories
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Melting Slicks
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From: Great Plains Iowa
Critter Stories
I live in the foothills of the the Sierra mountain range in central California and from time to time I get critters in my mobile home if I leave the screen door open. Most of the time its just little birds that flew in then couldn't remember how to get out but I have also found opossums, mice and rats (often), alligator lizards (also often) and a BIG rattlesnake. Do you live out in the boonies and get unwanted critters in your house?
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From: Charlotte NC
I live in the foothills of the the Sierra mountain range in central California and from time to time I get critters in my mobile home if I leave the screen door open. Most of the time its just little birds that flew in then couldn't remember how to get out but I have also found opossums, mice and rats (often), alligator lizards (also often) and a BIG rattlesnake. Do you live out in the boonies and get unwanted critters in your house?
And you have me beat when you mentioned you get rattlesnakes...all I get is an occasional copperhead in the back yard.
DUB
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From: Vienna NJ
Ill make it fit the C3 board.
I bought my 77 in mid july of last year. Parked it outside the shop at work while it waits for my budget to catch up to my intentions. One day in late september as Im going into the shop, I hear something alive shuffling around under the hood. Lift the hood to find a fat old groundhog trying to climb up through the v belts! Apparently it got cold and decided the underhood area of my black corvette was more comfortable than its dirty burrow.
Got into the habit of banging on the hood everytime I walked past the car.
Not long after, I popped the hood of a 99 Ranger I started pulling parts off of after the rotted out frame broke. I guess Gregory Groundhog got hungry because every sparkplug wire was chewed up.
He showed me, huh?
I bought my 77 in mid july of last year. Parked it outside the shop at work while it waits for my budget to catch up to my intentions. One day in late september as Im going into the shop, I hear something alive shuffling around under the hood. Lift the hood to find a fat old groundhog trying to climb up through the v belts! Apparently it got cold and decided the underhood area of my black corvette was more comfortable than its dirty burrow.
Got into the habit of banging on the hood everytime I walked past the car.
Not long after, I popped the hood of a 99 Ranger I started pulling parts off of after the rotted out frame broke. I guess Gregory Groundhog got hungry because every sparkplug wire was chewed up.
He showed me, huh?
Drifting
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From: Chino Hills CA
When I was about 14,(around 1967) my dad found this beat up '61 Corvette at a wrecking yard, which he bought for $200. He had it towed to the house for us to fix up. Well the car was infested with mice , that made their way into our house. My mom was not to happy.
Racer
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From: Upstate New York
I just had a litter of Raccoons leave the area above the ceiling above my porch - They were about the be "humanly removed" For two weeks a listened to nursing raccoons. Not something I enjoyed. I live in the country and there is EVERYTHING up here
Racer
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From: Fort Worth Texas
Off topic it is, but I hadn't thought of this in years. Back when I was in college at ATM, I lived way out in the sticks . After a night of heavy carousing at the Dixie Chicken, I got home and flopped out on the bed without turning off the lights. Woke up a few hours later to see a scorpion burying its stinger in the back of my right hand. Luckily I was heavily anesthesized and didn't feel much until the next day 
. The little boogers loved to crawl up on the ceiling and then lose their grip. Another time I went to pick up a textbook I had dropped on the floor the night before next to the easy chair, and found one pancaked on the backside of the book
. The little boogers loved to crawl up on the ceiling and then lose their grip. Another time I went to pick up a textbook I had dropped on the floor the night before next to the easy chair, and found one pancaked on the backside of the book
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I live in the center of a city of close to 400,000, but, they do call this the Forest City for a reason. Just in the last week I have run into a family of Raccoons, I have a family of Skunks living under my shed and came face to face with a huge Opossum just last night. Lots of mice, chipmunks and squirrels too. The odd snake, but, most of ours are harmless. Then there are the dozens of neighborhood cats as well! 
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Melting Slicks
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From: Great Plains Iowa
Annoying Critters
A few years ago I opened the hood of my '82 and found a mouse nest with 9 baby mice in it. Then about 10 years ago mice ate up all of the spark plug wires in my '73 pickup (mice love eating spark plug wires). I have completely given up trying to grow vegetables because of gophers and I have given up having pet chickens because bobcats kill them as fast as I can buy them.