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: just a quick rant
: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 10:07:35 AM
ok, i just gotta rant a little.  i know not everybody on here love snakes, but today is "feeding day" for our snake.  so hubby goes and gets a rat, goes outside with it, and long and behold it gets loose!  GREAT!  now we have an adult, FEMALE rat running lose in our yard.  how awesome is that.   :(
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: angelsmama April 07, 2007, 10:10:51 AM
oh boy... maybe someones dog or cat will help haha..
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 10:34:29 AM
We actually got our first mouse ever back in the fall,That's when we got our cat,Our last cat got out a window and he still wont come home,So my husband said he didn't want another,Well after the mouse and his family moved in, I told my husband "Either we get another cat or I'm going to my mom's.
So far so good.
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: angelsmama April 07, 2007, 10:37:07 AM
ok, i just gotta rant a little.  i know not everybody on here love snakes, but today is "feeding day" for our snake.  so hubby goes and gets a rat, goes outside with it, and long and behold it gets loose!  GREAT!  now we have an adult, FEMALE rat running lose in our yard.  how awesome is that.   :(

try setting one of those "humane" traps out there, the plastic kind that traps em in the box.. if something hasnt already happened to her..
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 10:41:58 AM
i might do that, just for peace of mind.  we had to let the dogs potty before they go pee in the house, and 4 of them are digging under the shed.  any idea where it went?  they're pretty stupid though, so i doubt they'll catch it.  unless sheeba actually got into it instead of supervising.
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 10:43:27 AM
gerty (sorry i don't know your real name  :-[) do you keep snakes also?  curiosity kills ha ha
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: Gracie Belle April 07, 2007, 10:45:08 AM
YIKES!!  I'm thinking you guys should go ahead and start the Mice On Ice meals for your snake.  How is the snakes cold doing btw?
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 10:46:47 AM
I would say congrats to the rat on making it's great escape but that would be mean I guess. :-X :P I know snakes need to eat, I'd just rather understand that happens far far away from me. Do you have a rat problem there or something, is that the concern with it being let go? Besides the snake losing it's meal I mean. It WOULD be entirely gross if the dogs got it. I'm thinking it probably won't be found easily, they're usually good at that stuff, well rodents in general.
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 10:53:11 AM
Steffanie,
No, we currently don't any snakes,When I was younger I wanted a ball python,Now that I'm older I think one would freak me out!
I never used to be scared of anything,
Now I freak if a cricket lands on me.
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 10:55:16 AM
: gerty647
Now I freak if a cricket lands on me.
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LOL, sounds like me. I used to love all that stuff too.
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 11:07:36 AM
his cold is 100% gone now.  not even a little snotty!  i live half way out in the country, it's just our neighborhood and a few about a mile away, then it's about 10 miles to town (we even have a WHOLE dairy farm down the street).  we don't have a rat problem here at our house, but being in the country, i'm sure there are some in the area!  we frequently have deer across the street, possums, raccoons, etc in our yard.  i'd rather not have the rat problem even start though.  we looked into the frozen mice, and since no one locally sells them when we priced them we'd pay $19.00 for 20 rats, but then we'd pay $41 just for the shipping  :-\  our dogs wouldn't touch them, they'd probably scream at the sight of a rat.  none of them but sheeba that is.  she's is infamous for finding rodents and eating them.  she was a stray for an unknown amount of time and takes meals whenever they're presented, yuck!

p.s.-  the snake is doing so well, he's about to shed, starting to get that glazed eye look.  oh, and IF the dogs did manage to get a hold of the snake (which is not going to happen) that would be nasty, they like to play tug of war.
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 11:14:24 AM
When I was little we had stray collie that we took in that used to catch mice and drop them on our back porch,He also love to catch the neighborhood cats (sorry).We used to have to clean up the back yard every sprin when the snow melted.
I never had the heart to tell my best friend what happened to Sunshine (her cat).
Jackie
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 11:15:56 AM
sheeba did the cat thing one time, when we first moved here  :'(
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 11:19:32 AM
OMG poor cats!!! We get rats, moles, birds, lizards, frogs from the cats but geez.
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 11:19:51 AM
When I say "clean up the yard"I meant all the cat collars,
It was sad because he was a great dog other than that one big flaw.
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 11:22:15 AM
my mom's cats are infamous for bringing whole pigeons inside and plucking them under the dining room table.  also lizards, other various birds, bugs, etc.  worst was when they managed to catch two pigeons and plucked them together (she has two cats).

sheeba is nice enough to leave anything she catches for us to "find" eweeeeeee
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 11:26:18 AM
my mom's cats are infamous for bringing whole pigeons inside and plucking them under the dining room table.  also lizards, other various birds, bugs, etc.  worst was when they managed to catch two pigeons and plucked them together (she has two cats).

sheeba is nice enough to leave anything she catches for us to "find" eweeeeeee

oh thats's so gross. My Bil's cat brings him lots of things right into his bedroom and leaves them beside the bed..baby rabbits..he brought some baby squirrels a couple weeks ago, they were able to save one and release it awhile later, poor thing. :'( :'(
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 11:29:34 AM
Right after we got our kitty,We did have a family of mice that had made it in the house before the cat arrived,
I was on the computer one night and heard a wierd noise went into the kitchen to find that the kitten had caught one of the babies,I FREAKED OUT!!!!!!!!!
I started screaming ,Kids and hubby came running,Hubby tried getting the mouse away from kitty,The kids are laughing because I'm yelling and they are finding it quite funny.I had to bleach my kitchen floor(mouse blood).Next time I'm packing my bags and going to a hotel....ALONE!
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 11:34:06 AM
I would have been traumatized, I can't even stand it if a lizard gets in the house and the cats catch it, it makes me ill.

What's horrible is one day (we had like 7 cats) I came home to find my hubby's hamster cage knocked down from the dresser and when I walked into the living room I found the hamster. I had to call and tell him what happened. To make matters worse it was the hamster he had gotten and named 'present' after his cat named 'gift' died. :'( :'(
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 11:35:43 AM
omggggggggggg ha ha ha sad, but kinda funny
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 11:36:31 AM
omggggggggggg ha ha ha sad, but kinda funny

lol you're horrible
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: gerty647 April 07, 2007, 11:47:18 AM
We lived out in the country as a child and the neighbors had a lot of junk in their yard and we ended up with a couple of rats the size of kittens,
My mom had to be the one to get rid of them.
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: schelmischekitty April 07, 2007, 02:04:05 PM
omggggggggggg ha ha ha sad, but kinda funny

lol you're horrible

you GOTTA love me though, even though i have a sick sense of humor sometimes  ;) ;)  i'm such a nice person, really, i am!  ha ha
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: mama23+pyrs2 April 07, 2007, 02:42:08 PM
omggggggggggg ha ha ha sad, but kinda funny

lol you're horrible

you GOTTA love me though, even though i have a sick sense of humor sometimes  ;) ;)  i'm such a nice person, really, i am!  ha ha

suuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuure :o ;) ;)
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: Gracie Belle April 07, 2007, 04:50:08 PM
Thats good news about the snake.  Good luck with the next rat too and hers hoping that one doesn't have as much luck with his attempt at freedom.  Oh and the gross body parts and other dead animals you guys.  Totally gross and yeah, I'm really glad I keep Linus inside.   ;)