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Archive through August 16, 2002
Sia | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:41 pm     A few of the mice I had when I met my DH ended up as snake-snacks for my veterinarian's pet snakes. I had too many for my future-hubby to handle. He said they just had to go. Hey, RatLady, nice to meet you! I know a man who would visit a friend who owned a snake with a sense of humor. I seriously don't know if it is really possible, but he said that the snake would sneak up to the back of the couch and then SUDDENLY roll itself onto a visitor's neck/back, usually freaking out the victim! The same snake also made a hole in the fabric liner under the couch and would "play" with people. The last snake-story he told me I completely doubted, but I suppose it's possible: the snake--some sort of python or boa constrictor--would get under a "victim's" chair and lift it an inch off the floor to get a reaction from the guest! Are big snakes really that strong? |
Wargod | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:49 pm     Well, the city was kind enough to bulldoze the wash across the street last week for us. I just walked in kitchen and saw a mouse streaking across the floor! Scared the living daylights out of me! Traps will be laid tonight when hubby gets home, and I will be in kitchen scrubbing with bleach everything in there...can I just say, ew, yuck, gross! I will say though......if I have to chose between a snake or mouse family.........I'd take the mice hands down! |
Ratlady | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 09:32 am     Thank you everyone for the welcome . You are so kind! Sia, I would definately believe that the snake was playing. I had a California King Snake a few years ago that I named Boo. The reason I named him Boo was because he would play Peek-a-boo with me all the time when he was a baby. I was the cutest thing! LOL He would hide behind his rock and I'd say "Where is Boo?" And he would pop his head out from behind the rock and I'd say "Peek-a-Boo!" And his head would go back behind the rock again until I asked him where he was. He died, about 2 years ago about 2 weeks after his mouse friend died! He was a really strange snake! LOL As for the snake lifting the chair about an inch in he air, it really depends on what ind of snake it was. I have 2 Ball Pythons. I am almost certain that they aren't strong enough to do that. But, they are also fairly small snakes, only getting about 4 ft. long. But, I wouldn't doubt that something like a Red Tail Boa could do that. They get about 13 ft long (If I remember right). Snakes are extremely strong. If the snake was big enough, I believe it could lift a chair with someone in it! I do think that would freak even me out, until I knew what it was! LOL |
Sia | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 10:28 am     I'm sure you miss your snake "Boo," RatLady. He sounds like a smart animal and lots of fun. I didn't know they could understand language. In fact, I don't know anything about their 'hearing;' I thought they felt vibrations only and didn't really hear as we do. Thanks for confirming my friend's story, 'cause I was afraid he was funnin' me. He's a doctor and has told me some whoppers about E.R. patients (like the woman who came into the E.R. in labor, delivered twin boys and named them for her favorite desserts: Lemonjello and Oranjello--pronounced La-Mon-Juh-Low & Or-Ron-Juh-Low). We're best friends from college, but sometimes I think he's telling tall tales! |
Ratlady | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 10:48 am     LOL That is too funny about the lady with twins! I'm not sure if they can hear, Boo may have just been going by the vibrations of my voice. Heck, I have no clue. It completely amazed me that he played Peek-a-boo! I was always told that snakes have no emotions and that they have no way of bonding. But, he definately but that rumor to rest! I mean, come on! He died maybe 2 weeks after his little mouse friend died! LOL He actual made friends with his food!! I had gone into the room to see if he was doing ok with his meal, you know to make sure the mouse didn't hurt him and to see if he was done. And to my suprise, he was curled up with the mouse right next to him sleeping!! We had to take the mouse out everytime we had to feed him or else he wouldn't move. Once we took his mouse friend out, he would eat! It was crazy!! He would get REALLY mad if we didn't put his friend back in the tank with him after he was done eating! LOL They would then curl up with eachother and sleep. It was way too funny! Gosh I miss that snake! |
Sia | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 12:51 pm     Ratlady, did Boo eat OTHER mice that were put into the tank for his meals, but would refuse to eat that particular mouse? The mouse must've had a personality to rival Stuart Little's! My vet's wife told me that her snakes preferred live mice, but she took some of my mice, euthanized them and froze them for later (kind of like mouse-sicles, if you like that sort of thing!). (Gee, I hope Bob and Julieboo aren't reading this thread!!) 'Nother E.R. story: lady came in complaining of a "tree growing outta her Virginia. . ." He swears it happened. I can't get into detail here, due to this being a family-friendly board, and I wouldn't want to be thought of as having a potty-mouth like Chiora on BB3! |
Julieboo | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 01:30 pm     Sia, you certainly are full of surprises! (You just grossed me out. And believe me, I am hard to gross out!)  |
Ratlady | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 03:32 pm     LMAO!! How in the heck is that even possible! Now, I think he was definately pulling your chain on that one! OMG!! I can't stop laughing! LOL Anyway, yes! Boo still ate other live mice just not that particular one. I think he made us take out his "friend" so he wouldn't mistake it for the one that was food. I have had some very interesting pets in my life, but Boo has topped them all (so far)! |
Sia | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 06:49 pm     Julie, I didn't finish the story for that very reason: it's pretty disgusting, but actually quite funny. There was a reasonable (meaning consequences follow actions) explanation for the occurrence--but how the lady got INTO that predicament made no sense, since no "normally-functioning" woman would have employed the home remedy that she did (months earlier, and then forgot about!!). <=="Idaho, or russet?" |
Bookworm | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 07:14 pm     Okay Ratlady, that is a sweet story about a mouse and a snake. They both must have had wonderful personalities. |
Ratlady | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 11:08 pm     Ok Sia, now you are really making me curious about the story! LOL I mean, how in the world could a woman have a tree growing out of her?? LMAO!! Bookworm, well, the snake was sweet (sort of). His only problem was that he would strike at me and hit the glass of his tank every time he was hungry. But never my husband, well at least not AFTER my husband told him that if he ever bites him he will make boots out of him! LOL So, needless to say, I always made my husband get the mouse "friend" out! |
Sia | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 02:30 pm     Ratlady, you have your own folder now. Great! It's a good place to write back and forth with other members about off-thread topics (which occur with great frequency, LOL). I've never figured out--and maybe someone can straighten me out here--whether you just start the conversation in one person's folder and continue it there or post your answers exclusively in each other's, etc. The latter way gets confusing, especially for post-ers who weren't in on the original discussion--to follow! Welcome again to TVCH. I would love to hear more rodent stories. |
Nightcrawler | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 07:46 pm     I am really surprised this thread is still here. I thought this would die within a week. |
Sia | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 09:26 pm     Nightcrawler, maybe the fact that the thread is still active means that we are natural storytellers who have found an audience and just love to share funny incidents--or we're frustrated writers or comedians and are "practicing" our material on each other!  |
Nightcrawler | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 10:09 pm     Sia, whatever it is. you all keep it up I just love reading all these storys!!!!! I just happy a thread I started is still going |
Sia | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 10:40 pm     Me too, Nightcrawler, and I'm even more happy that it's a friendly and happy thread--not argumentative! |
Wargod | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 10:54 pm     NC, Can I get you here to help with our mouse??? Last night, I went to fix hubby lunch. Now, I'd seen my mouse running across the floor, but not more than that. Anyways, last night I went to fix hubby's lunch for him. I opened my cabinet to grab my ziplock bags, and the little critter FLUNG himself out at me! Scared me half to death. So, I left a note for hubby....mouse in cabinet, get it! He left a trap up there with a little bit of peanut butter on it. I got up, pb was gone, trap wasn't sprung...sigh. Now, it's time to go back in the kitchen and fix his lunch....and I DON'T want to!!!!!!! |
Bob2112 | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 09:25 am     Hey War! If the PB&J only diet doesn't work for the mouse, you can always put it up for eviction! ...wonders who War would vote out between mouse and Josh... |
Nightcrawler | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 03:52 pm     well War that what happend whit us it took 3 trys befor the trap was sprung and the mouse was dead!!! so tell your DH to rebait the trap and try again. and let him fix his own lunch untill the mouse is gone. I'll bet he will try harder that way? |
Deeya | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 04:03 pm     Mom told me years ago that she always thought it was silly to see women in the movies climbing on furniture when a mouse came by.. until the first time she saw one in her house... at which point she climbed on a chair and screamed for my dad... She excuses it by noting that all she could think of was that the mouse would run up the inside of her pants leg... Now me... I had a snake in my apartment once... locked in there with me... It was in the kitchen, but it was blocking the door so I couldn't get in there to open the sliding door to get it out... so we had this stand off (no way was I going to give it the opportunity to come into my living room and end up inside my furniture somewhere). I eventually decided that if I threw a box over it.. I could get around it.. but when I moved the box near it.. the snake took off for the corner by the sliding glass door... that did allow me to get to the door to get it open... Now the door was one of those with a security bar across it.. and that was the only lock I ever used... imagine my surprise when I lifted the lock and the door wouldn't open... what the heck was I going to do now???? It took me a few minutes (felt like hours) to realize that the maintenance men must have used that door 3 days earlier.. and relocked it.. and that was probably how the snake got in.. (you think I wasn't upset about knowing a snake had been in my house with me for 3 days??!!!??) Anyway.. to make a long story short.. after several attempts to get this snake out... and several ideas thrown out (wouldn't use the broom to trap it.. what if it slithered through and came at me.... considered hacking at it with a large kitchen knife.. but didn't like the idea of cleaning up blood I was sure it would sling everywhere in it's death throws).. I finally managed to throw a towel at it.. which made it move again and it slithered out the door... which I immediately slammed shut and relocked. That was hopefully the last close encounter I have with a snake! |
Wargod | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 04:38 pm     I left this afternoon, and checked the trap before I left. Now, I don't like mice, but if I had found it, it would have been in the trash before I left...I mean, its 108 here today, ick! Anyways, I was gone two hours, and got home about the same time as hubby...first thing he did, was check the trap....and guess what? He caught him! So, I am really hoping that is the last one...but, I know full well that usually there will be more than one, right?????? |
Nightcrawler | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 09:14 pm     well we live in the country and sents we got the mouse the this thred was frist started over. we have not seen any more? well we do have about 10-15 cat out side. that might help? |
Sia | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 10:26 pm     Wargod, congratulations on trapping the bad ole mousie! I don't want to upset you, dear, but my Dear Husband always tells me "for every ONE mouse you SEE in the house, there are ANOTHER HUNDRED mice hidden where you can't see them in the house!" Now that's something that will keep you awake at night. He's always said the same thing about rats, too. (We once caught a very LARGE mouse with a hairless tail, which my hubby pronounced to be a RAT--but I don't want to admit that. Wild rats carry germs and are way-ickier than wild mice, and I don't want rats in my house. If I say it was an extremely large mouse, then it COULDN'T have been a rat, right?) |
Wargod | Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 10:37 pm     Sia, four summers in this house have proven to me, where theres one, theres more. I try not to think of that at all! ICKY, ICKY, ICKY!!!!! And I agree.....couldn't have been a rat! |
Sia | Friday, August 16, 2002 - 01:20 pm     Here's another rodent-story, everybody: one night about two years ago I left a pan of home-made chocolate fudge on the stove overnight. I'd made it late and it was piping-hot, so I left it uncovered, then forgot about it when I went to bed. The next morning a small area of one corner of the pan of fudge had been CHEWED by some varmint. Well, the first thing DH did was to accuse my old CAT of eating the fudge. My cat does NOT EAT chocolate; she doesn't like it. I know my cat very well (I've had her for 17 years now) and admit that she would have gnawed on a turkey, a steak, or any other type of meat, and certainly on cream cheese, cottage cheese, or 'most any milk product. Fudge, however, is "off her list." Anyway, DH looked more closely at the pan and told me that a MOUSE had eaten the fudge. I vehemently denied that it was possible until I inspected it more closely and found LITTLE TEENSY MOUSE-FOOTPRINTS in the fudge. Apparently, the little devil hadn't even waited until the candy was completely set before wandering into it. How brazen is that?!? |
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