Has a wild animal ever gotten in or near your house?

[Earl Grey Ghost 447]

On 11/22/2018 at 4:46 AM, Snow said:

A bird once or twice, some frogs and a loooot of spiders, too many spiders, though.. they aren't technically animals

I mean, yeah spiders are animals. Arachnids. But I can tell you don't particularly like spiders lol. I like them, they eat a lot of the nastier bugs and other insects. Granted, I'm not too happy if I find a brown recluse in my home, but I do my best to catch them in a cup and put them outside. I consider it bad luck to kill a spider in your home.
The only animals I cannot stand being in my house are mice (disgusting! Rats too!) and cockroaches. (just as disgusting!)

[Tao 9,533]

We had a bat get in once.  

[Guac 25]

i actually used to feed 2 stray cats that would hang out around my house when i was younger.

jasper and nico. one orange, the other dark brown. they both passed away though.

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Edited November 27, 2018 by Guac

[TBD 17,276]

Yeah.....my brother. 

[CheeryFox 23,827]

Let's see...I have many! Here's a few-lul... A bear was licking my window. Raccoons/possums/skunks/field mice/chipmunks/squirrels/deer. 

[Denim&Venöm 21,014]

Other than insects and rodents, usually dealt with by the cats, we've had deer, moose and polar bear in the vicinity of past residences. 

[Mirage 24,790]

Yeah I get bats (cute!) squirrels, chipmunks, snakes, and a bird once. I really got to fix that basement window...

[Prometheus 3,043]

Yep, a Tarantula ended up in our house. 

Now, I stay in pretty much the exact opposite of a Tarantula's climate. So, how did it end up all the way up here? Well, it was hiding inside a pack of bananas, buried deep within the centre of the bunch. Turns out, the shop we got the bananas from doesn't care to quality-check their own imported fruit. So, we opened the pack of bananas and left them in the kitchen, completely unaware of the stowaway. We didn't actually know about it until the night, when my sister got up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom and... well, screamed the place down.

We all raced in to see what happened, and low and behold, a fully-grown tarantula, drowned in the toilet. 

It must've been trying to escape through the bathroom since there was a continuous draft of wind coming from there, which must've guided it there. We lived in a flat, so it didn't have to handle any stairs or anything. 

At least getting rid of it was easy enough. 

It looked almost identical to this:

And yes, we got a refund for the bananas. 

 

[Kronos the Revenant 1,973]

Well, a rat got into my garage and my wiener dog hunted it down and wrangled it in his teeth. A few weeks later, some ducks got into our backyard and the same, small weenie dog managed to wrangle one of them. Mind you, this is a short, pure-bred weiner dog with stubby legs. And he caught a rat and a duck. And they’re bred for BADGER hunting. 

 

There was one time when i was at my grandmother’s house in the Philippines and a snake managed to break in, freaking out my mom and nearly giving my grandmother a heart attack. We ended up wrangling it by squeezing behind its head so that its mouth remains gaped open and we threw it into a potato sack and sold it to the zoo for a couple thousand pesos. We then used that money to go to a fancy restauraunt in downtown Manila. So, yeah, three different animal problems at home. 

6 minutes ago, SnekEater said:

 

 

 

Aww :3 that little guy is so adorable. 

[PoisonClaw 8,175]

We had a raccoon problem a few years back at my previous house, at least three instances of a family of raccoons nesting in the loft of our garage.  After we moved, we would occasionally encounter skunks in the area, and one of them actually ended up spraying both my dogs once. I can now say with certainty that skunk spray smells like burning rubber. 

[DubWolf 19,949]

I have the privilege of saying we always have animals in our house, in the attic  .

[Olly 1,015]

A lizard boy, once. I wanted to keep him

[Colt 45 148]

A few years ago a squirrel got into my apartment with the balcony door open, which is 11 stories up. They climb up the pigeon netting on the balconies and sometimes have dug through flower pots and even buried a peanut in a planter. 

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,098]

Live ones? Not many, mice and shrews and other small rodents that the cats have caught. I remember a bat getting into my room when I was young, caught it in a net and released it.

Dead things? The above plus small birds, a rat and, for laughs, yesterday the cat brought in a pigeon :|

[Iforgotmybrain 7,789]

In? No. But as I mentioned previously there’s been a skunk lurking around outside. There was also a baby raccoon around earlier in the year outside but he left pretty quick and never came back unlike Mr. Skunk.

[Clawdeen 25,121]

Not this being revived the same day I accidentally ran over one. R.I.P small frog

[ExplosionMare 25,974]

My dad found an oppossum in the garage, once. There was also a fox in the yard that the family dog chased around. The fox was ok, just shaken, probably.

[Dawnshine Wonder 3,854]

Yes, a pigeon. Pigeons are harmless though, potentially they could pass on an infectious disease however pigeons themselves don't attack humans. I live in UK so bears are not a threat here. We get spiders but spiders are cute, the common house spider, also harmless, and could potentially save our lives from flies that poison our food.

[Clawdeen 25,121]

What if I’m the wild animal living in our house 

[Rainbow Cloud 19,364]

Don't think any wild animals have gotten into the house but in the garden there's wild birds and frogs in the pond, one of the more unusual things I've seen in the garden was a Pheasant a few years ago, I took a video of it, think it was in January 2021, it had snowed at the time. Pheasants are pretty common in the countryside surrounding the town where I live but it's not that common to see one in town.

 

[ExplosionMare 25,974]

There was a fox running around in my yard, once.

[KPackratt 1,223]

At one point, a squirrel came into our house through the back door.

[Snoopy Fan 11,655]

No, at least not yet.

[Spark Thunderbass 1,998]

I once had an Ibis (bin chicken) walk into our house years ago, in the kitchen. That was rather wild, especially trying to get the bugger out of our house. 

[Longhaul 9,711]

Many years ago, I had a snake get in my house.