What animals, if any, do you get inside your house?

How do you feel about them? Do you try to get them out or do you just let them be? Are you scared of them?

We get the odd cockroach or rat and plenty of jing-jok (like a very small grey or beige gecko), but today for the first time a gecko about 15 inches long just waltzed into our bedroom. These are called 'tukgae' after the sound they make:



I think he's kinda cute.

that looks cool!

i only ever get these horrid spiders that jump at you if you try to squish them, & crane flies.

Fauxie said:

they scare the shit out of me... I'm waving goodbye this thread!!!!

Damn it fauxie



omg... I'm 2 scared
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Bloody great SPIDERS

We live in the country so in the summer they get eveywhere.

My misses hate em. Kinda funny when she screams. I'm like "its not gonna bite your leg off or anything"

evenstar3 said:

I think it's cool too. It's only moved about a foot since it's been in here though. I offered it a drink or something to eat but got no response.

Don't like the look of those crane flies.

We never get the rats and cockroaches in our bedroom, thankfully, but downstairs I'll probably see one or the other, or both, on any given day. I've seen two foot long rats, from head to tail.

theodore said:

My wife informs me they like to eat young, gay teens.

Fauxie said:

they're harmless, they just look really creepy.

TWO FEET? i've only ever seen pet rats...scary.

evenstar3 said:

Yeah, a big long grey one was the longest I've seen. Of course, it's not that easy to gauge the size, but it was stretched out running across a wooden beam under the ceiling pretty close to me and the body was easily a foot long, with the tail at least as long. The tail was big too, the circumference I mean. Thic, grey tail with lines around it.

The tukgae has gone down behind our fridge now.

ZombieKitten said:

Woah! How big is that? I think that'd scare me more than the gecko. Less predictable.

Fauxie said:

depending on what res your monitor is set at this is pretty life-size! They like to sit behind picture frames and on top of the sun visors in the car, so they drop in your lap when you flip them down

ZombieKitten said:

I think I'd have a heart attack or something.

Fauxie said:

i'm never going to austrailia!

Fauxie said:

if you see a car swerving erratically here, and the driver pulling over leaping out of the car that is usually what it is.

evenstar3 said:

they are very friendly! won't hurt you

ZombieKitten said:

huntsman!!!

Natisse said:

I bet you can't wait to see one of them again!

ZombieKitten said:

they don't bite?

ZombieKitten said:

seriously, you'd be surprised my Dad calls me usually early morning your time and I hear all the wildlife behind him like the kookas and I'm like I want my Aussie wildlife again!!!

evenstar3 said:

yeah, but not really venomous, painful but probably less irritation than a bee sting

evenstar3 said:

they will run away from you first chance they get totally harmless!

ok didn't think they bit edit
[Edited 3/23/07 1:49am]

Natisse said:

females guarding their eggsacs will bite instead of running away

ZombieKitten said:

you're right shame on me

Natisse said:

you been away too long do they have daddy longlegs in the UK?

ZombieKitten said:

I know!! I'm really looking forward to hearing birds in the morning for a start (you don't see or hear a thing here in London)

I've seen two tiny little spiders since I've been here and that's all! oh and squirrels

Natisse said:

we have 2 ringtail possums hiding out in the ivy on the garage wall out the back, we go and spy on them while they are asleep in the daytime
SOOOOO cute! I should take a photo tomorrow

ZombieKitten said:

omg ringtail possums!! see, all you people not in Australia ARE MISSING OUT!!!!!

aww... I swear I can't wait to see real wildlife again soon!

ZombieKitten said:

i think i'd avoid them all the same.

We used to have a partridge come visit us.. she would hop up onto the kitchen window ledge and come in to eat, it was dead cute.. and when she had chicks, they too all used to follow her and do the same thing..

aww Mrs P

I will see if I can did out a photo..



We had a horses head in our kitchen too.. lol.. not the Godfather style.. but when I was young we were having our tea and it was a warm day so the kitchen window was open.. our next door neighbour came round the back of our house and she stuck her horses head through the kitchen window, asking if we were coming riding after tea..


I had a mouse in my airing cupboard.. prolly come in from the fields, but I sucked it up with my vacuum cleaner by accident