BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Maybe you should go take a nap with Elvis and leave me alone.

(By the way... the bird would not have been able to get into the basement if someone would have shut something on the chimney down there like I had asked.) Grrr...

sparxxxtresss said:

minneapolis in february... yeah, that's where i'd want to be too

2the9s said:

Probably... lol. I'm surprised Izzy was able to even catch him, not only is he out of shape, but he's never had any hunting experience. So, I am quite proud of him... he did catch it though not very swiftly...

AzureStar said:

I tried to take a nap, dammit, but my father woke me up when he came in my room, not knowing I was asleep, to ask me to wake him up at 5:30.

You can't get any fucking sleep around here. I'm only alive to be a damn human alarm clock.
[This message was edited Fri Jan 17 14:07:00 PST 2003 by BattierBeMyDaddy]

AaronUnlimited said:

it may be cold, snowy and bitter outside but inside i'll be warm, toasty and loved

plus, i was born in feb so i'm a winter baby. i love winter!
[This message was edited Fri Jan 17 14:38:22 PST 2003 by sparxxxtresss]

We once trapped an oppossum...now THAT'S
an evil sight...a pissed off oppossum!

Devil animals, those things!!

This summer I go outside and the dogs had caught and were torturing a squirrel. I think they thought they were just playing, but they ripped it's leg out of its socket and it died. I felt very bad for the squirrel and before it died it stared up at me with these big brown eyes.

A couple of months later Coolio (male dog) killed another squirrel and he looked so sad when he was found lying next to it. I think he just wanted to play with it and didn't understand why it had died, but now he felt guilty or something.

I still don't know how two squirrels were dumb enough to get caught by minpins.

I stayed over my mum and dads last year, and I got up in the morning, put a dressing gown on and headed for my morning pee. When I took the dressing gown off, a massive spider fell off me... I screamed man... I only hope that it was hanging out in the gown and didn't fall out of my underwear when I pulled it down to urinate...

IceNine said:

Yer got-damn RIGHT!!...I once had a job hanging those irritating flyers on people's doors, and had to do it at 6am, just as the sun was coming up...one morning, I was walking up to a door that had huge bushes on both sides of the walkway...I'm half asleep, my Walkman is blasting to take my mind off of the boredom, and I walk right into this huge spider web!!...(shiver)...Apparently the web was strung from one bush to the other, and I felt that cringe-inducing feeling of having a spider web touch my skin...:O...I jump back instantly, wavin' my hands like I'm Jackie Chan fightin' off 19 stuntmen, and my heart's beatin' like a hummingbird on speed...I regain control of myself, then slowly start walking back up to the door...when suddenly I see this MASSIVE black thing start to dangle down right in front of my face...the freakin' spider was dangling from my hair!!!...Well, now all hell breaks loose, I'm practically ripping my hair out and strippin' nekkid on the front lawn to get this monstrocity away from my body...I'm halfway to Toledo before I calm down and look around to see if the spider is still on me...the flyers are all over the street...it was a mess...I think I quit that job shortly after...heh.

wellbeyond said:

Holy shit, Wellbeyond... I would have thrown myself into a vat of gasoline and set myself on fire just to make sure that fucker was dead! Fuck spiders!!!

Man... that was a HORRIBLE story!

cool story AzureStar!!

i live with free-flying birds so that doesn't bug me but i can see how it would if you're not used to it.

i'm glad things turned out all right. it's possible the bird was relatively uninjured because their outer body bulk is soft, cushy feathers.

heh. lately in the park across the street it's been turning wild around dusk. approx. 4:30 p,m, hundreds,(maybe well over a thousand - hard to count) of crows have been gathering and perching in the oak trees. it's really cool, then swarm overhead in black clouds like fish schooling.
cawing all the while. something like this could have inspired hitchcock's 'the birds'. wonder what they're talking about?

ask your cat if Izzy if he's heard anything, okay?
[This message was edited Fri Jan 17 16:49:32 PST 2003 by XxAxX]