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  • #41
    Originally posted by Alex and Bodie's Mom View Post
    SO not even close. Wait 'til you wake up and find one next to you on the pillow. True story. It was petting my nose. It was easy enough to catch and toss outside. Tarantulas are about the only spider that don't freak me out.
    If that had happened to me, I would not be posting here, because I would be dead from terror.
    I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. ~ Dave Barry

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    • #42
      Originally posted by Bluey View Post
      Do you know tarantulas can jump a good 3'?
      Now that is an athletic bug.
      Mother Mary. I did NOT need to know that.

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      • #43
        Originally posted by Alex and Bodie's Mom View Post
        SO not even close. Wait 'til you wake up and find one next to you on the pillow. True story. It was petting my nose. It was easy enough to catch and toss outside. Tarantulas are about the only spider that don't freak me out.
        WHY am I still reading this thread?????????

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        • #44
          Not creepy, but definitely surprising-- I was handwalking a horse very early one foggy morning and there was a llama in the barn! Apparently a neighbor a mile or so away had gotten it to turn out with his sheep and it had jumped out and come visiting. The horse I was walking probably would have preferred a tarantula. It ran one way and the llama ran the other (and I ended up on my butt).

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          • #45
            [
            Do you know tarantulas can jump a good 3'?
            Now that is an athletic bug.[/QUOTE]

            Bluey I liked you till this
            www.michelesfindinghappiness.com

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            • #46
              Originally posted by MMacallister View Post
              [
              Do you know tarantulas can jump a good 3'?
              Now that is an athletic bug.
              Bluey I liked you till this [/QUOTE]



              I grew up part of the time in our farm house that was built in 1721.
              It was built out of stones and mud, the walls whitewashed with lime twice a year.

              Still, it was unnerving waking up to a scorpion walking up the wall by your head, or always remembering to shake your shoes before putting them on.
              It was impressive, as a kid, to see our mother's basketball looking ankle, the time she forgot and there was a scorpion in there that didn't get out in time, before she put that shoe on.

              At least we didn't have rattlers, as we do here.
              I was moving some panels today and was sure looking first before putting my foot down anywhere around there..
              All I found was a big bullsnake, but you can't ever be sure that is what they are until you see their tail.

              I don't know any place you don't have some critter or another.

              I do like the story of pounding the grain and it was a mad opossum's head.
              I too would have been mad if it was me being knocked on.

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              • #47
                Things you don't want to hear as you come out of the bathroom at 11pm:

                "Oh my! You should SEE the size of the wolf spider that just ran under the bed! I swear it was the size of my fist!"

                We never did find it. Led to a few disturbed nights...

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                • #48
                  Looked out of the barn aisle one day only to see a small pony meandering down the road which leads past the woods and out into the xcountry field. Just as I grabbed a halter and lead rope to go get whoever had escaped their paddock, I looked closer and realized it was a huge, huge, brownish pig (not the feral kind, have seen too many of those) I kid you not - the size of a small pony. Just taking his time, slowly walking down the road.

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                  • #49
                    Rabid skunk. I never imagined myself 'screaming like a girl' but evidently I can. Didn't know at the time it was rabid...just the skunk itself scared the carp out of me!

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                    • #50
                      some of these stories are hilarious! such mental pictures!

                      the creatures i hated the most were at a racing barn i worked at for a while. mice would get in the water buckets and die overnight and when i'd dump them in the morning, they'd come out onto the concrete. i always found that to be highly disgusting.

                      probably the scariest was a rabid raccoon that came up to my trainer's porch once. i was scared, bc it was very aggressively coming at us and hissing. my trainer had to shoot him.
                      My mare wonders about all this fuss about birth control when she's only seen a handful of testicles in her entire life. Living with an intact male of my species, I feel differently! WAYSIDE

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                      • #51
                        First one was thirty years ago:
                        I was putting on my very first pair of custom Deheners (I was in love with those boots and they were SNUG). First boot goes of fine, second boot seems to have a sock squished into the toe, preventing me from pulling the boot on the last inch or two. Then the "sock" seems warm...and MOVING! After screaming and hopping across the room on one foot, I landed on my butt very far away from the boot jack, which was absolutely needed for boot removal. There was more hopping to the boot jack and after the boot was yanked vigorously off (and I land on my butt AGAIN), a mouse spilled out. His/her head must have been mashed into the toe, otherwise I would have been bitten in self defense.

                        This one is from last week:
                        I was enjoying an early morning ride and noticed some...dust or something obscuring my vision. Turned out to be about a zillion micro-baby spiders: hatching and wafting away on their little web parachutes. Fortunately, I read Charlotte's as a child, said "salutations", and carefully removed the helmet to a better launch pad.

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                        • #52
                          HUGE rat in the tackroom this summer. we never get rats. i mean they never show themselves if they are coming in. Tiny little mice run along the walls, and occasional chipmunks. i think those are cute. But this Rat was spazzing out and scared the crap out of me. I am not so much afraid of it, as i was startled by it. Here in the NE, we have fishing spiders, which look like mini tarantulas. They are meaty and hairy. They creep me out to no end.

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                          • #53
                            Originally posted by atr View Post
                            However, this guy is probably the father of all barn critters:

                            Yes it is !!!

                            Hope it doesn't think it is eating at your house all winter.

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                            • #54
                              Originally posted by PRS View Post
                              Found this guy last year: http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps04127041.jpg
                              http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps473cfb2a.jpg
                              I've also had the usual assortment of squirrels, birds and mice.....which would explain why the snake thought my barn was a good place to be. Have also found evidence that the fox has spent time there when he left a pile of scat dead center of the aisle....twice, the bastard.
                              It took me forever to see what that was! I'm not afraid of snakes, but that would have startled me!

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                              • #55
                                Originally posted by charismaryllis View Post
                                I'd be running out of the house, throwing a lit match behind me.

                                Seriously, where do you folks live that you have freakin' tarantulas?!?
                                Well, I live in KS . . . they're more rare now, but they used to be all over the place. In grade school, the boys would catch them and we'd build terrariums for them and keep them as class pets, and catch bugs for them at recess. Maybe that's why they don't freak me out.

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                                • #56
                                  Originally posted by Guin View Post
                                  If that had happened to me, I would not be posting here, because I would be dead from terror.
                                  Honestly, I think he was just cold -- I have no idea how he got in the house, but I woke up feeling something on my face, like a hair, but I had a feeling something Wasn't Quite Right. So I turned on the bedside lamp and there's a half-grown tarantula next to me. One leg still raised to touch my nose. So I herded him into an empty cup and took him outside.

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                                  • #57
                                    Imagine having your everlovin' DH say here honey, hold this! and plop this ugly bugger in your hand http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...Q&ved=0CAYQsCU Needless to say it did NOT stay in my hand for long! I must have screeched like the noon swhistle and slung it far away, while he's doubled over laughing and trying to run at the same time.
                                    Courageous Weenie Eventer Wannabe
                                    Incredible Invisible

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                                    • #58
                                      My water trough is on the far side of the barn beside the tack room where the security light doesn't reach. In the winter it gets dark so early that when I go out to the barn it's all ready black as pitch out there. I used to stick my hand into the water trough to gage the depth of the water. The last time I did it I touched something fairly solid. It sank under my touch and then bobbed back up to the surface. I got a flash light to check and see what it was and found a drowned squirrel. I too jumped around and did that heebee jeebee dance wiping my hand on my clothes. I now leave the hose hanging the trough so the squirrel has a way out.
                                      Last edited by PRS; Sep. 14, 2013, 10:20 PM.
                                      "My biggest fear is that when I die my husband is going to try to sell all my horses and tack for what I told him they cost."

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                                      • #59
                                        Originally posted by Alex and Bodie's Mom View Post
                                        SO not even close. Wait 'til you wake up and find one next to you on the pillow. True story. It was petting my nose. It was easy enough to catch and toss outside. Tarantulas are about the only spider that don't freak me out.

                                        Weirdest critter in my barn -- the porcupine my dog found. Three days and 300+ spines later, she came home. Porcupine, unfortunately, didn't survive her attack.
                                        OMFG! i would have died! I can't stand spiders, i cringe everytime i turn in the barn to find another one, but those are teeny tiny little things compared to a fracking TARANTULA.
                                        Yes, I smell like a horse. No, I don't consider that to be a problem.

                                        Originally posted by DottieHQ
                                        You're just jealous because you lack my extensive koalafications.

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                                        • #60
                                          Not a terrible bug or anything, but my first day working managing an AQHA barn, I walked in early in the morning to feed. It was... maybe 5am? I walked out of the tack room and there was a HUGE freaking Great Dane standing in the middle of the barn aisle, just staring at me with her lips pulled back. No growling, but she had 'the look'. BO hadn't mentioned anything about having dogs, and this one didn't have a collar on. I locked myself in a stall and the dog just sat there and stared at me while I stared at her. I finally worked up the nerve to call the BO and said "There is a very, very large dog staring at me." She laughed and said it was just Daisy, and to give her a cookie from the jar by the door.

                                          Some of these spider/snake stories... just...

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