So, while I was cleaning out the shop last night, I noticed a few "pets" that I didn't know I had.
I thought it would be fun to see if any of you have any forced "pets" too.
Here's Boris the Spider
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| Author: | Rod True [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:56 am ] |
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So, while I was cleaning out the shop last night, I noticed a few "pets" that I didn't know I had. I thought it would be fun to see if any of you have any forced "pets" too. Here's Boris the Spider
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:03 am ] |
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Hey Rod, what critter wouldn't want to live in your shop? I know a Bear who'd love to be there too ya know!! 
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| Author: | Alain Desforges [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:00 am ] |
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Yes, I have a very troublesome critter in my shop... His name is MURPHY!!!! |
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| Author: | Anthony Z [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:21 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Alain Desforges] Yes, I have a very troublesome critter in my shop... His name is MURPHY!!!! [/QUOTE] So that's where he went after I booted him out of my shop this spring
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| Author: | Billy T [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:39 am ] |
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And a pet finger too! What's the finger's name? |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:52 am ] |
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I had several of those pet spider things, but a bunch of them liked my shop vac so much they flew right into it. |
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| Author: | John How [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:03 am ] |
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I just have the usuall critters living in my shop like the ones shown above and a few wasps building their little mud homes around the out of the way places. I do have a cat (Sharky) that lives in my shop and the occasional racoon that decides to help Sharky with the food supply. Last night I was just a couple hundred feet from my driveway coming around the last bend of a very bendy road when I saw 5 black & white tails all vertical and in a row crossing he road in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and stopped just a few feet from this little family of skunkers. I hope they're NOT thinking about moving into my shop. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:04 am ] |
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That's good Don. Billy, The finger's name is..... Index. Better than middle isn't it. 
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| Author: | Rod True [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:06 am ] |
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[QUOTE=John How] I slammed on the brakes and stopped just a few feet from this little family of skunkers. I hope they're thinking about moving into my shop.[/QUOTE] INTO the shop John? I guess than you'd have to change your guitar name to How Stinky Guitars.
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| Author: | John How [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:07 am ] |
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Woops, ad NOT |
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| Author: | Anthony Z [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:41 pm ] |
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Visits from critters I have had plenty of. My shop is a small single car attached garage with the only door being the main garage door. On warmer summer evenings I work in there with the door open and often have racoons that come by and sit just outside the door. Their visits are so frequent that I've come to ignore them. Well one night I see some motion out of the corner of my eye as I was mitering purfling and think ah its just my racoon buddies or the neighbours cats. When I stop and finally look towards the door low and behold -- mama skunk and her youngsters -- and they aren't moving. I took one rocker step -- bounded over the skunks and hurtled a small 3 foot tree on step two and into the house. I finally discovered what was attracting all the critters -- a half eaten granola bar that they could obviously smell. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:11 pm ] |
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Nice Anthony, nice. I'm sure the general conversation for the skunks went something like this. Baby 1- Hey, check out the big bright light overthere. Baby 2- Ya, and I smell something good too. Baby 3- Hey, isn't that one of those human types. I heard they are realy scared of us. Baby 2- Well than lets go have some fun. (he he he) Mama - All right kids, you've been good. Lets go scare the willies out of that one. The racoons say he's use to them.... And now we know the rest of the story. They were probably there for a couple of minutes, just waiting for you to see them. So... is the granola bar still there? |
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| Author: | Billy T [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:40 pm ] |
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Pole Cats!!! They have NO Fear! None! I came out of a friends place one night, and there he was, I almost stepped on him! He couldn't care less! Me, on the other hand, I GOT OUTTA THERE! |
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| Author: | GD Armstrong [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:37 pm ] |
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Haven't had any skunks living in the shop but I had a family of them under the front porch to the shop one summer - had to go anound to the back door for several months until the young ones were grown & they dispersed. I've had familys of chipmunks living under the workbench & in a box of custom cases. They shredded the covering on all the cases before I discovered them! Currently there are a couple of pack rats in there - besides me! |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:59 am ] |
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Does having a pair of Red Tail Hawks nesting in the top of a Pecan tree just out side the door, Chaparrals (Road runners) nesting in the Prickly-Pear out back and the occasional Scorpion and Rattlesnake passing through count 
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:51 am ] |
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Michael, it sounds like you live dangerously!
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| Author: | Anthony Z [ Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:09 am ] |
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[QUOTE=MichaelP] Does having a pair of Red Tail Hawks nesting in the top of a Pecan tree just out side the door, Chaparrals (Road runners) nesting in the Prickly-Pear out back and the occasional Scorpion and Rattlesnake passing through count [/QUOTE]
Sure does
I think the only guys that can top your guests are some of our Aussie members. Instead of rattlers and scorpions they have snakes called Death Adders
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| Author: | Rod True [ Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:53 am ] |
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Yikes.... Michael, that sounds dangerous. That's Texas for ya though eh? Anyone got any pictures of these critters? |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:04 am ] |
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I found one of these critters in my shop last year: 
The Sydney Funnel Web Spider, so deadly it can kill you just by looking at you <g>. Ok, maybe not quite that venomous, but you can die within 15 minutes of being bitten with fangs that are strong enough to punch through your thumb nail (though I personally don't believe they'd have the strength to do it). They like to climb into your shoes overnight which can make for a nasty surprise when you put your boots back on in the morning. We make it a habit to jump up and down on our gardening gloves before sticking our hands in there, and we don't leave our shoes outside overnight. They can also live in the bottom of a swimming pool for several hours, if not days. I've read that before antivenoms were introduced in the '70's, pretty much everyone who got bitten died, and nobody has died since. They are nasty little buggers, and the one I found in my shop frightened the excrement out of me. |
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| Author: | Colin S [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:30 am ] |
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Paul isn't true it that 9 out of the 10 most venormous snakes in the world live in Australia? Which, together with the spiders, jelly fish, great whites etc make me wonder how any of you have survived this long! Now what are the names of those snakes? Oh yes Warne, Gillespie........... 
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:03 am ] |
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Yup, that's what I've heard. They've also just discovered a new species of box jellyfish that's about the size of your thumb, almost invisible in the water, that they suspect is responsible the deaths of people who'd been listed as having "heart attacks" in tropical waters while swimming. At least we don't have bears here except in the zoo, man those things would freak me out. I'd never leave the house. |
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| Author: | old man [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:09 am ] |
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[QUOTE=PaulB] I found one of these critters in my shop last year:
The Sydney Funnel Web Spider, so deadly it can kill you just by looking at you <g>. Ok, maybe not quite that venomous, but you can die within 15 minutes of being bitten with fangs that are strong enough to punch through your thumb nail (though I personally don't believe they'd have the strength to do it). They like to climb into your shoes overnight which can make for a nasty surprise when you put your boots back on in the morning. We make it a habit to jump up and down on our gardening gloves before sticking our hands in there, and we don't leave our shoes outside overnight. They can also live in the bottom of a swimming pool for several hours, if not days. I've read that before antivenoms were introduced in the '70's, pretty much everyone who got bitten died, and nobody has died since. They are nasty little buggers, and the one I found in my shop frightened the excrement out of me.[/QUOTE] That looks a lot like our black widow spider. How large is that spider, Paul? Ron |
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| Author: | MSpencer [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:12 am ] |
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PaulB, you folks have some serious bitten critters! Dead in 15 minutes, that is amazing a spider can have that kind of punch! Mike White Oak, Texas |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:25 pm ] |
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In a full grown male it's abdomen is about as large as the end of your thumb. I think they'd have to bit into a vein to kill you in 15 minutes, but these times have been reported. From what I understand venom usually works by either supressing respiration, or by messing with your blood. These things do both. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:54 pm ] |
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And your scared of bears. Bears you can at least hear coming through your cabin door at night. These little nasties you have are silent killers. And it's only the Brown/Grizzly bears that you realy have to worry about. Not like they roam around the city mind you. Heck, you ask Evan and I bet there are some very scarry critters in New York
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