BS: Bad start to the day

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: mkebenn
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 01:17 PM

Frogprince, yea, that's what I mean. I pulled one of the little critters out by the nape of the neck and released him, Cute as hell. Papa was about forty lbs, let him find his own way out and then sealed access. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 01:16 PM

A coonskin cap Davy?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 01:02 PM

This won't be a contender so far as horror stories go, but: a couple of years ago I started noticing that I would be watching TV, or sitting in the living room, and would hear a little "skittering" sound in the fireplace area. I looked around in there with a flashlight different times when it happened, but everything always went dead still then, and I could never see a thing. I pretty much thought in terms of a mouse. Then one night all "heck" broke loose, with major clattor, spitting, hissing and snarling. I opened the flu a crack, and there was the "bandit mask" glaring and threatening evil. It was some late hour; I wasn't about to try to deal with it that night. I figured the darn thing was trapped down there, and we would have a pain in the rump getting it out the next day. But apparently it could, and did, climb back out. I got a screen cap on the chimney at first opportunity.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: mkebenn
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 12:35 PM

Becca, better cat than coon. Had a pair fighting in the celing and I swear it was more violent and terrifing sounding than any werewolf movie I ever saw, and i've seen them all. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 01:32 PM

You win.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 01:31 PM

Talk about a bad start to the day: This morning we were woken at 4:15 by the sound of my wife's car being driven away by a thief.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: kendall
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 01:29 PM

From what Becca has told me, the neighbors are not as smart as the hole that the cats go through.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 11:36 AM

... but the cat is smarter than the neighbors...

Hahahaaahahaa

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 11:36 AM

I have seen no evidence of mice in my place and my own cats aren't reacting so I hope you are not correct, Bill. I don't need to be party to a blood bath!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 11:09 AM

I'll bet that the cat heard mice in the ceiling. We had a cat that would crouch for hours near the dishwasher....waiting. Occasionally, she'd get one.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 10:00 AM

Took the cat back upstairs and within a half hour she was back in my ceiling. Guess she likes it better at my place. They have located and closed off the hole she was using but the cat is smarter than the neighbors so we'll see how long it lasts.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: kendall
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 02:08 PM

Becca, you can always find peace and quiet here. (Unless something starts crawling around in MY ceiling.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: olddude
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 01:52 PM

Oh I misread sorry

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 01:10 PM

Olddude, thanks for the suggestion but if you read the entire thread that won't be necessary...

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: olddude
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 01:05 PM

Go to the hardware store, there is a big live trap you can get under 50 bucks, bait it with peanut butter on bread (they love it) .. you will nail him absolutely. Had the same thing in my office .. took him out to the woods a let him go. Much cheaper than a professional

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 01:01 PM

Jacqui - you know there is NO chance of that happening. I don't condone the murder of small creatures.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 12:58 PM

Aah! Alice is a corn smut zombie!

(Extra points for recognizing that reference...)

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 12:55 PM

Becca - borrow your father's gun.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 12:25 PM

Well, at least ya' got yer water back...

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:46 AM

I used to let our cats up in the attic to play in the big old house we rented in CT. One of them, Charlie, loved going under the floorboards and waltzing all over the place, so we got used to hearing "something" in the attic. It got really interesting when none of us let him up there, yet the door latch was very obviously undone and the door open. For that, and other reasons, we figured the place was haunted. Used to take a can of fishie to get Charlie to come out for the night.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:37 AM

Rap,
I come from the same state as Stephen King...don't think all those things didn't come to mind! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:32 AM

Or a vampire rat. Or a turtle. Or a killer robot. Or a python. Or a zombie. I bet you don't clean up there very often, either -- could have been a vampire zombie dust bunny.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:32 AM

ahhh...then talk to upstairs folks and suggest that kitty might be 'in danger' by getting down there...and they might want to seal the hole.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:26 AM

Bill,
I live in a 3 story apartment building and I'm on the 2nd floor. I have a feeling the cat came from upstairs, most logically through a hole under their sink. But I'm only assuming at this point. I was just so relieved it was a cat and not a ginormous raccoon. Watching the ceiling tiles move was like that scene in Jurassic Park with the water glass....

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:19 AM

's funny. I went to work one time to find a water main had broken in the ceiling.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad start to the day
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 10:14 AM

Last year at almost exactly this time WE had a water main break that tore up the entire street and brought giant diggers and paving trucks for days!!

Then, two years ago, we actually had a mother raccoon and several young in our attic. Rather than fight, or spend several hundred on professional trappers, I waited till all were 'out', and found the loose board where they snuck in, and quickly tacked chicken wire over it.....now in the Spring, I need to tear out and replace rotten board and repaint the place.

It shouldn't be hard to find where cats can get in....there are often small openings between neighbors attics. The real question is how the cats got into THEIR ceilings.

Subject: BS: How NOT to start your day
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 09:23 AM

Ok, so this actually started last night. When I arrived home after work at approximately 5:30pm my street was blocked off due to a water main break which turned out to be just feet from my front door. I had to sneak in through some side roads to even get to my apartment building. The crew was there all night long which was a real joy (obviously I had no water), especially around 3am when whatever they were doing was making the entire building shake. They were still there when I left at 6:45am but at least I had water this morning and was able to get out to come to work.
Now that's bad enough, but as I was getting out of the shower I heard my cats screeching and howling at something. I got into the livingroom to find they are all staring at the ceiling because something is moving around up there. I watched the ceiling tiles bounce as whatever it was made it's way all around my apartment. I was just a little freaked out. So I get dressed and decide I have to know what I'm up against. I had visions of a giant raccoon up there, ready to eat my face as soon as it could. So I get up on a chair and lift one of the ceiling tiles, making noises hoping to catch sight of whatever is up there. After a couple of seconds a face appears - it's one of my upstairs neighbors cats!! How the HELL it got in my ceiling I don't know but it scared the Bejesus outta me at 6am. I now have living proof that LOL Cats "Ceiling Cat" really exists.
I'm glad to be at work where it's quiet!