My mother has become very aware that there are many homeless animals these days and decided to put dog food, cat food, and water on her front porch to help feed these hungry little varmints. The other morning, just before dawn, she took her dogs out to potty. While waiting for them to finish their business, she decided to sit on her porch swing. As she sat down, she caught a glimpse of white fur under the swing. After sitting, she bent over to see if she could persuade the kitty to come to her and said "Come here, Sweety...it's okay"....and as she looked under the swing...was face to face with a opossum!!!!! She said all she could do was stand up slowly, call for the pups and back into the front door

I'll have to tell my possum about that!

She got so upset when I laughed at this...she didn't find it funny....then she ddecided it was. I had to post on facebook and all of the family called her, cracking up. She called to tell me thanks for giving the entire family a giggle....lol

I was at a friends in like 83-84, they had just moved out of the city and I had to piss. I went out behind the trailer (it was dark) and pissed off a berm onto a bobcat, needless to say I also pissed off a bobcat!

I was cleaning out my grandparents garage once. They live out in the country, and my grandma feeds the stray cats, and has geese and ducks and dogs, so there's all kinds of food out there. As I was cleaning, I heard something crawling around in the rafters but couldn't see it. I assumed it was a cat, so just kept cleaning. I get to the back corner of the garage and the animal jumps down onto a work table. It was a raccoon. I quickly backed away as to not corner it or make it feel threatened.

Oh Crap! Those little suckers are mean too! Worst I have come across was laying brick one day...dropped my trowel and when I jumped off of the scaffolding to get it, I saw something move and ran to the truck...the ex jumped down and pulled out a six foot balck snake! I know they are harmless....but I HATE snakes....nearly gave me a flippin' heart attack....lol.

I was mowing grass at this one house where the grass was like knee high. I ran over a gardner snake. When I was down south I almost stepped on a couple rattlers.

Hate snakes, hate snakes, hate snakes! My best friend has a snake and I refuse to go to his house because of it....lol.

I would like to have a pet snake, but I think they would be too hard to care for properly.

YUCK......okay....not coming to your house

I don't have any, and will probably never have one, I just think they're cool. I kinda feel bad for them. LOL

I only feel bad that they need to exist....lol.

When my kids were in grade school and we lived in the country, I caught a garter snake and put it in a jar.. the kids took it to school for show and tell.. the teacher was not a happy camper..
While living in AZ my brother would catch rattle snakes and skin them to make hat bands...YEA, we grew up in the country.. always had raccoons for pets too...

When my kids were in grade school and we lived in the country, I caught a garter snake and put it in a jar.. the kids took it to school for show and tell.. the teacher was not a happy camper..
While living in AZ my brother would catch rattle snakes and skin them to make hat bands...YEA, we grew up in the country.. always had raccoons for pets too...

My son found 3 baby racoons and wanted to raise them, the neighbor had shot the mother. The guy across the street called dnr on my son (who was 11 at the time) and they told us wee needed a license for each one at 500 each...needless to say...they took the babies...broke my little boy's heart

I likes possums...we be NICE...

How could anyone be fearful of ME????

Black snakes, while not poisonous, can get a bit aggressive. Even a snake lover would be right to back off from a 6 footer. Good thing about the black snakes is they are pretty good at keeping the other, more dangerous snakes away.

Gotta watch those garter snakes though. Harmless little buggers, but if you scare them they can give off this musk that is worse the skunk spray...next to impossible to wash off too.

Personally, I like corn snakes. Pretty little things, and quite harmless.


Speaking of wild critters showing up in unexpected places, when I was in High School my grandfather would put feed out on this platform feeder for the doves. We were pretty used to the squirrels stealing it, but one day we looked out and saw something else entirely. We had a giant rood rat (he was bigger then the squirrels) sitting on the feeder, stuffing his face.

At my folk's old place, we had a mama ground hog and her baby living in the brush pile.