pest control!!

[Notaro]

damn, y'all are crazy. i need friendly geckos or lizards and are expert at exterminating insects and spiders in the house. i want them to be gone. i once found a spider under my blanket while i was sleeping...

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by Notaro

damn, y'all are crazy. i need friendly geckos or lizards and are expert at exterminating insects and spiders in the house. i want them to be gone. i once found a spider under my blanket while i was sleeping...

You need to sleep with a lizard under your pillow.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Notaro

damn, y'all are crazy. i once found a spider under my blanket while i was sleeping...

Notaro ...i've lived all over the USA....in many houses...
i have some gypsy blood i guess....

one night at a house that had many a mouse....

one got in my bed.... and it woke me up....

because it was running up my back under a t-shirt i had on...

needless to say..... i was airborne.... bouncing off the walls

[BrianS]

My parents house was like 100 years old
It had bats in the attic

I awoke one night to "something" crawl across my neck and chin

I jumped up, hit the light, and the bat went APE...

I started yellin, my Dad came over and started swearing asking what I was yelling about.. Then when I told him he told me I better not open the !@$%@#$% door.

I pinned it down with a pair of jeans and was released... *most unpleasant*

[Raven]

about two weeks ago...i went down cella.. and decided to turn on the old lathe and see if it was STILL ok after being stored outside my last house outside....its a huge delta lathe...
and so i plugged it in ....and squatted down next to the motor and got real close so i could listen as i flipped the switch....well a mouse had moved into my motor and when i flipped that switch it came flying outta there like a bullet and bounced off my face knocking me right on my ass from sheer FRIGHT,
the little bastage... now i wish i owned a cat or a cat owned me.....

[Iwannakeeper]

My last house in Nashua NH, we constantly had bats in the house. The girlfriend would freak out - I would catch it, and release it.

After like 20 times in one summer - I was pissed and end up killing the bat - and I never had another one - I am thinking it was probably the same one.

I got a cat and a few dogs - I have few spiders and even less bugs. The cat seem particularly fond of moths. She likes to pin them down and lick them, so they powder is off their wings and they can't fly. then she tortures them for awhile until you hear the inevitiable ........CRUNCH!

[Raven]

we had a house with one of those prop up attic windows in the roof for star gazing... there was a cool old telescope up there...and even a thomas edison cylindrical record player with the rca dog like speaker...

i used to forget to close that freakin window a bit to often and bats were getting in every night...

well one day a bat gets loose in the house and was flying around on the first floor...and found its way to the kitchen sink....my mother had a particular habbit of always leaving a dish rag towel folded over the faucet so it could drip dry....and thats where the bat went....because it was dark cool and damp...just how they like it......so the next morning my mother grabs the dish rag to wipe something and the BAT hissed at her baring its teeth viciously
and SHE nearly had a heart attack.... so then my brother and i had the time of our lives chasing that sucka up and down three floors until we finally netted it....then we held it by its wing tips and streched them wide....making it hiss at us....more and more....SUCH FUN THAT WAS.
then we lettem go...out the window.

[thefishingfreak]

my house is infested with ants.
"huge black ants" and they have pinchers too. way too big for the ant traps. they won't even go into them. some say they fall off the trees but it's like a forest here so cutting the trees is not an option.
i ran the "loose gheckos" option bye the wife and it's a NO-WAY!

any ideas for those humungus black ants?
i try to keep a close eye on food/trash but they still are everywhear.
i asked at home depot but they are clueless three kids running arround so chemicals in the house are not an option.

spiders are kool. ants suck! and the cat could care less unless they fly.
mike