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03-06-2008, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | | An animal tried to break into my house
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Luckily it wasn't very big. It's actually caught between the screen door and the window pane of my sliding glass door. My dog was making a ruckus* and when we went to check it out this mouse was scurrying* around.
Does it look domestic? It looks to clean to be a wild animal. Should we try to trap it and see if someone lost it?
*words I do not actually use talking to people.
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03-06-2008, 09:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | No, it's just a wild brown mouse. Nothing out of the ordinary. We call that "snake food"
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03-06-2008, 09:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | It's not domestic, that is definitely a wild grizzly rat. The scientific name is "mammalian ursus horriblus" Most of us Grizzly Adams types just call them "mean Mofo rats". I've encountered a few in the wild myself. I was lucky though, I had a Shotgun with several rounds handy. The one caught in your door is a Juvenile, adults can reach 400 pounds and a length of five feet! Proceed carefully, Do not touch it! You didn't touch it did you? The Mothers have a mean maternal protective streak. They've been known to brake down windows or crash thru doors if they feel their young have been threatened or touched. I would simply, drive to the next county, purchase several large firearms, night vision gear (their nocturnal) and stay away from your house about a week or so. The Juvenile can chew his way thru glass or screen doors to get out and she shouldn't damage your house to bad. If you see more then one, it's time to relocate, same if it defecates your porch with bodily waste (marking it's territory). When one $h!t$ on your porch it's all over.
If you need any more advice on Grizzly rat behavior feel free to PM me, or Dig me (Brad Cook) or Diggler. Brad especially, he's been known to kill several wild beast with his bare hands.
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03-06-2008, 10:06 PM
| | Something about gumption | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Napa, CA | | Hilarious. We've had snakes in my house. Nothing big, just hidding under the piano.
The worst one was actually outside my sisters window. There was a possum out there growling and making noises and basically scaring the **** out of my sister. In order to get rid of it my dad had to whack it a couple of times with a baseball bat.  I wasn't old enough to be cognisant of any of this stuff.
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03-06-2008, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by burk48237  It's not domestic, that is definitely a wild grizzly rat. The scientific name is "mammalian ursus horriblus" Most of us Grizzly Adams types just call them "mean Mofo rats". I've encountered a few in the wild myself. I was lucky though, I had a Shotgun with several rounds handy. The one caught in your door is a Juvenile, adults can reach 400 pounds and a length of five feet! Proceed carefully, Do not touch it! You didn't touch it did you? The Mothers have a mean maternal protective streak. They've been known to brake down windows or crash thru doors if they feel their young have been threatened or touched. I would simply, drive to the next county, purchase several large firearms, night vision gear (their nocturnal) and stay away from your house about a week or so. The Juvenile can chew his way thru glass or screen doors to get out and she shouldn't damage your house to bad. If you see more then one, it's time to relocate, same if it defecates your porch with bodily waste (marking it's territory). When one $h!t$ on your porch it's all over.
If you need any more advice on Grizzly rat behavior feel free to PM me, or Dig me (Brad Cook) or Diggler. Brad especially, he's been known to kill several wild beast with his bare hands. | Don't worry about me, I have Chuck Norris's phone number. All I have to worry about now is this several-thousand-pound mound of droppings covering my welcome mat. I think my dog might be in there somewhere. I may have to
OH DEAR GOD IT'S THROUGH THE DRYWALL CALL 911
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03-06-2008, 10:14 PM
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03-06-2008, 10:16 PM
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03-06-2008, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by burk48237 It's not domestic, that is definitely a wild grizzly rat. The scientific name is "mammalian ursus horriblus" Most of us Grizzly Adams types just call them "mean Mofo rats". I've encountered a few in the wild myself. I was lucky though, I had a Shotgun with several rounds handy. The one caught in your door is a Juvenile, adults can reach 400 pounds and a length of five feet! Proceed carefully, Do not touch it! You didn't touch it did you? The Mothers have a mean maternal protective streak. They've been known to brake down windows or crash thru doors if they feel their young have been threatened or touched. I would simply, drive to the next county, purchase several large firearms, night vision gear (their nocturnal) and stay away from your house about a week or so. The Juvenile can chew his way thru glass or screen doors to get out and she shouldn't damage your house to bad. If you see more then one, it's time to relocate, same if it defecates your porch with bodily waste (marking it's territory). When one $h!t$ on your porch it's all over.
If you need any more advice on Grizzly rat behavior feel free to PM me, or Dig me (Brad Cook) or Diggler. Brad especially, he's been known to kill several wild beast with his bare hands. | Inconceivable!!
Sounds like a case of Rodents of Unusual Size:  |
03-06-2008, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Oh, that thing is nothing. You have to look out for THESE!!! | Child's play! check out the NZ weta- I've never run into one this large, but found several others..... they bite too.  |
03-07-2008, 05:32 AM
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03-07-2008, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Oh, that thing is nothing. You have to look out for THESE!!! | One of those landed on my mum's arm once when she came to visit me. This woman will happily spend an entire day in her bedroom if she sees a spider on the staircase - imagine how she reacted to that.  |
03-07-2008, 06:09 AM
| | | | Now clearly this animal threatens your life. Keep a gun under your pillow. |
03-07-2008, 06:28 AM
| | | | No the problem is not with this one, it's it's 100 or so family members IN your house right now. |
03-07-2008, 06:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Oh, that thing is nothing. You have to look out for THESE!!! | I woke up with one of these on my face once. Worst part? I thought it was a spider! (it was dark, I'd been asleep) Did I turn on the light and look for it? Damn straight I did, found the bugger too.
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03-07-2008, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by dinghy
Luckily it wasn't very big. It's actually caught between the screen door and the window pane of my sliding glass door. My dog was making a ruckus* and when we went to check it out this mouse was scurrying* around.
Does it look domestic? It looks to clean to be a wild animal. Should we try to trap it and see if someone lost it?
*words I do not actually use talking to people. | I think he's kinda cool looking. 
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03-07-2008, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by tbrannon Inconceivable!!
Sounds like a case of Rodents of Unusual Size: | Princess Bride quote, FTW!
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03-07-2008, 08:39 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | Naw, that's just a little field mouse. You see that one. You don't see the other 25 already in your house.
You can tell spring is coming as my cat has already caught and maimed 2 bird and brought them into my cellar for me to step on barefoot when I do the laundry. SOB!
I get these trying to break into my house often. 
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03-07-2008, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard Princess Bride quote, FTW!
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03-07-2008, 08:51 AM
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03-07-2008, 09:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lalabadie Now clearly this animal threatens your life. Keep a gun under your pillow. | A Gun? Just one? Your obviously Canadian. Any American worth his salt would face the threat of the Wild Grizzly Rat with a Plethora of Automatic Weapons. Anything that would fit under your pillow is simply not capable. I can understand the misunderstanding, being that I've never seen a wild Grizzly Costal Canadian Rat that was more then 200 ponds, You can stop them with a European Air Gun. But the wild Grizzly Rats from the west coast, thats a different beast altogether. And you also have to remember, they hunt in packs.
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