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Animal visitation

Intemporal_Reverie

Intemporal_Reverie

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Have you ever been visited by a random or seemingly random animal at your residence or elsewhere?

I will start by sharing my experience regarding this issue. I have a door leading to the back yard. It's a windowed door, and so anything can peek inside the house provided the blinds are open. Well, I've had many visitors from a vast array of creatures.

Once such visitor, is a male marmalade-style colored tabby cat who is very cool and incredibly friendly. He has a history of showing up during times of despair. Very interesting but well understood, he would show up during some of my worst times, when I was feeling down and out and I was out on the back patio.

Other such animals were less common. They included birds like cardinals showing up and wanting to get through the window. Snakes have also peeked inside my house, and I have had opossums, raccoons, other cats and dogs show up at my house around the same area. I welcome this activity.

Please use this thread to share your animal visitation story. Or if you have anything similar or strange to share involving animals.
 
The Ferret.
Sniffing around our garage. What to do you with a ferret? Pick it up? We closed the garage door to lock it in. Of course it turned out to be a neighbours ferret.
Cute little things. Razor sharp teeth. Very smelly urine apparently. So, no, my daughter can't have one.
 
gregmcph said:
The Ferret.
Sniffing around our garage. What to do you with a ferret? Pick it up? We closed the garage door to lock it in. Of course it turned out to be a neighbours ferret.
Cute little things. Razor sharp teeth. Very smelly urine apparently. So, no, my daughter can't have one.
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Interesting.

I once had a friend, now almost 16 years ago that owned two of them. They loved paper towel rolls and would travel through them for purpose of recreation. They where strange creatures indeed.
 
I wouldn't say "visited" but appear, when I need reassurance. A hawk and bold eagle (yeah, weird, but apparently there're more of them around than I've anticipated :) )
My 1st experience with a hawk was kind of interesting. I was questioning what my animal spirit was (again, needed some reassurance, felt a little stressed out), so I walked down the street at the apparent complex, where I lived back then, and here it is, sitting on the ground. I stopped and looked at him (or her, for some reason I thought it was a female) and he/ she looked at me. So we stared at each other for a bit. I remember saying "hi" :) then I said, that I needed to go and walked away :) Another time I was working as a phone psychic (in Ireland) and very soon started questioning if I was doing the right thing, I felt very uncomfortable doing that kind of job. When I started questioning myself a young black cat started wondering around our front door. Later on I had to quit my psychic job (I had 2 jobs at the time and was getting more and more stressed). The cat stopped visiting :)

There's one funny story about animals. When I was a kid I convinced 2 of my friends that some of the animals were possessed by spirits. It was my fantasy, but the kids believed me. One day I made a treasure map and told the kids that we're going to find a treasure. We were digging and digging until the late evening, and what do you know, there was a metal object under ground. And 3 dogs came by and just stood there and stared. The kids were amazed, of course they thought those dogs were actual spirits :) but then again... you never know... unfortunately my parents called me back home before we dug the object out and forbade me to dig again... yeah...
 
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I grew up in small house further from the town, near forest and lake with larger bond on the yard. There were frogs and some fishes living in it, so we got often gooses or wild ducks swimming and dining our private provided pool. Length of their visits varied from few hours to periods of several days, and I was always sad as they left. They mostly came on late summer as couples.

Also, five stray cats came to die on our front porch. I have no idea what there were buried under our house to cause that.
 
My wife visits the grave of her mother every couple of weeks.
The lady was a chocoholic in her last years, so my wife has a tradition of placing a bit of Nestle when she visits.
And so, while she is there a single magpie flies down and sits a few meters away, watching her do her rosary.

Always the same single magpie.

This is very important to my wife. She knows Who that magpie is, and she is quite disappointed when it doesn't come on down.

Of course the bird has probably just discovered a pattern that ends with some yummy food, but that almost doesn't matter. My wife sees more in it, and it helps her. That's more important.
 
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Oh, and my hedgehog story!

In the summer 2011 I was on a late night/early morning walk with my dog at the fields, where we found a hedgehog, in, well, a hedge. Little brutes that dogs are, mine was interested about that snorting spiky prey, but left it there as I told, so it didn't get that scared. We relocated bit farther to throwing sticks and after a while I saw that this little hoggie waddled near us and stood there watching. I made sure dog wouldn't see it again, and after having played for a while we left it. Best of this is that my dog was unleashed the whole time and whole thing felt so trustworthy between three specimen of nature.
I know one should not anthropomorphize the wild, but it felt bit odd just leave it there after it came to us. It was the most sympathetic encounter I've had.
 
Generally when an animal comes to visit at my house, he wants something to eat.
Or a place to live. Or both.

Deer and turkeys forage in my yard.
Possum and coon would eat the chickens, if they could get at them.
Now that a new cat has started living here (outside, so far) a big headed possum keeps coming up on the front porch
to finish off whatever the cat has left in his dish.

Cats have often come here.
Then they decide to stay.
 
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Not meaning to come across as ageist or anything, but I'll go for the image of White, when I think of you ;)
 
I was sitting on the tailgate of my truck, out in the boonies (desert), painting. Nothing around, not even trees, for miles. A small hawk landed on the rack, about 2 feet from my head. It sat there for 10 minutes or so. Maybe it thought, "cool, a new vantage point from which to hunt."

A snake came in my house, actually my garage, and hatched a gaggle (?) of baby snakes. That was interesting because I discovered them when I went to take my garbage out one night, and I had bare feet. haha

A few birds have fallen down the wood stove stack before I fixed the screen up there. Luckily the stove was cold. We caught them and put them out. We had a suspicion that it was the same bird, and joked that it was trying to get inside to go for a ride on the ceiling fan. It kept flying up there and landing on the slowly circulating fan blades.

Also, it is lucky I love spiders, because I found a tarantula in my shower. Put him outside to continue on his search for lady spiders.
 
tree said:
A nest, a bed or a pit...according to this site. Gaggle is usually geese, On the other hand,
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A giggle is a flock of 14 year old girls.

Names of Animals, Babies and Groups- EnchantedLearning.com
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Thank you, that is excellent. I have such an often embarassing lack of ability to recall names and labels accurately.
The good part was that the garage remained entirely free of mice from then on. :)
This thread must have had an impact on me, because I dreamt about animals all night.
 
About twenty years ago or so, one of our Chihuahuas was in the back yard barking. His barking sounded different, almost frantic. Because of the way he sounded, I went to see what he was barking at. He was barking at a mound of dirt next to the foundation of the house. While I was looking at the mound of dirt, it moved! I put the dog in the house and closed the doggy door so they couldn't get out. I stuck a garden hose into the dirt and turned the water on about half way. With in a few minutes a badger stuck his head out and looked around. Badgers are one of the most ill tempered criters I've ever encountered and they eat small animals, like Chihuahuas. I called the humane society, but they said that they didn't deal with wild animals. They gave me a number for a group that rescues wild animals. I called them and they said if I left the water on that he would probably leave, but if he didn't, they would come and get him. Thankfully, the badger left on his own. This was one visitor I could do without.
 
clg114 said:
About twenty years ago or so, one of our Chihuahuas was in the back yard barking. His barking sounded different, almost frantic. Because of the way he sounded, I went to see what he was barking at. He was barking at a mound of dirt next to the foundation of the house. While I was looking at the mound of dirt, it moved! I put the dog in the house and closed the doggy door so they couldn't get out. I stuck a garden hose into the dirt and turned the water on about half way. With in a few minutes a badger stuck his head out and looked around. Badgers are one of the most ill tempered criters I've ever encountered and they eat small animals, like Chihuahuas. I called the humane society, but they said that they didn't deal with wild animals. They gave me a number for a group that rescues wild animals. I called them and they said if I left the water on that he would probably leave, but if he didn't, they would come and get him. Thankfully, the badger left on his own. This was one visitor I could do without.
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Reminds me of when Ozzy O. had coyote 'visitors.'
Ozzy Osbourne's Dog Killed by Coyote - PawNation (He saved a dog, but the headline doesn't reflect that.)
 
Coyotes and rattlesnakes. They're a serious threat to pets of various sizes here.
 
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