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[โ€“] HallaWorld@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us!

I've had the exact same reaction - "whatever it is, as long as it stays out of the bedroom I'll deal with it tomorrow".

My favorite incident here, as a tangent, is when my wife came to me for help while I was doing something in the garden. A large crow was sitting on the kitchen counter. My initial thought was "well there goes my day" as birds tend to be the worst to get out. However, everyone keep saying how smart those birds are so I figured I'd do what I do when half-ferral cats stumble in.

So I walked in, see the crow, the crow sees me, and we kind of just stare at each other. I slowly backed up, went around the house and entered again through the backdoor. I grabbed his attention again before going out once more, and in again through the main door. We stared at each other some more, and then he just lightly jumped across the floor and went out the back door. No frantical flying and crapping everywhere. 10/10 experience as far as birds stuck in the house goes.

It's probably in my imagination, but we shared a moment there. What's not in my imagination though is that afterwards a bunch of crows started hanging around the house. So I started giving them some snacks every once in a while, because why not. Long story long, we have a small murder of crows watching over the property.

[โ€“] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The crow whisperer.

A while back my shed suddenly was demolished spontaneously. So I'm running around in full makeup trying to get all the gardening stuff out to put it in my place.

There were some shockingly large spiders there. I'm talking the largest that I've ever seen irl outside a zoo.

Doesn't matter, eggs and all are going inside.

So the other day I woke up and I saw one of those babies right above my head on the wall. I'm like I better get rid of this thing before I give it a name. Scurries off under my bed.

I imagine it's still there but I've made my peace with it.

And as for mice. Honestly I'd build them a little home and give them little sandwiches. In fact I have made little sandwiches for them. The issue is just that they make my kitchen dirty.