You'll Never Guess What I Jsut Caught

[Baccus]

I end up in hospital more so from mechaical things like lawn mowers! One tried to remove my big toe and just recently I did my shoulder in trying to start one So far I have not injured myself with a chainsaw or weed eater but the scar you can see on my thumb (in the pics) was from a pruning saw that lept out of the branch I was cutting and went for my thumb. Honestly I have more safety around Kangaroo, possoms and birds than tools .

Wow and I thought I had bad luck but like you animals I can hold, chase, find, etc and be fine give me something with a chain or a start up I have a few problems even though all the scares on my body are from falling on skates or playing hockey... rugby and American football hasn't left anything other then welts

I think we need a term that encompasses animal savvy but technical/ mechanical inept.

 

[Randomitity]

I think we need a term that encompasses animal savvy but technical/ mechanical inept.

We probably do even though I have to say it would only be half so since I have a degree with computers... irony at it's finest

 

[Mr Melt]

I'm from Northern Ireland; where I live, if a bird that size turned up in someone's garage it would be on the 6 o'clock bloody news =P

 

[LoriF]

very pretty bird! growing up we had hummingbirds fly into our garage and try to get out the skylight, so Id crawl up in the rafters and grab them in hand and crawl back down. i was always so worried i would crush them in my hand as i was coming back down, they are so tiny! they would be so tired from flying into the skylight for however long, that they wouldnt even be able to fly away, and we would go set them on the hummingbird feeder and let them drink to thier tiny little hearts content and then they would finally fly away. this probably happened 3-5 times when i was young. very cool to hold a tiny little bird like that in ur hands. a wild one at that!

I can't imagine even being able to catch a hummingbird. LOL That would be so cool to see one that up close.

 

[Baccus]

very pretty bird! growing up we had hummingbirds fly into our garage and try to get out the skylight, so Id crawl up in the rafters and grab them in hand and crawl back down. i was always so worried i would crush them in my hand as i was coming back down, they are so tiny! they would be so tired from flying into the skylight for however long, that they wouldnt even be able to fly away, and we would go set them on the hummingbird feeder and let them drink to thier tiny little hearts content and then they would finally fly away. this probably happened 3-5 times when i was young. very cool to hold a tiny little bird like that in ur hands. a wild one at that!

What wonderful fascinating little birds, humming burds are, and so beautiful too. I could only dream of getting to see let alone handle a hummingbird, the closest bird we have in Australia to them in relation to size and coolour are Yellow-bellied sunbirds.

 

[Carlovel1]

Aww that Kingfisher is adorable

 

[Didge007]

Gorgeous kingfisher! Every so often you see the real blue kingfishers around her, but we mainly have kookaburras (still adorable!).

NSW gets all the good stuff lol The native hopping mice are sooo cute!! I got to handle some mice at Uni and it was hilarious! There were mice running everywhere because people were freaking out about getting bitten - I'm like just grab the thing!

 

[Baccus]

Gorgeous kingfisher! Every so often you see the real blue kingfishers around her, but we mainly have kookaburras (still adorable!).

NSW gets all the good stuff lol The native hopping mice are sooo cute!! I got to handle some mice at Uni and it was hilarious! There were mice running everywhere because people were freaking out about getting bitten - I'm like just grab the thing!

I have kept mice (the usual domesticed house mouse), smelly little crtiiers and much prefer rats. If I was allowed I would have another rat in a shot, I really don't see why so many people get freaked out about mice. Yes it's off putting when they run up your leg when you weren't expecting it but so is any creature when they do that, but to freak out at a creature when you know full well it's there and you obviously had some reason to be near it, that is beyond me.

 

[Didge007]

Agreed! Funniest thing though, the mouse me and a friend had was a little terror but I didn't have troubles with it. She was a bit skeptical about it though (she prefers them dead, bit nasty really) and didn't hold it close enough to its head. It slowly turn around and then struck, sinking it's teeth past the gloves into her finger. She screamed and threw it (by accident and it was okay) and I was on the ground crying I was laughing so hard!

I much prefer rats too, how two little girls only recently died

 

[Baccus]

We used to have 6 girls and two boys (obviously the boys where kept seperate from the girls unless we wanted some more babies) and Carby the biggest male was huge, a right terror while in his cage but once you coaxed him out you could do what you liked with him. My rats where super spoilt as they had their own airconditioning until that had vents into the different enclosures and under the outlets they had wire/ bird mesh hammocks. It was great seeing the girls all flaked out on their backs under the aircon and when they got too cool they would go back to the bottom of the cage and get into a ratty huddle. I miss our girls and even though Carby could be a royal horror, he was still a special big guy.

I would have laughed too at the person getting bitten, even though I know how hard the rotton things can bite.