Have you ever had any critters get into your home?

[GreyBalonz]

Just a few slugs

Hello new new user name.

Slugs, woodlice, silverfish, mice , a squirrel and random trespassing cats. Not all at once.

A mouse, but I was on holiday near a forest in a Nordic destination at the time and it was three years ago 😉

Mice, beetles, spiders...

yes of course i don't live in a sealed container

Yeah but I broke up with him eventually.

Birds (including an inquisitive and scary magpie once)
Slugs, earwig, clothes moths, spiders, bees, fruit flies
A cat wandering about living room while our lab just lay there and watched it
Wasps (quite a few chasing one of ds’s friends into house when they disturbed an underground nest)

Mouse in cupboard, squirrel in loft, parrot in house (bunch of wild green ones near here). Slugs, snails and whatever the elderly dcat can catch to bring as a gift.

Next door’s (vicious) cat came I to the hall, took up residence and spat and hissed at me. I eventually got past him with a brim and was able to open the front door and see him off the premises. The cats once brought in a baby rat and then let it loose upstairs - took us a few days to recapture it. I had a bird once in the utility room - got it out with a fishing net.

Sodding car bought in a live mouse at 2AM today which I then had to chase around the bedroom while the bloody cat ignored it. Does that count?

Oh yeah!

In deepest darkest Lancashire in an old farmhouse my mum thought would be an excellent renovation project:

Wasps' nest.
Frogs.
A bird in my bedroom.

But the best is:

Slugs in a bag of sugar after coming in late from babysitting on the night Princess Diana died. They had turned completely transparent from the gorging.

I considered befriending the slugs as emotional support critters to watch the 24 hour rolling news with after I'd stopped hawking and dry retching but then just threw out most of the cupboard contents. It was a high up wall cupboard as well. You had to admire their literal tenacity.

"Where were you when Diana died?"

"I was sicking up Rice Krispies after I'd nearly spooned a slug into my cereal bowl."

Cats used to bring in live mice for me to catch. Now they have crossed the rainbow bridge, we get more random cats, plus various bees, wasps, spiders and the odd grasshopper. Lots of birds and squirrels in the garden but they don't venture in.

Two toads, a pheasant, a robin, a blackbird, a pigeon, couple of dragonflies, a cockchafer beetle. I do miss that garden though, so much wildlife compared to where I am now.

Numerous. Foxes, squirrels, mice, spiders, we had a mink years ago at a holiday cottage we stayed at. The worst was Thailand, we had a couple of snakes and huge spiders.

One of my cats brought a live squirrel in once. I was terrified it would bite me. Hovered a garden cushion near it and it hopped on. I carried it out into the garden and it jumped onto a tree!

Mice, rats, bats (randoms plus a nursery roost) pigeons( one rescue) blackbirds, wrens, swallow, spiders, flies, wasps, a pony, daddy long legs, wood lice, beetles, bees, random cat, random dog, slugs, silver fish, milli/centipedes

Think thats it...

Yes I have a cat so a few birds, bats and mice let loose in here.
Also shrews and once a mole (dead unfortunately).

A pony? WTF? We have cats so whatever they bring in, but the silliest invasion was the fox that ambled in through the patio door and settled down to watch University Challenge

Woodlice endlessly despite fumigating bombs

I get lizards in the bedroom and hall during the hot summers.

It was a house pony (it was a tiny thing ) had been relocated and it escaped it's field and walked inside ours. It's owners had their entire ground floor tiles to make clean ups easy. It was about the size of a Great Dane.

Woodlice, silverfish, spiders, hornets, flies.

Headlice.

Mice.

Bats

A squirrel.

😄 Are you sure it wasn’t a rat?

Had a big frog hop in once and this week a baby bird that couldn't fly just sort of hopped through the patio doors and around the kitchen until I ushered it out. Also had a pigeon come down the chimney in my bedroom last year. Our neighbor came with a big net on a stick and caught it for me.

Heard a snuffling sound under my bed. It was a hedgehog!