Have you ever had any critters get into your home?

[GreyBalonz]

Just a few slugs

We had a bird in our house the other day, must have been in overnight as the windows were closed!

Squirrel , mice, bees , rats and next doors cats believe that we are also their territory. might have encouraged this to discourage the mice and rats

All the usual insects.
Rats in the roof, mice brought in by the cat. Once a squirrel in the roof.
A bat came in the bedroom window one night, I caught it in a fishing net.

Too many to count! We have the back door open a lot. The worst was thousands of maggots crawling in from the rain, the best was a small fox who ran around the kitchen a couple of times and legged it when they realised we were sitting at the table.

Rats, mice, other people's cats, birds, frogs. We once opened the front door & a dog shot in.

We came home from holiday to an awful smell somewhere in the house.
Turned out the cat had brought in a mouse which had escaped his clutches then hidden behind the piano and died 😪

I have a terrible mouse phobia. We rented a flat for 6 months and 2 doors away was semi derelict . One day the builders moved in and apparently disturbed a lot of mice. They somehow got into our place. One night we had them up the curtains, in the bathroom , over the bed and in the kitchen cupboards. I had to move out until rentokil had done their job. We saved and managed to buy a house near the woods. Our neighbour's have had the odd infestation of mice . Luckily we have 2 cats who have taken mummy’s phobia seriously and no rodents have ever crossed our path or entered our home.

When I was a child a nearly full grown rook fell down the kitchen chimney - it had kicked its way through through the nest at the top. It made a heck of a sooty mess around the room before my mother managed to chase it out of the window.
A friend had a badger stuck in her cat-flap (LOL, sounds rather rude!). She didn't dare get near it, but after some minutes it managed to back its way out.

A pigeon it came in through the open window once I shut the door on it and called for back up (my grandad) 🤣.

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My cat dragged a live wood pigeon through the cat flap. That was the most stressful gift I've had. Mice, voles etc are much easier to deal with.

The naughtier of my cats has brought in a live magpie, a bat and a frog.

DS was doing some work by the back door and found a small tropical snake coiled round our drainpipe - we presumed it must have been dumped so managed to catch it (well DH and DS did while I squealed and ran away) and they took it to a reptile shop who then sold it on for £400.

Spotted a muntjack deer on the Ring trying to get in our door one evening.

A rat once, got it out and made sure it couldn't come back. Yuk.

Why do you ask OP?

A man, a little boy and a dog have all made it inside. I should block up the holes probably…

What does a silverfish look like? 😬😬 I have heard of them once or twice but I dont think ive seen one.

A bear in the garage once when we were living in Vermont.

My last visitor was a bat 🥰

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Oh, that is so cute.
I remember when a bat crash landed in my parent's garden. It sounded like the alarm ovens have. Confused us for a good hour.

Awww I loved him so much 🥰. Was very sad when the sspca told us to release him at night. He spent the full day with us sleeping in a wee box away from the cats.

I miss him so much, wee vlad I called him 😆 🤣

British bats are so tiny, but so cute 😄

A magpie came in the back door last week and shit on my kitchen floor!

We thought it was a baby bat but the man said it was an adult, so cute and fluffy. ❤️

Raccoons

My old, old, old house, two field mice. No idea why, I had a cat. Gor one out, the other was chased to death.

My old house, a bat. Absolutely no idea how, I came home to it after work.

Current house, field mice (repeatedly and a bit fed up with catching them and driving them miles away to set them free). Ants, woodlice, spiders galore (one currently setting up base camp in my downstairs loo after I evicted two on Tuesday) wasps living in the wall, ladybirds nesting, beetles, moths and ginny spinners are regulars at this time of year.

I have aways lived on the outskirts of countryside, and as such has had to share a home with all sorts.