NTTCR: How creepy is this.

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

Yesterday morning at 4 am, my dogs (a Chesapeke Bay Ret. &  Pug) were going apesh!t at our sliding glass door.  (Our house boarders an old logging track so deer/raccoon/skunks aren't a big surprise to see out there. But not usually anything to report home to.) So I open it to let them out, and I see on the other side of the chain link fence, a giant mountain lion.  I damn near peed my pants, Frantically I got the dogs in the house, my cat ran in with a tail that looked more like a bottle brush and darted behind the couch.,   Needless to say sleep was hard to refind once I went to bed.

cour10e

DUDE. I would have darted behind the couch too!

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

For sure. The funnist thing is DH was out painting the house yesterday and bolted in the house with the paint. He said he heard rustling in the bushes and was scared. So i looked out where he heard it and out popped a cat, a little siamese cat. I told him I was so glad he was such a protector!

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cour10e:

DUDE. I would have darted behind the couch too!

this and peed my pants for sure

Mrs.EmmaLouise

Omg, I would have had a heart attack!  Once I let my dog outside, and  it was dark out, so I couldn't see.  Well, n ot even two feet away from me was a full grown moose.  I was freaking out trying to get the dog back in the house.  The two of them ran back and forth playing cat and mouse for what seemed like ages.  But Im pretty sure a moose cant/wont eat me.

KelinandKevin

Mountain lions scare the hell out of me.  We keep a rifle in our closet in case we get big animals on our property.   I had a coyote try to attack my little Pomeranian last year - I shot the hell out of it. 

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

Kelin- We have a shot gun, I would be more comfortable if it was a riffle. Growing up we always had bear problems,  and  a neighbor down the road watched a mountain lion snag up his poodle off his deck.  Yah I've never seen a man eating moose Emma,.....but I would have been scared too, Moose are ginormous!

cour10e

KelinandKevin:

We keep a rifle in our closet in case we get big animals on our property.   I had a coyote try to attack my little Pomeranian last year - I shot the hell out of it. 

You're my hero. I went to the shooting range with DH once to learn to use his Glock and got scared by all the noise and shells flying around. LOL.

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your gonna laugh b/c this is so stupid!!! 

My DH and I just got done watching this Australian movie and I just kept thinking of monkeys... So we are on his mom's property walking in the woods and all of a sudden I hear and see something HUGE jumping from tree to tree... "Holy *** it's a Monkey!" My DH starts cracking up at me..."It's a friggin turkey, it's not a Monkey!"  First off I forgot where I was... then I was relieved it wasnt a Monkey, but then the fact that it was a Turkey freaked me out!!! I didnt know they flew that damn high!!!

KelinandKevin

cour10e:

KelinandKevin:

We keep a rifle in our closet in case we get big animals on our property.   I had a coyote try to attack my little Pomeranian last year - I shot the hell out of it. 

You're my hero. I went to the shooting range with DH once to learn to use his Glock and got scared by all the noise and shells flying around. LOL.

Yes, guns can be intimidating if you aren't used to them.  I grew up in the country and we used guns like tools instead of weapons so I have a different feeling about them.  I actually carry a 38 revolver for protection.  It stays in my car or goes in my purse depending on the situation.  I haven't had to use it yet - thank goodness!

You should have your husband take you out shooting.  It's actually a lot of fun once you get good at it. 

KelinandKevin

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your gonna laugh b/c this is so stupid!!! 

My DH and I just got done watching this Australian movie and I just kept thinking of monkeys... So we are on his mom's property walking in the woods and all of a sudden I hear and see something HUGE jumping from tree to tree... "Holy *** it's a Monkey!" My DH starts cracking up at me..."It's a friggin turkey, it's not a Monkey!"  First off I forgot where I was... then I was relieved it wasnt a Monkey, but then the fact that it was a Turkey freaked me out!!! I didnt know they flew that damn high!!!

LMAO!  Funny!

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

KelinandKevin:

Yes, guns can be intimidating if you aren't used to them.  I grew up in the country and we used guns like tools instead of weapons so I have a different feeling about them. 

Me too, I have always been taught the same thing.

 

cour10e

KelinandKevin:

cour10e:

KelinandKevin:

We keep a rifle in our closet in case we get big animals on our property.   I had a coyote try to attack my little Pomeranian last year - I shot the hell out of it. 

You're my hero. I went to the shooting range with DH once to learn to use his Glock and got scared by all the noise and shells flying around. LOL.

Yes, guns can be intimidating if you aren't used to them.  I grew up in the country and we used guns like tools instead of weapons so I have a different feeling about them.  I actually carry a 38 revolver for protection.  It stays in my car or goes in my purse depending on the situation.  I haven't had to use it yet - thank goodness!

You should have your husband take you out shooting.  It's actually a lot of fun once you get good at it. 

I did shoot eventually, it just took me a while to get up the nerve. I was the only one there sweeping up the shells, haha. I totally hit my fake man paper target every time though! 

Did you have to apply for a concealed carry permit or anything? I guess maybe not...I am in CA so the laws are prob different. It is such a process here. My dad always had guns to shoot coyotes on the ranch (we had grapevines and they would chew through the irrigation lines) and for personal protection too, so I am used to them being around, I just never used them much.

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

KelinandKevin:

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your gonna laugh b/c this is so stupid!!! 

My DH and I just got done watching this Australian movie and I just kept thinking of monkeys... So we are on his mom's property walking in the woods and all of a sudden I hear and see something HUGE jumping from tree to tree... "Holy *** it's a Monkey!" My DH starts cracking up at me..."It's a friggin turkey, it's not a Monkey!"  First off I forgot where I was... then I was relieved it wasnt a Monkey, but then the fact that it was a Turkey freaked me out!!! I didnt know they flew that damn high!!!

LMAO!  Funny!

Seriously! Cracking up! 

Mrs.EmmaLouise

Wait.  Turkeys can fly?

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Mrs.EmmaLouise:

Wait.  Turkeys can fly?

i guess so ...... new news to me!!!!!!!!!

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

They can, they aren't the most graceful animals though. They sleep in lower branches of trees. 

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Can't Wait To Be A Mama:

They can, they aren't the most graceful animals though. They sleep in lower branches of trees. 

Not graceful is right.... they scared the *** outta me!

Mrs.EmmaLouise

I always thought turkeys were stupid.  Theres a gang of turkeys in Soldovia (small town in alaska)....  they're literally a gang, beat up kids, have initations, violence, you know that stuff.

Can't Wait To Be A Mama

Poor kids, they must have been wearing the wrong colors. 

Mrs.EmmaLouise

I know.  I'll never trust a turkey again. 

TravelinMama

Yikes!!!!!

MrsDCruz

Yeah you have to be careful about that Chessie too because those dogs never give up, they have a drive like I have never seen before. My parents raised them my whole life growing up so I've been around them, great GREAT dogs... smart.

 

I'm not going to lie, I probably woulda peed my pants... but then again if I look out the window and see a mountain lion something is seriously wrong... I live in the middle of a city.

happyhoopla

Yikes! At least your pets had the good sense to come inside and not be made into cougar chow.

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CruzMommyG:

Yeah you have to be careful about that Chessie too because those dogs never give up, they have a drive like I have never seen before. My parents raised them my whole life growing up so I've been around them, great GREAT dogs... smart..

I know she has drive like I have never seen before.  They are amazingly smart dogs.