EEVblog Pets - Page 1
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author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 09:41:10 am
content: He likes the chewy bit.

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 01:37:24 pm
content: We know they are 'Vermin', but our cat keeps bringing home Mice from the neighbors.It doesn't kill them!! It lets them loose in the bath, or built up shower alcove, to watchthem run around!! The 'Missus' usually picks them up, and takes them out the front...Once "Seen", we don't have the heart to kill them.... (Yea.. we are weak)

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 02:43:47 pm
content: Thanks for not killing the mice 👍🙂❤️Fraser

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 06:04:54 pm
content: Time ago i had a colleague at work who had scorpions at home. He said they are cute and they are his pets.He had to get rid of them when he got married. I wonder why.

author: Ysjoelfir
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 06:59:31 pm
content: Meet Walter, the poser, (brown) and his very shy sister Lulu (white-black)

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2019, 10:37:30 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on September 28, 2019, 06:04:54 pmHow long did that marriage last?

author: Warhawk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2019, 08:07:18 am
content: Quote from: Cyberdragon on September 28, 2019, 10:37:30 pmI had scorpions when I lived at dormitory for five years. Fantastic animals. Clean, no smell, no noise. They grew from 1cm to about 12cm long.

author: password
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 30, 2019, 06:41:21 pm
content: My spider when she/he molted , enjoy

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2019, 12:42:48 am
content: Quote from: Warhawk on September 29, 2019, 08:07:18 amSo much better than a wife then. I have neither wife nor scorpions but I am taking notes

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2019, 11:37:23 am
content: Quote from: Fraser on September 28, 2019, 02:43:47 pmYou reminded me though, that many decades ago here in Australia, we had HUGE mouse plagues!!I remember back in about 1965/1970(?), on my uncles crop farms in Victoria, he would take us outat night, in an old Model-T Ford work vehicle, with the back stripped off & a home-made tray-top, forpicking up stumps in the paddocks for the fireplace. He would shine the headlights out over thefields from an elevated vantage point, and I SWEAR that the WHOLE GROUND was moving, as faras the eye could see, with literally MILLIONS of Mice!!!Sheds full of thousands of Wheat-Bags of grain, when you opened the doors, were absolutelycovered with THOUSANDS of Mice, chewing through the bags & helping themselves, uncontrolled!!!Even when the 'plague' died away, they would have many 'traps' inside the homestead....MANY large beer bottles with socks pulled over the bottom, up to the tapered part, laying on theirsides with the neck over the edge of tables/benches etc,with some cheese bunged into the end.Underneath that, were large buckets, half filled with water!! The mice would climb up onto thebottles, slip off the slippery end and fall into the water. Each bucket in the mornings would haveup to 100 mice in each!!! Desperate times called for desperate measures......

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2019, 11:45:29 am
content: A cheeky girl caught sleeping on my ankle.She knows basic phrases, all of the ring tones and message tones in the house, the microwave, the smoke alarm, the TV jingle,Nice to walk out your door every morning and have "Good morning!" called out to you.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2019, 11:56:21 pm
content: "Vermin" are vermin only when they get into the wrong place (food storage, insulation, indoors), or are too numerous, unbalancing the ecosystem or carrying disease.Years ago, a family of stoats lived in a stone hedge only meters of my mom's house. (This is north of the Arctic Circle, by the way.) Because mom is a keen potato and veggie farmer, there was an abundance of bank voles, and the stoats kept the population in check. Way before that, we used to have a dog, a Finnish Spitz, that took care of the task. (They have an affinity for catching voles, mice, and especially squirrels.) Currently, mom has been using battery-operated thumpers in the veggie plots, which seem to drive the voles away.The bank voles there do carry the Puumala orthohantavirus (haemorrhagic fever), but it is fatal in less than 0.5% of cases, and the typical transmission vector is via dust from droppings. So, mostly you just need to remember to wear a mask when sweeping or cleaning storage areas.I find the bank voles quite cute, almost as cute as shrews (which aren't rodents) of the Sorex genus. The mouse in GlennSpriggs picture looks very much like a bank vole to me, except for the ear shape maybe.

author: Yansi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2019, 12:02:01 am
content: Please post cats here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/post-a-picture-of-a-cat!//EDIT: URL corrected.

author: Gregg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2019, 02:34:29 am
content: Here's Bucky who became a regular pest for about a week; not at all afraid of me.First pic is from about 2 meters away, he is nibbling on maple leaves. The second is about ten seconds after I tried to stop him from trying out his new sharp antlers on the front bumper of my truck. I warned him that he better head to the hills before hunting season started or he would certainly become venison. He might have understood because two days before hunting season started he disappeared.

author: Yansi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2019, 09:41:26 am
content: Quote from: Nominal Animal on October 05, 2019, 12:30:26 amSorry, I did not screw up, forum did. The link was working correctly (I have checked) before pasting. But corrected now, thanks for pointing out. It certainly does not like the exclamation mark at the end.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2019, 01:18:13 pm
content: This idiot stays with me occasionally:

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2019, 10:37:40 am
content: Western Australia has a State-Wide 'Pet', being a Cow called 'Knickers'It was going to be slaughtered, but the Abattoir said it would not be able to process it !!So right now, it is being moved to the South West of W.A. not far from me, to live out it's days...(This is 'not' a joke)...

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 21, 2019, 10:19:46 pm
content: Quote from: CJay on October 05, 2019, 01:18:13 pmBut you love him I'm sure!

author: orion242
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 22, 2019, 02:04:19 am
content: First line of defense protecting the basement lair, and less than excited to wake for photo.Keeping hair out of anything in the lab is an issue with this model, but its sure effective lol.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2019, 06:45:00 pm
content: Don't let the innocent look fool you.

author: Johnboy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2019, 12:06:55 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on October 05, 2019, 04:26:10 amYou mean DNR, but I had the same thought. Hopefully the little guy read the newspaper and caught the first train to Albuquerque.

author: takahidehimself
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2019, 11:43:03 am
content: Got way too many to mention all by species name (genus perhaps) but they all belong to the arachnid and reptile classes. Still married since 2011http://instagram.com/takahidehimself/<-- some pics, mostly of the pets

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2019, 11:46:31 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on October 21, 2019, 10:19:46 pmWell of course.He's still an idiot and he's going to become a *large* idiot

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2019, 08:38:00 pm
content: links

author: hermit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2019, 12:16:42 am
content: Mine died.

author: Gregg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2019, 12:49:22 am
content: Quote from: hermit on October 25, 2019, 12:16:42 amIt isn't politically correct to force your pets to smoke

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2020, 03:02:52 pm
content: We are picking up one of these squirmy things in a few weeks (the white one with brownish/black spots). The mother is a rescued mutt and the father is unknown. Surprise, surprise?

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2020, 03:29:13 pm
content: Do grand-dogs count?At his proudest... and after a heavy night!EDIT: Images re-loaded after one turned into a datasheet page. Forum broken!

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2020, 04:35:29 pm
content: Quote from: Fraser on September 28, 2019, 02:43:47 pmIn Europe, I agree, as they're part of our ecosystem, but they're not native to Austrailia, where they shoul be killed, if cought. It wouldn't surprise me if it's against the law over there to release mice into the wild.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2020, 06:58:36 pm
content: Tarantula (spider) migrations are just like that.Spectacularly seen at Chaco Culture National Historic Park near Nageezi, NM.Quote from: GlennSprigg on October 04, 2019, 11:37:23 am

author: Chris42
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2020, 01:39:45 pm
content: No one has mentioned the official EEVblog lab mascot yet:

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2020, 05:48:23 pm
content: Sometimes they don't want to go outside.But what's the alternative?

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2020, 05:49:55 pm
content: Until she bit his head off and ate him? Or laid her eggs in him. (Spiders do things like that)Quote from: Cyberdragon on September 28, 2019, 10:37:30 pm

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 29, 2020, 08:28:45 am
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on October 21, 2019, 10:37:40 amnatural selection!

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2020, 09:38:48 am
content: Quote from: Zero999 on July 27, 2020, 04:35:29 pmAussie imported foxes to control the mice in their grain regions and then had problems with foxes robbing new born lambs.So now a small population of foxes is desirable to control rodents but not so great they get hungry for lamb.Gorgeous wee mutts they are too with beautiful pelts and long fluffy tails just like Basil himself !

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2020, 01:50:11 pm
content: QuoteUse a broom?I am happy that we in good old Europe dont have such enormous Spiders.

author: not1xor1
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2020, 04:16:21 pm
content: a few years ago I foundthis nice spiderin my vegetable gardenthis looks like it came out of an "Alien" movie series