What next, Jaws?

@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
June 22, 2010 10:38am CST
Last week we had a scare. Dearra had grabbed her shoes, which she keeps inside the garage, and was putting them on when something moved. She screamed and said "mom, I think there's a centipede inside my shoe." So I opened the window, grabbed the shoe and dumped it upside down out the window. Nothing. So I looked inside. Nothing. So I said, "there's nothing in there." And that is when it decided to crawl out and have a look at me. I screamed and tossed the shoe out the window. As soon as it hit the ground, the centipede (it was a 2 - 3 inch long centipede) beat a hasty retreat under the car. Dearra doesn't keep her shoes there any more. :D So today I was upstairs getting dressed and Naomi comes up and says, "mom, the crayfish is in my shoe and Cary's getting the net to put it back into the tank." What the heck? So I go downstairs and here comes Cary with the net. The crayfish is in the corner where Naomi's shoes were and I say to Cary, "you know how to pick it up without getting pinched, so why don't you do that?" "NO! I'm using the net." "Here, I'll do it." So I get the crayfish in the net and dump it back in the tank. Durn thing used the tank partition, the one we use to keep it away from the goldfish, to climb up. Whoever it was here who told me that crayfish escape was right on! Cary is now telling me that it is time to release the crayfish into the creek. What will we find in somebody's shoes next time, a shark?
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• Malaysia
22 Jun 10
haha...that little crayfish dude actually made it all the way out. they do tend to do that sometimes...they like to crawl about. i do recall someone pointing it out in your 'partitions' discussion. anyway, stay away from the toilets.. alligators might jump out when you least expect it
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
This isn't alligator country, but we do have bullfrogs...
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
I doubt they will come all the way up the hill to bother us...
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• Malaysia
22 Jun 10
then careful of the bullfrogs. they're full of bull sometimes..
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@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
22 Jun 10
I don't know how a centipede would taste, but i won't try it. May we open the sushi bar now?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
One crayfish won't make much of a sushi bar...
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
I think she was trying to get to the goldfish and went the wrong way. The goldfish is still alive and well.
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@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
22 Jun 10
I told you to get another one, didn't i? And what about the goldfish?
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• Australia
23 Jun 10
Hi Dawn. When we had the cane farm, hubby always left his work shoes on the back patio. He would always "bump" them before putting them on because there was very often a frog or a cane toad in them. He would just bump them out and put the shoe on. I think I would want them sterilised first!
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• Australia
23 Jun 10
I believe they can emit a liquid which has an effect, but I've never heard of anyone dying or being seriously affected by cane toads. The young people in our youth group had a toad race every year. They "dressed" their toads and race them. There were prizes for best dressed, biggest, ugliest etc. All the toads were put under a box in the centre of a large circle. When the box was lifted, the first one to cross the circle was the winner.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
Yuck, cane toads are poisonous, aren't they?
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
I don't think they're so much harmful to people as to animals that eat them. Races, why not? We have our Calaveras county jumping frog contest not too far south of here!
@marguicha (223802)
• Chile
22 Jun 10
Hi dawn, Wasn´t that crayfish the one Cary got at school? Maybe it´s time to hand it back where it belongs. You have quite a lot to worry without looking at the creek for a shark or at your doorstep for a tiger. I never thought it was a good idea to leave shoes anywhere, not even at Christmas. They look like houses to too many critters.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
The girls are even worse at leaving their socks lying around. One of these days I am either going to make a mobile with them, or make them buy them back from me. But yea, it's the crayfish he got from school. I think it would be happy in the creek, don't you?
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
I have such a box on unmatched sox, you have no idea!
@marguicha (223802)
• Chile
22 Jun 10
The worst thing about socks is that they tend to appear as one instead of a pair. At least, that was my experience when the girlsd were growing. I alwayd wondered if they were hungry and ate one sock as a snack Yup, crayfish and creek go together!
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• United States
22 Jun 10
No sharks but watch out for those snakes. We had a neighbor that went out to the shed to get a shovel and reached down to pick up a "weed" off the floor. Wasn't a weed, it was a copper head about 8 inches long. He got bit on the hand and had to go to the hospital for anti veneom shots. So if it moves check it twice the kids aren't seeing things - they promise. LOL
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
We don't have copperheads, but we do have rattlers. We just killed one in the front yard last week. But the backyard has snake fencing, so hopefully we won't see any more back there.
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@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Jun 10
What the heck is snake fencing?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
Think of a chain link fence, but the mesh is much smaller, you fasten it to the bottom of your fence and bury the bottom a couple inches into the ground and snakes can't get through.
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@mbeka30 (11)
• United States
23 Jun 10
here in texas, we call them crawdads. and i just love sitting outside on my porch during an all day or all night storm, those things come up out of the holes and start having fights right up on my porch. LMAO i live in public housing, my porch is concrete. but when it floods so bad that the crawdads come up for a fight... lmao with me living in the city, i haven't caught many insects in strange places. but when i used to live out in the woods, once i had these kittens... they were so cute! anyways, they were old enough to horseplay ... (i called them teens) and they found a frog to torment and play with, under the steps. well, i tried to move the kittens, and the poor frog out from under the steps, just in case the board of the last 2 steps gave way, they wouldn't get hurt. i grabbed an old tire and placed it beside the step. i heard a hiss, but didn't see anything, so i placed the kittens in there, and then i placed the frog some where safe. before i could stand up, i hear hissings from the kittens, the momma cat comes over and yells, and then i finally see it... a copperhead. you know that saying, if it was a snake it might have bitten ya? LMAO well, i was close. the snake was hiding in the tire. strangely enough, i didn't wake it up from it's beauty sleep until i sat the tire down. then when i put the kittens inside, it thought it was safe to go back to sleep, until one of the kittens started playing with it. it's a great thing the snake didn't bite me... the nearest hospital would have been almost 45 minutes away. i never again picked up anymore big black tires. ha ha ha
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
OH yikes, how scary. I'm glad it didn't bite you. And it didn't bite the kittens either? That would have freaked me out...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
Oh that's sad (cat lover here)...
• United States
23 Jun 10
i lost 2 of the kittens and the momma cat, but the snake had a lovely ending, i grabbed the bush ax.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
23 Jun 10
Well it depends on where the shoes are kept to be worn at the next time.Anywhere near by the great whites they sure would take shelter in those shoes. The word spread fast among animals about the notoriety of your shoes.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
23 Jun 10
Jaws is going to be disappointed.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
Hey, my feet aren't that big!
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
24 Jun 10
Lol Dawn I have to laugh at this and poor Dearra it seems to be hers all the time Reminds me of the time when my Daughter put her shoes on and found a Frog in there we had a flying Shoe a flying frog and 4 leaping Cats wow what a fun morning that was lol
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jun 10
Now that's a visual. At least a frog is more interesting than a centipede...
@34momma (13882)
• United States
23 Jun 10
WTF is going on over at your house Dawnald?? LOL LOL i had no idea that crayfish did that... that would so totally freak me out!! I mean really that is just crazy to me.... centipedes are just gross all by themselves... i am not scared of bugs.. but i seriously don't like those nasty things!! You never know, a shark just might be next... be alrert! LOL LOL
@34momma (13882)
• United States
23 Jun 10
OMG!!! i sure hope not..LOL
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
I don't know, but I sure hope critters in shoes don't come in threes...
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@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Jun 10
A shark in a shoe? Quick! Call the media! Everyone knows they don't wear shoes, just suits... sharkskin suits, of course...
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@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Jun 10
The shoe wearer must have awfully sweaty feet then...
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
Not wearing the shoe, lurking in the shoe waiting to attack!
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
23 Jun 10
oh my goodness. its a good thing you dont live in arizona though. some places, even in the city have lots of scorpion outbreaks. so people often get stung in their homes and such if they dont watch it. when i lived over in glendale in this one mobile park, we had to watch everything for scorpions. i woke up with one on my foot one morning, felt something moving on my toe, opened my eyes and kicked it off before it could sting me. it was kind of funny, cause my late hubby always slept naked. he jumped up and was trying to swat it with a towel and kill it. but watching him jump around the room. made me laugh so hard. have you ever seen a naked man jumping around all over after something? i mean not chasing you... bending over looking under stuff, etc,
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jun 10
My brother-in-law lives in Arizona and we've seen a few scorpions when visiting them. Yech...
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
23 Jun 10
I would keep everyone’s shoes in a cupboard if I were you! The escaping crayfish reminded me of the crazy crab that got away...We often look after my daughter’s little friend’s crazy crabs and it is difficult enough to keep our cats away from them until the crabs who are indeed mental manage an escape because someone (who is probably eight years old and cute) left the tank open! The last time the household came to a standstill until the escapee was recaptured I was so worried somebody was going to step on him!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
hermit crabs?
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
24 Jun 10
Yeah, we call them crazy crabs becasue the kids paint the shells for them bright colours.
@hexeduser22 (7418)
• Philippines
23 Jun 10
If you see me inside your shoe next then I guess you wont be surprised instead you'll freak out Imagine seeing a mini me inside your shoe
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
Yikes, are those stars pointy?
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
I will be checking shoes from this "point" forward...
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• Philippines
23 Jun 10
round edges.....but poison tipped poison effect: See a hundred lambs in 0.01 seconds
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@yresh12 (3212)
• Philippines
24 Jun 10
HI dAWNw, tHAT MUSt be pretty stressful for you. you know kids lots of imagination maybe your kids did it. LOL.. Goodluck
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jun 10
methinks not... My brothers probably would have!
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
22 Jun 10
YUK I think the cray fish is ready for the creek, he's got his pinchers back... tho, round these parts we call them "cra-dads." ewww, centipede!!! I remember seeing some out at camp when I was a kid, but happily I haven't seen any lately. Or scorpions either, got stung by one of those - YIKES!!!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
Yea, born free, as free as the creek flows... lol We don't have scorpions (that I know of), thank goodness!
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
22 Jun 10
Maybe something small like a mouse.....they like to snuggle up in shoes! But don't worry...they are warm and fuzzy! LOL
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jun 10
I'd certainly prefer a mouse to a centipede.. Or a crayfish...
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
23 Jun 10
Hi, dawnald. I hope that you never find Jaws in your shoes at all! I don't like any pesky pests around my things at all! I am so scared of things that are slimy and that crawls. I am glad that you saw it and got it out of Dearra's shoes.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
Yeah that was creepy. I'm not much of a screamer, but when a centipede is coming at me out of a shoe, yikes!
@piya84 (2580)
• India
23 Jun 10
haha that was funny.dawnald.You may not find jaw but how about cockroach or a nice green grasshopper?Spider will do as well i think.Just kidding.It seems shoe is favorite place for many animals.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
No thanks... :D
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
23 Jun 10
Reminds me of a day in high school when the sweepers/cleaners didn't do their job in cleaning the room and the next day our teacher was fuming mad over the clutter, dusty windows and topsy-turvy arrangement of the chairs. A classmate of mine screamed because a gecko managed to enter the classroom through the window and now it was on the wall right next to her. Instead of sympathizing with her, our teacher told us she wouldn't be surprised if the next animal we'd see in the room, due to our irresponsibility was a crocodile!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 10
coming out of the toilet maybe...
@much2say (56087)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Jun 10
Welcome to Dawn's Wild Animal Park - hee hee! I actually wish we had some neat critters out here like you do up there! Well, maybe not to find them in our shoes though - hee hee. And why are these critters being found in shoes?? Are they like shell homes - like for hermit crabs? Even my sister says her cats like shoes. Well, if you do find a shark - be sure and count your toes - hee hee!!
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