We like our critters outside. My main pets are Western Box Turtles: Tillery, Tucker, Tate, Tryalor, and Thomas. Am grandmother to second set of twin doves born on nest on my front porch. Have squirrel, camelians, gecko ... Shannon
Said, "say cheese", and took his picture. Actually I moved the box because yardman had come to mow the yard. I was not brave enough to deal with snake. Went ahead and moved car. While I was moving my car snake disappeared. I know he is not poisonous but am not at all happy going outside. The snake was within three feet of my back door. Shannon
El Paso, Texas. Found a dead tarantula on the driveway yesterday..but it'll get squishy if I try to scan and post.
All desert areas are like that in near mountains.. we have scorpions/snakes/spiders here in Az.. but not in the city... only near the base of the mountains, etc.
Dude, I know deserts...... I live in Palm Springs but we don't get too much here. When I used to live on a golf course we got all kinds of critters.
Oh you mean like camping. Here is one of our kitties ... his name is MC Chris. Named after mc chris the "rapper" for his high pitched voice. Other pics of our cats can be found in our Cats in Action photo gallery.
LOL Nah...I actually meant she's somewhere between frighteningly intellegent and a completely insane spazz.
We tell our guests not to go barefoot in our home... keeps them from staying too long. LOL We get around 3-5 scorpions inside per year, but we live as high as you can drive up Lookout Mountain, priuce we pay to have over 180 degree views of mountains and city lights. Our neighbor's dog was bit by a five foot long rattle snake and live to bark again. That's pretty amazing, they saw the snake leaving when they heard their dog yelping and took him to the vet immediately. His yelping is the only thing that saved his butt, 'cause if they didn't hear that they may never have known and he could've easily died out there. We have coyotes, havelina, all kinds of snakes, jack rabbit's that look like small dogs, regular rabbits, scorps, and more... but they do not come after you. You have to step on one or chase after a desert creature to get it to mess with you. So, it's safe here. We've always owned hillside homes, but this is the first where most of our one acre yard is natural Sonoran Desert and next to such a large preserve. Well over three years at this house and no one has been bit by even a scorp. My dog and cat adn healty and happy, and we even have a Sonoran Desert Tortoise that we rescued when he was the size of a silver dollar looked dead. Now he is way bigger than my hand (and I'm 6'2") and lives outside in his little habitat we made for him. If I don't get too slammed with real estate clients, I'll snap a shot of him in his habitat and post it here.