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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 11:43 AM
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What kind of critters have entered your house through the pet door?
The only thing that ever came into our house besides the cat was a raccoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXx4vXFESek&feature=player_embedded
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:09 PM
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1. OMG!! Not what I expected.
Real or faked, that's hilarious!

You've seen the raccoon vid, I'm sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgIYhq2VtCA
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:16 PM
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2. The only critters that come through ours are the dogs.
With 5 dogs no other critter would even think of trying to come in.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:55 PM
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3. Racoons, oppossums, and skunks...
have all made their way through the cat door. That I live in San Francisco makes it a touch odd. :D

Last night around 1:30, I woke up to the sounds of an animal fight on my doorstep. Went downstairs and opened the door to two skunks having at each other with a vengence! It took a millisecond to stop staring and shut the damn door before I got spritzed with au du Pepe!!

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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:00 PM
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4. How cute! No strange animals have entered through my doggie door.
My dog sees to that.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:13 PM
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6. San Francisco has tons of skunks
I was once outside trying to see a comet and when i brought my head down towards the horizon i saw a skunk looking right up at me :wtf: :scared:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:15 PM
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7. Really.
So what you are saying is that you are really Pepe Le Pew.....:rofl:
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:53 PM
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9. I live outside the county
:spank: :P
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:16 PM
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8. I see skunks all over the place. Too bad they are stinky because
they sure are cute!
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:54 PM
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10. Well he was cute I have to admit
especially with him standing right next to me looking up at me.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 02:08 PM
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5. I've seen a video of a skunk coming through someone's cat door
and eating the cat food! Its pretty funny. A very smart skunk...
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 03:03 PM
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11. Yep, raccoons come through my cat door
The deer so far have remained outside.
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 03:09 PM
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12. nothing through the doggy door..... well except me
I got a little drunk one night and lost my keys... my neighbor with the spare was sleeping so I stuck myself as far as I could through the doggy door and unlocked the door.
Woke up the next day with bruises on my legs and arms


:hi:

lost
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 03:14 PM
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13. A baby.
Next door neighbor's baby boy followed the cat into our house. He was so cute.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 03:56 PM
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14. No pet door here.
Rabbits have entered by the front door. The were domestic rabbits.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 04:13 PM
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15. no pet door but we have really shitty old screen doors so we have a lot of guests
ants, centipedes, lizards, birds, snakes - garter's mostly but had a newly hatched rattler once (that my youngest son picked up and was bitten by), mice and rats including a kangaroo rat a year or so ago, squirrels and skunks.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:31 PM
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16. We don't have a pet door. Our critters come in the chimney.
Birds, Raccoons, Squirrels.

Hmmm, I wonder if one of those chimney screen thingies would do any good ...
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:33 PM
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17. Chimney cap/spark guard is a very good thing.
We had the issue with squirrels. Spark guard installed, problem solved.

mikey_the_rat
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