What animals in your area freak you out the most?

we don't get many nasty things here but we have seen some coyotes roaming through our neighborhoods and that makes me uneasy....
 
#1 - Mountain Lions, I've never had an encounter myself, but have had nightmares about them since I was a little girl. Even though I am afraid of running into one when we're out & about in the mountains, I actually hope that when (because it will happen someday) I do cross paths, I have my camera and awesome lens to get some portraits of the dang thing.

Snakes and Mice, they are tied at a close runner up... just nasty & creepy & crawly and gross.

I live in 'town' (which is technically on of the 9 incorporated cities in our county) with 1300 other people, and we get an occasional wild animal in town. A couple months ago there was a bear roaming the streets, I have a herd of deer that basically live in my backyard. When I was a kid (11-12ish) there were 2 Mt Lion cubs in a tree between our house & the neighbors, my little brother was 4 or 5 & walked right under them :/
 
Bears, wolves, and strangely...deer. When they have babies nearby they can be very aggressive here; attacking people and dogs.
 
Rattlesnakes. Then coyotes (because they hunt and eat your pets!). We have mountain lions supposedly, but they are rarely seen.

We had an enormous black tarantula right at our front door the other night. I'm not really scared of tarantulas, but this thing was creepy!
 
Well I think Iowa is pretty boring. We have deer and we probably have bears and snakes. But I get the most creeped out by spiders and other bugs. Especially if they are in my house. Ugh. Oh - and we also have raccoons - which I discovered when throwing away the garbage the first week we moved to our new house! That had me VERY surprised!!!

BTW - I had no idea what a fisher cat was - so thank you Traci for asking!
 
For me its the 1 ft wide furry tarantulas and the rattle snakes I'm not fond of. Okieland is full of scary things.
 
Um... teenagers?
lol

Even though we live in the middle of a little city (like we just got made a city a few years ago, lol) so other than skunks and opossums we don't see much on the wild animal front. For real our biggest worry is local teens since we live right next to the high school. We've had those idiots speeding through and around our streets and our freaking yard. And they're loud. They make me feel like a crotchety old man.
 
crecia27 said:
Armadillos! They are just gross!! :blink:
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oh my gosh, I think they're adorable ( well unless they're flat on the side of the road ) ;)

There are a lot of critters around here and a lot that are poisonous/dangerous but honestly the only things that ever freak me out are cockroaches. I also had a few mice once years ago and it took me a long time to recover from that, once they cross over into living quarters I. just. can't.....
 
Can I say spiders??? Those are the only animals I have regular contact with and I think they are the worst!! eep!

We don't really have a lot of poisonous ones, but living here in the suburbs thats probably the biggest threat in the animal department... or if it isn't I would really rather not know...
 
1. Roaches - CAN'T stand them...but we don't have them here like we did in FL with the palmetto bug - which is a fancy name for roach

2. Snakes - I can deal with king snakes...cause they eat the evil venomous snakes but we have a lot of cottonheads/cottonmouths

3. Deer - because they like to run out in front of my car - I've totaled one (car and deer) :( and hit another
 
Squirrels. Yeesh! They are rats with furry tails. They really creep me out. Our rural community is full of them. They scavenge for seeds and nuts and destroy everything in their path. I cannot stand the sound of their claws prancing along the fence or on the roof. They jump from the fence to our house and it makes my skin crawl to think of one getting inside. EEP!
 
Keely~B said:
oh my gosh, I think they're adorable ( well unless they're flat on the side of the road ) ;)

There are a lot of critters around here and a lot that are poisonous/dangerous but honestly the only things that ever freak me out are cockroaches. I also had a few mice once years ago and it took me a long time to recover from that, once they cross over into living quarters I. just. can't.....
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I'd take 2 armadillos over 1 little roach any day of the week!! They are the only thing that can make me scream like a little girl! :o
 
um. spiders... we don't have big ones. only cutesy small spiders. these are the worst thing here. sorry for not having something horrifying to say. the mid-europe is pretty safe.
 
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