• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I have one like this, she’s having fun. It’s to the point where I don’t even kill roaches anymore, I just wish them luck and find their corpse in the morning. One time she ripped the tail off a skink, but he got away and hid for like 3 days until I found him and let him outside lol.

  • toynbee@lemmy.world
    41·
    12 hours ago

    My cats once got in a fight with a praying mantis in an old townhouse.

    I’d seen praying mantisses before but this one was a. in my home and b. large enough to be genuinely a little intimidating. The cats won, but it took a long time because they were being more cautious than usual.

  • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    I once woke up in the middle of the night to see my cat straight up jump onto a vertical wall, strike a house centipede, and then eat half of it. I found the legs on the desk in the morning…

  • Ananääs@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    16 hours ago

    I didn’t know we had centipedes that would come inside before living in a flat that was half way in a basement. Also didn’t know a colony of silverfish was a thing. Centipedes, who obviously were in for a buffet, were nothing compared to that silvery fishy horror that I discovered rustling under the floor cover of my dog’s food bowls at midnight. Didn’t live there long after that.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Fuck this whole thread. Triggering the fuck out of my “throw phone at the speed of light” response.

      • e0qdk@reddthat.com
        6·
        18 hours ago

        Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:

        (Image from Wikipedia – article is here)

        You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys…

      • Lena@gregtech.eu
        4·
        18 hours ago

        I’m evacuating the house and burning it down if I ever see that

      • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        21 hours ago

        What other bug has cool matching stripes on all 55 of its flesh-creep-inducing legs? I both like and shiver at them.

  • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    23 hours ago

    That is enough “work” to earn their keep for the rest of their life right?