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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (1186)	7/20/2001 4:15:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1857

Thanks, guys, for any comfort you can bring me here. Well, I can't say that I've ever had one in my bed, but I did have one crawl up my pant leg once. On the outside, not the inside. The pants were brown gabardine with a wide leg, so perhaps that looked a bit like a tree trunk. When I freaked and flapped my arms at it, I guess it realized that tree branches don't move like that. The whole episode was over in a couple of seconds, unlike your experience, and it occurred out of doors, unlike your experience. So it's probably not of much comfort. But I tried. I recommend the therapy. I didn't do that and I regret it to this day. I rarely walk out of my home and see a squirrel without flinching a bit. Karen

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (1186)	7/20/2001 10:18:18 PM
From: daffodil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1857

So I just need to know how many of you have had the same experience. Say within the last week. It is going to make me feel a lot better to know that its most everyone. Oh my, JC, I've had a similar experience, of waking up early several mornings to the sight and sound of a starling flying around the bedroom (with the cats going crazy). My battle with the starlings is still ongoing, but I feel blessed when I hear the stories of friends who've had poor creatures die in the walls of their house... So the way I figure it is that you and I should give thanks every time we find live creatures running across our pillow and flapping around our heads. Open the door or window and bye-bye!!! So much better than the deathly alternative :( }=>-------->>>>

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (1186)	7/21/2001 7:46:19 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1857

Oh my gosh, JC. You have just activated my intense phobia of rodents with your very funny story. I can just imagine two large dogs crawling all over each other to get at a little squirrel. They must've been a sight! My skin is is crawling, though. Please reassure me that anything that dirty creature may have touched has been thoroughly cleaned. Incinerated, even! Have the dogs been bathed? Their teeth brushed? Has the carpeting been replaced? Not to mention the bedspread and the bowl. EWWW! I wonder how it got in. Perhaps through the chimney? I'll have you know I just went and checked the flues on my chimneys. Rodents are just the creepiest things on the planet. First and foremost is the rat, that smelly, greasy disease-spreading hub of rodentdom. Then there's the mouse, smaller but just about the pooping-est dirtiest critter I can think of. Then comes the squirrel, which, in my bizarre phobic hierarchy, is a chattering rat with a bushy tail. On the outside of the hub are gerbils, ferrets, and rabbits. Who cares if they're not technically rodents? They're small and furry and freak me out! End of rant. Seriously, JC, that was a pleasure to read. A Sauna classic. Is your wife OK?