What animal are you irrationally afraid of?

[eeyore]

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the opossum. For some reason they scare the shit out of me.

I once watched that Lisa Bonet movie Angel Heart, which is all about voodoo. Afterwards found an opossum sitting on my bed - I had left a sliding glass door open. I nearly shat myself right there and then.

I'm not sure what freaks me out more, the pink eyes or the gnashing teeth.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. bats

one got in my house when I was 8 and terrified me for a couple of hours until the neighbor killed it with a shovel... in the bathroom. He also broke the mirror and the glass towel rods. (old victorian house)

I can laugh now, but I have hated them ever since. Mammals shouldn't fly. It's unnatural. The only thing worse would be a flying snake.

[eeyore]

4. My wife loves bats!

She's conviced me to put up a bat house on the side of our house. I know they'll eat all of the mosquitoes, but they look like flying rats to me.

I did see some at the zoo over the weekend, though, and they were pretty cute with glass in between us.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. Oh. Dear. God.

A bat house.


I'd rather have mosquitos.

[Lochloosa]

135. You have plenty of those in Tally...

:evilgrin:

[lady raven]

86. They only bother me when inside my house.

I was totally freaked when a bat got in my house last summer, but if they aren't in my house they don't bother me.

[XemaSab]

105. Last summer I came home around midnight from a

totally useless evening of owling near my house.

Owling is an inherently freaky pastime, especially alone.

So I get home, and I'm already a bit rattled from going out into the woods alone and listening for noises.

I go in my apartment and I flip on the light in the living room and everything's good.

I go in my DARK bedroom and A BAT FLIES OUT RIGHT IN MY FACE.

And the kicker is, I was totally expecting it, ya know? The scene was already SO freaky that something popping out in my face just HAD to happen. :P

[nutsnberries]

122. bats in the house freak me out.

I appreciate bats and what they do, but i've had about 5 *in the house* experiences.
The first one was when I was about 15 and when I turned on the light in my room because I heard something, it was flying right at me. My scream had my parents flying in the room in seconds, convinced I was being killed. Another bad experience was when someone was in a shut room with a bat trying to swat at it to get it out... I approached the room and saw the bat coming from under the door. :scared:

As long as they stay outside... I'm ok.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

128. I've seen them fly under doors, too!

Totally creepy. Like you can run but you just can't hide.

I really don't mind them outside because they stay away from you.

I'd rather have a snake on the floor than a bat in the house. With a snake you can at least stand on a table or something.

[Major Hogwash]

2. Beavers

They're big, and fat, and they can chew down a tree!
They swim under water and they can live in fast rivers.

Besides all that, they have really big, sharp pointy teeth!

[flvegan]

8. I love the beaver.

No, really...I do.

[Dave Reynolds]

15. Thank you.

It had to be said.

:thumbsup:

[GoneOffShore]

96. so did Sartre

He loved the Beaver.

[Jamastiene]

112. I second that.

I love beaver too. :thumbsup: :evilgrin: :P

[eeyore]

12. This cuddly little thing?

[zanne]

130. Horses.

They're so big and nervous! I'm afraid to go near one in case they panic and step on my feet!

[Beaverhausen]

23. Hey!

What's not to like?

[djeseru]

3. I don't know if this counts...

...but I can't stand palmetto bugs, irrationally. I can handle any other type of insect, just not those. :scared:

[eeyore]

7. One of these?

I gather you wouldn't like to do this with a palmetto bug.

[djeseru]

53. I believe it's called...

..."coming unglued." Yep, that's my typical reaction to them. Sometimes I even scream like a girl.

[Xipe Totec]

20. I'm with you on this one.

Did you know they can fly?

I found that out, as a boy, when I heard some rustling coming from under the dead fronds of a palmetto tree. I thought it might be a bird's nest so I went and lifted the frond to see.

The trunk of the palmetto tree was crawling with hundreds of palmetto bugs and as soon as the light hit them they took flight in a swarm...

... I was surrounded by a buzzing cloud of palmetto bugs as I ran down the street in a blind panic.

Long after I left the cloud behind, I was still running, and ran until my liver felt as if it was about to explode.

I collapsed on a neighbor's front yard.

Do I fear palmetto bugs?

You bet!

:scared:

[djeseru]

58. Jeez, you gave me shivers!

OMG, it's like you just can't move fast enough! I had already become irrational towards them, but my mom made it worse when she told me they flew. :scared:

I just moved from a place where I was having to deal with them on a daily basis - aaaaaggghhhhh!

[TimeChaser]

54. Aren't palmetto bugs just glorified cockroaches?

[djeseru]

59. Yes, glorified roaches - complete agreement.

And that's how I refer to them to their faces, er, carapaces.

[Jade Fox]

76. Glorified.......and BIG

Giant cockroaches. That's what I call 'em.

[LeftyMom]

71. OMG, I hate palmetto bugs.

I was in this nasty laundrymat in South Carolina once (really long story what I was doing there) and one came out from under a washing machine and I swear to god the washing machine moved a bit.

:scared:

[djeseru]

72. OMG, yes, the washing machines.

That's where my most-recent living nightmares had taken up residence. I cringed everytime I had to walk by them.

:scared:

[Greylyn58]

79. I'm with you on palmetto bugs

I get them from time to time in my apartment and I breakout in a cold sweat whenever I do. I can't stand spiders either, but these bugs just give me the heebee jeebees. I just had a run in with one in my bathroom about two weeks ago.

I sprayed the big sucker after calming down then smashed it and tossed it out the door. My dislike is so bad I can't stand for them to even be in my trashcans after I kill them.

EEeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!

[Duer 157099]

5. homo sapians, particularly the bush variety

but that's not an irrational fear then is it?

[no name no slogan]

6. clowns

[purr]

125. me too.. its bad

I cant go to carnivals or take the kids to a circus because I'm scared of those beasts. :scared:

[no name no slogan]

127. Can't sleep, clown will eat me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_sleep,_clown_will_eat_me

[LynzM]

9. Spiders, particularly tarantulas

I know they're good and they eat bugs and such, and I don't mind watching documentaries on them, but something about the way they move is *not good* to me...

[NaturalHigh]

44. Me too.

I'm not nearly as terrified as I used to be, but I still don't like them. I will, however, try to get them out of the house without killing them. That wouldn't have happened when I was younger.

[LynzM]

49. Same here

I've progressed to the point where most of them are removed without harm or help... much improved over 10 or even 5 years ago!

[thefool_wa]

46. Me too

and they don't have to be all that big to freak me out. I don't run like a little girl (anymore), but seeing one larger than a half inch or so across will give me a shiver.

I'm over 30, it feels kinda pathetic to still have this rabid subconscious fear of spiders, but there it is.

[LynzM]

50. LOL, I know, right?

Like, I'm a grownup, dammit. This shouldn't bother me! :hug:

[xmas74]

57. Scared to death of spiders.

I can handle almost anything else.

I was bitten by one a number of years back on the face and the whole area swelled up immediately. Shots were given, blahblahblah and now I hate them.

I instantly jump up and smash them whenever I see one, for fear of being bitten again.

[LynzM]

65. Ooh, I don't think yours is an irrational fear

:scared: Yikes, dude. Glad you're ok. :hug:

[xmas74]

70. It really sucked.

And it is a bit irrational. I don't have to viciously attack all spiders like I do.

It's just one big freakout.

[Greylyn58]

82. I never thought much about spiders until

I had a run in with one. When I was much younger, my best friend and I had been out late one night and she dropped me off at home. As she waited for me to go inside, I walked up on the porch. My mom had a habit of leaving the porch light on, but this night she had forgotten to do so.

As I came up the steps, I walked face first into a very large web. Luckily the moon was out and it helped light up the area. Out of the corner of my eye. I saw a large spider come down the web at me. I started screaming like a banshee--slapping and brushing at my face thinking it was on me. The spider was one of those big black and yellow ones (a writing spider)the ones that build those big circular webs.

Well I ran into the middle of the yard, still screaming and brushing at my face and clothes. My girl friend came running thinking I was being attacked. My mom heard me and flipped on the light.

Anyway, turns out the spider was still hanging from what was left of its web. Since then I can't stand spiders.

[xmas74]

85. I was cleaning out spiderwebs

and the spider landed on my face, biting me on my upper lip. My upper lip swelled up so fast that it covered my nostrils in a matter of a few minutes.

Damn I hate spiders!

[supernova]

10. Large Dogs

I just don't enjoy being barked at. :shrug:

Plus that whole dom/sub thing they have going on just doesn't do anything for me. I'd rather have a cat. They're quite and it's a friendship of equals.

[eeyore]

17. My friend has one of these

A bullmastiff. Her name is Beatrice, and I get to take care of her sometimes. She likes to sit in my lap and cuddle. One of the sweetest dogs I've ever met.

[supernova]

24. LOL!

I'm glad that's just a picture!

:scared: :scared:

[flvegan]

30. Looks like an English. What a beauty!

Funny...the bigger the dog, the friendlier overall they tend to be. I've had Great Danes most of my life. Never an issue. And mastiffs...take the Neopolitan. Famous for letting the burglar in, but not letting him out. Patient confidence in these dogs for sure.

[Withywindle]

83. OMG! My parents have one of those!

She weighs more than I do, and is as tall as my dad (6'4") when she stands up on her hind legs.

The worst part? She drools like you would not believe.

No, the REAL worst part? She thinks she's a lap dog.

She really is a sweetheart, though, and SO smart.

[lady raven]

89. The biggest dogs always think they're lap dogs

Our border collie mix (He looks like a classic bc, but he's HUGE- over 100 pounds) thinks HE'S a lap dog too. OUCH!

[Catfight]

11. Snakes

[flvegan]

13. Spiders and sharks.

I've never been bitten by either one. Little spiders are no big deal. However, if I can see you from across the room, thou art too big, and must leave my area. Sharks? Yeah, I just stay out of the water.

[eeyore]

22. Dude, don't you live in Florida?

Do you never go into the ocean?

[flvegan]

28. I know, I know

Thankfully, the beaches I go to are "less frequented" by sharks that need to be worried about. There's usually a season that I'd stay away, regardless. Plus, I never go out too far, unless I'm on a boat. Oddly enough, when I'm at the beach, I forget all about it, and enjoy the surf. Later, I might think about it. I'm an opportunistic shark coward.

[Jamastiene]

114. I love your views on larger spiders.

Great way of putting it.

[BikeWriter]

120. Sharks? That's one more thing we agree on, Flvegan.

[LaurenG]

16. Cockroaches!!!!

:scared: Those 3 inch flying f'ers. I've had my share of encounters with them and I am freaked by them.

[Jennos20]

136. Same here

I'm so scared of them...

[warrior1]

18. Big fucking snakes

Lion's, bear's, skunk's.

[Deja Q]

19. Humans

[greendog]

41. That's not an irrational fear...

~

[Deja Q]

60. It is when you're not treated as one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Cocker spaniels.

One of them bit me when I was four years old. They've made me nervous ever since.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. Mixed.... Well, not irrationally afraid of, but certainly ... eerified.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

78. oscar?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

81. This time of year really clogs up my searches for posts about him.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. bees, wasps and hornets

Though honeybees don't bother me at all for some reason.

Oppossums are scary looking! It's probably to make up for their stupidity. They really aren't very smart.

[bridgit]

31. oh god, you just brought that all home, we moved into an apt that had...

wasps in the wall, that were coming INTO THE APT through a little space where the air conditioner mounted the wall, we counted 37 IN THE APT one night, we thought we 'dealt' with all of them but there were some UNDER OUR BLANKETS that stung us when we went back to bed

:scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. AAAaaagh!

I'm going to shake my blankets out before I sleep tonight...even though we won't see any wasps for another month or so! :scared:

[bridgit]

33. i am so serious, some 2-3 nights in a row till hubby seen one hustle...

back into the wall, through the crack, in the process of being 'dealt' with, too scary :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. A colleague of mine was headed to a gig one day

fresh from the shower with her hair moussed to the max. She went to say goodbye to her husband, who was working in the yard, and she stepped too close to a nest of yellow jackets. Her husband turned the hose on her because they were stuck in her hair and stinging her head. Uggghhhh!

[bridgit]

113. good grief, sometimes it just doesn't pay to go OUT of the house...

x(

[LisaLynne]

27. Fish.

No particular reason. More of a phobia, really.

[WindRavenX]

29. cockroaches

There's something about the way they wave their antenae that just makes me go "ew"....


Oddly, I love spiders.

[khashka]

37. Awwwwww, come on!

Cockroaches are fascinating!

And Spiders totally rock :)


Khash.

[TimeChaser]

56. Actually, I love the Madagascar hissing variety

They're cute :P

[smirkymonkey]

34. Cats.

They freak me out. I used to have nighmares about them.

I also hate any kind of insect or reptile.

[DS1]

35. Birds

Strangely, it's the "tamed" ones I don't trust, I don't even like getting near their cages.

[supernova]

40. I once had a cockatoo chase me out of bed

My best friend from college was baby sitting a family of teen guys. (The one guy had CP and was wheelchair bound) Anyway, this family were friends of my BF's family.

The parents were late (as they said they would be) so my BF and I spent the night in the one guy's bedroom with his pet cockatoo which sat, untethered, on a perch.

I woke up alone with this thing. My friend had gotten up earlier. As soon as I opened my eyes, he made a bee line for me! I've never gotten up that fast in my entire life! :D

[hunter]

66. Yes. Watch out for birds.

They might be hiding inside your ceiling.

[seaglass]

134. They plot and who knows what their plans are. I only fear

birds in flocks, one or two can't kill me but a bunch of them attacking me could.:scared:

[khashka]

36. Humans

I can do animals. Before I approach them I try to understand them. And it is often well rewarded.

But humans are capable of outright sadism.


Me and St. Francis are buds. Tight, ya know?


Khash.

[redwitch]

84. You are such a dear!

:loveya:

[Floogeldy]

90. yEA, yEA, YEA. hOMO SAPIEN SAPIEN.

:)

[pokerfan]

38. El Chupacabra

[MidwestMomma]

69. It would be irrational not to be afraid of El Chupacabra

I saw a movie once where it took out a squadron of Marines :)

[LibDemAlways]

39. Lizards creep me out.

I live in a brushy area where they are all over and I freak when I find one in the house. Don't mind them outside, of course, but they are not welcome in the house.

A family nearby had a large lizard living in their house for several months. They first spotted it in the hallway near the bedrooms, but it disappeared before they could get it. They didn't see it again for quite a while. Finally, one of the kids again spotted it in the hallway and they captured it. Then (here's where it gets gross) the wife was cleaning out her husband's dresser sock drawer one day and came upon a shed skin. Eeeeewwwwww.......

Also not fond of rattlesnakes - particularly the one that made its way into the garage. My 10 year old damn near stepped on it.

[Blue-Jay]

42. Nothing is scarier than a mandrill.

I normally like simians, but a mandrill is a fucking nightmare.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

52. That's it........

Mandrills and baboons scare the shit out of me. If one came after you with bad intent, you'd be fucked.

[Sugar Smack]

43. Moths.

But I think it's rational: one winter when I was out smoking a ciggie, one got trapped in my glasses and panicked, which is nothing to say of how I reacted! :o

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

47. Possums look like gigantic rats. Totally freaked me out the first time I

saw one slinking around my neighborhood, at night, when I was a teen.

[scarlet_owl]

48. Spiders.

[LeftyMom]

51. prions

Yeah, not animals but the best I could think of. I really don't want to get a painful terminal brain wasting disease because some dipshit in a restraunt kitchen cooked my veggie burger in the wrong pan. The idea scares the hell out of me.

[TimeChaser]

55. Centipedes

:scared:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

61. Scorpions.

They are huge here in the Keys, some as big as crabs, and sometimes at night with the window open you can hear them walking across the tiled patio outside. Click, click. And they have a very nasty disposition.

[Jean Louise Finch]

62. Sloths

Which I recognize is totally ridiculous because it's not like they could catch me. But jeepers, they give me the heebie jeebies like nothing else.

[SoCalDem]

146. When I was about 6, I brought a 3-toed baby sloth home

I found it unde a bus stop, and thought it was just a smelly monkey .. We called the base maintenance people and they took it to the animal shelter.. It was a baby, so we couldn't just release it into the jungle

[MrsMatt]

63. Wood ticks and leeches

Parasites in general have a huge ick factor

[hunter]

64. scabies, the very worst by far.

DO NOT TYPE "SCABIES" INTO GOOGLE IMAGES! (Especially at work.)

I don't think scabies can be transmitted through the internet, but you will still want to be disinfected.

[leftofthedial]

67. deep water sea snails

that live near deep ocean vents

-shudder-

I just get the creeps thinking about them

[Bossy Monkey]

68. At last count, all of them (but I like 'em anyway) n/t

[Lorien]

73. I guess it's not entirely irrational, but I'm afraid of bears

I can't handle being around them (within a few yards) even if they're caged. I do alright with bear cubs-but not adults.

Alligators, snakes, bugs, rodents, bats-none of them bother me. I now have a learned fear of being too close to big cats after hand feeding lions, tigers and snow leopards raw chicken-they bit through it like it was a triscuit-bone and all! I also had a rescued pet serval/ asian leopard cat hybrid for a while, which taught me how unpredictable a wild cat's nature can be. I'll stick to my domestics, thank you very much!

[vikegirl]

74. worms

*shudders* So Slimy. *shudders*

[DanCa]

75. Bull Head Fish

Once when I was seven and fishing with my brothers they started tossing the poor thing around in a cruel thing. Stupid me when I tried to stop the game the stickers got wedged in my arm. I don't remember how long my arm was hurt and swollen but ever since that day I hate fishing. And Bull head's in particular.

[eeyore]

77. I don't trust squirrels in the least

They have something to hide and have bad intentions. Plus they're all twitchy and shit.

[book lady]

93. Ohhhhh, I totally agree with you

They are rats with bushy tails

[KitchenWitch]

80. Woodticks

[lady raven]

87. Spiders- Any that are small and brown

This is prime real estate for the brown recluse, and there are a LOT of spiders that, to the untrained eye, look like they might BE one.

I'm not particularly afraid of black widows because they are almost unmistakable, but the brown recluse and anything that MIGHT be a brown recluse, scares the bejeesus out of me.

Tarantulas don't bother me a bit- I used to have one as a pet.

I guess as long as I know it isn't going to bite me and rot off a huge hunk of my flesh, it doesn't bother me all that much.

[hyphenate]

88. Irrationally afraid of?

None. I pretty much love all animals, but show respect for those who could tear my head off with one hit of their powerful arms or teeth.

On the other hand, I have a complete and utter fear of insects of any and all kind, except for butterflies and dragonflies. I even think ants and flies are grotesque. And if it's a worm, a slug or some other multi-legged crawling creature, I would rather leave the scene than hang around.

But even bats and rats are adorable--I had a bat come into the house once, and it was so funny: it was circling the kitchen light, and all the cats were doing was watching it going around, around and around, like a scene from a movie. We got it into the back room, though, opened the window, and by morning it was gone--it had strayed from its group and managed to find its way home sometime during the night.

[DemonGoddess]

91. not animals

but a couple of insects....palmetto bugs and SPIDERS. Especially spiders. It took me a loooong time to not become completely hysterical when I saw one.

[FuzzySlippers]

92. Chimps.

Oh,wait. You said irrational.

[elshiva]

99. SCARY!

[In_The_Wind]

94. I'm not afraid of any four footed living thing.

Now the two legged homosapien ones that scare me.

[Gatchaman]

95. I'm afraid of dogs

even "nice" ones. I don't like to be around them, and I don't like them coming up to me. I think they can tell, too.

Now cats, that's a different story. I really like them, although I've never had pets due to allergies.

[reyd reid reed]

97. Raccoons

Sure, they're cute and all with those little masked faces...but they scare the shit out of me. They like to dig in the trash at night and then sit in the yard, in the middle of the mess they made and it's like they're laughing at me.

Then they run away.

The last time I went camping, I spent the night in the car and wouldn't leave it until morning because there were raccoons digging in the trash by the...facilities.

[Kali]

98. larvae - you said irrational and it is, I hate larvae

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[u4ic]

100. Anything with more than 4 legs

Creepy crawlies... :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

Snakes don't bother me, however.

[reyd reid reed]

102. More than four, less than two

And I can do without it quite nicely, thankyouverymuch.

[jpgray]

101. I haaaaaate the way these things look and move

[flamingyouth]

103. Rats.

[XemaSab]

104. Squirrels

:scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

106. Spiders and Drew University Squirrels...

oh wait, irrational fear...just spiders then. My fear of Drew University squirrels is absolutely justified.

[tyedyeto]

107. Mice... they give me the shivers n/t

[azmouse]

133. No way! Mice are cute!

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

108. Bears

Scared to death of them.

[khashka]

110. LOL!

Actually I have a hard time thinking of bears as real. They always seem like people wearing bad bear costumes....


Khash.

[HEyHEY]

111. It's bad, I can't be in the woods without freaking out about them

But, I grew up in Vancouver, on the North Shore. THe fuckers are everywhere

[khashka]

115. Which is why you have a polar bear as your sig

An odd form of self therapy, but it might work. That's right, choose the one species that will, unprovoked, attack humans!

Yeah, I lived in Alaska. Sometimes when the little fuckers came out of hibernation there wasn't much to eat. So they'd go on raiding missions - garbage cans, homes, downtown Anchorage. Scary, but I just can't take 'em seriously. Of course, if I ever faced a Kodiak it might change my mind.


Khash.

[Jamastiene]

109. If I saw an opposum that looked like the one in your picture, I

would shit myself too.

My irrational fear revolves around spiders, especially the fast moving jumpy types. My cat, Yogi is a bigger wuss than I am when he sees one. He lets me know when he sees one and then stands back (big hero that he is) and lets me take care of it. I'll never forget the tarantula sized brown spider complete with long hairy legs we had to fight to live in this place. He apparently had lived here a while, because he would NOT give up the fight. I finally ended up Raiding him. So much for a no kill solution with that one. He came out fighting and just would not give up.

The fight started out between the washer and the dryer. Yogi let me know he was there and then jumped a mile when the spider came out at us. That spider made the first move. The spider jumped at us and somehow almost got us both at the same time in one swipe. He was serious too. He meant business too. Subsequently, Yogi disappeared and hid under the bed for the rest of the fight. My hero... Anyhoo, I grabbed the broom and started swatting like crazy after that death defying little display of spider aggression.

I swatted my own bare feet several times in the process and it hurt really badly. So I know I was dealing deadly enough blows to win the fight. Despite the fact that this giant spider was probably the has-been star of a 1950's scifi movie and had maybe killed several grown men before, I just couldn't seem to land a blow on the actual spider. I swatted to the left, and he jumped to the right. Then, I swatted to the right, and he jumped to the left. It just kept going that way while I chased him through the house. He raised up at me with his paws in a fighting pose and I brought the broom down right on him.

At some point, finally, I must have hit him hard enough to show him I intended to win the fight, because somehow that crazy fucker ended up on the counter top behind the kitchen sink. He had his front four feet up in the air at me like he was trying to show me who the boss was. I remembered watching the Croc Hunter use the trick where he got a snake's attention on a stick while he grabbed the snake with his other hand. I altered the plan a bit because I had no intention of grabbing this feisty giant hairy legged spider. I carefully held the broom over to the left while I leaned to the right just long enough to grab the can of Raid. I sprayed him with Raid until he turned white. He jumped at me several more times, so I sprayed him again until he was laying in a puddle of Raid big enough so he couldn't crawl out without crawling through it. I must have broken several of his legs that last time I swatted him, because he FINALLY quit jumping and just sort of crawled toward me whilst cussing in his spider language and spitting evil spider venom at me.

Finally, after I spent several hours constantly beating and Raiding the giant spider, he gave up and died. It was a long hard fight, but I finally won it. I live here now. The spiders that try to come in are much smaller and wirier now. One came in tonight. He could have easily been the Son of that Hairy Monster I defeated to live here. I have noticed that the spiders since the Hairy Monster move much faster. They do still come to battle me from time to time, but I am winning the overall war... So far.

[suzbaby]

131. *laughs*

Oh my god, that story had me doing my best to stifle laughter while I sit at my desk at work. Don't want the coworkers to hear me and think I'm not being productive...:)

I just imagine this epic battle with "danger" music playing over the top. Something akin to what Jim Carey did in his battle with Ben Stiller in The Cable Guy.

[Jamastiene]

140. The music would have certainly helped.

The whole time it was happening I was thinking, how can he keep fighting this long. That Monster had some real stamina, I tell ya. Glad you enjoyed it. I like to tell about those types of things after they happen. It's therapeutic to share my experiences, especially when my knees were knocking the whole time it actually happened. A couple of times there I wasn't so sure I was going to win.

[ps1074]

116. Cats

[Strong Atheist]

117. None. All the animals I am afraid of there are rational reasons

to fear, starting with humans...

[sbj405]

118. they are creepy. I've seen them in my neighborhood

ick! :scared:

[Bridget Burke]

119. Then you'll like this story from my neighborhood association newsletter...

A man wrote in, explaining that he had a cat door. Every night, they'd feed the cats outside. Then the cats would come in & sleep with them.

One night, he awoke to feel a creature nestling near his head. He reached up to pet it & it felt...odd. Turning on the light, he found he was sharing his bed with a young 'possum. He didn't say that he immediately nailed the cat door shut--but I'd bet that's what happened.

[slide to the left]

121. cats

There used to be one that my neighbor fed while I was in college. EEEEEK! I used to freak out when it would be near my door. They are so gross.

When I moved into my house with my husband, the previous owners left is a hurry. And left something behind... one of their cats. Sick me out.

[riona]

123. repelicans

[1gobluedem]

124. Birds

When I was nine my grandparents let us watch 'The Birds' on New Years Day. That night a bird got into our bedroom. That did it for me then and there. They scare the hell out of me.

[LynneSin]

126. Chimps and Sheep.....

:scared:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

129. Matcom

[blindpig]

132. Humans.

Never had a critter stick a gun in my face. Animals are pure.....animals don't hire lawyers.

[Generator]

137. I loathe seagulls

That screeching noise they make. The squirts of white crap that can descend at any time. The endless flapping wings and begging. They are garbage cans in the sky. And yes, one chased me once on the beach. I think they know how I feel.

[XemaSab]

141. One time I was at the Marin County Civic Center

They have a little pond there, and I'm a birder, so I was checking out the gulls. As an aside, there are 2 kinds of birders, birders who are into gulls and birders who aren't, and I'm not. But anyways, I was looking at the gulls.

I looked up and there was a gull flying towards me with a gleam in his eye. I just stood there and watched this bird coming towards me, and when the bird was about 15 feet away I suddenly felt AFRAID. I took a good step to the right as the bird was coming overhead, JUST AS THE BIRD UNLEASHED WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT A HALF A CUP OF PURE WHITE GULL SHIT.

I swear to god the bird KNEW and was aiming for me. :scared:

[BreweryYardRat]

138. Roaches...

Any subspecies except for Madagascar Hissers, so long as it's even partially grown, provokes a "flee screaming like a little girl" or "kill it with an axe while screaming my head off" reaction.

[alphafemale]

139. Chickens. They're like lizards with feathers. Nasty feet.

They move as a group.

Creepy.

:scared:

[Digit]

142. Cockroaches mostly...although not fond of camel back crickets, either

I cockroach will make me freak out....we get a type called the American Cockroach down here in the south which are SUPPOSED to be an outside type. They are extremely FAST and HUGE! At different times of the year, they will venture indoors.

One evening, I had TWO at once and my local hardware store sold me some crap to place around the outside of my foundation to keep them out. Well, evidently, it forced them INSIDE, because shortly after nightfall, I counted EIGHT of them!
I drove to my neighbors house, and fell up their steps in a panic. My friend's husband came over and began spraying around the perimeter of the inside walls. There was one on my vertical blinds, and he went to spray it and it FLEW! I thought I was going to faint.

Damn! These things are an inch long and I NEVER would have moved down here had I known they were here! It is the reason I never considered Florida for goodness sakes!

In the DC area where I was from, we had German cockroaches and I NEVER had them in my house. They are much smaller and although they will infest your kitchen unlike the type down here, I swear they are not as quick.

[NuttyFluffers]

143. several species of parasitic worm

let's see if i can some pics up... ewww!!!! oh god!!! aaahhhhh, no more! all you get is links, and be happy you get even these! eweeeeiiii!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html

from my old college when i just asbolutely gave up on bio sci. once had to walk through a building that held various worms, nematodes, and other parasites in formaldahyde (or plain culture or aquarium) containers -- and big colorful posters on the wall showing their hooked mouths! it was like walking through a nightmare. i was petrified to brush up against anything lest a container bursted open and infected me with what strange contents it held.

http://tinyurl.com/qcj69

and to completely gross you out. maybe melodramatic, but i've definitely seen other pictures as horrifying about parasitic worms.

http://tinyurl.com/gf7t5

to think there was a stage in my life that i was intrigued by these things and sought out more books in the library of the subject. they freaked me out then, but i was still curious and needed my curiosity satisfied. after learning more, and studying african parasitology... my curiosity is filled. now i'm just petrified of the things.

[Withywindle]

144. BIG. ASS. SPIDERS.

Normal size ones, not so much anymore. But anything like a wolf spider and up---:scared: I cannot deal. Before I go into a pet store I have to get a friend to check there's no tarantulas in there. Ain't no room in the world big enough for the both of us.

And wasps. That's not irrational, I got stung BAD as a child. I could have died--I'm not that allergic, but I was only 4 years old and I had LOTS of stings EVERYWHERE--and I was in screaming pain for days.

Nothing else really. I like bats, I like snakes, I'm indifferent to cockroaches...

Edit: Much as I like snakes, there's good reason to be afraid of some of them where I grew up. Copperhead country...brr. But I learned to identify the different kinds pretty young.

[SoCalDem]

145. I can't say that any animal frightens me irrationally

They all have their purpose, and are cute in their own way :).. I do not go out of my way to be near snakes..(bitten by a viper of some sort once, makes me wary of them)..and I would do anything to not be near a shark again, having had a close encounter (no bite..just a big scare)...but the others do not particularly scare me:)