s/o icky discoveries

Heffalump

I found a frog skeleton behind the entertainment center yesterday.

It's not so much the skeleton itself, as the thought that it died and decomposed back there, leaving only its teeny framework behind. 

The skeleton itself was sort of cool.  Glad we found it before DD did, though.

Butter Cookie

We found a lizard shell the other day. I have no idea when it got in the house, but I found the freaking cats playing with it. I went to pick it up and it was light like snake skin.

baconsmom

When I was younger, one of my brother's hamsters escaped from the cage. We assumed the cat had eaten it, until maggots started crawling out of the bathroom wall, near the radiator.

Yeah. That was lovely.

*Candi*

baconsmom:

When I was younger, one of my brothers hamsters escaped from the cage. We assumed the cat had eaten it, until maggots started crawling out of the bathroom wall, near the radiator.

Yeah. That was lovely.

 

*V 

Heffalump

Ded @ maggots.

TheDuckis

How do you not smell that? I have a pretty weak sense of smell but I feel like I'd know if there was an animal decomposing in my house.

*Barbie*

We had a suicidal fish that leapt out of the tank and landed behind the dresser that the tank was on. I'm not sure how long it was back there, but was completely dried out/fossilized when we found it. There was never any smell, because we would have noticed it.

TheDuckis

*Barbie*:

We had a suicidal fish that leapt out of the tank and landed behind the dresser that the tank was on. I'm not sure how long it was back there, but was completely dried out/fossilized when we found it. There was never any smell, because we would have noticed it.

But where did you think the fish had gone?

When I had a fish tank I would have immediately known if a fish was missing. But I was paranoid. They'd hide in the plants and I spent a good portion of my time looking for them and counting them. 

Heffalump

TheDuckis:

How do you not smell that? I have a pretty weak sense of smell but I feel like I'd know if there was an animal decomposing in my house.

I was baffled by that, too.  My best guess is that there wasn't a lot of air circulation behind the entertainment center, and the frog was small, so maybe it just decomposed without the stink molecules spreading throughout the family room.

baconsmom

I don't remember smelling ours, but it was small, in a bathroom, and it was summer in the country - plenty of stuff smelled.

TheDuckis

Hmm. This makes me wonder how many things have died inside my walls that I did not know about.

*Barbie*

When I had a fish tank I would have immediately known if a fish was missing. But I was paranoid. They'd hide in the plants and I spent a good portion of my time looking for them and counting them. 

We had a tank full of guppies that we were using as feeders/to breed feeders. There was no way to keep track of them all.

We'd notice now if one of our big cichlids went missing - but we have a 10gal tank full of babies that we'd probably never notice a fish missing. (We took out 20 this weekend and sold them to a local pet store - there must still be at least 30-40 more just like them in that tank. We have 5 yellow fish in the tank - the rest are grey/iridescent - so we'd notice if the yellow babies were missing.) There are probably 100+ more babies in our 55gal tank. We have some horny fish.

TheDuckis

Ahh, I had guppies once. They had babies all the time, and it was really exciting until I realized the babies never got that big before their parents ate them. Cannibals. I realized quickly I was not cut out for guppy ownership.