Do you like some animal that other people are afraid of? I like

Spiders


Bats:


Snakes:


and Scorpions:





But I can't stand dogs and roaches. LOL. what about you guys?

OK, that spider is really cute! I could see it starring in a cartoon. I also love bats. We found one on our garage once, and it was so bloody cute! I had a friend who had a pet skunk, and it was the most loving animal I had ever been around.

awwwwwwwwwwwwww. those were all sooooooooooooo cute!!!!!! thanks for that!!!!

eeeeeew horrible! ick! no!

Batsx aren't sary though.

Do you people just like creepy things on purpose?

Can Grizzlys count?

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no. i always liked them!!! but i can't stand roaches. I'm afraid of them. i was gonna pick a picture of them on here, but i got too freaked out!!!!!

Some people really hate rats and think they are "creepy" yet. My sister had one that was the cutest and most loving animal! It would crawl around mys houlders and hide under my hair and kiss my neck. It was a very sad day when it died, we both bawled our eyes out. I never would have thought I would like an animal like that, but I ended up really loving it...and just because I think the spider is cute, doesn't mean I would want one in my house. LOL

Why don't you like dogs, sun?

awwww. you know, rats are always peeing? LOL, sorry to ruin it for ya. but that' cute, sorry that it died.




they just annoy me. they bark at anything, they always try to eat your food. i could go on and on, but i won't

i like bats, but spider... i like to crush em

I like bats and snakes and lizards and rats and mice and frogs and turtles and...NO SPIDERS!

well some ppl are afraid of them, so i guess so!

Rats, bats, snakes, frogs, lizards, toads, salamanders, I love them all. I've had them all as pets (cept for a bat) Spiders are cool, some very pretty but I'm still afraid of them. ( I never hurt them though)

Spiders are bad. Very bad. Scorpions are bad.
Bugs in general are bad.



Snakes, wild cats, bears, and wolves are good.

Bats are ok... so long as they're not flying around my living room.

Once again Nyx you beat me to it! Except that i like bats too! But not just any bat , the ones that have those faces that look like a little fox!

Aww, why does everybody hate spiders?. I used to have a pet tarantula. He was cute and fuzzy and he liked to hide under my hair on side of my neck.

They're all good.
And many bugs can be quite tasty!!

Well I love all animals.I think I like naimals more than I like people actually

Yeah, "spiders bite := lol. Furry little google eyed things. Some are cute though....
Oh and .......Maggots!!!!!! Caaaaaant stand them. Ive a friend that breeds maggots for their blue tongue lizards. "ewwwwwww"

Scorpions are cool, snakes are awsome, like wood roaches and meal worms, coz I breed em.
BUT............. I dont like normal roaches there evil!!!!!!! lol

I'll have to take your word on that one..

good for food or good for pets ?

Well, when my lizards crunch on crickets and wood roaches, they actually make them look tasty! lol We did a dare one night and I chewed on a cricket didnt taste bad I just never let it touch my tongue to taste it. he,he.

i have a pet bird eating spider, 2 snakes, bearded dragons, scorpions, turtles, rats, a pihrana and the latest addition..... a crow (he is taxidermied though fell dead in my backyard) i have a major MAJOR problem with grasshoppers and maggots

rats for me. i was obsessed with rats as a child. i'd insist on having all these plastic rat toys (for some reason they didn't have cuddly teddies?! ) to the great distress of my older female relatives!
and i adore mice!! ahhh! those twitchy little furry noses!!

I like them all with the exception of biting bugs (mostly just horseflies and misquitoes), and those tiny jumping spiders that always seem to jump right at you when you least expect it.

I saw a really cool moth in my yard the other day, a hummingbird moth as it turns out... maybe the "clearwing" variety? It was huge! And moved just like a hummingbird. Probably the coolest bug I've ever seen!

spiders are way cool, but not when you wake up and see one in front of you scorpions ive never seen one in real life bats only when i go shopping and their there holding everybody up.

imagine having a big tiger as a guard cat, scare the burgulars

Now that's cool! I need one! Birds give me the willies! Can't stand them!

I like spiders, I don't like snakes mainly because we have deadly ones in our yard and I've paid enough in pet bills.

Leeches and ticks that burrow partly into you are the worse.

Missed this thread but as i posted in the other, i have this thing for snakes.
The more aggressive deadlier and vicious the better. It's the fear-factor/adrenaline-pumping thing that gets me going every time we spot them.
Always wanted a Western or King Brown for a pet...handled with extreme caution of course. lol!



Worlds 10 most venomous/deadliest snakes

Have you seen the movie "The Birds"? (I love this movie)



Speaking of movies, "Kingdom of the spiders". When I was about 8 yrs old I watched that. That night I had a nightmare where I was lying in bed and very tiny Daddy long legs came through the walls and covered the floor, then bigger daddy long legs came in on top of them, and so on, until one with a head twice as big as a basketball came in. He got on my bed and came toward me gnashing his teeth. I woke in hysterics. I still completely lose it to this day if a daddy long legs comes near me.

I don't think many animals bother me, if any. Not even spiders. We have monsterous wood spiders around here, you can hear them sneaking up on ya. I just let them pass through the house and wave as they go by.

My thing is birds and dogs (I really love birds)... it's amazing how many people were nothing short of terrified of my larger parrots. My sweet lovable blue and gold macaw reduced a co-worker of mine to tears every time she saw him. I've never seen someone so frightened of an animal in all my life. Worse for her, he LOVED blondes and she was a natural platinum blonde. He'd wolf whistle at her, call her pretty, make lude "mmmm" noises at her. haha Not even his charming, flirty antics could alleviate her terror.

It was amazing.

Awww, MissMelsWell, a bird? I can see waiting until they know they're not going to rip their fingers off with those sharp beaks to interact, but wow! Such irrational fears people have... not that I can talk, I hate feet. I don't get people that are afraid of dogs, even dogs they know are friendly, quiet and calm. I couldn't imagine a lifetime of not playing with pooches!

Actually I don't think it was his beak (which was formidable) that scared her... She would actually start to shreik and run when he flapped his wings or threw his wings out to steady or balance himself. She claims that she has this irrational fear of a bird getting tangled in her hair. Totally bizarre.

Sorry Epi-- Had to do it...LMAO


I don't mind much of anything< The only thing I really hate are the centipedes that have mutated and have like a trillion legs!
Something like this but even more legs


Oh I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHARKS!!! Awe look how cute he is:


Jody

PS: MMW I had a huge bird (not sure what type) someone brought to work one day and he wouldn't leave my shoulder. The owner said he was in love with me (oh gawd) and anyone that came near me he would have a FIT!! Is that normal?

PSS: Oh Rebel I like your snake

I love bats and spiders, snakes and lizards. My exwife had an irrational fear of moths, I never understood, whats more harmless than a moth? Unless your made of 100% cotton. Personally I have a phobia of roaches, once when I was a kid I was bitten and it got infected bad, but besides that no real fear of animals.

brown recluses scare the crap out of me...just cause what their bites can turn into

We have brown recluse spiders here. If you get bitten the bite turns black and it like eats your skin. It's nasty I saw a guy in the ER once who got bit on his nostril... the whole thing was falling freaking off... he had to get plastic surgery to re-create his nostril. very nasty little buggers!! ((Oh year we have to check our shoes before we put them on because they like to hide there)). NEAT!

Ummm, I wouldn't say it's normal, but it can happen. Sometimes parrots get really attached to a certain look of a person. My big guy had a real thing for blonde women.

If I had to guess, he probably wasn't trying to keep people away from you in particular, but he was trying to keep people from his "perch" aka, your shoulder... probably made worse by the fact that you're tall. Parrots, especially the big ones can be SUPER territorial and it's their natural instinct to perch on and "own" the tallest perch in the room... they'll fight for it too.

I never let any of my birds perch on my shoulder, they were always held on my forearm at chest height, no way was I going to allow a bird with a 3' wingspan sit on my shoulder then decide at some point that my HEAD was on his perch. hahaha. Which actually happened to my daughter with one of our birds, it was not good. He took a chunk out of her cheek trying to claim his perch.

hahahaha, the best way to tell if a parrot loves you is if they "crop up" on ya... basically, they'll regurgitate from their crop then paste that gack on you someplace. Being barfed on by a bird is a sign of undying love. hahaha. Nice huh?

OH gawd ya I got yaked on...And I had on heels so *barefoot 5foot10*...hmmm I was probably 6 foot or 6 foot one in the heels. Nice. Thanks hun

She-ra, I couldn't even bring myself to quote your foot to reply!

EEW! Barfed on by a bird! That lady's fear sounds like someone I know who has a huge fear of bats (whispers something about her husband). Grew up with a basement where they constantly got in and they could never seem to block them out so he had to dodge them as a kid. I could tell some stories... but better not.


HAHAHA!!! Too funny! I don't blame you about the roaches though, good reason and they're pretty filthy anyway. When I used to work at a computer repair shop we'd get computers in that were DOA and the owners couldn't figure out why. I'd open them up and find tons of dead roaches.. and sometimes some live ones. The pooey can really do some damage to a motherboard. Worse yet, sometimes they'd be sitting there a few days before I'd get to them and realize what the problem was. Needless to say, they treated the building regularly.

couldnt do it, did you know roaches carry diseases that you can contract for the rest of your life, these diseases can be physically dibilitating

And of course most people know that actual real bugs in computers are how the term "bug" came about in the computer industry. They can totally fubar the hardware. Of course now, it's mostly software that the term is applied to, bad hardware is just defective these days, not "buggy". haha.

What? lmao...u no like my foot; it was JUST ONE!!..........Ahahahahahahahah............... Sorry, I won't torture u anymore. LMAO.

(Hee hee Epi's barfing at my foot...lmao)

I hate basically anything with more than four legs....
but I have reason to hate bugs as I'm allergic to nearly all of them. (like even the tiny hairs of a caterpillar)
and spiders... well most of the ones you run into here are dangerous, or painful so I don't like them either.
bumble bees are awesome though!
their like the sloths of the sky. hehe

but I love every other animal! their all beautiful. Favourites are snakes & tigers though.

I am afraid of dogs. I didn't used to be but one day a seemingly nice German Shepard tried to take my leg off. Before that I loved dogs (still do just from a distance) and had had a few of my own. Sometimes I wish I had sued for psychological damage cause I do like dogs but no matter how hard I try not to, I go into a complete state of panic if one gets near.



Ugh I hate centipedes.
I like the snake to. Pretty


Moths freak me out to. But only when they dive bomb my head or fly in my face, and I cant have them in my house.

Ugh... Yeah, normally I wouldn't do anything but put them outside and wash my hands a lot. I heard one story of my boss (one of the kindest men I know) getting mad after walking in and seeing dozens of roaches crawling out of one machine. He actually picked it up and physically chucked it out the door. He got it about 12 feet, it landed in the mulch.


No kidding? I did not know that's where "bug" came from! Makes sense! Not only is it buggy, it's "mousy", so I wonder if that's where the idea came from?!



Wow, that really stinks. I couldn't imagine, everyone in my family has dogs, most of my friends have dogs. Yeah, I would even consider some sort of behavioral training or therapy or something, but first it would be hard to find and second it would cost a fortune... like health insurance would pay for something like that!


Oh you're sooo asking for it!


(Aaron Balick finds a giant centipede behind his TV set at his home in Islington, north London)
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How's that for mutated?

The only thing I am scared of is other people, not all people but some scare the living daylights out of me

..... especially some people on this site ....

Yep, it does... although, some people say that the term goes back as far Edison. Primarily in computers, the term actually has a single event of a moth in a computer:

Bug — a fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly.
The term is often (but erroneously) credited to Grace Hopper. In 1946, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book.