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Re: the bugs of summer

Corky — Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:12:32 -0000

I swallowed a June Bug once. I was about 5 or 6, and pretty talkative (okay, I non-stopped jabbered from my first sentence til - no end in sight!) We lived in Michigan, spent most summer weekends at the lake. It was just about dusk; I was walking along the dock toward the boat, talking to my mom and not paying attention to much of anything except the sound of my own voice when glappp! a huge June Bug flew right into my open mouth! I gagged, spit, gagged some more, tried to cough it up, choked, swallowed, swallowed again, and finally the damned thing went down instead of up and out. I still have nightmares. The incident did modify my behavior though. Now, in the summer, I tend to talk with my teeth clenched! You can never be too careful.

Re: the bugs of summer

drusilla — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:22:22 -0000

bugs,on the most part do suck.you have every reason to complain...from three days at camp i got 240(or more) bites...

Re: the bugs of summer

Kelly — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:54:03 -0000

Yeah, but what about the cool bugs -- like fireflies or "lightning bugs" as my husband calls them. Those are cool.

The worst, in my opinion? Cave crickets. Even worse than spiders. Fuck, just talking about it is making me all jumpy!

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:52:46 -0000

i like shiny things too...

anyway, i understand why kitties would like to puke, with the hairball thing and all, but every june kitty ends up looking kinda sickly, due to all the puking. you'd think, at the point where kitty started feeling like crap, he'd quit. but no. and if we try to keep him indoors at night, he starts knocking stuff over until we give in.

Re: the bugs of summer

Linkmeister — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:44:20 -0000

June bugs = cat purgatives. That must be it.

Re: the bugs of summer

toxiclabrat — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:32:12 -0000

This is the time of year that the raccoons come out with their babies....at least in NJ...
The babies are so cute..I like to watch them wash their little paws after they eat. And I like the sound of them "talking"..so cute...
I am finding very odd bugs around here also, kd...
They are 80% dead when I see them.. no doubt due to my cat, Kielty. She like to kick 'em around until they are dead, or she gets bored..whichever comes first!
Kielty likes anything shining on the wall too: mirrors, flashlights, jewerly...its so funny!

Re: the bugs of summer

shelley — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:27:13 -0000

Cats and babies both enjoy swirling lights. My favorite trick is to catch the sunlight on my wristwatch so that it reflects on a wall, then swivel it all around until a baby/toddler or kitty goes insane. Good times.

Re: the bugs of summer

Stacey — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:45:00 -0000

I have a disco ball, and my cats run into walls chasing the swirling lights. And I don't think cats mind throwing up. Mine seem to eat bugs, grass, dead leaves all they can to try to throw up hairballs.

Re: the bugs of summer

batgrl — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:29:02 -0000

AAAAAAAAAAAA! I HATE JUNE BUGS!!!!!!!!
*shiver*
*goes off to have nightmares about being trapped in elevators, pork rinds, dr's offices, and giant killer june bugs - after reading Skarlet's posts before this one*

Re: the bugs of summer

kat — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:01:55 -0000

it's the thrill of the hunt. the whole, i'm a big bad ass kitty and i killed and devoured the prey. i must eat it. it would be a waste of sustanance and my ancestor cats would be angry. (cat karma). cats are fascinating. i play with a laser pointer at night and watch the cats try to pounce on a beam of light. quite hysterical.

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:59:42 -0000

kitty has lived half inside/half outside all his life. to keep him indoors would be horribly cruel - he'd hate it, whine constantly, and crap on the carpet -- he has always refused to use litterboxes. he stays close to home, the neighbors feed him, he's happy now.

i suppose if we kept him inside eventually he'd adjust -- but in the meantime we'd grow tired of all the poop and pee on our floor. and he's neutered.

Re: the bugs of summer

Lorraine — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:53:14 -0000

Ummmm, I really shouldn't get on my soapbox, but everybody I know at the Humane Society agree that "An indoor cat is a safe cat". In fact, in cat seminars they provide for new cat parents, on care and stuff, it's one of the two most important factors in keeping a cat healthy and long-lived.

#1 of course, spay/neuter. Pet lives longer and stays healthier
#2 Keep cats indoors. They will live longer and definitely will stay healthier.

--Rant mode off. Sorry.

Re: the bugs of summer

Lorraine — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:48:08 -0000

I am eternally grateful that when my youngest daughter & her family lived in Arizona I never had to hear of, or see, a wolf spider when I visited them. As Kelly said (btw, my daughter's name is Kelly, too, isn't that amazing?).....heart failure just seeing one.

Well anyway, she called me one morning to tell me the nightmare they went thru the night before. A wolf spider got into their house, my dipstick SIL told Kelly & the kids to go into the kitchen (farthest away from where the beast was).......and he actually killed the thing with a baseball bat!! He was such a baby about everything else, I was surprised at his "bravery".

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:13:58 -0000

oh god yes. that would be the death of me too.

Re: the bugs of summer

Kelly — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:05:06 -0000

A wolf spider chasing me? Can you say, "massive heart failure." I'd be dead before the furry bastard even got close.

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:09:03 -0000

i should have titled the entry bugs: it could be *so* much worse!

Re: the bugs of summer

kat — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:56:49 -0000

ack! cave crickets!! ewwwwww! do you gius get wolf spiders? hmm. they are as big as mice sometimes and will actually come after you. get on their back legs and run torwards you!! ack!!!!

Re: the bugs of summer

Kelly — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:31:49 -0000

Which is *why* I practically had a breakdown. hehe

That's one thing I do not miss about the south. There are some ugly, big-ass bugs down there. *shivers*

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:52:38 -0000

those are incredibly, awfully, completely creepy. they're all gelatinous looking like potato bugs. alien looking creepy things, they are.

Re: the bugs of summer

Kelly — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:11:52 -0000

Our dogs are similar to cats and they love to chase the fireflies around. I also have great fun with the laser pointer. hehehe

Cave crickets are disgusting. We had a total infestation of them in our house in Tennessee, followed by a near emotional breakdown and a move out of state! (Found one picture at http://www.hawaii-forest.com/essays/images/essay9709_03_lg.jpg -- ahhh!) They are like big-ass spiders that leap into the air. Oh, the horror of it all.

Re: the bugs of summer

kd — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:05:51 -0000

we don't have any lightning bugs in california - i bet kitty would *love* those.

and i don't know what a cave cricket is either, but it sounds very very creepy.