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I was reaching under the bed to get my shoes and I saw something move under there, something with eyes.  I thought it was just one of my cats but, lo and behold, they are all sitting in the living room.

Uh-oh.

As a test, I took one of my cats in my room and tossed it under my bed.  Something growled, not like a cat or a dog, and my poor cat hauled ass out of the room.

This is not good.  He's a very big, mean cat and doesn't hesitate to attack raccoons, possums, dogs, or snakes.

I closed my door to trap the animal.  Now, it's scratching on the door.  I think it's a raccoon from the glimpses of its paw sticking out from under the door.  My window has been open due to the spate of good weather, which must be how it got in.  I hope it goes back out.

"TO THE CHOPPA! NOW! DO IT NOW IF YOU VANT TO LIVE RUN!RUN!"
Actually,open it up,see what it is!

I just checked and it's gone, now.  Looks like it ate most of the leftover food sitting around on dirty dishes in my room.

(Note: clean room)

Ah, the fun things you find in your room.  Try reaching under your rack in 29 Palms, CA and grabbing a slightly rough garden hose, then hearing the rattle go off.  Not me, but boy you should have seen that Marine jump.  I was all the way at the other end of the quonset hut and half asleep - he still got my attention.  Of course, I got the job of putting it out.  I always seem to be the animal rescue guy.

Terrific thing about cats though...they do tend to keep down the mice, shrews, whathaveyou.

Bad thing about cats though, they didn't kill whatever your mystery animal was... :buggedout:

Personally, I think it was a Gremlin or a Critter. Possibly even a Ghoulie or a Munchie.  :wink:

My daughter has a strange sense of humor sometimes, when she was a young girl we would spend a lot of time hiking and back packing in the San Gabriel mountains. The terrain there is mostly up and down so you're confined to the trails for a good part of the time, we had instructed Kari that if she heard or saw a rattler she was to turn around and go back down the trail and get behind us (she likes to lead the hike). On this one occasion my wife and I stopped to look at the view and Kari continued on around a bend in the trail, at this point we heard a loud buzzing noise and there came the child walking straight toward us with bugged out eyes, as she passed us she said "BIG SNAKE". We had to go that way to get back to our truck so with me in the lead we slowly went back up the trail. When hiking I usually would take a 6 ft. hiking staff and in this kind of situation if the snake would not give ground waving the staff at it or a couple gentle pokes would convince the reptile to leave and we would be on our way. This time however I had left the staff in the truck, and this was a big snake, and he was not going to move without some convincing, so keeping my eyes on the snake I stuck my hand out behind me and said "get me a long stick". There was the noise of bushes rustling and then a cracking noise followed by some suppressed giggles and the a large diameter stick was placed in my open hand, I brought the stick around to confront the snake, as I did I could hear loud laughter from behind me. I then threatened the offending snake with a manzanita branch about 2" in diameter, 12" long with a bend in the middle, I turned around, saw my daughter, who gave me the stick, and my wife both laughing hysterically. I said something along the lines of what in God's name is wrong with you guys, my wife said "the snake's gone" and then her and Kari burst into fresh gales of laughter. I was kind of angry but it was funny so what are you gonna do, remember to take the staff, moron.

It was probably a racoon or a possum.
Possums will growl loudly if they feel threatened.

Reminds me of the time I was in my old apartment sitting at my computer with the balcony door wide open.
Out of the corner of my eye I see this furry shape come through the door.
It was one of the biggest racoons I'd ever seen!
The thing just stared at me and then started to come in like he owned the place.

I yelled at it, "Get outta here!  Scat!" which didn't phase it.
I finally had to get up out of my chair and stomp my foot on the floor.
It casually walked back out.

It was probably Margaret.

You don't have any little closet doors in your room, do you?  You know, like a closet door for a little midget?

Or a little girl who used to live in your room, maybe?

(http://photobucket.com/albums/v676/synapse404/insidethecloset1.jpg)

Hey Zapranoth....isn't that creature from an episode of Tales From the Darkside?

Um, yeh, I think so, Zap? That's from Tales isn't it?

This also reminds me of the time I was watching "Willard" while sitting at my computer and a mouse literally ran full speed over my bare right foot.  No joke.
Scared the crap outta me.   :buggedout:
I mean...what are the odds of a mouse running over your foot while watching a movie about a crazy man who controls mice & rats?

I think I wrote about that here on the forum awhile back....I'll have to try and dig up that old thread.

My Dad always had a perverted sense of humor. One night he found a freshly road-killed raccoon and decided to bring it in the house to show it to our Siamese cat. Took half an hour to get the cat unstuck from the back of the couch.

Damn, you, Zapranoth. *shake fist*

Damn Critters! I get those little bastards all the time!!

I think it was probably Howie Mandel. Those darn under-the-bed monsters just have too much fun scaring cats. But don't worry; they also have hearts of gold (so you might want to try ripping it out of his chest with your kung fu if he ever comes back).

(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6083/mandelmonsteroh2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Yes, that was the little monster from the closet -- the episode was "Inside the Closet."  Ash posted a link to it on youtube.

Scared the p**s out of me when I first watched it.

Akiratubo, you had a close call. Is it safe now?

You reminded me of the time (this should be a new topic) of when I went out to the garage to get the clothes out of the dryer and I heard a noise on the shelf by my right shoulder. I thought it was one of our cats, so I moved right up to it to see it better, and it was a raccoon, I let out a strange noise and jumped back. It just looked at me and started giving itself a bath.  :buggedout:  :smile:

Speaking of unwanted animal visitors, a few years back when I was single and living by myself, I was at home one night watching TV. I was on the couch with all the lights out except for the television. Out of the corner of my eye I see something run across the carpet from the direction of the front door. In that split second between the time my peripheral vision caught it and when I turned to look directly at it, my mind analyzed the fact that it was big enough to create a sizable shadow across the floor as well as make a sound as it scurried across the carpet, thus I concluded that a mouse had gotten into the house.

Imagine my utter horror when I turned to look right at it and realized it was a spider...one large enough to create a sizable shadow and make sound as it walked. To say that I freaked out big time is an understatement on par with calling Godzilla and inconvenient lizard.

I knew some people who had the misfortune of a deer crashing through their living room window at their house/cabin and proceeding to freak out causing much strife and despair. 

So, for all you know you may have a monster under your bed, and you send in a cat on a suicide mission! You heartless beast!