re: Anyone here ever had a wild animal come into your home?

One time my dog brought an opossum into the house through the dog door. It was pretending to be dead for a while, then woke up and started running around. We trapped it in a cardboard box and shoved it out the door. That was a fun night.

This one got stuck in our crawl space.

Had raccoons in the house twice. First time they got a goldfish and the second time they just ate up the dog food.

Yes. January 14th, 2006 I had a deer crash through a window in my split level home and do almost $12,000 worth of damage.

How do I remember the exact date? I was at the hospital for the birth of my first daughter. No shite, I come home from a long day at the hospital (we were living in Ames, IA at the time) and my house is absolutely freezing cold. I flip on some lights and see the damage in the downstairs area - glass is freaking everywhere, like a bomb went off.

At first I thought I was robbed, I called 911 and went to grab a gun. In about 3 minutes I realized it was a deer. The muddy prints in the carpet and deer fur gave it away. After several nasty arguments with the insurance company I got the damage covered. Basically had to replace the entire family room because the glass shards were everywhere. Furniture, TV, carpet, everything.

The scary part is if I was at home I would have been laying on the couch watching TV under that window because the Broncos were in a playoff game...

Hopefully never again.

Yeah but if there had been any kind of human noise in your house that deer wouldn't have come near.

Birds in the screened in patio a couple times a year and my grandma had a squirrel once.

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Squirrel came down the chimney in my parents house once...chewed the shite out of the trim on pretty much every window.

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If you want to see animals inside, just got to the BR airport. There's always 2 or 3 sparrows flying around in there.

I had let the dog out and left the door open. Damn mocking bird comes hoping on in.

I looked at him and he looked at me and we both went "OH S*&T". He took off flying in the house straight to the window thinking it was outside. I ran and closed all the doors in the house. When he hit the window he got stuck behind the blinds.

I went wake up my wife and got some gloves and my fishing net. Couldn't get him out the blinds so I had to just grab him with the gloves. he was making some god awful screeching sound. I was waiting for a flock of birds to come attack my house. He Sh*t everywhere.. Freaking mess.

Not so sure, it was spooked by my dog in the kennel or something else in the backyard and jumped between two bushes that framed a lower level window that might not have had enough light coming through it to deter the panic.

Bats have met tennis racquet