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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Samui on April 18, 2008, 13:52:21 PM
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What a shock :o I got this morning when cleaning the litter boxes. You won't believe what I found in one of them... a scorpion! I almost fainted :faint: but luckily not. Had to make a plan to catch it, and eventually I managed to get it in a jar. Taking it to a guy this afternoon to check if it is poisonous, he is a very good field guide in the area. I checked both kids, Samui and Sullivan and they seemed fine. Phoned the vet and he said it is very unusual for cats to get stung by scorpions and if they aren't licking one spot a lot they should be fine. I kept a close eye on them until I left for work but they played etc. so I am sure the scorpion didn't get to them. And both used the litter boxes this morning - phew!!!! what a relief that nothing happend. And this was inside, don't know how it got in! This is probably the only "downside" of living in a very small town with loads of open fields and rocks etc. you never know when a snake or scorpion is lurking about.... Just gonna be extra careful from now on!
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OMG!!!! Lana how did you manage to cope, I freak out at the site of a small spider! :scared: Glad to here the gorgeous duo came to no harm....brrr sending shivers down my spine at the thought! :shify:
Take care although your house should be a safe place eek! ;)
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lol, I had to cope... no other choice. Here in the "platteland" where I live we mostly still have only gravel roads, a few roads tarred so it is really still very rural and with nature comes all the lovely spiders, scorpions and snakes :evillaugh: I've had quite a few spiders in the house but this is a first and hopefully a last...
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Crikey, rather you than me with all those creepies :scared:
Glad you're two seem fine though, probably the last thing you expected to find in the litter tray :o
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OMG :Crazy:
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My OH has actually got a phobia of scorpions which I find extremely weird considering there is none in these parts here... :shify: So glad it was'nt him finding it or that would be the end of the tray cleaning! :scared: Which is more of a phobia for me than the scorpion! :evillaugh:
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Ugh what a thing to find!
Grandparents on occasion have a scorpion in the house, though that is in Arizona.
For years I couldn't walk on their floors without boots.
Glad your kitties are fine.
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We had a green grocer come into work at A&E with a scorprion bite and ha dthe scorpion with him in a jar - it'd come from a box of banana's he had delivered!
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Are you sure? Do we actually have scorpions in this country?
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OMG thought you live in the UK till I read your profile, still a bad shock though, so glad you are all ok xx
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Are you sure? Do we actually have scorpions in this country?
The banana's had come over in a shipment and then brought straight to the place, its the only thing the greengrocer could think of and when our doctors did searches on the scorpion to identify it to work out how posionous the sting could be or not it came up and fro the country the banana's had come from. We had to call the RSPCA to come and collect the scorpio from us.
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That must of been a bad shock too! xxx
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When my mum was little they lived near a depot that imported fruit from abroad, and she found a violin spider (v poisonous, think they're South African) in their garden - she said it was the size of a dinner plate :Crazy:. She was trying to feed it strawberries when her mother found her :evillaugh: Apparently they got on the local news but didn't see it because they didn't have a telly :evillaugh:
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Are you sure? Do we actually have scorpions in this country?
Yvonne ... I don't want to alarm you but there are actually quite alot of scorpions in the UK but i think you'll be safe http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eflavuk/es.htm
If you want to go scorpion hunting you need to take an ultraviolet lamp with you as scorpions glow bright green/yellow under UV light.
Lana,
Glad the boys were OK and didn't get too close to the scorpion. Although I find them very interesting I'm not too sure I'd be jumping for joy if I had one in my house.
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Oh my that took my breathe away and so pleased that both boys are fine...............I would be terrified :shify: :shify:
I hate things that creep or crawl and I can just imagine Misa thinking it was fun!!
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Yeah well I suppose I remember the scorpion in "Diamonds are Forever"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-O9RTHicE
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I have a ridiculous phobia of spiders but since I got Bella, I've rarely seen a live one ... she usually finds and munches them before I even see them :evillaugh:
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Phew, I can report that the scorpion was not that poisonous. Apparently they are very common in the area I live in (wish I had know this sooner - lol). Thing is although they are not deadly I still don't like them and don't want them in the house!
But it's a relief to know...
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I don't blame you! I wouldn't either xx
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I don't blame you! I wouldn't either xx
NOooo can't say I'd be happy to have a scorpian in the house :scared: , though saying that I do allow my sister in :)
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:rofl: :rofl: