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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So yeah, my father in law ended up in the
er after a squirrel attack because the mama squirrels babies
were in his engine. So he started to go after
him and little did he know, the mom was watching
in a tree over top of him, and boom, she
jumped on his head, ended up scratching him up pretty good,
biting him. And they said that at the er, they
(00:23):
told him it was incredibly close to an eyeball where
he was. He probably would have been permanently injured, may
have affected vision and all of that stuff. I mean,
it is crazy. If you could see the picture, because
he sent me a picture from the er, if you
could see the picture, you'd be like, you gotta be
kidding me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That happened from a squirrel. Pretty nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you have an animal Battle eight two one WTVN
one eight hundred and six ten WUTV and the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's grab Dirk on here.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Dirk you there, yes, sir, how are you a gentlemen
doing this? Afternoon? Man? We're doing good. Hey, this is
actually what I do for a living is wildlife controls.
So I've got stories. I could do a whole segment
for you, alrighty, Well, the Columbus Clippers called and they
had a raccoon behind the bar during a game. So
(01:16):
I go out there trying to use a snare pole
to get this because the people at one end of
the bar weren't being served because the tender wouldn't come
down to that end. If you've ever been in a bar,
you know all those lines and everything that run underneath there. Well,
that adult raccoon was getting irritated because I couldn't get
the snare pol on it, and I was getting irritated
because all the stuff was in the way. This raccoon
(01:36):
decides to take off across the bar that bar emptied
boots were falling over. There's a deputy sheriff there. He
was back pedaling like you couldn't believe, and I grabbed
him around the neck by hand and got him in
a trap. But that was one of the more exhilarating
animal captures I've done.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now, Dirk, did you have those sticks gloves on?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No? Oh no, it was just bare hand. I've done
back before the Exotic Animal Band did Burmese pythons, a
lot of book instrictors. I even caught four alligators here
in Central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Good lord who had an alligator?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
People had them in their homes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, and then they didn't want them anymore and
they'd let them go. One family they have an alligator
Day is one of their holidays as the day they
called me an alligator in their front yard.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How big was it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That one was about three and a half feet.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Long enough to really put a hurting on you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, if they got hold of you, I imagine it
wouldn't be too pleasant.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So how did you catch a three and a half
foot alligator?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I just got on top of it, pinned it down,
taped the smouth shut, carried it to the truck.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And then so in a situation like that, do you
do you guys, destroy them or do you just relocate them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Back then we were allowed to. There was a reptile
breeder guy, and I would contact him and he would
check them for their health and stuff. And I don't
know if he resold them or what, but normally that's
what we would do with those. So yeah, and I've
done some work for several of your colleagues that have
been on the air.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You ask around and you may you may get some
stories from them as well, but I'm not going to
out them.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I have to wonder the thought process into going into
this line of work. Zach and I were just talking
the other night about that A and E show Billy
the Exterminator or whatever it was called, which I thought
was a great show that it had got taken off
the air pretty quickly, but you had a.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Lot of that staged.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
He was nuts, and I thought, Okay, a nut can
do that. You sound like a very normal guy. I
don't understand how you fell into, you know, grabbing alligators
for a living.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I grew up in a rural area in Delaware County
and you know, used to trap animals back when the
fur market was really good. And that's that's how I
got it. I'm actually a former Army officer and then
I fell into doing this and I really enjoy it.
I like helping people out.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hey, So, Dirk, is it your company that does this?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Do you want to give the name in case people
are like, I got to call this guy, I need
to get something done.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure? Sure, it's the Wildlife Control Company?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, and it's yours? Is that probably lucrative? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Over? Thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, a lot of it. Well, then there it is.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's you're doing well with it, because that is something
that will never get It's like being a funeral home.
People are always going to die and then people are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Always gonna need you know, critters removed.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right they are they are? And if and if the
father in law wants some help with getting the rid
of that one, let me know. I'm actually doing work
for two collared car dealerships right now. They're having wiring
harnesses chewed out a brand new cars, so we're removing
some scrolls from from those areas.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I don't I I'm not sure what the situation
is there. I haven't talked to him in about a week,
but that happened a few weeks ago I was describing
and I'll double check with him.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But that's real. Uh, that's real nice of you, man
I I.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And thank you for letting me put the plug out there.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Absolutely, what's the one more time? The name of your company?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It is the Wildlife Control Company.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well Life Control Company.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Because I'm I'm gonna put you on speed dial on
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just be okay. Yeah, if you want me to do
a segment someday, let me know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah. Wow, okay, Dirk, and you're the owner.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I am all right, very cool man, continue success, brother,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right, gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You too, Owner and chief varmint grabber.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah exactly, bare handed man, you grab us, you grab
a raccoon, bear handed. You know what you're doing clearly
because I'm not messing you. Because they do have rabies.
You know that could be real bad real.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
If they do, they will fight you. Oh yeah, I
don't want anything that fights back.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, they're gonna They're gonna definitely be fierce. I'm
telling you, Chris, thank you for listening what you got
for us?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Brother, Hey bleasure. The woodpeckers not only are down in
Santa bell Island, but they're in Mierfield. And if you're
familiar with Mierfield and all their deed restriction stuff, my
father in law used to be the association manager up
there and one day gets this call from a concerned
neighbor says, you know, you really need to get out
here or something wrong with my neighbor. And he's what
(06:21):
do you mean? He goes, you call the cops or work. No, no,
you need to just come out here. And so he
gets out there, gets out of his car, walks around
right on here and my father in law, here's this
beaten on the side of the house. He walks around
the looks and here's this big fifteen foot ladder and
the whole side of the house has got giant rat
traps nailed to it. This guy had been fighting this
(06:44):
woodpecker and had lost it and was literally went and
bought like a hundred rat traps and had nailed them
to the side of his house to try to catch
this woodpeckers. Okay, yeah, and then another quick story, got
a call one day, you need to come over here.
He comes over and if you've ever been up around
(07:04):
Mierfield Drive and stuff to have the beautiful swans out
there in the pond and everything, well, the swans are
all beautiful till they decided mating season to chase your
dog through your flightening glass dog door into your living
room of this Mirrorfield mansion. And just vere cavoc, my
father in law walks in there and that house is destroyed.
(07:25):
Full sized swan run a s fly in this house
beating everything up.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So it was chasing the owner, the homeowner's dog into
the home.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, yeah, it followed the homeowner let the dog out,
and then I don't know if you've been around swans,
I actually grew up mow and lawn for some folks
who owned one. They become extremely aggressive.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In mating seasons, okay.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And so what happened was, as this dog was outside
and running in the swan was chasing it, and both
of them in the door, and that was it got
in the door at the same time and just destroyed
this house. But one of the other funny was happened
to him personally. He lived on a farm down south
of Grove City, and this coon and him were in
(08:07):
a fight because he kept getting into dog food. And
he finally came out one day and he put his
dog food in a five gallon bucket keep the coon out.
Put one of his like nineteen forties may Tag motors
if you know what those are. Those are collector items.
I mean the thing's worth like fifteen hundred dollars on
top of them, they weigh a ton. And he comes
out the next morning and the coon had knocked it over,
(08:29):
broke the handle off of his fifteen hundred dollars motor
and was laying there. And so my father in law.
Finally he said I've had it. He go you know,
and he was going to kill the coon. But the
next day he goes out there, so the coon figures
out he's got five gallon buckets. Well, the food's in
the five gallon bucket. These are real smart dudes. He
walks out there the next morning and this five gallon
(08:51):
bucket of paint he had, the coon had pulled that
plastic plug out of it, dipped his hands down in
his paws down in there, got ain't all over himself
and smeared it and foot print coon prints all over
his barn.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh my gosh, it was like it was like it
was getting him back or something.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Revenge.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Absolutely said these perfect little white coon prints all over
and joking with Amy and I said, hey, there's one
over here. It kind of looks like the coon's giving
you the middle finger.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's hilarious. That is so funny. Oh my god, Oh
Christ creatures. Man.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I didn't know until a few years ago that they
had hands like they have. They look like little human hands.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And I would put cat food, dry cat food in
a touch of their favor on my front porch. It's
their favorite, and it kept getting dumped out. I'm like this,
the lid screws on. How is his hat? Until one
night I actually looked out and saw the raccoon is
out there, standing up with both hands on the lid,
unscrewing the lid.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, they're so smart.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Seriously, My Jenny's grandma dealt with that over on the
West Side. She had she back to her house backed
up to some woods and there were deer and everything
that you but she would put stuff out there for them.
So it always I was just like, oh, you're inviting trouble,
but she was okay with it. But she would always
feed them and they were nuts. Hey, Pat, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah I got one to curl your tail all right, Okay.
I used to live in Westerville. I woke up in
the middle of the night one night with a wild
animal on my chest, sniffing at my face, and it
was black in my bedroom. I had no idea what
it was, but it was a wild you know, it
was an animal in my house. I didn't know if
(10:39):
it was a raccoon or a cat or a skunk
or what it was. So I tried desperately not to
panic and to just leave my breathing be real steady
while I figured out what to do. And I realized
I would have to jump up, get the animal under control,
and turn on the light so I could see what
(11:00):
in the world I was fighting. So I got up
my nerve. It's on my chest with his up to
my face, breathing on me. And I jumped up out
of bed and grabbed it behind the neck with both
hands and flipped on the light switch with my elbow,
and I had the biggest, wildest, mangiest, hugest fairal cat
(11:25):
I had ever seen in my life. It was enormous,
and it was snarling and snorting and trying desperately to
scratch me. And I ran to my house and to
the door and realized I had to unlock the bolt
on the door. So I had to hold the cat
with one hand and unbolt the door and throw the
(11:45):
cat out the door.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So how did he get in the house? How to
get in the house?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
That's what I did. I went and looked all over
and hear the it had the bottom window, the basement
window was broken. I don't know if somebody kicked it out,
or the fat knocked it out or what, but that's
how it got in.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Came in through the basement window. Oh man, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
A big, huge, mangy thing, just big, just terrible looking.
And I thought, you gods, that you find out what
you're made out of when you wake up in the
middle of the night with a wild animal on your chest.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I guess you do. Pat, Thank you very much, Holy cow.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I'm glad that little bit better than I probably would have.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh yeah, I don't know if I would have been
that composed.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
My instinct tells me I would have quietly grabbed it
and thrown it against the wall as hard as I could,
before I even bothered to try to get out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Of it, trying to stunt it or kill it or something.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
If it's all me in the middle of the night,
and I don't know what it is, that's you made
your own choices.
So yeah, my father in law ended up in the
er after a squirrel attack because the mama squirrels babies
were in his engine. So he started to go after
him and little did he know, the mom was watching
in a tree over top of him, and boom, she
jumped on his head, ended up scratching him up pretty good,
biting him. And they said that at the er, they
(00:23):
told him it was incredibly close to an eyeball where
he was. He probably would have been permanently injured, may
have affected vision and all of that stuff. I mean,
it is crazy. If you could see the picture, because
he sent me a picture from the er, if you
could see the picture, you'd be like, you gotta be
kidding me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That happened from a squirrel. Pretty nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you have an animal Battle eight two one WTVN
one eight hundred and six ten WUTV and the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's grab Dirk on here.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Dirk you there, yes, sir, how are you a gentlemen
doing this? Afternoon? Man? We're doing good. Hey, this is
actually what I do for a living is wildlife controls.
So I've got stories. I could do a whole segment
for you, alrighty, Well, the Columbus Clippers called and they
had a raccoon behind the bar during a game. So
(01:16):
I go out there trying to use a snare pole
to get this because the people at one end of
the bar weren't being served because the tender wouldn't come
down to that end. If you've ever been in a bar,
you know all those lines and everything that run underneath there. Well,
that adult raccoon was getting irritated because I couldn't get
the snare pol on it, and I was getting irritated
because all the stuff was in the way. This raccoon
(01:36):
decides to take off across the bar that bar emptied
boots were falling over. There's a deputy sheriff there. He
was back pedaling like you couldn't believe, and I grabbed
him around the neck by hand and got him in
a trap. But that was one of the more exhilarating
animal captures I've done.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now, Dirk, did you have those sticks gloves on?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No? Oh no, it was just bare hand. I've done
back before the Exotic Animal Band did Burmese pythons, a
lot of book instrictors. I even caught four alligators here
in Central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Good lord who had an alligator?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
People had them in their homes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, and then they didn't want them anymore and
they'd let them go. One family they have an alligator
Day is one of their holidays as the day they
called me an alligator in their front yard.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How big was it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That one was about three and a half feet.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Long enough to really put a hurting on you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, if they got hold of you, I imagine it
wouldn't be too pleasant.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So how did you catch a three and a half
foot alligator?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I just got on top of it, pinned it down,
taped the smouth shut, carried it to the truck.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And then so in a situation like that, do you
do you guys, destroy them or do you just relocate them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Back then we were allowed to. There was a reptile
breeder guy, and I would contact him and he would
check them for their health and stuff. And I don't
know if he resold them or what, but normally that's
what we would do with those. So yeah, and I've
done some work for several of your colleagues that have
been on the air.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You ask around and you may you may get some
stories from them as well, but I'm not going to
out them.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I have to wonder the thought process into going into
this line of work. Zach and I were just talking
the other night about that A and E show Billy
the Exterminator or whatever it was called, which I thought
was a great show that it had got taken off
the air pretty quickly, but you had a.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Lot of that staged.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
He was nuts, and I thought, Okay, a nut can
do that. You sound like a very normal guy. I
don't understand how you fell into, you know, grabbing alligators
for a living.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I grew up in a rural area in Delaware County
and you know, used to trap animals back when the
fur market was really good. And that's that's how I
got it. I'm actually a former Army officer and then
I fell into doing this and I really enjoy it.
I like helping people out.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hey, So, Dirk, is it your company that does this?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Do you want to give the name in case people
are like, I got to call this guy, I need
to get something done.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure? Sure, it's the Wildlife Control Company?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, and it's yours? Is that probably lucrative? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Over? Thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, a lot of it. Well, then there it is.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's you're doing well with it, because that is something
that will never get It's like being a funeral home.
People are always going to die and then people are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Always gonna need you know, critters removed.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right they are they are? And if and if the
father in law wants some help with getting the rid
of that one, let me know. I'm actually doing work
for two collared car dealerships right now. They're having wiring
harnesses chewed out a brand new cars, so we're removing
some scrolls from from those areas.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I don't I I'm not sure what the situation
is there. I haven't talked to him in about a week,
but that happened a few weeks ago I was describing
and I'll double check with him.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But that's real. Uh, that's real nice of you, man
I I.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And thank you for letting me put the plug out there.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Absolutely, what's the one more time? The name of your company?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It is the Wildlife Control Company.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well Life Control Company.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Because I'm I'm gonna put you on speed dial on
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just be okay. Yeah, if you want me to do
a segment someday, let me know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah. Wow, okay, Dirk, and you're the owner.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I am all right, very cool man, continue success, brother,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right, gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You too, Owner and chief varmint grabber.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah exactly, bare handed man, you grab us, you grab
a raccoon, bear handed. You know what you're doing clearly
because I'm not messing you. Because they do have rabies.
You know that could be real bad real.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
If they do, they will fight you. Oh yeah, I
don't want anything that fights back.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, they're gonna They're gonna definitely be fierce. I'm
telling you, Chris, thank you for listening what you got
for us?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Brother, Hey bleasure. The woodpeckers not only are down in
Santa bell Island, but they're in Mierfield. And if you're
familiar with Mierfield and all their deed restriction stuff, my
father in law used to be the association manager up
there and one day gets this call from a concerned
neighbor says, you know, you really need to get out
here or something wrong with my neighbor. And he's what
(06:21):
do you mean? He goes, you call the cops or work. No, no,
you need to just come out here. And so he
gets out there, gets out of his car, walks around
right on here and my father in law, here's this
beaten on the side of the house. He walks around
the looks and here's this big fifteen foot ladder and
the whole side of the house has got giant rat
traps nailed to it. This guy had been fighting this
(06:44):
woodpecker and had lost it and was literally went and
bought like a hundred rat traps and had nailed them
to the side of his house to try to catch
this woodpeckers. Okay, yeah, and then another quick story, got
a call one day, you need to come over here.
He comes over and if you've ever been up around
(07:04):
Mierfield Drive and stuff to have the beautiful swans out
there in the pond and everything, well, the swans are
all beautiful till they decided mating season to chase your
dog through your flightening glass dog door into your living
room of this Mirrorfield mansion. And just vere cavoc, my
father in law walks in there and that house is destroyed.
(07:25):
Full sized swan run a s fly in this house
beating everything up.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So it was chasing the owner, the homeowner's dog into
the home.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, yeah, it followed the homeowner let the dog out,
and then I don't know if you've been around swans,
I actually grew up mow and lawn for some folks
who owned one. They become extremely aggressive.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In mating seasons, okay.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And so what happened was, as this dog was outside
and running in the swan was chasing it, and both
of them in the door, and that was it got
in the door at the same time and just destroyed
this house. But one of the other funny was happened
to him personally. He lived on a farm down south
of Grove City, and this coon and him were in
(08:07):
a fight because he kept getting into dog food. And
he finally came out one day and he put his
dog food in a five gallon bucket keep the coon out.
Put one of his like nineteen forties may Tag motors
if you know what those are. Those are collector items.
I mean the thing's worth like fifteen hundred dollars on
top of them, they weigh a ton. And he comes
out the next morning and the coon had knocked it over,
(08:29):
broke the handle off of his fifteen hundred dollars motor
and was laying there. And so my father in law.
Finally he said I've had it. He go you know,
and he was going to kill the coon. But the
next day he goes out there, so the coon figures
out he's got five gallon buckets. Well, the food's in
the five gallon bucket. These are real smart dudes. He
walks out there the next morning and this five gallon
(08:51):
bucket of paint he had, the coon had pulled that
plastic plug out of it, dipped his hands down in
his paws down in there, got ain't all over himself
and smeared it and foot print coon prints all over
his barn.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh my gosh, it was like it was like it
was getting him back or something.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Revenge.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Absolutely said these perfect little white coon prints all over
and joking with Amy and I said, hey, there's one
over here. It kind of looks like the coon's giving
you the middle finger.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's hilarious. That is so funny. Oh my god, Oh
Christ creatures. Man.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I didn't know until a few years ago that they
had hands like they have. They look like little human hands.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And I would put cat food, dry cat food in
a touch of their favor on my front porch. It's
their favorite, and it kept getting dumped out. I'm like this,
the lid screws on. How is his hat? Until one
night I actually looked out and saw the raccoon is
out there, standing up with both hands on the lid,
unscrewing the lid.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, they're so smart.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Seriously, My Jenny's grandma dealt with that over on the
West Side. She had she back to her house backed
up to some woods and there were deer and everything
that you but she would put stuff out there for them.
So it always I was just like, oh, you're inviting trouble,
but she was okay with it. But she would always
feed them and they were nuts. Hey, Pat, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah I got one to curl your tail all right, Okay.
I used to live in Westerville. I woke up in
the middle of the night one night with a wild
animal on my chest, sniffing at my face, and it
was black in my bedroom. I had no idea what
it was, but it was a wild you know, it
was an animal in my house. I didn't know if
(10:39):
it was a raccoon or a cat or a skunk
or what it was. So I tried desperately not to
panic and to just leave my breathing be real steady
while I figured out what to do. And I realized
I would have to jump up, get the animal under control,
and turn on the light so I could see what
(11:00):
in the world I was fighting. So I got up
my nerve. It's on my chest with his up to
my face, breathing on me. And I jumped up out
of bed and grabbed it behind the neck with both
hands and flipped on the light switch with my elbow,
and I had the biggest, wildest, mangiest, hugest fairal cat
(11:25):
I had ever seen in my life. It was enormous,
and it was snarling and snorting and trying desperately to
scratch me. And I ran to my house and to
the door and realized I had to unlock the bolt
on the door. So I had to hold the cat
with one hand and unbolt the door and throw the
(11:45):
cat out the door.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So how did he get in the house? How to
get in the house?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
That's what I did. I went and looked all over
and hear the it had the bottom window, the basement
window was broken. I don't know if somebody kicked it out,
or the fat knocked it out or what, but that's
how it got in.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Came in through the basement window. Oh man, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
A big, huge, mangy thing, just big, just terrible looking.
And I thought, you gods, that you find out what
you're made out of when you wake up in the
middle of the night with a wild animal on your chest.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I guess you do. Pat, Thank you very much, Holy cow.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I'm glad that little bit better than I probably would have.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh yeah, I don't know if I would have been
that composed.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
My instinct tells me I would have quietly grabbed it
and thrown it against the wall as hard as I could,
before I even bothered to try to get out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Of it, trying to stunt it or kill it or something.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
If it's all me in the middle of the night,
and I don't know what it is, that's you made
your own choices.
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