I was sitting in the front room working on a project last night when all of a sudden I saw this scampering across the floor!
Needless to say I was not entirley amused. Not at all! I grabbed a shoe, chased it across the room and squished the daylights out of the critter.
Now I respect life and don’t normally go around attacking living creatures, well accept for the bat incident, but in my house there should be two kinds of beings, People and a cat. Anything else does not belong and I have rules.
If it is on the floor or on the wall within reach the critter is fair game. If I catch it, it goes outside unless it’s dangerous then it’s dead for sure. If it is above what I can reach, it needs to stay there or get his buddies and leave.
Do you save them or quish them?
Blessed Be
Element Mind Body Spirit 
If I saw that in my house, I’d leave a cloud of dust behind as I ran out the front door. No questions asked. o.O
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lol I was the only one still awake so I didn’t want to leave them behind. So I mangled that thing real good.
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Hahaha for real…but its still going to be there when you come back… Squash, smash, smash…hehehehe
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Yup squish it with some real attitiude.
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Haha, I wouldn’t come back. It can have the house!
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HAHAHA
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Looooooooool
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🙂
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I don’t even know what the heck that is. I hate to admit it but I would have killed it too.
As for other bugs – spiders, scorpions, beetles – I try to scoot them outside. Florida is full of bugs.
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It’s called a house centipede. Normally I get them out of the house as well but this big ugly thing, nope dead.
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Squash them…they give me the creeps..am so smashing. Chase and smash. It’s definitely fair game so long as I see it.
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Yup
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Hi ElementHealing,
I met you on Danny Ray’s site.
Thank you again for your kind words about my article, a giant list post.
To answer your question, it depends who you are. Buddhists value all life. If I can, I get a broom and sweep it out even though I’m not a Buddhist. Nice to meet you.
Janice
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Hello Janice, it’s nice to meet you. I must admit that it is nice to save them, they have a right to live and serve a purpose, but when it runs across the floor it gets dead.
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Nice to meet you too. This is novel for me. I don’t normally talk about bugs on people’s blogs LOL.
Janice
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I thought it was kind of funny so I had to. It’s not often you can laugh at yourself for chasing a bug around the room with a shoe.
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Holy crap, wth is that??? No, I don’t squish, but I’d have had a serious chat with it to make sure it knew I was taking it back outside. Yikes…
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It’s call a house centipede, they move very quickly and they are Big. I chased it across the room and finally smacked it good.
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Oh man. Then I would be telling Loki to escort His friend out, tout suite!
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Normally I would choose to let a critter live and take it outside but this, Nope.
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Yeah, that guy has NOPE written all over him!!!
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LOL
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I would get my husband to smash it!!!! Gross
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Just a heads up, they crunch!
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Yuck😱😱
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Yeah!
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This was a really cute question. I enjoyed reading everyone’s responses. As for myself, anything that has a hard shell, or is crunchy tends to be squished. Other things will be transplanted outside or banished to the basement (where I never go) in the winter time.
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Unfortunately I can’t banish the critters to the basement. My sone uses the space for his recording studio and a hang out spot. I know it’s cruel but outside in the winter is good for me!
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