omggg I just had to squish the BIGGEST ROACH

[RumpusCat]

I swear to god, it was like smashing a mouse with a book it was so big and nasty. Then I had to lift the book up and clean up its horrifying gooey corpse. :cry: :cry: I had the urge to jump on a chair and shriek and I'm not that sort at all! I usually like bugs and other little critters but I just can't coexist with a giant roach in my apartment.

The worst part was my cat was just sitting there watching it run around. That lazy fuck!

I'm just grossed out and needed some sympathy.

[billyskank]

1. "That lazy fuck!"

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

2. Just great. Now you squished potential roach embryos all over

the book.

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Oh No! Not Roach babies! Murderer!!!!!

Here. I saved one of them from your evil destruction!


I put him in a basket, and set him free down the river to be adopted by a loving and rich family.

His name is Moses.

[RumpusCat]

27. I'd be happy to let his people go

Go! Away from me! x(

[Jara sang]

3. Smoke up johnnie. You should have saved it for later.

For when it's dry and you can't get no mo' weed.

[RumpusCat]

14. knew it wouldn't take long

:smoke:

[grannylib]

4. Poor you! I can sympathize...used to have to battle legions of 'em at

our old house.

Boric acid. That does the trick really well in my experience.
As to 'that lazy fuck...'
I have one of those too. Took her three days and she STILL couldn't catch the damn mouse in my bedroom...I had to beat the shit outta it with my workboot.

[AirmensMom]

6. Aaaahahaha!

:rofl:

Sorry you have a lazy fuck ... but that was too funny. :rofl:

[AirmensMom]

5. Oh, GROSS!!!

I HATE that crunchy sound and all the goo. Yuck!

In defense of the cat ... I never met one who would go after a roach. Mine will eat an ant or two, but not roaches. You could test him with a little mouse and see how much of a lazy fuck he really is. :shrug:

But, wait ... here's some of that sympathy you need. Sorry you had to go through that. :loveya: :hug: :grouphug:

[RumpusCat]

8. He did get two mice once

I guess I can't blame him for not wanting to bite a roach. Even the wee mice he didn't manage to kill all the way. He kind of beat them into submission and I had to pick their shocky little bodies and dispose of them myself. Even that didn't gross me out!

Thanks for the sympathy. :grouphug:

[AirmensMom]

15. Let him play with them long enough.

He'll "use them up" eventually. Might've saved you a can or two of food, too. :shrug: :rofl:

Ours used to catch the little geckos that ventured into the screened patio. I tried to rescue them before they got too bad, but a gecko doesn't have much of a chance with four kitties whose favorite sport is hunting gecko!

You're welcome ... feeling better? :grouphug:

[BreweryYardRat]

24. Same sympathies.

"In defense of the cat ... I never met one who would go after a roach."

My mom's Maine-Coon/Silver Tabby mix does. When I get my own place, I'm going to borrow that cat.

In the future, try using a vacuum cleaner with one of those tube attachments. Suck the roach up, then suck some boric acid up and seal the end of the tube. It dies and you don't have to squish it. Or throw rubbing alcohol on the vermin.

[benburch]

7. Boric Acid.

You mix one part boric acid powder with one part corn meal, and you squirt it into every nook and cranny with a turkey baster.

No more roaches.

[RumpusCat]

10. Can I do that if I have a cat?

Just keep it where he can't get to it? I have no idea if he'd mess with such a concoction...

[benburch]

11. A cat is unlikely to want to mess with it.

And it wouldn't be all that toxic to the cat, anyway. But you put it in places cats can't reach but roaches can! Where they hide out.

[cobalt1999]

9. shoot, come on down to Florida

We've got roaches the size of Volkswagen and they FLY!! (palmetto bugs actually).

Nothing freaks you out more than a 3-4 inch roach flying up on your plate while you are eating and unlike standard roaches, they don't mind the light. So day or night look out!

The best part though is when some of the more aggressive and large spiders (imports from South America) run across the floor after one. :)

[RumpusCat]

13. My mom is from FL and we visit often

Those things are horrifying. :( I also hate crickets when they're indoors--those things are disgusting to squish. BLAH. Our old house was infested with them until we got a cat who liked to eat 'em. She got very fat (and is not the same as my lazy cat) and the crickets stopped showing up...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Crickets are one of the few insects that don't FREAK me out.

I guess it's because I've had pet lizards for most of my life. They eat about 100 crickets a week, plus 50 waxworms and 25 superworms or so. They cost more than the cats to feed.

[jobycom]

12. I'd have run from the apartment, found a hotel, and returned two days late

First, might have made the cat hungry enough to eat it.

Second, I have a pathological fear of roaches that to my knowledge is the only childhood fear I can't fully conquer! I'm such a wuss. :scared:

[ThomCat]

16. I live in a ground floor apartment so I see them

periodically. 3 cats, and do you think any of them hunt bugs? :wtf:

I love my apartment, and during the long stretches when I never see a bug I'm very happy here. But when they show up I get this strong urge to move someplace with much colder winters.

[RumpusCat]

17. I'm on the ground floor too

So far I've just been squishing them but I see now that I'm going to have to get serious with these roaches. >_<

[Archae]

19. Got these teeny little ones here.

Don't even know if they are roaches, very tiny beetles of some kind, brown.

[MsKandice01]

21. I'd have freaked out

I saw one roach in my apartment shortly after I moved in here and immediately went out and bought 12 roach motels and scattered them all over my apartment. Luckily I havent seen any since and for that, I'm very grateful.

I've seen what a roach infestation is and it's horrifying. I used to have a boyfriend who lived with his uncle whose apartment was infected with roaches. You'd go in the kitchen or in the bathroom in the middle of the night and those little fuckers were everywhere. I was traumatized by it and I'm not normally skeeved too badly by bugs.

[Liberal Veteran]

22. You should have let it live and bred it with other roaches to create a....

...a next generation of republicans like the one's we have in Congress and the WH and right-wing crap radio now.

[ashling]

23. Roach candies !

Cruncy with almond filling :rofl:

[BreweryYardRat]

25. I hate those things.

Phobic of the huge ones (and I live in Florida).

See my reply to airmensmom for a better way of killing them.

[querelle]

26. When I Was In University..........

..........I had this shit hole apartment that was infested with roaches. I actually used to enjoy stomping on the critters. It was like crushing Rice Krispies. There was a very audible "crunch" sound whenever I ushered one of those bastards into his reward.

I hate those things.

Q