Oddest animals you've found at work?

[Der Cute]

Hmm.

I've had a tiny little mouse come into the Garden Center...he was sick, wasnt moving much, and I gave him a bit of birdseed.
He said thanks, and died of natural causes later that day. I had named him Meatball for the afternoon, cuz my cats would think of him that way.

I've seen foxes IN THE CITY, feral cats, a beaver dam pretty close to a resturaunt, and porcupines waddling down the street.

Iv'e seen Eagle Nests pretty darn close, ravens fighting over leftover burgers...

Fresh salmon in the water..Dall sheep walking around eating greens..

The only thing I havent seen yet is a bear.

Cute

[Argabarga]

Fruit bats got into the pneumatic tubing system that accounting uses to send payroll/cash to the various subdepartments. Not odd animals, bats are everywhere around here at night, but certainly you don't expect them to come flying out of the tube at you, I wasn't there the day it happened to the ladies in accounting, but the maintenance guy said he heard the scream all the way in the back

[Fire_on_High]

At work we had the usual supply of "lot cats"...including a gorgeous family of bobtailed dilute calicos, that I've seen various members of over the past 5 or so years. Nothing too exotic but they really were lovely.

Had more interesting animal experieces at home. Growing up we had a possum who started by scouting the back porch and over the span of a year or so got so tame from being fed she would take bread directly from our hands and waddle up leading her babies to us when they were big enough. Gotta say, baby possums are so ugly they're adorable...

Maybe 4, 5 years ago a neighbor's pet rat got loose and somehow survived crossing the road and dodging the local dogs and cats well enough to manage to make her way over here. We look out the side door and there's an obviously very tame, VERY pregnant black and white rat waddling around looking lost...came running as fast as her legs and belly allowed when we opened the door, looking hopefully up at us. Decided to try and pick her up and sure enough she was very friendly....would have loved to keep her but a few days before she gave birth the neighbor came over and saw her,so we gave her back. He'd thought she was dead for sure when she got out the door while her cage was being cleaned.

[South Texan]

I'm curious, what are some of the strangest animals you've ever seen at your workplace?

You mean besides the ones that you have to wait on and call customers?

[LostMyMind]

Then there's the free ranging peacocks. Of course, these peacocks lay eggs and have babies. Very cute babies I must say.

Wow, that brings back memories. Peacocks while I've never seen them in stores. But while I was growing up, for some old reason they flocked to near my parents house. So I saw alot of peacocks growing up. And they do get big (for birds anyway)

[Cia]

Well before they tore down the trees and put in a strip mall behind where I work there was a colony of feral cats. One rainy day a straggly kitten decided that it would be better inside our building. It was named Pegleg because one of it's front legs was malformed - the leg ended at its wrist with no paw to speak of. My brother took it home with him. Peggy grew up, had kittens and disappeared - maybe eaten by a coyote or mountain lion.

[Kogarashi]

We just had one very large bird (somewhere between robin- and pigeon-sized) invade our warehouse-ceilinged Wal-Mart. Most of the birds we get there are sparrows and their close cousins, who like to hang out above the McDonald's in the store and eat children's dropped french fries. But this larger bird hung out at the registers and seemed to take a massive dislike to one CSM--and only one. This bird would dive-bomb the poor woman incessantly. There were at least three CSMs on duty, so it couldn't have been the red vest. Eventually, someone ran to get a net on a pole from Sporting Goods to try to catch it.

[Spiffy McMoron]

You mean besides the ones that you have to wait on and call customers?

I would classify most of them as minerals or vegetables, not animals.

[red hot pegasus]

Once while tending to the plants on the front sidewalk when I worked at KMart,
Inoticed a stange animal hiding behind the benches. I must've jumped 10 ft in the air when I realized it was a bat!!! Thankfully,it flew away never to be seen again
(at least not by me). Can you imagine explaining to worker's comp why they need to pay for someone to undergo treatment for rabies?

[Antisocial_Worker]

So far I've had to deal with snakes in the back staircase, some kind of weird brown lizard in Room 122, slugs in the lobby, and a passel o' stray cats in the parking lot.

My mother was visiting me here at work one night and we were sitting in the laundry room talking when we kept hearing a meowing sound from the dryer exhaust vents. Eventually, I went around back to see if there really was a cat back there, only to find two vicious little kittens, one of whom bit me, and then proceeded to bite my mother. One of them calmed down after a while but the other one we had to wrap up tightly in a towel -- sort of a little kitty straitjacket -- before my mother could take them home, where they've since grown up into fat, contented attention whores.

[BigPete]

I hope this isn't too strange, but I'm raising a few sea gulls. their names are:

Bernard
Jose
Vladmir
Pinky
Mike
Ricky

[BigPete]

Hmm.

I've had a tiny little mouse come into the Garden Center...he was sick, wasnt moving much, and I gave him a bit of birdseed.
He said thanks, and died of natural causes later that day. I had named him Meatball for the afternoon, cuz my cats would think of him that way.

I've seen foxes IN THE CITY, feral cats, a beaver dam pretty close to a resturaunt, and porcupines waddling down the street.

Iv'e seen Eagle Nests pretty darn close, ravens fighting over leftover burgers...

Fresh salmon in the water..Dall sheep walking around eating greens..

The only thing I havent seen yet is a bear.

Cute

Ever heard two or more crows fighting?

It freakin' hilarious

[Mixed Bag]

RATS: Turned on light to office basement about quarter to six, saw one do a 180 back down the stairs to its hole. When later caught in a glue trap I felt bad for it even as I was giving it my Cagney impression for having chewed through cables and left obscene messes.

SKUNKS: I suspect it's because of the noise, but they've been known to flee flatulent humans.

PIGEONS: I know a new indoor food court that gets a lot more of them than the mall's old one did. Did the architects plan for this? The new building has plenty of very high beams for them to perch on right over the tables.

PEACOCKS: I'm sure older Americans here can relate to my urge to trill the 60s NBC theme to see if they flaunt their plumage.

RACCOONS: Very clean, entered Mom's pet door and washed their hands in the water dish. Intelligent eyes pleading for food.

BEAVERS: Explanation of lengthy, widely-circulated "dam" letter is at http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/dammed.htm

[Horsetuna]

Wow, that brings back memories. Peacocks while I've never seen them in stores. But while I was growing up, for some old reason they flocked to near my parents house. So I saw alot of peacocks growing up. And they do get big (for birds anyway)

Well, I was working in the zoo at the time, not really in a store... they did try to get into the Conservatory on occasion (motion sensored doors).

[stickycoins]

All I get is Palmetto bugs and customers FREAK when they see them. They think they are roaches.