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A bat, eh? Quite the bad cat. Congrats. The best Pookie has done is a salamander, which thankfully I rescued. Pookie was a little pissed but eventually she got over it.
I'm with James though... my poor Pookie can hardly stand a trip to the vet, which is only five minutes away. I cannot imagine taking her on a plane anywhere.
(btw -- I don't genuinely like the name "Pookie" but if you met her you would understand. She IS a Pookie. My other cat was named "Moon Pie." I didn't name Pookie, she did it to herself. And we're all fortunate to serve her.)
But on the scorpion topic... if you can't tell, I'm from Texas -- Houston more specifically -- and my dad has had a ranch out in Sealy since before I was born. Scorpions were a regular sight, unfortunately, and I ALWAYS heard they were poisonous. Perhaps poisonous but not enough to kill a human being? I do not know. Anyhow, I've never been stung, but my mom was, and my dad did one of those heroic "sucking out the venom" maneuvers. So honestly I really don't know if you can compare a scorpion bite to a bee sting... but I could be way off on this one.
What I DO know is that on our recent trip for our wedding (two weeks in September) I was completely blown away to hear that a five-inch long scorpion (okay the girls had been drinking a lot) had been found on the wall in the room of my two friends! They called my other friends, who were in the same building, who fished the thing off of the wall into a trash can and threw it outdoors. Upon hearing this I reacted in horror, "Well you DID kill the thing, didn't you??" to which they replied, "Um... yeah... sure." Goodness gracious. I am scared to death of the critters (no offense Critterman) and think of them as more desert-type insects. Really surprised to hear they live in PDC!
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