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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

an uninvited visitor

It was evening, I was just stepping into the patio after watering some plants when the dogs made a mad dash into the kitchen. I heard something fall and break and a noise coming from somewhere in the laundry room. I quickly went to see what the commotion was all about. I opened the laundry room door and lo and behold there was this young monkey perched on my clothes line trying to find a way out! I shouted to my hubby that there was a monkey in the house! I ran for my camera and pointed at it to take a shot! The monkey looked very scared and with me pointing this thing at it, I wasn't sure what it might do. It started to look at me intently so I backed off after taking one shot. Now there is a back door to this room and it was locked. I decided to still go and check to see if I had left it unlocked by mistake but I lucked out. I didn't know where the key was so I went on a crazy search. The first bunch of keys I found, none of them fitted. I then had a hunch that the key was in a drawer in the kitchen since the lock was changed about a year ago. I found a number of keys on a bunch and one all alone. I tried the single key and presto it unlocked the door! Now I was scared to open the door since I was dealing with a wild animal. I called my hubby to come and open the door for me but the dogs followed him to the back door. So that plan didn't work so it was up to me to open the door after my husband had taken the dogs away. I quickly opened the door and ran around the corner and peeped out. Then the wind started up and it began to close the door, so I had to run back and open it and lodged a piece of wood as a door stop. I did that with lightning speed ! I ran like the devil was after me and peeped (not peed) from behind a wall to see what the monkey was doing. I got braver and started calling it out. The monkey looked at me and moved a bit closer to the door. Then I saw something coming from the rear of him in two drops, I said oh shit...... he is crapping in my laundry room ... I knew that he and I were both scared, and we loosely use the term "scared the crap out of me" after being startled. This was the first time I have ever seen it in action. I really scared the crap out of him .....LOL ! It then jumped down and crawled out the door, looked to see if the coast was clear and slowly walked away. There have been cases where monkeys have attacked and killed dogs when cornered so we were very careful not to alert the dogs when it left the room. I suspect that it came into the house whilst both my husband and I were out in the garden with the dogs. We always leave the doors open so the monkey probably looking for food wandered into the kitchen. I remembered seeing a monkey that same size a day before in my driveway and thought that it was just passing through. In the 13 years we have been living here never had any monkeys come this close to the house. I see them in the garden from time to time but this is the first visit we have had from one and hopefully the last. I now have to go and clean up the crap, not much but I'd rather prefer not to perform this task. Whew what an evening!!! It was a lot of monkey business!! If I sound incoherent please excuse me!

15 comments:

  1. That was an interesting encounter! .... cheers! ~ bangchik

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  2. Very interesting......I can't deal with another like this LOL thanks for stopping by

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  3. The most interesting critter to ever enter our house, was an itty bitty little garter snake.He was about the size of a pencil. Our cat had him cornered, so we gently removed him back out to the garden.

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  4. Wish I was there mum ROFLMAO!!!!!!! :)

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  5. Lauren if you were here I would have sent you in to open the door! Remember when that half dead rat came into the house? Where were you? Hiding behind me of course!

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  6. Good fun!
    Sounds similar to when my roomates and I had to deal with a 'hopaway' frog that got into the apartment in Martinique. Well 'crapaud' really.
    It's never fun when ur dealing with it but afterwards it makes a great story.
    lol

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  7. Wow!!Worst think we've ever had was a snake(we think it was a brown Florida water snake),toads,and lizards.
    The monkey woulda scared the cr@p outta me!
    Nice you got a picture tho.

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  8. Chris and Jon it did scare the crap out of him...in my laundry room LOL!

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  9. The chances of that happening here are zero (I'm in Bermuda. I recognized your Heliconia rostrata, though).

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  10. Do you have any monkeys in Bermuda?

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  11. Monkeys. Heck no. Urchins, yes.

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  12. ROTFLMAO!! What an entertaining story!! Hi! My name is Raquel and I live in Trinidad, I found your blog while looking online for help and advice on how to start a flower garden, I have little or no experience in planting but I do love and admire beautiful gardens.

    It was a pleasure meeting you and I am off to explore your blog some more!

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  13. Welcome to my blog Racquel. It is so nice to meet bloggers from the islands. I have been over to see your blog and your garden in making. I will be checking in on you from time to time.Nice meeting you.

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  14. Hi, my name is Cheryl and I live in Christ Church, Barbados. I just came across your beautiful garden and its very peaceful. I am not very good at looking after a garden but I just love flowers, they give me such a warm and fresh feeling in side.

    Hope I will able to experience your wonderful scenery up close some day.

    Have a blessed and peaceful day.

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  15. That was some experience!! It's not uncommon to have monkeys entering homes and opening fridge and eating and making some racket and leaving here :) It has happened at my parents' place and I always take loads of pictures... not inside the house though, always from (safely) inside!!

    This was brave of you!! I would have been terrified!!

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