Cool and that thing didnt hurt you at all

Nope. You have to be careful with them and not scare them; I guess you could say we had an "understanding".

I have to keep that in mind

I tend to feel like you can befriend any creature if you really want to. Haven't gotten brave enough to try to pet a gator out at the state park yet, though.

I'm sure they have some law against that. Generally, the state is OK with killing animals but not with touching/befriending them.

Nice of you to escort your guest to safety.

Bluh... why would killing be better than befriending? I don't see why petting or being friends with animals should be considered such a horrible thing. People just have to be careful about feeding animals in a more wild setting though, because either, they will start stalking people for food, and if it is done enough, they might lose their predatory skills, and start relying on people. But to just hang around and be around creatures... personally, I don't see the bad in that.

You can't hunt in the state park, though; fishing is OK, but not hunting, although if you catch a gator with a big hook, would that be considered fishing?

It might be considered fishing if they were fish :-P

The state doesn't want someone getting bitten or scratched. They treat such events like the apocalypse. It's why that CA cop will probably get away with murdering someone's rottweiler, and also recently in CA, another got promoted after gunning down someone's pet german shepherd. - cause it might have bit him. Might have.

It's a rare breed that goes out of their way for an animal, especially an insect. Be proud of that.

You shouldn't shoot an animal unless you are being attacked by it (or it's food, of course). If a creature isn't hurting anything, I don't see any need to kill it, and if it's in the house.. if there is a way of getting it out without major problems, then why not?

Even if you are attacked, come on...... it's a bite. I was bit by a dog as a kid. I didn't die. I just cried for a few minutes and went home to mommy :-P And I sure as hell didn't have pepper spray, a taser, body armor, and a partner with the same.
Sorry, there's a rant trying to escape from me. But yeah, I agree completely with your final sentence. I used to be involved in wildlife rehabilitation, so I've taken a few outside myself, including skunk, possum, rats, and even a little owl I had to pull out of a chimney by (gloved) hand. So you know I appreciate the thought from others.

Aww. That sounds like it'd be interesting work. Sometimes animals are more forgiving and easier to get along with than people are.

It was an adventure, and I miss it.
Yes, and generally they're less traitorous too :-P

Hehe.

Dude, I find myself doing the whole "duck-'n'-cover" act whenever I see one of those things within like 4 feet of me and you can actually HOLD them?? I've had too many bad experiences with things stinging me while I'm minding my own business, I guess. I'm glad they're so friendly to you, though!

I used to run from stuff when I was young.... stuff don't bother me as much now... my friends wonder how in the heck I can catch critters like this (or con them into walking on my paw). They are a bit more intimidating when there is a nest of them, though... you just have to be easy around them. I've only been stung once; that was by wasps that were living in the fender of a car I was working on... got them stirred up and didn't know it.

It doesn't help that I'm a little autistic, though(Aspergers). I used to get stung all the time just minding my own business. In pools, on vehicles, in the yard, mainly those places. I can deal with almost anything else, but flying NOPEs with Arse Daggers(kind of an inside joke, but you get the picture) are something I don't do.
I bet that was unpleasant, stirring up those wasps and getting stung...OUCH

Yuk... they really don't like you, do they? And the stinging by the wasps wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. My friend's mom had told me long before if that ever happened, rub mud on it, it helped, actually.

Oh cool! I didn't know that! apparently my finacé knew, though. She's making fun of me now for not knowing lol
I WAS A HALF-CITY-BOY! She's the country girl lol

Hehe! If you ever need to know anything about nature, ask a Redneck.

XD I said country girl, not redneck lol there's a difference!

No '84 Dodge up on cinder blocks, eh?

XD Nope. That would be my workshop that's on the cinder blocks. Can't use it yet though....too junked up with random stuff T__T

Aww... I approve of your letting it go rather than killing it.

Awww, thanks. Flies and roaches are the only things I just really hate. Flying bugs and spiders, I catch and put outside, well, and that stick bug that SOMEHOW got in the house that one time. No sense needlessly harming creatures that aren't hurting anything.

I guess they like you! }:=)

It took some coaxing... one reason it was in the house so long.

cool pic. Maybe you were a wasp in your past life.

I just try to get along with animals and such.

That's a handful of nope...They divebomb me. I've been stung on my hand and below my eye. The eye was as a kid looking in a tube. The hand was I bumped a riding mower they'd nested under the hood of.

They don't like you, eh? Well, if they are living in an item and you rustle it around, yea... they get riled up. Got to be careful of that. But just casually walking near them or such, I've never had an issue with it, even when I was cutting grass and they were along the backside of the house (never saw the nest, but there were a few of them). You must use "the force": **I am barely here, you don't want to poke me with your butt, I'm your friend**

I duck and move quickly away. X3 They sound like they're right by my head.

I tend to kill intruders in my territory such as this one. >_>

*hides well away from your territory*

Here, I pictured you as the nature-friendly sort.

I generally am, but not when it's in my living space uninvited.

and one of those about killed me

Allergic?

very allergic to bees

Oh, that's not good. I suppose that tends to make one a bit more leery of such things.

yes it does