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SophieM

Panic attacks/hysterics/screaming heeby jeebies

SophieM, 31 March, 2008 at 22:14

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Tonight for the first time in my life I experienced this. Back story: for a while I've had an annoying pigeon couple nesting right outside my kitchen window and I've had to chase them out of the kitchen a couple of times. Very annoying and rather freaky. Tonight I got home and went into the kitchen...

Tonight for the first time in my life I experienced this.

Back story: for a while I've had an annoying pigeon couple nesting right outside my kitchen window and I've had to chase them out of the kitchen a couple of times. Very annoying and rather freaky. Tonight I got home and went into the kitchen and saw bird poo on the floor and counter, and a broken glass on the floor. Feeling a bit shook up, I went through to the living room, turned on the light and surveyed a bit more devastation - poo on the floor and another broken glass. Then I turned around and saw two pigeons perched on top of my clothes airer on my clean washing.

I completely freaked out. I screamed and screamed, the bird panicked and flew frantically around the living oom, I screamed some more, ran around the flat closing all the doors and opening the front door and tried to chase them out. One of them made it out, the other carried on panicking and flapping around with me panicking and screaming, and it ended up on the desk hiding behind the computer screen. At that point I phoned loml, still hyperventilating and crying, and went and hi in the bathroom for half an hour while he came back from work.

He managed to coax it out (with much "Oh, poor little scared bird, there there" and then I was able to emerge from the bathroom and collapse on his shoulder in tears.

We've jst finished cleaning up the mess and I have a gin and tonic and a fag.

I'm normally a reasonably placid person, just normally frightened of spiders and the lik. I'm really surprised by how baly I freaked out and how scared and shuddery I'm still feeling.

I guess I have something of a pigeon phobia. Who knew?

???

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  • pans
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    Oh my god Soapy I would be FREAKING. Thats horrible. I would have thought that someone had broken in at first, let alone a bird.

    I would be exactly the same if that makes you feel any better !

    Have another fag and another G&T. And can you have a fag for me please. I really cant give in but really fancy one recently.

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    quote:Originally posted by HaloHoney
    This is going to sound horrible to the peeps with bird phobias, but the kindest way of catching them is to throw a sheet over them, it sort of parachutes over them and contains them very gently so they don't flap too much and panic.

    I have a canary so I'm used to handling birds. It also means you can usually get away without touching them which can freak both them and you out.

    Poor Soaps. I've seen a house after a crow got into it (student house - fell down the chimney!) It looked like they had been burgled.

    Hope the gin is calming you. ?
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    Jesus I thought that said cow. The sentence "How the hell does a cow get into a house" was just starting to form in my head when I read the bit about it falling down the chimney. I need to go to sleep.
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  • Ginger
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    I would have had a right panic too, i fact i did only a couple of weeks ago. I was fast asleep in bed on a sunday morning, when i got woken up by a huge blackbird flapping round my room, i screamed so much the dog panicked and shat on the landing. Nice.

    My cat lovingly bought the bird in.

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  • K
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    Oh god Sophie, I would have been exactly the same as you, it makes me feel funny thinking about it. For what it is worth I am not bothered about spiders either. Just birds and especially pigeons.

    Hope that you are ok today and managed to get a good nights sleep ?

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  • HaloHoney
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    quote:Originally posted by Sun Flower
    quote:Originally posted by HaloHoney
    This is going to sound horrible to the peeps with bird phobias, but the kindest way of catching them is to throw a sheet over them, it sort of parachutes over them and contains them very gently so they don't flap too much and panic.

    I have a canary so I'm used to handling birds. It also means you can usually get away without touching them which can freak both them and you out.

    Poor Soaps. I've seen a house after a crow got into it (student house - fell down the chimney!) It looked like they had been burgled.

    Hope the gin is calming you. ?
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    Jesus I thought that said cow. The sentence "How the hell does a cow get into a house" was just starting to form in my head when I read the bit about it falling down the chimney. I need to go to sleep.

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    Cows nest on roofs in Reading, don't you know? They fall down a chimney as such though, they sort of smash a big hole through the roof, ceilings, and floors until they land on the ground floor. Hence the mess.

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  • cariad
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    I had a bat in the shop the other day and me and a bride screamed the place down and fizzy hid behind a big dress


    luckily my mum had called in and she saved the day or i would still be trembling upstairs


    poor soph ?

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