Ridiculous mistakes !

Bless you or being so caring! I always rescue (with a twig or some such) worms when I see they have arrived in a puddle. Bumble bees can be helped when exhausted by giving them a tiny bit of sugar water and letting them rest.

I applaud your humanity - but maybe you should get an eye test if driving - I say this kindly, as a short-sighted person.
Take care!

I’m so pleased to see that others rescue even the smallest creature.

This reminds me of something that happened to me but the other way round. I nudged with a bare big toe something I took to be a bit of fluff from the vacuum cleaner. It jumped 2 foot in the air! Heart beating rapidly, I saw it was a frog one of my cats had brought in.

I had a large distinctive looking spider that had lived peacefully and happily for about two years behind my vegetable rack. One morning I found him in my sink unable to get out, I carefully picked him up and gently dropped him just behind me knowing he would safely scuttle back to his corner.
However what I didn’t know was that my Labrador had softly padded in and sat behind me.
There was a great smacking of lips and my spider was no more!

I felt absolutely awful

What lovely stories of kind people x

I often pick up earthworms that for some reason are lying on the pavement - I suspect dropped by birds. I need to find a twig or something though - don’t like using fingers!

Dd1 evidently started the way she meant to go on - at 2 after I’d left her with MiL for a while, she came and showed me a very dried up worm in her hand. ‘Just look at this poor ickle worm Mummy - isn’t it sad?’

Much later, in her 20s, she had an Italian boyfriend who would get exasperated by her need to rescue wasps and other insects from swimming pools.
‘Maybe he want to suicide himself!’ 😂

I picked off what looked like a piece of black fluff from the shower door and it felt hard. Turned out to be a tiny black ladybird. Then I found two more in the windowsill.
They must be waking up.

NotSpaghetti never fear, I can’t drive never have, it was my husband at the wheel !

My neighbour was cursing her dog for having relieved himself in the porch when suddenly it hopped off!

What on earth was it ? The mind boggles !

It was a toad!

Not an animal one, but my DH once spent ages scrubbing at a stain on a new carpet, only to realise eventually that it was the shadow of a vase on the windowsill!

When young my niece loved slugs - she had a glass tank that she kept some in. She used to pull her gran around the streets looking for them in walls and cracks, put them in her tank and take them home to let them live in gran's garden. Every night gran used to go out looking for slugs in the garden and disposing of the, else where.

AskAlice My husband and I have just been laughing ourselves silly over that stain !
AreWeThereYet I once heard a woman in our local shop telling the assistant how her husband dealt with slugs by throwing them over their back garden wall. Yes you’ve guessed it. I recognised her as her house was/is right behind ours !

Awwwwww ....

You're not on your own hahahaha.

I used to clean for a lady who lived on a farm. I went into her kitchen and thought there was a dead mouse on the floor in the corner, I have to add at this point that I didn't have my glasses on, so there I am thinking ohhhh no, a dead mouse, i will have to pick it up, ughhhhh

I grabbed loads of kitchen roll and bent down to scoop up the dead mouse only to discover it was a flippin used TEA BAG 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

In a bit of a state one day, many years ago, I dashed upstairs to see our cat asleep were he wasn't supposed to be asleep. "What are you doing there?" I yelled only to realise that I was shouting at my black suede boots, abandoned on the floor!!

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Years ago, I saw a hedgehog in the garden, at night. I went out with some cat food, which I left beside it. The next morning, I saw the hedgehog was still there - it was an upturned flowerpot!

😂😂😂

Fair2good

AskAlice My husband and I have just been laughing ourselves silly over that stain !
AreWeThereYet I once heard a woman in our local shop telling the assistant how her husband dealt with slugs by throwing them over their back garden wall. Yes you’ve guessed it. I recognised her as her house was/is right behind ours !

I hope you stood waiting with a tennis racquet to bat them back over the wall 🤣

Some of us are silly Billy's aren't we laugh 😆 🤣 😂 😅

DD's friend stared across their farm and said "I've been watching those sheep for ages and they haven't moved at all".
DD said "They're hay bales".

Serendipity your experience reminds me of when I went to pick up a teabag from the sink only to discover that it was a bat.

Greenfinch

Serendipity your experience reminds me of when I went to pick up a teabag from the sink only to discover that it was a bat.

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