# What animals creep you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960 "2006-09-08T19:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/121 "2006-09-13T05:32:55Z")
[QUOTE=Kairos] And then there are those of us who are squicked out by animals that don’t seem to bother everyone else. A friend of mine is terrified beyond all reason by starfish. Personally, I have a strong dislike for apes and monkeys - I don’t think they’re funny, or cute, or clever. What “normal” animals creep you out? [/QUOTE] I’m with you. I think monkeys are just disgusting. They look greasy and creepy to me. I don’t think they’re cute or funny at all. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/122 "2006-09-13T05:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=Surly Chick] The worst part was that I _had_ to watch as he caught it in the _house_ :eek: and I had to make sure he finished it off. [/QUOTE] Ohh hooo…urk! I can picture this way too well. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/123 "2006-09-13T05:49:49Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] It’s nice to see that Sam is still scaring people posthumously. \*Actually \* posthumously, I mean. As opposed to just seemingly posthumously. [/QUOTE] That poor dog..(err dog?) what happened to it? ---
**Author:** ![Mulberry\_Bush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mulberry\_Bush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mulberry_Bush)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/124 "2006-09-13T10:02:22Z")
The BONOBO!! My god. I’ve kind of read about them, seen you know like, head shots. That photo! The musculature! IT WAS SO BAD! I actually felt physically ill, and irrationally, I wanted to kill them all. I know evolution now. The niche thing. It’s JUST TOO CLOSE! God all I can think about is that thing walking towards me, perfectly upright like a man, with that terrible monkey head. Everloving JESUS. I didn’t like chimps before, not THAT fond of monkeys, but man, chimps seem so wonderful in comparison… For the record, I’m afraid of dogs. I just don’t think we should be keeping close to us things that could eat us. Like, wouldn’t mind eating us. Kind of should want to eat us, really. Seeing really big, friendly dogs doesn’t seem right somehow. Like you know there is a killer in there somewhere, it’s just been sedated, and it might go off at some time. Cats, on the other hand, are not large enough to hunt things our size, do hunt smaller things to vent agression, and seem smart enough to sort of have…an agreement with you. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/125 "2006-09-13T14:24:17Z")
The agreement we have with cats is to sleep with our bedroom doors closed so they don’t kill us in our sleep. (They don’t actualy know they’re tiny.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/126 "2006-09-13T14:27:13Z")
Hey! Who stole my ‘L’? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/127 "2006-09-13T15:16:45Z")
_dancing_ La la la la la! ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/128 "2006-09-13T15:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] That poor dog..(err dog?) what happened to it? [/QUOTE] Nothing. That’s just the type of dog that he is: a Chinese Crested. They’re naturally ugly, but Sam stood out for being\* remarkably \*ugly. R.I.P little buddy! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/129 "2006-09-13T18:13:00Z")
I’ve been creeped out by Empire Penguins (or any of the larger penguin varieties ever since reading H. P. Lovecraft’s _At the Mountains of Madness_ when I was 13. _March of the Penguins_? I don’t think so. \ ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/130 "2006-09-13T19:24:40Z")
[QUOTE=John Carter of Mars] Armadillos. The bastards can have leprosy, they dig holes in the yard and no matter how many I shoot, another pack moves in. They will also dig burrows in the middle of grassy fields, and thus are a danger to horse and rider, if the burrow mouth is covered with grass and isn’t visible. Wish they’d all get leprosy and die at once! [/QUOTE] ☹ I have to at least partially agree with the cats thing–while I’m not afraid of them, and I don’t _hate_ them, I am not overly fond of the little beasties. They piss in the house and there is not a single goddamned thing I can do about it, short of shooting them, which Mr. Armadillo would frown upon. So… my I guess my guest bedroom will just have to smell like cat piss for the next fifteen years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/131 "2006-09-13T19:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=MixieArmadillo] So… my I guess my guest bedroom will just have to smell like cat piss for the next fifteen years or so. [/QUOTE] _That’s_ the spirit! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960.md?page=6)