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What kind of critters do you have on your layout?

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Posted by overall on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:40 AM
I have some farm animals I will set out when I build my farm scene. One time, I trapped my neighbor's (real) cat in my layout room . When I got in from work that night, she heard me and started meowing really loud so I would let her out. Her paw prints are on my control panel to this day.

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Posted by csxt30 on Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:03 AM
Well, ya never guess what was in my mountain this morning!! I was adding plaster around a little cave area & out came a little black spider!! HA![:)],WELL," HE IS NOW SET IN STONE ", AS they say!! I wonder if he was in the critter catagory. And here I thought I wouldn't have anything for this subject! Thanks, John
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Posted by underworld on Friday, March 25, 2005 9:38 PM
Well the only intentional ones that I have right now are some reindeer. Then the unintentional and intermitant.....little dogs and cats of visiting friends.......
real dogs and cats!

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Posted by FJ and G on Friday, March 25, 2005 6:51 PM
tom,

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Posted by lfdrr65 on Friday, March 25, 2005 6:50 PM
This really nasty critter keeps showing up on my layout trying to derail my trains.

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Posted by spankybird on Friday, March 25, 2005 5:52 PM
And you can’t forget Birdzilla[}:)]







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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 5:41 PM
Got some dear, ducks, fish, turtles... even big foot
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 5:03 PM
I got lucky and found an owl and beaver---Perfect O Scale-- in my kids toys...very nice next to the plasticville cabin....Also a couple of gray wolves for a little higher up the mountain...sorry no pics yet...Dan
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 4:56 PM
Just a Arttista dog peeing on a hydrant. I'm not a "pet person". Joe
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Posted by cnw1995 on Friday, March 25, 2005 4:35 PM
I want to add a dauschund too - for Rudy the wonder weiner dog. And a possum. Right now I have a one-antlered moose - and an assortment of Britains and ancient Lionel farm animals - plus a collie in his doghouse.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Friday, March 25, 2005 4:31 PM
I like the BB and Assoc. scene. That there is a big cottontail. [;)]

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Posted by Dr. John on Friday, March 25, 2005 2:41 PM
Tom, thanks for sharing the pictures.

Actually, I was speaking of intentional, but any kind will do!
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Posted by underworld on Friday, March 25, 2005 10:49 AM
Intentional or unintentional????? [:p]

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Posted by Roger Bielen on Friday, March 25, 2005 10:38 AM
The usual cattle, horses, and dogs with a few elk on the mountain. Luckily the only scorpions I find are dead and on the floor. Though there are a lot of mouse droppings in the garage area of the barn I haven't found any sign of mice in the train room.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 10:35 AM
Just an occasional cat! [:)]

Non living aniamals....deer, horses, cows, fish in a pond, dogs, and cats.
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Posted by FJ and G on Friday, March 25, 2005 9:33 AM
mostly spiders that come in out of the cold incl furry brown recluse spiders
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Posted by spankybird on Friday, March 25, 2005 8:40 AM
Chief is right, we have a few on our layout.





















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Posted by ChiefEagles on Friday, March 25, 2005 8:17 AM
No critters yet. Since I'm going to be doing NS, think the part going through Ohio will have two critters. Buckeye and Tom. [;)] I know Tom has some scattered all over his layout. I'm sure Jimbo does too.

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What kind of critters do you have on your layout?
Posted by Dr. John on Friday, March 25, 2005 7:51 AM
Now that I'm living in the "sticks" I get to see all kinds of critters and varmints out my way: deer, turkeys, silver and red fox, coyote all kinds of birds, opossums, racoons, squirrels and of course, dogs and cats.

I think I will add some of the above to my layout. It's fun to hide them in a clump of trees or an out of the way area so that guests, especially children can hide them. I hope to find (or make) a couple of dachshunds to represent Misty & Rocky, the wonder weiner dogs, and give them a prominent place near a fire hydrant (or food!) [:D]

What kind of critters do you have on your layout?

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