Ever been attacked by a WILD animal?

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The Arizona Game and Fish Department offers these tips for dealing with mountain lions:
Don't hike, jog or ride a mountain bike alone in mountain-lion country.
Supervise children closely. Because of their size, they are more likely to be attacked.
Never approach a mountain lion. Most will try to avoid a confrontation. Give them an avenue of escape.
Stand and face the animal, making eye contact. Pick up your child, but do not crouch or bend over to do so. To a lion, a person crouched or bent over looks like a prey animal.
Never run. That is exactly what a prey animal would do.
Do all that you can to make yourself appear larger. Raise your arms, open your shirt or jacket. Wave your arms slowly and yell.
Do not scream. A high-pitched scream can sound like the noise made by injured prey.
If attacked, fight back. Use rocks, sticks, a camera or even bare hands.


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[Cybordolphin]

When I was a kid..... my brother talked me into stalking a skunk, and shooting it with a b.b. gun.....lol. Well I managed to piss it off pretty good. It squirted in the dirt, and then kicked the soiled dirt up onto my clothes.

I was not too welcome at home that evening.


Not sure if that counts.

 

[yakko]

<< Ever been attacked by a WILD animal? >>


Yeah. She was really hot too.

 

[atom]

I was attacked by a wild bee once.

 

[Windogg]

Everytime my girlfriend is drunk and horny.

 

[Isla]

I was out jogging with one of my babies a few years ago and three stray dogs started to charge me aggressively.

I jumped in front of my stroller (to protect my kid) and started whooping (in my deepest voice) and lunging at the dogs like a mad woman. I had already picked out the 'leader' and was prepared to kick the crap out of him if he got any closer.

The dogs just kind of slowed down, backed up, and ran off in another direction. (I'm sure they were thinking I was totally nuts!)

The key is in communication!

 

[urbantechie]

You go Isla!!

 

[JellyBaby]

A barn owl engaged me once at night. I managed to duck and do a sideroll out of harms way but the incident rather freaked me out. Never underestimate those hooters.

 

[BoberFett]

My cat had a chipmunk cornered so I tried to save it. The little bastard bit me. I let the cat have it.

 

[Dedpuhl]

When I was little I was pinched by a blue crab

 

[loup garou]

When I was a kid, I shot a nutria in the ass with a slingshot. It pissed him off thoroughly, and he chased me for a good 200 yards back to my hunting camp.

For those who don't know what a nutria is, it's an aquatic rodent, kinda like a beaver, but with a rat tail. It's got huge (3-4 in) razor sharp incisors. Here's a skull pic that'll show ya the chompers on that sucker.

 

[Dedpuhl]

nutria rats are scary. They WILL chase you if they are threatened...as werk found out.

 

[ManSnake]

I have a friend, his friend's friend's friend was once attacked by a bear!

 

[loup garou]

Oh! I almost forgot, when I was in Wyoming a few years back, a bison charged our rental minivan and put a nice big dent in it. The rental company knew exactly what had happened when they saw it...luckily we had &quot;bison insurance.&quot;

 

[SSP]

I was attacked by a crow. It hurts.. the fscking bitch kept scraching my head with its claws.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

yes, I seem to recall slightly inverting the shell to its mode of transportation. Damn, that thing went nucking futs

 

[Snipa]

Yeah, twice actually.
Once by a ostrich. I was like 8 or 9 and my mom and I were at the zoo. She told me to go stand by the fence so she could take a picture of me. While she was taking a picture an ostrich ran up and pecked me on the head and neck several times. My mom came up and started slapping it in the head. It finally ran off. Okay, so technically it is not a &quot;wild animal&quot; because it was in captivity, but I'm going to count it.

Second time, I was at a golf course and I hit my ball into the ruff down by a pond. A mother goose and her babies were near my ball. When I went to hit my ball, the mother goose charged me and started pecking me and hitting me with her wings. I didn't really want to hurt it, so I took off running. Only thing was, mother goose wasn't about to let me off that easy. She started chasing me. I must have ran around for like 200 yds. She kept pecking me in the back and legs. I couldn't out run her because she would half run and half fly. So finally I whacked her with my 7 iron. Just in the body though. That was enough of a deterrent. She was fine I guess. She lay there for a second, then got up and started back towards her babies. Needless to say, I had to hit a new ball

 

[3615buck]

I was once attacked by a horse !
We were feeding it and it suddenly tried to bite &quot;you know what&quot; !!!
I jumped back and only lost some hair but fortunately &quot;you know what&quot; wasn't hurt...

 

[slipperyslope]

that is some funny sh$t......

Jim

 

[Raspewtin]

Once when I was feeding some animals at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, all the antelopes started ganging up on me and started chewing on my clothing instead of the food I was giving them. I pretty much lost my shirt in that one (literally). I also had a giraffe spit/lick on me once (it was so gross!).

 

[PCAddict]

I got attacked by a duck once at a petting zoo when I was a kid. I had nightmares for almost a month.


What part of the country are these nutria rats found? I remember seeing something that fit the description years ago. Damn thing chased my friend because he startled it. I pumped five rounds into it from a CO2-powered BB pistol and it stopped chasing him and ran the other way.

 

[DaBoneHead]

I got nailed by a goat when I was six... that bastard sneaked up on me *wham*



I too have been chased by a goose several times. Not fun, they do bite hard. you have to turn and confront them. Once they got you on the run, they become like Oprah chasing a bag of cheetos.... totally unstoppable.

 

[perry]

<< Never underestimate those hooters. >>



Amen.

 

[loup garou]

Nutria are a huge problem in Louisiana (where I am), but I think they can be found anywhere there are marshes. They were accidentally imported from Asia and now, with no natural predators are eating away the Louisiana coastline.

 

[Elita1]

I was attacked three times.
1.Once by a horse when I was 12 years old; I was picking wildflowers at a friend's farm and didn't know the horse was behind me chewing grass. Suddenly I felt a sharp horrible pain in my back as I was thrown to the ground. I was so stunned and in pain I couldn't move so I just lay there with my face in the grass. I could hear the stupid horse still kicking in the air and bucking. Eventually he trotted away and I slowly got up and made my way back to the farmhouse. Then my brain registered somebody laughing. I looked up and there was my friend, rolling on the grass and laughing his head off. Apparently he saw the whole thing and didn't lift a finger to help me.
Needless to say we weren't friends anymore:|
2.The second time was by a psycho parrot that belonged to my grandma and she would let it roam free. I think my grandma had a secret joy from watching that crazy animal attack people's heads as they walked by its perch. It landed on my head but I instinctively grabbed it (this was a BIG tropical parrot--not your average budgie) and flung it down. The dumb bird got up and started running towards me beak open and screeching:&quot;HI, SUGAR BOOGER!!&quot; at me.
What a psycho bird.
3.The third one was also by a parrot, a Macaw(a big-ass parrot), who was also psychotic and belonged to a friend of my grandma's who ALSO let it roam free(do you see a pattern here?)
My cousin and I went swimming at this lady's house and she has a whole menagerie of tropical birds roaming around in her back yard. The meanest of these was Ceasar the Macaw, who upon seeing us started chasing us around the pool, laughing maniacally the whole way. My cousin was smart enough to wack him with her towel and buy us enough seconds to jam ourselves in the little change room by the pool.
And there we stayed, while outside Ceasar paced back and forth patiently, chuckling gleefully(I am not making this up)until the lady came out to check on us and realized there was no one in the pool. She locked Ceasar up for the remainder of our visit.