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Your encounters with wildlife

InTheKnow said:
Not mine, but someone else in Arizona:

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Is it owling?
 
Let's see.

Had a leech on my leg once after crossing a shallow pond.

Was bitten by a mystery snake in the Dan River in good old Stokes County.

Was bitten on the hand by a blacksnake.

Was bitten in the face by a blacksnake.

Lived in a house for a couple of years where a black bear would wander into the backyard every couple of weeks.

Been attacked by an opossum defending her young. She only scratched my pants leg, did no damage to me, but I did scream like a girl.

Rescued a fox that was trapped in a barn by a gaggle of geese once. I felt bad for it. It was cornered and the geese were ripping out chunks of its fur.

I deal with copperheads on a regular basis in my backyard. Most of my dogs have been bitten multiple times.

Had to wrangle three baby squirrels out of my attic once. They were pissed.

Got a brain damaged/blind squirrel out of my attic once, released it in my front yard only to have my weimaraner bring it to me on the deck a few hours later. It started spazzing out so all the other dogs went into a frenzy. Had to get animal control to come get it to make sure it was not diseased.

Had a flying squirrel in my parents house around Christmas time once. It was in there for weeks and no one could catch it or kill it. I was in their living room one night and it jumped out of the christmas tree and glided across the room. Again, dog frenzy. (GRISWOLDS!) Finally got him with poison.

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of right off the top of my head.
 
drew said:
Been bitten on the left hand by a small copperhead, bitten on the right hand by a black widow, bitten on the heel by a black snake, stung on the leg by a Portuguese man o war.
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Brangus said:
I've been struck by a rattlesnake (shot him).
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How about a little more detail? What the heck happens next after you're bitten by a rattlesnake? Copperhead? Black widow? Man-o-war? Hospital visit?
 
PhillyDeac said:
Used to take my Boxer out back of my house to a wide open field (basically about 300 yards) that backed up to woods.. very well lit field too.. Their were foxes that lived in those woods. One night, about 1am, I let my boxer off her leash as I always did to run around.... When she crossed paths with the Foxes heading back to their woods. They simply crossed paths and were at a stand still. My boxer is TOUGH, and fears nothing...the foxes were probably about 10 lbs lighter, but there were 3 of them.... they stood about 10 feet away from each other, everyone slowly backed away... It looked like it was going to be a massive throw down, at which point I would have no idea what to do....
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Coincidentally, there are a couple of foxes that have recently appeared in our neighborhood. I see them from time to time walking my dogs. Usually I see them from afar and they seem pretty shy. Tonight, this one was a bit closer and as it was in the process of crossing the road, it stopped and stared at us as we walked down the road toward it. We stopped too. Then the fox started walking toward us. I got nervous, reversed course, and started walking the other way, and the fox started trotting after us. At this point I'm waiting for this fox to go nuts and attack, but fortunately after following us for a bit it veered off into the woods.
 
Unpredeactable said:
the story obviously ended there mr. nosey
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I just like when you throw out something like, "I've been bit by a copperhead, black widow spider, and stung by a Portuguese man-o-war" and then just leave it at that, as if we wouldn't be interested in the aftermath. DETAILS, PEOPLE.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
I just like when you throw out something like, "I've been bit by a copperhead, black widow spider, and stung by a Portuguese man-o-war" and then just leave it at that, as if we wouldn't be interested in the aftermath. DETAILS, PEOPLE.
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naw i feel ya. gotta tweet the deets
 
I have lots of experiences with wild chickenheads
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Coincidentally, there are a couple of foxes that have recently appeared in our neighborhood. I see them from time to time walking my dogs. Usually I see them from afar and they seem pretty shy. Tonight, this one was a bit closer and as it was in the process of crossing the road, it stopped and stared at us as we walked down the road toward it. We stopped too. Then the fox started walking toward us. I got nervous, reversed course, and started walking the other way, and the fox started trotting after us. At this point I'm waiting for this fox to go nuts and attack, but fortunately after following us for a bit it veered off into the woods.
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Wow, that is incredibly nice of them. :D
 
Remembered a more recent one. A squirrel got into my house last winter and got stuck in the basement. I put on gloves and chased him around for a while but he was too quick for me, so I had to call a service. When the guy came over we went down to the basement to look for the squirrel. We are wandering all over the basement, shining flashlights, and talking in regular voices, when all of a sudden I spot the squirrel - taking a nice nap on an old towel on a shelf. He didn't wake up even though I was 3 feet from him shining a flashlight and talking.

The pest control guy went out to the truck and got a trap, and we just scooped him in there. Of course he woke up and got pissed then but it was too late. I even got my old towel back. The pest control guy refused to charge me full price because he said it was the easiest squirrel job he'd ever had.
 
Deacon923 said:
Remembered a more recent one. A squirrel got into my house last winter and got stuck in the basement. I put on gloves and chased him around for a while but he was too quick for me, so I had to call a service. When the guy came over we went down to the basement to look for the squirrel. We are wandering all over the basement, shining flashlights, and talking in regular voices, when all of a sudden I spot the squirrel - taking a nice nap on an old towel on a shelf. He didn't wake up even though I was 3 feet from him shining a flashlight and talking.

The pest control guy went out to the truck and got a trap, and we just scooped him in there. Of course he woke up and got pissed then but it was too late. I even got my old towel back. The pest control guy refused to charge me full price because he said it was the easiest squirrel job he'd ever had.
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that's what they're calling it these days?
 
I was driving on 77/64 in West Virginia (beautiful in the fall) when I noticed a bunch of Wild Turkey's on the side of the road up ahead. There was about 5-6 on one side of the road and 3-4 on the other side. Apparently the 3-4 wanted to join their friends and cross the road but they decided to do this as a Semi was barreling along at 70 mph.

The semi hit 2 turkey's pretty much dead on. One hit the grill, then cracked the windshield and popped over the top of the truck. The other turkey caught the grill and then took out the driver's side mirror. I was on the phone while it happened and had to hang up because I was laughing so hard. Luckily, all the turkey's (dead and alive) were off the road by the time I drove through the scene, only the feathers from the deceased turkey's were in my way.
 
When we were driving up to Alaska there was a moose with a decent rack on the shoulder of the road somewhere in eastern British Columbia. Definitely slowed down enough to get a blurry picture but I swerved way the crap over because I knew that thing would absolutely destroy my friend's truck. Did see a caribou from a distance too but too far to take a picture. No bear or bison sightings. :(
 
I was playing golf in Asheville on the municipal course. We are the tee of a hole that slopes up hill and dog-legs to the right. As I'm about to swing, another guy in our group says "holy shit don't swing". I look up to see two bear cubs running across the fairway about 100 yards from us. They are soon followed by the mama bear who slowly walks across, apparently not concerned for our pace of play. Other than getting a hole in one, it was the coolest moment I've had on a golf course.

Another time, me and my dad were camping up along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Around 9 pm, we are getting finishing supper and just talking by the fire when we hear something in the bushes. It sounds about the size of a small dog, but seems very slow and curious. Turns out to be a huge skunk; he comes walking through the camp, sniffing everything. At one point he turns to look at us and then keeps on walking. We froze, didn't move a muscle and just waited for him to leave.
 
In Vancouver, I went whale watching for orcas. Also saw some humpbacks swimming alongside our cruise ship up the Alaskan coast. It swas summer time, so we saw them out at close to midnight with the sun still shining. Definitely one of the cooler experiences I've had.
 
I'm pretty sure the coolest thing I've ever heard of any of my friends doing is one friend who went down in a shark cage in South Africa. He took some pictures of the great whites that couldn't have been more than 10 ft away, maybe closer.
 
I ran into a tree branch with a wasp nest in it which fell down my shirt. Got stung over 100 times and was unconscious for 24 hours or so.

Saw a crocodile (not an alligator which would have made some sense) running down the beach in IOP last year around 5 AM. Animal control assumed it must have been a pet.
 
The past few summers there has been a fox on the 6th hole of the Wilmington Municipal Golf Course that just walks/lays around up by the green. I played quite a bit in the evenings after work the past couple summers and would see it every single time. It kinda freaked me out walking past it the first couple times.

I played out there a few weeks back and it wasn't there so I'm not sure if something may have happened to it.
 
I remembered some cool ones

I was climbing an old tree at my sisters house, and when i got about 25-30 feet up I came face to face with a hollow in the trunk, and there was this huge orange owl that was sleeping there. I'm pretty sure that if I had awoken it, it would have fucked me up, and I would have fallen out of the tree.

I think this story is a pretty ironic. I have gone Turkey hunting once or twice in the past, and have never seen a single Turkey on a hunt. When I was in ROTC I spent a summer at Fort Knox, and we had M16 marksmanship training pretty often. One morning on the qualifying range, a flock(?) of 10-15 wild Turkeys randomly walked onto the range, zigzagging around and in front of the popup targets. Everyone had to stop shooting immediately, and we waited like 30 minutes for the Turkeys to leave the range.
 
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