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Have you been attacked by an animal? #6576024
07/18/19 01:09 AM
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Anybody here been attacked by an animal, domestic or wild, and how did you repel it? I’m not talking about chihuahua dog type attacks lol.

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576033
07/18/19 02:19 AM
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A bird (mackaw I think) almost took off one of my fingers.
Pit bull right above my right knee. Owner got it off right away.
My first Gray fox bit me on my thumb.
Sprayed by both strip and spotted skunks.
Had a big Tom bobcat by the back leg he kept swatting at me and my hound while I was on a steep incline which was full of snow and ice. Roughly a 200' drop if I would've lost my footing. Talk about an OS moment

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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576042
07/18/19 05:33 AM
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Georgia
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Four times by alligators while trapping.
Many times by water moccasins while hunting and trapping.
Dogs, bit holes in my hip boots.
Bulls on several occasions, as well as cows on many occasions.
Had a wounded deer come for me on two occasions.


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576061
07/18/19 06:34 AM
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williamsburg ks
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had a rooster thump me pretty good when I was about 3. adults all thought that was funny. to this day it don't end well for a rooster that gets aggressive around me. I believe the guy who invented pressure cookers had been thumped by a rooster hisself.


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576062
07/18/19 06:37 AM
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Michigan
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had a coyote in trap an another come at me from brush I shot it ,at about six feet away

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576065
07/18/19 06:39 AM
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Greene County,Virginia
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I got sprayed by a skunk in 2013.


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576066
07/18/19 06:43 AM
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had a grouse land on me in a ladder stand.blew my hat off when he left.









Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576067
07/18/19 06:45 AM
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i also believe all animals can sense i have no problem with biting them back. wink









Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576069
07/18/19 06:46 AM
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Been charged by black bears 3 different times. Once was close enough I kicked it twice.


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576071
07/18/19 06:48 AM
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yeah,i've been way too close to bear a time or 2.









Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576082
07/18/19 07:08 AM
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Roosters and dogs I hadn't provoked, angry snakes I had...

Been sprayed by skunks and swatted at by porcupines.

A rabid (I assume) raccoon attacked my dog and I one spring day while fishing. It was too close to the dog to risk shooting so I kicked it hard, sent it flying down a high bank into the Maiden Creek.

Every year for several years a pair of peregrine falcons would nest at the same spot. It was a good spot to hunt spring gobbler and they would screech and dive at me, swooping inches above my head, for seventy-five yards on either side of their nest site as I climbed up the side of the ridge.


Eh...wot?

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576089
07/18/19 07:23 AM
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Do ex-girlfriends count?

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576092
07/18/19 07:28 AM
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Eh...wot?

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576095
07/18/19 07:34 AM
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A pair of nesting fly catchers used to harass me and anyone else on certain spot along local running trail. They must have had a nest in tree nearby. Would flap wings just inches over your head in dark when you ran by. Almost sounded like snapping of electricity very weird noise in the dark. In daylight would actually peck you on top of your head. They would chase you for almost a block before they flew back. Relentless little birds.
Jim


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576100
07/18/19 07:40 AM
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Ararat, P.A.
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When I was really young my aunts dog attacked me, bit me in the face, 1/4” from my eye.

When I was 14 we had horses, one horse, a mare, small for her breed, perfectly named trinket got into with a porcupine, so while working on removing the quills she bucked, kicked me in my genitalia, and drove me into a fence, I head locked her so she couldn’t breath and she gave up.
About a month later the fairer came and she was still not fairer broke, she did one foot fine, the next she got about half done reared up and then drove me into a different fence.

Another horse named chinch, had a bad attitude, bit my arm so bad he drew blood and I still have the scar, I punched him in the nose so hard he sat down. Only way he’d let go.

We had 3 really amazing horses, and 3 absolute pains. Although out of all of them, trinket was my favorite. Because when we got her broke, she was the sweetest yet still a spit fire

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576106
07/18/19 07:52 AM
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Mink, wild dog, mountain lion(it was a small pet being playful lol, still count?)


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576108
07/18/19 07:56 AM
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Wood chucks on two occasions ,I gave them the boot, a Raccoon ran at me from a couple hundred feet away when he saw me , chased me all the way into the porch , i grabbed my handy .22 and shot him on the steps to my porch that one was rabid for sure. A 3 legged coyote come after me on my lawn tractor ,this one was really peed off snapping his jaws and acting cuckoo luckily a had a 9 mil on my hip . my daughter when she was about 3 years old got chased by a red fox while playing in an overgrown hay lot next to the house,i heard her screaming and ran out there to chase off the fox. Got bit by a Great Horned Owl chick that fell out the nest in a windstorm ,i was bringing it roadkill rabbit every day ,he bit my finger while feeding it . Them beaks are sharp!

Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576110
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When I was just little (maybe 8 or 9), I had a muskrat charge at me out of a roadside ditch... scared the crud out of me LOL. After the initial shock, I stopped to see what it was up to... I would back off a foot or two and it would very aggressively charge forward at me. Followed me about 20' down the road and when I turned my back it would rush forward to try to bite me. Never seen anything like it before or since, not sure now if it was rabid.


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Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576114
07/18/19 08:01 AM
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have also shot a half dozen coon under 10 ft while night huntin grey's.between their aggressiveness and the noise they make,they'll get ya goin a little.pack of yotes after that sick grey has also made a little hair stand up.









Re: Have you been attacked by an animal? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6576136
07/18/19 08:41 AM
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Wasps, birds, wild and domestic dogs, cattle, cats. I've got several scars from cats, one on my hip from a wild dog, a few bite scars from a raccoon.

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