Whats the closest to a dangerous animal you have ever been?

Question

I once swam with a six foot shark off a reef. No cage or anything. So me about seven or eight feet away feet. I was shitting myself but it's one of the defining moments of my life.

Answer 1

One summer a friend and I drove from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Alaska. It was around 3 am when we had to stop for a break...(at 3 am in the summer, it's still light outside in Alaska, little dusky, but light)...so we pulled off the road into this abandoned gas station parking lot.

I ambled over to this old trash can near the woods, and started to relieve myself against it, when I did, the cutest little grizzly bear cub waddled out from the other side and if you know anything about grizzly bear cubs there is ALWAYS a mom nearby. So while I kept one eye on the cub...I started slowly back pedaling and noticed that the mom was looking at me from the trees about 6 feet from me. I slowly made it back to the van...a distance I swear took me a lifetime to cover, and I still remember the ice that creeped into my veins when I locked eyes with the grizzly bear mom. A new question for you...where we're you when you peed your pants and didn't mind?

Answer 2

I stroke two tigers in Thailand......but they actually were pussycats :-).
Thailand again : a show with poisonous snakes handlers. The guys were showing how to extract the venom right into the face of the audience. I was in the front row and took pics of one just centimeters away from my face.
China : almost ran into the web of a black widow and thank god just got stopped by somebody else right on time.
cobra (Greece)........lots of others things I forgot.
Almost stepped on a viper when I was a kid.
Very very close to a raccoon.....did not know they could bite at the time.

Singapore : anonymous dangerous animal. Got bitten in the arm and leg. Some kind of flesh eating thing I suppose. That one was scary because the doctors at the hospital did not know what it was themselves. Was given antibiotics, ointments etc..did not work. My flesh was still keeping getting eaten away and it stank with pus. Even with tons of bandages, could not go out anymore.

What worked : the sun ! I stayed on the balcony for a week and it cured it. Realised that it was stopping when that awful nasty stuff was getting exposed.

Nobody has been able to explain what happened to me.

Answer 3

We were walking in the forest in the middle of the night and we heard something that sounded like a cougar. A few nights later, my friend Ashley got drunk in the same part of the forest and stumbled across a freshly killed dear; it's throat had been bitten - that's the way a cougar kills things. It must have been right there just seconds before, but had temporarily left it's prey when it heard people approaching.

A mildly poisonous spider crawled up my arm once and I freaked out; not because of the poison (I didn't recognise what type it was til later) but because I hopelessly terrified of all spiders; more so than I am of cougars.

Answer 4

I have been around many animals, but the most scared that I have ever been is with an alligator. I worked at a zoo, and we had an aliigator that had an infection from fighting with another alligator. We actually had to wrestle him down and give him shots 3X a week for 6 weeks. The gator weighed about 1500 lbs. and was about 13 feet long.

Answer 5

I had just obtained a contract in Nigeria, my wife was due to join me as soon as I had sorted our accommodation out.
My new boss was showing me a house that he thought was suitable!
As we walked up the path to the front door a massive baboon (it was almost my size) with Multi coloured striped face (and *** to match) came screaming and charging towards me from the house next door , this baboon thing also had long fangs and it was having a good froth around its mouth!!
It pulled up about a yard from where I was standing, (I had been too petrified to move)!
It was on a long rope, with a big leather collar around it's neck. I was still petrified! It stood there screaming at me and waving its long arms about, the fangs looked like they could have ripped me to bits!!
My new boss just said "You'll have to get one of these they are better than a guard dog!!"
The next morning I jumped into a nice cool swimming pool and found it was full of bloody snakes!!
I didn't stay in Nigeria for long and my wife had gone right off the idea of joining me out there!! Just no pleasing some women!!f

Answer 6

Bit Closer than that!.....

I'm very much a Dog person...... I was talking to a friend (who's dog I had never met before) and was chatting away..... Dog took interest and wanted to get friendly.... So I was busy making a fuss, etc..... Bloody Mutt was schizophrenic, and suddenly went violent ... biting me in several places.... Still have the scares, but not really noticable!

The big shock for me was, I normally 'read' dogs very well, and have no problems with 95% of them..... This one just suddenly became a totally differet dog, that even my friend could not control!!!

Hey, bring on the Shark!!!!!

Answer 7

When I was on holiday a couple of years ago, we went on a guided tour of a waterfall/nature spot, and the guide took us over to have a look in a river,then he told us to be silent,a little while later a cayman crocodile and her babies climbed off the bank into the pond.I have never been sooo scared in my life! It was about a foot and a half away from where we were,and hissing at us the whole time.Needless to say I stayed away from any water after that!

Answer 8

I was walking up my grandmaws hill from the bus in the 4th or I think 3rd grade when i heard a hisssss and I turned around to see a huge, I mean huge rattlesnake. IT was so close I could see everything when I heard it's little rattler rattle I took off running. I was so scared. Then, later on I saw a Devil snake. Me and my frineds were being idiots and threw rocks at it. Then, it just, dissipered.

Answer 9

I worked for a summer on a breeding farm to gain experience handling stallions and mares.
I was walking their head stallion (an old experienced guy) from the hot walker (a walking/exercise machine) when he started to get a bit ansty. I quickly gave him a slap with my hand on his chest telling him to behave and then all hell broke lose.
He came at me with his teeth and his front feet. All kinds of chit goes through your head at that minute. I couldn't let him go, as that would have totally given him control over me.....so I hung on for dear life, circling him, while all the time heading back to his stall, trying to avoid his teeth and feet. When I finally got him back to his stall, all the time screaming for help....I just wanted to castrate that SOB. Was I terrified? You betcha!.....but you do what do and rely on sheer instinct at times like that.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
While a stallion is a domesticated animal, they can be extremely dangerous. My daughter was attacked by one, that literally picked her up by her bum and threw her into the air and started mauling her.
Any animal with that tendency should be put down. I would never fool around with chit like that.

Answer 10

MY RABID MOTHER IN LAW...Actually I was confronted by a 75 lb chow mix which I had to groom. The vet had to sedate this dog 3 times before he would relax. He even growled the whole time I was shaving him. Very dangerous animal. And to make matters worse, an elderly couple brought the dog in and they had their infant grandchild with them. I do not know what makes people tick sometimes...But in the dog's defense, it was the owners fault..not the dogs.