What was the scariest encouter you have ever had with a wild animal? Tell me all about your experience...?

Question

Most descriptive and well written answer will get the 10 points!!

Answer 1

This isn't exactly what your looking for but it's close enough.
And, more important, it's a story worth telling.
I live in suburbia Long Island on the edge of a large wooded area with only a handful of close neighbors.
From the back of our house we get to see and feed everything.
For a dazzeling array of color and motion( and that we happen to live next to a protected bird reserve doen'tn hurt,either) we have four large bird feeders, safely hung out of harms way from sometimes overly curious cats.
The birds also povide countless hours of fascination for both us and the cats.
(Don't worry this is all going somewhere.)
We also have the same five or six deer and their young come to our rear fence sometimes two, three times a day to eat and drink from a trough we rigged.
They've been doing this on and off for about eight or nine years.
My wife'll call for them as she throws out various greens that a local vegetable stand provides us with for only a few dollars.
And just like any pet, they gratefully show up for dinner.
We're criticized for doing it.
But, let me tell you, for those few moments,.. what we get to share with them far outweighs criticism.
I'm going to assume you kinda get the picture.
Anyway,.. where working our way to the point and sorta your answer.
The beginning of last summer, the woods around us got so dry it became a serious fire hazzard. Firetrucks were constantly cutting paths in and out of the woods at the slightest smell of smoke. One afternoon, right next to our house, they came ripping, tearing and plowing their way into the woods.
Tree's they knocked down they simply drove over.
Fallen trees were everywhere.
The noise and chaos scared the hell out of our two dogs and the cats.They scattered in all four directions like their tails were on fire.
My wife, home at the time, drawn to the raquet, watched the whole thing and saw two raccoons, totally in a panick, running blindly from the path the fireman drove thru to get to safety under our rear porch. One yelling and pushing the other, badly, hurt raccoon. Obviously it was hurt in the melee of the fireman.
The racoons have been coming thru the pet door installed for our cats to eat and drink in our enclosed but open rear porch.
y wife puts out dry cat food on plates for the cats during the night (and for the raccoons).
If a cat is eating the raccoons wait until it moves than they'll finish, one piece at a time, everything that's left.
They haven't bothered the cats and the cats don't bother them.
This isn't anything new they've been doing this for years without an event of any kind.
Anyway, hours later, after everything had returned to normal, my wife call's me at work.
I can tell, after all these years, by the sound of her voice, somethings up.
So, in that," wait until you hear this", voice, she says she was cleaning the den and suddenly from he corner of her eye she saw the injured raccoon looking up from one of our pet beds.
Her immediate response was that it shook the hell out of her.
Apparently, she surmised, it must have worked it's way from under the porch and crossed it's way through another pet door that leads from the porch into the house.
"What should I do"? she asked,
"Give it plenty of room. I'll be right home,"
Ok, needless to say, when I got home, the question was, what do we do?,
I mean, hell, it was in our house sleeping in a cat bed.
Geez, this was a new one, even for us. It caused us a great deal of apprehension to say the least.
Hey, it's probaby to badly hurt to be any real threat, we reasoned. So we went into the den very carefully to see what kind of reaction we'd get from him.
He was apprehensive but didn't seem to be to badly frightened. He was definitly hurting. You could tell by how carefully he made even the slightess movement.
He had a very hard time moving at all. He obviously wasn't about to post any immediate threat, he was too badly hurt.
Any bleeding there was stopped, but one leg was very badly broken.
My wife and I knelt down and talked to him very softly in the hope of relieving any fears he may have of us.
We were fairly confident he knew we wouldn't hurt him.
After eating undisturbed on our porch for years. We talkd to them on our porch all the time. We might not have been the best of friends but they knew we weren't enemies either.
Later,we gave him dinner, water and a kitty litter. I ground up an antibiotic and an aspirin(in a small dose) mixed in his food to help fight off any infection and the aspirin was for pain.
Rudy, as we named him, stayed with us in the cat box for four months without even the slimmest of a problem. In fact he got pretty good at getting out of the way when my wife cleaned the den and his box. His one leg was permanetly crippled but he got to getting around pretty good after a while.
He still comes around, with a female, once in a while.
Well, that's it and every word is true.

Answer 2

As a kid, I encountered a badger in the woodshed. I entered through a single door, gathering what I needed, noticed a funny smell but kept on working. I finished up, turned around, and there it was by the door. No way to get out. Could not figure out how the thing got into the shed in the first place and wondered if there were more. I just stood there petrified and screamed my head off! My dad came running and opened the big double doors and flung a shovel at it to get it to leave. You never want to corner a badger, they will do some serious body damage to you. Plus, they stink really, really bad!

There was a hole in the metal sheathing on the outside, and we could see where it got in. Once it got in, it could not get out because the way the metal was bent.

Answer 3

I was on a camping safari in Botswana and we went on a Bush Walk in the middle of the brush one afternoon.

We came across an African elephant eating some sticks at a distance of about 12 feet. We hid behind the brush, but could see the elephant munching. Our guide said we should stay calm and not make any sudden movements.

Someone sneezed and the elephant went bizerk. She (it was a female) started trumpeting, stomping and moving her head and ears back and forth. She was definitely getting agitated.

We were told to stay put during her display, but she did not calm down. She then started to move towards us very quickly.

The guide and all of us took off running (the guide was the first one!!!) away from the elephant and she kept charging behind us. We ran for dear life and ran across a narrow portion of a dry river..

She didn't cross, but kept trumpeting at us.

OMG we were all laughing afterwards because we all took off screaming and yelling like you would not believe.

That was scary. I did take some pics. before the big chase..

Answer 4

Was working down in San Diego studying nesting birds and was walking in the really scrubby area (coastal sage scrub habitat) and was on a rather steep hillside. Just walking along looking up, since I was looking for birds, and saw some movement out of the corner of my eye and the minute I looked down to see what it was, it shot out towards me. It was a rattlesnake, which fianlly rattled AS it stuck at me. It missed me by about 2 inches. I leapt away, and ran down the hill away from it. Not sure how I did not break my neck in the process, like I said I was on a steep hill at the time. I was totally paranoid for the rest of the day, and had to continue to go back into that area as I had nests to check there. I have always been told the whole "snakes are more scared of us then we are them" and how they will always rattle to warn BEFORE they strike. Not true in this case.

Answer 5

I was at a summer camp in my early teens. My cabin was at the end of the row and at the bottom of a hill. I awoke in the middle of the night needing to visit the restroom. As I was about to search for my trousers and shoes, I thought, why not just step around beside the cabin, I'll be out of sight, take a leak and be done--no hiking up the hill. Barefoot, I walked around the corner and started to get ready when I heard voices, so I stepped closer to the corner--and stepped on a snake. The snake slithered off in a real hurry, I wasn't bit, but it took me no additional thought or effort to take care of the business at hand.

Answer 6

I used to have a paper route when I was about 10. One morning I was delivering papers and it was around Christmas time and this house had a bunch of fake presents on the porch. I went to drop off the paper and this apossum jumped out from behind the presents and started hissing at me. I ran like hell and it followed me for a little bit. Well it was pretty scary for a ten year old. Those things are ugly.

Answer 7

I was attacked by a Mugato once it is a large white apelike creature with a horn on its head it is extermely strong and qiuck. I was exploring in Craters of the Moon National Park the national park (where they trained the apollo moon astronauts cause it most resembles the surface of the Moon) when i came upon it it apparently was foraging for food when it saw me and then I became its new idea for breakfast I ran to escape but with several hops it caught up and overtook me tackled me and strattled me beating me against my chest and face I was able to stun it momentarily with a can of bug repelent I had in my pocket that sent it reeling back and i took this opportunity to ram it at top speed and sent the thing rolling over the steep side of the trail where it landed in a small stream stunned and confused I ran to report it to the rangers but they did nothing.

Answer 8

This butterly with purple wings that had red and blue spots along with white borders and very long antenna that seemed to be tipped in pink landed on my polyester suit.

Let me tell you something I almost soiled myself. (Oh GOD. Was that TOO descriptive??? I'm sorry...please don't take me out of the running for the 10 points).

Well I screamed like a girl and Geraldo Rivera smashed the butterfly with his beefy hands. There were butterfly guts all over my sweet polyester suit. I looked like a fool.

I told Geraldo off and had to leave the 2001 People's Choice awards in a huff.

Worst day of my life.

Answer 9

One late evening, I was walking home from the grocery store with cough medicine for my 6-year-old daughter when I sensed some movement out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to my right, already beginning to detect an odd odor, when I saw the tail of a skunk. My fight-or-flight instinct kicked in and I literally jumped up and into the street, away from the animal before it saw me. I escaped a nasty spraying, but stupidly put myself in the direct line of oncoming traffic!
I ran just a bit and jumped back onto the sidewalk before any cars came near. The skunk was gone, my heart was pounding and I felt like I was going to faint. My fear of being sprayed by a stinky animal could have cost me my health or life!
I hurried along before the skunk could return and took the medicine to my child.

Answer 10

I was paid once to have sex with a wild wolf. It was scary. I lost an arm and my neck got out a good chunk. I don't know why I did it though. I guess I really needed the $500. I'm not gonna tell every detail, but I guess the wolf must of been more mad, Found out later it was a male, not female. I think I'm gay now.

Answer 11

It was when I was tenting in a national park in Uganda, first the tent lines were tweaked by something and the whole tent leaned to one side for a few seconds. Then, about a foot outside the tent, came a series of deafening roars for several hours, inbetween which, I heard other tenters who went out to investigate yell "Get back inside, there are lions!!". I shook with fear until daybreak. Luckily, it was last night in the park anyway.