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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3881 Joined: 2 Dec 2007     | |
Beat Writer Posts: 209 Joined: 17 Jun 2008    | I have a neighbour who's a deer and another one who is a fox. The fox has been running around peoples yards, and the deer was walking down the street. The thing though, is that I live in the capital of Sweden. Big town. No forest. It was interesting. |
Muckraker Posts: 322 Joined: 18 Jan 2008    | When I was in high school, I frequently had to wait in the road while driving somewhere because a bunch of cows decided the grass was greener on the other side of the road. I don't care what anyone says, cows are stupid. And slow. Like zombies! ..oh, wait, you said wildlife. Once, I was driving home at night, and noticed a deer running in the field next to me. I figured I would hit it if I kept going at the speeds I was driving at, so I slowed down. The deer changed it's running trajectory with my slowing down such that I STILL wound up hitting it. At least I was going <10 mph versus 60. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 877 Joined: 22 Jun 2008   | There was a moose in by backyard once. I live in Calgary, a fairly large city (Which is in Alberta. Which is in Canada). Frankly it was suprising to see it jump my fence, which is about 2 metres high. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2364 Joined: 8 May 2008   | I was pheasant hunting and put my gun down to take a leak and when I turned around and dropped fly, there was a pheasent, huddled down trying to hide...it was scary, those things are like rhinos when you get them mad! They'd charge you, they got big sharp teeth!...just look at the bones! |
Genetically Different  Posts: 463 Joined: 26 Dec 2007    | Great, now my British anecdotes seem all pedestrian and wussy in comparison to tales of emus and moose. Geese. Bastards. Anyone who's been on campus at York University will tell you that a single, pissed off goose protecting its young is scarier than a hundred emus, and a million moose. I had to detour all the way around the lake today, because fifteen geese had set up shop on one of the bridges, and I'm too wussy to step over them in case they peck me in the balls. And swans! Don't get me started... And ducks! Ducks are fine. I like them. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 977 Joined: 29 Nov 2007  | I was driving from Vegas to Reno in Nevada years ago and I decided to go out to Area 51. It added a lot of driving time but I was planning on getting a hotel and a shower anyways. So I head out there, and yup, it's all sealed off and you can't see over the mountains into the base. I pull over at a place called the 'Ale Inn' and drink a couple of beers while watching some guy play guitar then decide to get back to the Highway. It's pitch black as I'm driving and all I can see is what my headlights are showing. Suddenly, out of nowhere, hundreds of rabbits start running towards Area 51 (it's huge so that may be generalizing). I start swerving and yelling and trying to not hit these rabbits but it was insane. There were too many. I finally crush one. And as soon as I hit it, all the rabbits vanish out of my view. It's just me, the desert, and clear road. I was so freaked out that a cop pulled me over for speeding a couple of hours later as I roared outta there. |
Beat Writer Posts: 176 Joined: 21 Jun 2008 | Deers have been known to wander around my block. A bear once knocked down our fence. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 398 Joined: 8 Oct 2007  | *looks out window and sees 20 or so deer, looks at .22, lets out long sigh* If only it was legal. We have a massive amount of deer running wild in my little housing community. People are stupid and feed them. Not only feed them in person but from their cars at lunch up at the local park. They wonder why people keep hitting them...Damn animal rights people. I could have a sweet winter jacket by now if they would only let me thin them out a little... I could go on for days about near hits, hitting the side of the car, dead on crashes and deer going through the windshields of cars and killing people with their hoofs, but I won't. I will say something good...well sorta. A baby deer was in my grandfathers back yard just two days ago and was sleeping up against the house. lol It was highly amusing. I'm guessing his mama was dead by some form or another or else she wouldn't have left him behind. He's also been spotted trying to follow a big buck around, which isn't normal. Poor guy, he was horribly sweet though. Would have made wonderful mittens. ^_^ |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2364 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
they poop on my lawn *looks at paintball gun* |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 8 Mar 2008  | i was driving to my house at dusk when all of a sudden a huge wild turkey flew out of the ditch and into the side of my truck. technically i didnt hit him, he hit me, and i tell ya what, it scared the shit out of me! he also left a softball size dent in the side of my truck. i have a really great wildlife story that didnt happen to me, but kinda goes to what Gigantor was saying (note animal rights activists do not read any further) so my uncle was visiting his friend's dad's (will call him John) house all the way up in the northern peninsula of michigan. His house was right on a major river that tankers and freighters go through. Well he gets a ton of geese on his lawn and i mean a ton of geese. So my uncle and John and everyone were sitting around drinking when John says "hey guys want geese for dinner?" Well my uncle being the curious one said "yeah sure ive never had geese before". So John walks into his closet, pulls out a metal baseball bat, stumbles up to the nearest goose (remember this is a frail old man) and cracks the goose on the head with the bat, next thing you know my uncle looks outside and there is the same goose chasing John across the lawn with his wings spread open and John screaming for them to open the door. needless to say they didnt have any goose that night. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1505 Joined: 7 Mar 2008   |
if they wander onto your property you can kill them as long as you eat the meat, look up consumption laws :) well i probly got a few, once when i was at camp as a kid, me, the counselor and an older kid were off in the woods up north a bit. me and the counselor had been up north before, the older kid was a city boy. the older kid was scared of bears, so we did the only reasonable thing we could think of, told him they were around AND could hide in trees. he spent his time looking every which way for bears. me and the counselor laughed our asses off at him. as for one with an actual animal, i was sitting outside one night, i heard some scratching and claws on concrete. i looked to my right and around the corner trots a black and white object, it was a skunk. i look at him, he looks at me, we turn away from one another and run away from one another |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3881 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 | Some nice stories. I don't get this whole global view that Koalas, Wombats and other Australian fuzzballs are harmless. I've been chased by a wombat. Their claws can tear through roots so I'm sure they can tear through meat. I've seen the aftermath of a Koala attack. You're laughing now, go pat a wild one. The male Platypus has a poison spur on its hind legs. Then of course we have the worlds deadliest snakes, spiders, sharks, crocs, etc. I had to pull my dog away from a Red Belly Black Snake once after it chased it into the trees. The snake was leared back and look like it was about to bite. Luckly I pulled the dog away before he could. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1765 Joined: 13 Dec 2007   | All the critters 'round these parts are cuddly. Or have rabies. The fun part is finding out which one they are! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2421 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | I was once attacked by an Emu when I was at the wee age of five. Let me just say that they really like cheese and pickle sandwiches and will do anything to get them. ANYTHING! I also once nearly killed a deer (or moose, what the hell is the difference) while going down a toboggan (spelling) track. The stupid deer/moose decided to sit on the track that all the fast toboggans speed down. Lucky for it I had one of the few toboggans that had a good brake, however unluckily for me the person behind didn't. It ruined my day. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 675 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 | Well, I live on an 8 acre field in the middle of New Hampshire, so as you can imagine I get all kinds of furry creatures. I've had deer, turkey, geese (trust Gigantor on this one, geese are mean bastards), fox, skunks, moose, groundhogs, ducks, coyotes, great blue haron, and even a bald eagle or two wander in through my yard. The bad parts about it is there is bird shit everywhere when the turkey and geese stop in, and the ones that you can hunt (deer, turkey, etc.) don't show up until about 3 hours after hunting season is over. Not to mention that I've nearly run over just about every animal on this list. Now that I think about it, New Hampshire sucks. Pave this shit and give everyone a fur coat. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 18 Mar 2008 | I went snorkeling down in the Carribean 2 years ago and went hunting for lobster only to have to fight off a moray eel with my net, they look pretty darn harmless in a tank but once they bite they don't let go until you kill them or they kill you, needless to say I didn't get my net back... Went camping three years ago only to wake up one morning to find my sleeping bag had become a second home to a local fire ant colony repeat above story but replace the fire ants with assorted hermit crabs (happend the day after the Moray eel story) two months ago I learned a valuable lesson: just because it looks like gravel and a twig does NOT mean that its not a scorpion My other major strange animal encounter need only be summed up in two words: MOOSE STAMPEDE Traveling for me isn't complete without some animal causing me pain |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1825 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 |
I've always wondered about the plural for moose. Is it mooses? Meese? Moose? |
Red Guard  Posts: 1539 Joined: 16 Dec 2007  |
Moosii. Having spent a few years in Alaska I've seen my share of brown bears. Some so close in fact that had they wanted they could have reached out and tussled my hair if bears did that sort of thing. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3036 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
You LIAR. Calgary doesn't exist anymore, it was ransacked and razed by the Oilers and Eskimos, and has been a scattering of ruins for years. So Say We All! Anyhoo, in the NOT pillaged city of Edmonton, the only wildlife we see in city is wild hares and magpies... I hate the fucking magpies, it's impossible to sleep in when they caw all damn morning. Though we have this one crippled magpie in my condoplex, he only has one leg but is a big sucker, picks on the others and harasses the local cats... For that I do love that one bird. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 162 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
Moosen! I saw a flock of moosen! Yes, yes, a cookie to the person who gets the obscure reference. Yeah, good luck with that! Or should I say "take luck" (hint, hint)? No fair cheating and hitting up a search engine. Until then, animal tales. Hmm... once had to come to a dead stop on a highway due to a peacock crossing, major highways leading to Chicago are closed once every five years or so due to a jackknifed truck letting loose its bovine cargo, to which the police are pretty much useless (ironic given Chicago's former title as butcher capital of the world), oh, and once my cousin, a deer hunter, had one t-bone his pickup while he was traveling 70 MPH and the deer was traveling... whatever top deer speed is. A couple of miles down the road, the deer, apparently only dazed, jumped out of the back of the truck and scampered off. He was scampering (HINT, HINT). Okay, I only had one real story, and it sucked. The other two are simply filler, but I had to type something to justify the siren call that was the plural moose joke. And I believe the plural is simply "moose". |
Muckraker  Posts: 326 Joined: 3 Jan 2008 | Squirrels in my area are suicidal! When they see our car's they stop what they're doing and dart out. It's like they time the sprint just right to get run over by me if I don't apply the break. I let you know that to tell you this. I was riding my bike and a squirrel darts out in front of that. I decide to see how natural selection plays this one out. I don't stop. He goes past and would have been safe. He runs back! just back and forth a couple of times until I finally hit him. Did I mention I was riding a bike? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 201 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 | Once, I almost got bit by a rat snake while hiking. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2881 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | There's a gentleman who lives down the road from me who runs a guinea farm. Last christmas they were out in the middle of the road clucking and batting their wings at cars that would drive by. It lead me to wonder if they were just being ornery (sp?), or if they were trying to wish everyone merry christmas. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 877 Joined: 22 Jun 2008 |
.....oh, NOW it's on! Stampeders>Eskimos |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1505 Joined: 7 Mar 2008 |
moose i did have a friend who was bitten by one once, no sister tho
i mentioned to an aussie friend i thought koalas were cute and i wanted one and her response was "yeah how many of the little bastards do you want?" we have the same thing with the canada goose, everyone thinks they are nice and cute, they are mean buggers. i knew someone that wanted to go feed them when they were visiting, i said "go for it, have fun i'm not going near them", a few of us sat there and watched them try and feed the geese. hilarity did ensue cause the geese tried to attack them ok more animal stories my old neighbour in new brunswick was a hunter, running thru his yard late at night in the fall could be dangerous as you could run into a deer carcass. he was out hunting pheasant or quail one day, he came across 2 of them and they were "enjoying each other's company" *nudge*nudge*wink*wink*, so he sat there, waiting till they were done and bagged 2 birds a friend was out feeding squirrels with her bf, he was taking pictures of her feeding them. she ends up offering some food to one, it bit her on the hand, he bf has a great pic of it on facebook. my mom's bf has a picture of his dad hand feeding a squirrel peanuts while it sits on his chest my mom's bf when he was younger was out with a couple guys, they were trying to sneak into a concert, it happened to be on the other side of a farmer's field. so they see one field full of cattle, the other side was mostly empty. having relatives who were farmers and always enjoying a good joke, tells one guy to go thru the empty pen. so off the guy goes, about 30 seconds later the guy comes running back white faced and scared, he didn't know it was the bull's pen and the bull came running after him |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 877 Joined: 22 Jun 2008 | Another interesting anecdote for you all.. My family was driving down to Yellowstone, when a herd of buffalo (Bison, w/e) unfortunately were blocking the highway. now to the good bit. The car in front of us stop, and everyone gets out and goes up and starts taking pictures of a baby buffalo, when momma is not even 2 metres away. Right beside the "Don't piss off the buffalo because they will f*cking kill you" sign. Another "i wish i didn't forget the camera" moment. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 524 Joined: 26 May 2008 | Went upstate to a friend's house, and there we saw a deer. We shot an airsoft UMP45 at it, and missed. It got spooked, so we shot in with a paintball gun. Many people can say they've seen deers in their backyard, and they're pristine and timid. Hol-ee shit. It ran at us, but it ran into a hose we left on and ran away. I think I scared myself shitless. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3036 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
Hate football, couldn't care less about it in the end... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 389 Joined: 28 Feb 2008 | ... I like to confuse birds by mimicing their mating calls with a pair of tongs. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1765 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | In response to Khell_Sennet and LewsTherin: |
Beat Writer Posts: 167 Joined: 4 Jun 2008 |
West Ed. = Ikea. Anyone who lives in Calgary knows what I'm talking about. If you don't follow the damn arrows on the floor you get lost for months. It's disturbing. Animal stories, where do I start? I live in Calgary. Driving to BC you see deer darting all over the place. I've had a bear climb the tree I hung my garbage in and swat it down. I've driven past a house in nanaimo where there were deer fighting over who gets the next bit of food from some arse that was feeding them. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3400 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 |
You forgot foxes I bloody hate foxes. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 120 Joined: 7 Jun 2008 | |
...because an emu's asleep infront of my car. Oh joy. We used to have a family of emus live around here a few years ago but I haven't seen them for a while. It's good to see they're finally back.
Sad story:
Their family used to be much larger and had a full family of chicks, until some drunk bastard deliberatly ran them down with his jeep. Now I think there's only this last one. (tear)
So, I guess this thread can be used as a 'What's your exprience with Wildlife'
I was once staired down by a male Kangaroo. Let me tell you, that is very scarey. Kangaroos aren't really cuddly and fun as the world sees them. They WILL kill you.