BS: surviving animal attack ?

Subject: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: My Consistent ID
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 12:10 AM

I've been bitten by dog, cat, sheep, pig, fish, mosquitoe, human, and sqirrel.

Beat that if you can !!!

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 12:28 AM

You must have been dosing the sheep. So it serves you right!

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 12:33 AM

Had a bear claw my forearm when I was a kid. It was in a bear pit at the zoo. I was leaning over the wall of the pit shaking the popcorn out of the box & the bear was loving it fall into it;s mouth when it decieded to rear up on it's hind legs & reach for either me or the popcorn. It got me.
Been bitten by a few dogs, many humans, been tossed by a horse, chased by cows & charged by a bull & once I think I was eaten by a flower but that was during a smoke-in on the Boston Commons in the 60's

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: open mike
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 01:06 AM

bit by dog, horse (bit and kicked and bucked), goat (bit and butted), tick, snake, (non-poisonous), (have also been pooped on by snakes) lizard, parrot, cockatiel, mosquito, frogs and toads (peed on by them)
flea, bee (sting, not bite), wasp, fish (Nibble),
crawdad--nipped with claw.. racoon, chicken (pecked and scratched)
bit and scratched by cat..also had grasshoppers spit tobacco on me..
had a goose bite my leg--they make great guard animals!

let's see..is there more? probably!!

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: open mike
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 01:37 AM

http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=66357

see this about a rabid bobcat in an Arizona bar..

and this about rabid foxes in Calif.

http://www.topix.com/county/humboldt-ca/2009/08/rabid-fox-attacks-continue-near-trinidad

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 01:52 AM

I've been attacked by a white-tailed deer, a javalina, and a black-tailed jack rabbit. They didn't succeed in biting me or in the case of the deer, split my skull with its hooves, because I was successfully able to defend myself (which in the case of the jack rabbit, wasn't too difficult - I used kung fu on the javalina). I've been bitten by a horse, a garden snake, numerous dogs and cats, mosquitos, black flies, midges, no-see-ums, ticks, and fleas. I've been peed and poohed on by many dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, and a baby tapir. I've twice been sprayed by a skunk. Been thrown by a horse once, and one horse ran away with me and I had to jump off. And one time a veterinarian squirted some hydrogen peroxide into the wound on a dog's neck and it exploded out the other side and hit me in the face. I expect that I've been bled on by a few animals as well.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 01:59 AM

And I don't know if this counts as bites, but lots of baby raccoons and kittens and puppies and a couple of ferrets have chewed on my hands and arms for fun. I was also scratched in the eye by a squirrel.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 04:56 PM

Does a Russian Hamster count?

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 05:34 PM

Good gracious. Y'all live dangerously. And here I was, proud that I've been growled at by a nutria, stared at by a coyote and barked at by a deer.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Tangledwood
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 06:19 PM

Does a Russian Hamster count?

Only when he can't get to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:03 PM

Does he count sheep?

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:14 PM

I wasn't thinking of counting the bee, wasp, and mosquito bites I've had 'til others counted them.

I was once kicked in the crotch by a milk cow such that I saw stars and wasn't sure I wasn't going to pass out.
Another encounter with a farm animal wasn't exactly an attack, but I remember it too well. I stepped into the barn just as a calf with diarrhea coughed; I was plastered from a few feet away, including a face full; it looked like butterscotch pudding, but you could tell the difference.

I was skinny dipping in a small lake when I felt something very startling; a small turtle (I think, never saw him) had nipped me..ah..on the "nose"; it left a bruise just like I had been pinched with a needle-nose plier. I've been half traumatized since, hoping it was a girl turtle...

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 09:11 PM

I think the little bathmat counts fingers...

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 09:52 PM

I've been bitten by dogs, cats, fish, and other wildlife, as well being attacked in Glacier National Park by a Mountain Goat.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 10:21 PM

I've been bitten by Donna, Karen, Debbie, Marsha, Sandy, Mary, a couple of Cathys, and at least three different Susans.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 10:40 PM

Then you moved to first grade, right?

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Deckman
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 12:38 AM

Hmmm ... let's see...

One great Dane dog that outweighed me when I was 7;

Two Dobermans when I was 12, I was in the hospital for two weeks;

"Paula" when I was 13 ... I've been looking for her ever since;

Two ferral cats.

I've earned my scars ... but I'm still looking for Paula! Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 03:15 AM

I was once stroking the nose of a giraffe when it licked length of my bare arm. On another occasion, I splashed with giraffe semen in Chester Zoo when a randy bull was pressing his advances on his mate. Both experiences have left my wary of giraffes.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: mandotim
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 03:50 AM

Hamsters. Evil little bastards. Why do people buy them as pets for children?
I've been bitten by dogs, scratched by cats,kicked by horses, trampled by a pig and butted by goats, but hamsters...

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: ragdall
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:46 AM

I've can only remember being bitten by my pets, a startled cat and a bull snake. The snake's mouth got infected from biting me. It couldn't eat and had to be euthanized.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 05:06 AM

I was once bitten by a great dane, it was so bloody big it bit me on the shoulder, it did no damage mind, so it may have just been playing.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:54 AM

Cow/dog/cat/snake/mouse/several rabbits/pigeons/magpies/squirrel/spider/pig/badger/ fox/weasel/stoat/chicken/....several hungry women... maybe others that have slipped my aging memory banks.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 10:42 AM

Goddamned grass eating carp in Lake Monticello. Why they came out into the swimming areas ONLY when I was in the water, I don't know and always after the same couple of freckles on my legs.

Nothing funnier than a 30ish woman jumping straight up out of the water shrieking every 15 minutes or so.

A cat bite (also in my 30s) made me severely ill. Fever and excruciating joint pain for couple of months. Wasn't even my bleedin cat.

Spider bite caused a reaction so bad I had to have incisions in 2 places and shunt put in my hand to drain the poison.

Couple of dog bites, couple of goat bites. One gerbil. One rabbit (several times).
One leech and numerous fleas, mosquitoes, ticks, bee/wasp (stings) and fire ants. One chameleon bite.

No snake bites, unusual as I played with snakes all the time as a kid.

And nursing baby - christsake!

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:03 PM

I was in Maine, staying in a motel outside Portland or Eastport or Someportorother when I discovered I was a Horse Whisperer.

In the middle of the U-shaped drive of the motel was a corral. The sign said, "My name is Cheyenne and I just moved here from Montana." I went out to say howdy and as I was giving the horse neighborly nose rub he bit my arm just belong the elbow. He rolled his eyes at me to see what I'd do, so I reached up and took his right ear in my left hand and whispered, "Listen you sonuvabitch, if you don't let go I'll twist your fuckin' ear off." He let go and I wore horse bite bruises for a couple weeks. Later I learned that's just how genuine cowboy horse whisperers whisper to them: you just gotta know what to say.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:34 PM

For me the list includes being bitten by:

A rottweiler, cats, a goat (who I think don't really *BITE* as much as squeeze so hard your skin pops open), bugs (including tics and treatment that follows) and a snake.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: olddude
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 06:41 PM

Here is just a few
bite by several dogs, bit and scratched by many cats
Kicked by horses, bit by horses, hand my toenail mushed by a horse once (that sucked)
stuck up a tree by a angry momma black bear
nailed once in the leg by a timber rattle snake, hit my waders and glanced off thankfully.

recently bit by a bat, bit hard by some fish I caught in the keys, like a dummy I put my hand in to get the hook out to release him and ended up with a bloody hand.

Now a Parrot, playing with one big guy once, he bit me and it was one of the most painful bites I ever experience

kicked in the leg by a whitetail deer once that I shot while hunting.

And farm geese, those things are just angry birds ... they bite and it pinches like crazy .. been there also

just to name a few.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 08:14 AM

Attacked by a kangaroo.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:26 AM

I was attacked by a rangdangdoo.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:53 AM

Well I fought a grizzly bear with a stick of firewood, wrestled to the ground, an angry bull moose, and stopped a charging rhino with a threatening stare. However my scariest moment was when I was attacked by seven angry members of a local liars club because I always told the truth!

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 11:05 AM

bedbugs.....

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 12:28 PM

Like Virginia, I had a very bad cat bite (my own cat, I trod on his tail) that took a couple of months to finally heal. Lots of pain, doctors, and expense on that one. All others fade in contrast.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 05:34 PM

Some years back I was attacked by a horde of horny sorority girls.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 08:17 PM

Better "a hord of horny sorority girls" than one really crusty whore. I scooted away from one in Chicago who looked old and emaciated, with filthy tangled hair and a few teeth in varying
colors. She hollored after me, "What's the matter, don't you like white women?". I actually think that if you had laid her down and photographed her, most people would have assumed the photo was
posthumous.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:14 PM

During my years as an Animal Control Officer, I was bitten well over 150 times by every breed and crossbreed of dog around. Many stitches required and twice I went through the anti-rabies series. It was a very interesting line of work (As in the old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times.")

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 09:06 AM

Mike, if you'd like to move to a warmer climate...we're having some trouble with vicious pit bulls here....

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: GUEST,Becca72
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 09:48 AM

I tried to post this yesterday but it went walkies...

I get bitten regularly by cats ( my own and only playfully)
Various insects...this is Maine, after all.
Various rodents my cousin and I had as pets.
My niece and nephews, though at 23, 25 and 13 they have thankfully outgrown that behavior.
I have been bitten by a couple of dogs, the most memorable being at the age of approximately 8 when my neighbor's white german shepard bit me in the face. Luckily the only lasting effect is a small scar by my nose.

Subject: RE: BS: surviving animal attack ?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 10:08 AM

I got stung by a wasp once, due to squashing it by accident, oh - and bitten by a horsefly, but other than that I can't recall ever being bitten or otherwise damaged.

Most things seem to have me down as 'Harmless, will probably give food' so any dog - for instance, walking past immediately stops walking past and tries to convey 'Hello there, feed me?' or at least get in a few wags before towed away by the lead.

At Sidmouth a few years ago a ferret on a lead was in the Middle Bar at the Anchor - made straight for me so I reached down and stroked it. The owner was surprised and said I should be careful - I was just thinking the same thing about her, poor little ferret could have been stamped on...

Anne Croucher