Have you ever experienced an animal attack?
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January 28th, 2014
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I was walking my neighbor’s chihuahua along the shore of a lake this morning, and I had brought some bread for the mallards. I scooped the dog up, held her while I fed the ducks, and then maybe 30 yards away I set her back down. She was maybe 20 feet away from me when a huge brown bird swooped down on her… It was more of a “fly-by” than a claws out predatory attack, thank goodness, but the bird swooped directly over the dog, maybe a foot overhead. It flew to a nearby fence and sat and watched us. I could throw in a “like a hawk” pun here, but I took pictures (I had already snatched up the dog), and have narrowed it down to a golden eagle or a juvenile bald eagle. Really, really big bird…
So I carried her all the way home, thinking about the amazing eyesight birds have and imagining the worst if I set her down. Can you imagine explaining that to your neighbor?
And, as a side note, do you think bringing the ducks around led the bird to us, or it was a coincidence?
Do you have any near-misses or actual attack stories?
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My dog once tried to steal a ball belonging to a Staffordshire Bull terrier. Big mistake. Fortunately it got only a mouthful of fur and didn’t latch on, but my dog was terrified and she would never go near another Staffy again after that. I think I was more scared than she was though. For one terrifying moment I thought it was going to rip her throat out.
I suspect that eagle came for the ducks but saw the Chihuahua as something different and interesting. The “fly-by” was probably the eagle checking whether the dog could be picked up.
I was once stung by a bee.
When I was quite young, there was a neighborhood cat on our front porch, and having cats of our own, I tried to pet it. It attacked me and shredded up my arm pretty well. I still love cats.
If you’ve posted the photos of the bird online somewhere, you could share a link to that page here, if you’d like.
A dalmation almost bit my face off once when I was hugging him, no fun and scared me, but no harm done. I’ve been in a couple dog fights, possum or cat versus dog, too.
My dog bit me once, by accident of course. She was trying to stop another dog from stealing a valuable juice box, so I forgave her.
Last year, I noticed a crow sitting in someone’s garden. It seemed hurt, so I went up to it to see whether I could help. I heard a screech, noticed something swooshing down, and realised I was being attacked by another bird. I sprinted a hundred metres, and after swooping down one more time, it left me alone. That was scary.
I used to have two dogs: A pit bull and a dachshund.
My son was 7 months old. I was in the back yard, painting an old coffee table to look like one of those car rugs, with the streets and buildings. My son was sitting on the ground, playing with the grass.
For some reason I cannot explain, the Doxie snapped at the baby and that (again, for reasons I cannot explain) triggered the pit bull into freaked-out-attack mode. The pit literally picked my son up by his head and shook him, then dropped him on the ground. I picked up the pit bull and THREW HIM (this is a 75 lb dog) across the backyard, kicked the doxie away, grabbed the baby and ran into the house.
No serious damage to the baby – a bruise on his head from the big dog and a bite on his arm from the smaller dog. No broken skin.
My husband got rid of the dogs that day. I didn’t look at either one of them after that – literally hid with the baby in his room until they were gone.
A bird shat on my hand when I was a kid, I was sitting on the grass, resting from a game of football, when the offending white crap hit me. Twat!
I don’t really have any sites I post pictures to, @hearkat. I’ll see if I can figure something out, though.
@ucme I was shat on by a pelican, during a church youth group fishing trip. And to add insult to insult, the next day at church, my uncle (the pastor) called me out of the Sunday School class I was teaching, up to the front of the church and the entire congregation, to tell the story of how I was covered, head to frakking toe, in bird shit.
It was, very literally, a nightmare from which I could not wake up.
@Seek_Kolinahr Crazy. I’m glad the baby was ok and too young to remember it. I would have moved the dogs out, too.
@Seek_Kolinahr A fucking pelican? That musta been one helluva mess, I shall think of you next time I watch Finding Nemo.
It was like clay.
The ONLY saving grace was that we were already at the beach, so I could wash off in the water. But I had to walk the full length of the pier covered in grossness and stinking to high heaven.
Awful mess.
I just heard the Baywatch music thinking of you meandering along the pier, bet you looked shit hot :)
I was once attacked by a “dead” Ground Squirrel. lol
The cat brought it in and it looked like it was about to expire so I put it in the shower on a towel and closed the door. An hour os so later when I checked on it, opened the door it leaped on me, bit my thumb and dashed off into the house. I had to get a tetanus shot, damn rodent teeth, bone cracking they are. I heard my knuckle crunch when it bit me.
I was also attacked and bitten on the eye by a Doberman Pinscher named ” Apache” when I was 11. I was lucky as it missed my eye by about ¼ inch. It belonged to neighbors and was evil. I was playing softball with the kids and sat down to rest as it was a hot day and the dog walked up to me.
When I reached out to pet it it lunged at my face and bit me. I went running home screaming with blood pouring out of the wound.
I hate Dobermans, they have no facial expression except stealth watch. lol
I have also been attacked by a donkey that was trying to get treats away from the other donkeys. It grabbed me by the shoulder and lashed out with its front hooves. Bratty little ass. haha
@Coloma wow, you’ve certainly gone head to head with some unusual teeth! I’d be terrified to breast feed if I were you…
I’ve been chased a few times. I deserved being chased by a cow I tried to tip when I was 13, although I don’t agree with karma about flipping over that electric fence.
I was chased by an Elk, when hiking and walking right up to her bedded calf. I immediately went to hot foot it outta there, but my dog wanted to get a good sniff first. I remember thinking that dog was on her own and the race between us was on, haha. My rottie and I jumped over a 10 foot steeply sloped embankment into manzanita. The Elk stayed up top and stomped and huffed, but we were safe.
Finally some dogs react oddly to motorcycles. My heart leaps into my throat whenever a dog starts chasing me on my bike.
@GloPro OMG..I have been up close near Elk too, they are monsters. haha
Yes, well..I have always been a nature/animal nut, goes with the territory. I have had horses and all kinds of farm pets, including my beloved goose who turns 16 this year. Being goosed is an experience too. lol
Our neighbor’s dogs got loose once, came to our house. They were aggressive and attacked Dutchess. Dakota came off of our deck and kicked their asses. Rick got in on the fray so I suppose he could be considered having been attacked. I don’t know if they would have attacked me, but they never got the chance.
I could have been attacked by a possum that I accidentally peed on at the lake, but fortunately possums are pretty mild mannered. I don’t know how I would have explained the injuries to my butt at the hospital if he had gotten pissed ha ha!
@Seek_Kolinahr For some reason I read your comment about the pelican poo as “during a church fisting trip”!!
I have witnessed loads of dog attacks (I work with dogs all day every day so it’s inevitable from time to time). Only today, one of the dogs I am working with, a troubled Beagle x Labrador, launched at me when I got too close to his owner who he guards. It was my own fault, I dropped my guard and forgot how overly protective he is off her and almost got myself bitten. Luckily he just launched and made a lot of noise. I made friends with him shortly after but I won’t let myself forget like that again.
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