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Give an animal encounter you or someone you know has experienced.
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#1
Once I was cycling through the forest at night to go to my house (lived in the middle of nowhere back then). I was already quite scared because it was really dark. Obviously it was irrational because nobody would be at that time of the night in a random path of the forest waiting to harm me. But I was scared. I suddenly heard a lot of noise and saw something moving. I almost had a heart attack but it was just a lovely fox taking a midnight stroll.
Final score:
4points
Steph 3 years ago
Burs, I grew in the country myself, last house on top of a hill, surrounded by woods only- that doesn't mean, one is immune against fear of wildlife. Do NOT feel stupid, please! Fear and AWEARNESS are intuitive signals to protect yourself! I like your foxy encounter- have you read mine about the mating hedgehogs? Now, that is something to really laugh about myself, considering I should have known better having grown up in the woods :-)
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#2
I was in 1st grade or something, and as I was waiting at the bus stop with my mother a newborn squirrel came up to us. It literally had no fur, just born. It scared the crap out of my mother and I. Its kinda sad tho, on the sidewalk by itself. I felt bad for leaving it there
Final score:
3points
#3
Ive always loved animals the only time i was scared of one was a very overly friendly pet ostrich when i was little it was huge and like a giant excitable dog i was terrified 😂
Final score:
3points
#4
My husband just insisted I add this “beastie” encounter, which makes us laugh now, but scared the crap out of me then.
We were living in a rather eloquent and chic neighborhood of a big university city 10 years ago.
Big villas, huge properties and known for countless incidents of burglaries.
So one night, I was home alone, my 92-year old neighbor calls to alarm me that she had been hearing some very strange noises between her and our property, but couldn’t really see anybody.
She described it as very inappropriate, naughty groans. My first thought: some drunk students breaking into gardens to go skinny dipping in these fancy pools.
So I walk upstairs to check my back yard from my balcony. Could not see anything either, but indeed heard some strange sounds in the bushes.
So I try to fool myself, pretending to be super brave and shout:”hey, go away or else I let the dogs out!”
And indeed, at that point my 6 huge dogs (German Shepherds, Rottweiler and Weimaraner) were going crazy inside the house, also sensing something was odd outside.
I did not get a response and didn’t even dare to let the dogs out, fearing they might get hurt, if it were indeed some criminal person hiding in the bushes.
So as endless minutes pass and I sense something oddly unusual is going on in my garden, I decide to call the police.
Luckily it took them less then 5min to arrive, as they are patrolling the neighborhood 24/7.
They had even arranged for a few more supportive officers to come to the site.
Now I have 4 armed officers carefully sneaking around the garden and two inside my house, giving me a lecture about how badly lit my property was and that I should think about getting alarm systems and cameras, because the neighborhood attracted burglars.
Next thing I hear are the other 4 officers laughing their bum off and directing me outside to where the noise came from.
Turns out that the “inappropriate” sounds my neighbor had heard, were two horny hedgehogs trying to hump one female simultaneously.
(poor thing!)
Can you imagine how embarrassed I felt?
I must have been the laugh of that night’s police shift. I literally see them joke about the lady with the 6 huge watch dogs...
Final score:
2points
#5
Once a bin chicken (ibis) got into one of my high school's buildings. Unfortunately this was an open-plan building. It proceeded to strut around, flap and scratch on the desks, and be a general menace. It had to be chased out by a teacher. This was not the first time a bird had gotten into this building... but it was the biggest. The staff were a little more careful with the doors and windows after that. Shame.
Final score:
1point
#6
Horseback riding in the woods (northern California) and being chased by a mountain lion - it was daylight!!!
That was the scariest, my funnest: being swarmed and circled by tiny little bats, as I peeled a banana - turned out that was their favorite food and they landed all over me. (they were really sweet little vegetarians)
Final score:
1point
#7
Scary and funny. I was sitting on the couch when I heard our 4month old kitten meowing. It sounded like she was shut in the bedroom, but the door was open. Heard her again, so I got up to investigate. Walked down the hall hear a muffled meow close by and out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of white feet...in the washing machine (front load). She climbed in when I stepped away from the washer for a moment and I turned on a load a few minutes prior. She was running as best she could meowing for help. I hit the add garment button (stops the washer and unlocks to door) and pulled her our. Poor baby was soaking wet, cold, and scared. I gave her a quick rinse with warm water and dried her off. Scared me half to death, I wouldn't put her down for 2hrs and spent the next week paranoid about her location.
Final score:
1point
#8
I have two; the first one was scary. I honestly believe in monsters so here is a bit of folklore mixed in with the story (it’s still all true). In a lot of bunyip myths they bury holes in rivers and much like crocodiles they leave there prey to rot in them. I found a whole next to a river with a dead cat in it that had obviously been dead for more than 4 weeks, it still wasn’t a skeleton yet though. Then, while I was looking through the creek I saw something big moving through the water, I didn’t get to see it clearly though. Okay here is the funny one. I have a pet parrot called nixxy, and he loves stealing clay, which was unbeknownst me at the time. When I looked at nixxy I saw his beak had red clumps on it (the clay was a special type that looks A LOT like blood, it even glistens like it) and laying next to him was a clump of feathers. Turns out an eagle had scared the hell out of him so he flew into a wall and lost some feathers after eating my clay. (Don’t worry he was perfectly fine, just had a bit of a fright and the clay didn’t hurt him at all)
Final score:
1point
Nixxy (Submission author) 3 years ago
It cut me off. He almost gave me a heart attack because I thought he had eaten our other parrot
#9
Was exploring the neighbor's farmland with my cousins and heard snorts/oinks and rustling. We immediately knew it was wild boars and saw them tearing up the ground and hauled ass out of there! Also, we once saw what we thought was a wolf. It was our neighbor's dog, Rita. Same thing happened again, but it was a cow.
Final score:
0points
#10
A raccoon walked up four flights of stairs to curl up for his daytime sleep outside my back door on my welcome mat. I discovered him when I went into the kitchen for my morning coffee. I knocked on the door to startle him awake and try to scare him away, but all he did was lift his head, look straight at me and hiss, then curl back up to sleep. He was there all day. Such a cutie.
Final score:
0points
#11
This wasn't scary, and not quite funny, but cute and heartwarming (I'm sorry if it doesn't belong here). About 10 years ago, I had just walked home from the bus stop after work, went in my house to my room to get changed. I heard a weird chittering noise outside, and ran back out to look. A poor squirrel had his leg stuck between two bricks right next to my bedroom window! I ran back into the house, grabbed a handful of assorted nuts and seeds, ran back to my room, opened the closest window wide, removed the screen, and carefully climbed out. Poor squirrel freaked, so I showed him the nuts, and just stayed still and talked to him to calm him down. He did eventually, so I slowly reached out, and gently pulled his leg out. Of course, he bolted, but came back for the nuts. After that, every few days, he'd scratch on my window, and leave a small gift: a coin, a pretty leaf, any little trinket he found, and continued leaving little gifts for me for months. Even squirrels understand gratitude
Final score:
0points
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