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In reply to the discussion: Most unusual encounters with a wild animal (any kind that isn't someones pet) [View all]zanana1
(6,102 posts)64. I lived in a cabin in the woods and...
It was a cabin in the Berkshires, isolated and without electricity. (I was young). There were tall wild blueberry bushes in the woods near the cabin. One day I went to collect some berries. There was a pond on one side and thick woods on the other so I had to stick to only one side of the bush. Suddenly I heard rustling and the branches started to move. I peeked into the bush to find a black bear helping himself to the same bush.
I backed away slowly and quietly. I guess he was more interested in the berries than he was in me.
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Most unusual encounters with a wild animal (any kind that isn't someones pet) [View all]
Stuart G
Jan 2018
OP
Yes, wild goats count.. Met a mother goat and its child on a trail in Glacier National Park once
Stuart G
Jan 2018
#4
A friend was gored and bled to death by a mt goat. I wasn't there, but they are not small tame goat
uppityperson
Jan 2018
#29
I brought my kitten sam up to the cottage. I put food out for her at night. She was inside
applegrove
Jan 2018
#2
About 20 years ago, my late husband & I went whalewatching on a zodiac in the AuAu Channel
catbyte
Jan 2018
#6
another one--dead of winter, out in woods looking for a cow about to have a calf....
lastlib
Jan 2018
#32
Oh...I forgot one..I was walking on a trail in the Everglades National Park once.
Stuart G
Jan 2018
#10
Oh...just about wild animals...disclaimer.....we think that the ones discussed here are extremely
Stuart G
Jan 2018
#13
Walking down a trail in SE AK bush when I came to a sudden stop because something unseen was
uppityperson
Jan 2018
#34
There were lots of black, but I was near the ocean where there are also brownies
uppityperson
Jan 2018
#53
I know there's a big difference, just don't know from those tracks that time
uppityperson
Jan 2018
#57
i speak chipmunk. would sit out on our lake cottage 'patio' w/ seeds + being a food station.
pansypoo53219
Jan 2018
#45
Reading through this is reminding me of several encounters I've had.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Jan 2018
#50
I was in the back part of the house when I heard something hit the front of the house.
bullsnarfle
Jan 2018
#65