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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]Luciferous
(6,067 posts)68. My cousin and I came across a cougar while we were hiking in Wisconsin.
It came out of the woods about 15 feet from us, stopped on the path and looked at us, and then kept on walking back in to the woods. Everyone said we were full of it, but we know what we saw!
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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