Most fear experienced from an animal??

[BQC123]

The only one that really comes to mind involved a large, and very mean bull. I was maybe 10. While herding it into another pasture I was told to stand in an open gate and not let it get past me. That massive ball of hatred of course came straight for me. I stayed put, and acted tough. At the last second it veered and jumped the fence (taller than I was) beside me. Didn't have time for fear until it was over.

An animal related one was on a night dive in Costa Rica. Only my buddy and I went. The guides were not too excited about going out, and neither wanted to be the one in the water. The plankton was so rich that we had maybe 12' visibility. That is the only dive I have ever been uneasy on, and everything just felt bad, though we never saw a thing. It was a pretty tense safety stop as well. The mood lightened alot as soon as we were back onboard. Everyone was glad it was over and agreed there was just a bad "sharky" feel to the whole dive. Sharks are normally a plus, but something about that particular night was just wrong. Four seperate people feeling it, and not saying anything until later made it even freakier.

 

[compnerd7]

Well, I threw it in the bed of the truck because of all the traffic, then I pulled into a property right-of-way to manage the snake and eventually had it in a 5 gal bucket some days later to let it go in a safe area. I picked the bucket up and immediately noticed it was waaaaay too light. I usually have no shame when it comes to the truth of what I did or what happens to me, the truth is the truth, but this one went too far!! I kind of want to tell the whole story but it may not be good for the snake hobby to tell all the details. Everything that could have gone wrong was set up to go wrong, but all the bad possible scenarios never happened:clap:.

compnerd7, I'd have to be around horses more to understand them. I knew a person that was kicked and went into a coma for 2 or 3 weeks because of it, he never seemed the same after that.

haha, I'd like to hear the story lol.

A friend of my sister's who she use to ride with ( engaged to a friend of mine ) was thrown off a horse, hit her head on a rock, and died. Super tragic accident happened bout 5 years ago. I like horses a lot, it just really takes time and educated training to keep yourself safe.

 

[Amoeba]

Not so much fear but I got a fright. Volunteering at big cat sanctuary. Just helped build an inground pool for two new tigers but oaktrees like to dump as many leaves as possible :wall: so once they were in there and settled we we drained the pool but had to suck up all the leaves (got a few frights doing this) but to prevent having to do this again we decide to put a covering over the roof of the enclosure. So because I was taller than the average American woman me and the other guy there had to go up on ladders and roll those mesh weed guards back and forth over the roof. I knew the tigers in this in closure relativly well for them being there only a month or two and the orange one (Natalia) is the biggest goofiest pain you can imagine. She heads over for me so I back off the cage a bit and gets up on her hind legs to come say hello to me. if she didn't start chuffing at me I would have been upset with her. Her goofiness is appreciated when I'm not standing on a ladder.

 

[The Snark]

A fright of mine. I turned around at the sound to see a large horse coming at me at a full run. It was just acting frisky but I knew it was a very stupid knothead. Less than a second later it brushed past me, just grazing me but enough touch to spin me around and knock me off my feet. I was shaking too badly to stand for about 5 minutes. Memories of going over a cliff with a horse and getting badly banged up was all that would go through my mind. The vertigo and completely helpless feeling.

A fear. I was hiking back down a very narrow canyon in the San Gabriels. The bottom of the canyon averaged only about 6 feet across and most of the sides were near vertical. I noted a cougar's tracks on top of my own. I had about 4 miles still to hike. The fear gradually built, giving me a sort of tunnel vision that seriously inhibited higher brain functions and even self awareness.
Back at the bottom of the canyon after nearly an hour I was vaguely aware I had a lot of difficulty scrambling up an easy slope. It was so hard to climb I did a shortcut right through a large patch of poison oak, uncaring about that. I got to my truck and got out my rifle. Trying to load it I found that because of a combination of shaking and the function eclipsing fear, I was unable to shove the shells into the magazine. I had lost all coordination.
The combination of hearing a cougar a couple of times in the previous weeks - that weird howling scream they make, our dog taking a trip around the corner of the house, yelping and coming back a second later with a slash that took over 200 sutures to close, and the tracks on top of mine, building in my mind for over an hour had come close to turning me into an uncoordinated zombie.

 

[findi]

While working at Bronx Zoo, exited a holding cage and found myself face to face with an escaped Kodiak Bear...we both survived!

Grabbing anacondas and Orinoco Crocs at night (field research in Venezuela) exciting but healthy fear/respect in background. Here is an article on that project with photos.

But growing up in the Bronx during the "bad years" probably topped all the other zoo/field "incidents" in the fear department!

Best, Frank

 

[pitbulllady]

While working at Bronx Zoo, exited a holding cage and found myself face to face with an escaped Kodiak Bear...we both survived!

Grabbing anacondas and Orinoco Crocs at night (field research in Venezuela) exciting but healthy fear/respect in background. Here is an article on that project with photos.

But growing up in the Bronx during the "bad years" probably topped all the other zoo/field "incidents" in the fear department!

Best, Frank

I think you echoed the sentiments of many with that last sentence! No matter what part of the country you're in, you have way more to fear from fellow humans than from any animal. Even my worst animal-related fear reaction can't compare to coming home and finding my door kicked down, my personal belongings destroyed and tossed around inside and out the house...and not knowing if the perps were still inside, or having someone start beating on the door at four in the AM, first claiming to be a friend of a friend, then angrily demanding that I let them in. That last one was resolved by pumping up the double-barrel 12-gauge just on my side of the door, but knowing that you're either going to have to kill someone, or possibly BE killed, is not really a good feeling. Fortunately, the other person got the message and decided that discretion was the better part of valor. No animal has ever put so much fear and long-lasting anxiety in me as the actions of other people.

pitbulllady

 

[compnerd7]

I think you echoed the sentiments of many with that last sentence! No matter what part of the country you're in, you have way more to fear from fellow humans than from any animal. Even my worst animal-related fear reaction can't compare to coming home and finding my door kicked down, my personal belongings destroyed and tossed around inside and out the house...and not knowing if the perps were still inside, or having someone start beating on the door at four in the AM, first claiming to be a friend of a friend, then angrily demanding that I let them in. That last one was resolved by pumping up the double-barrel 12-gauge just on my side of the door, but knowing that you're either going to have to kill someone, or possibly BE killed, is not really a good feeling. Fortunately, the other person got the message and decided that discretion was the better part of valor. No animal has ever put so much fear and long-lasting anxiety in me as the actions of other people.

pitbulllady

1+ to last 2 previous posts. I FEAR man more then any animal on this earth. I've always said, ' Every single creature on this planet I like, cept one. Mankind. ' I've been beat up, held at gun point several times, robbed, and not to mention only man can really cause emotional damage and mental damage. Obviously when your dog dies it makes you sad, which is a negative emotion, but the dog never went out of it's way to cause you such harm or hurt you.

 

[The Snark]

1+ to last 2 previous posts. I FEAR man more then any animal on this earth. I've always said, ' Every single creature on this planet I like, cept one. Mankind. ' I've been beat up, held at gun point several times, robbed, and not to mention only man can really cause emotional damage and mental damage. Obviously when your dog dies it makes you sad, which is a negative emotion, but the dog never went out of it's way to cause you such harm or hurt you.

I get an automatic fear and revulsion upon seeing a drunk person. 30 years in and around emergency services bringing back many memories literally dripping in blood, the majority of which involved drunks, though the majority of victims were innocent bystanders.