I used to live in Florida and we would play with any living creature so I had A LOT of close calls. I have been biten by snakes, lizards, iguana's, dogs, cats, mice[the usuals], birds, turtles, rabits, mostly anything! But anybody else out there who had a close call tell me about it!
Me too! I'm a Florida girl myself, and I've been bitten by a cottonmouth. It was really scary. They had to take me to the hospital on a helicopter, because we were at a camping site that was VERY far away from civilization! Ouch! I still have the scars, 'cause it was only last Wednesday!
(Also a Florida Girl) Cottonmouth bite, sounds very painful. I wouldn't say I've had a LOT of close calls with many animals, unless you want to the count the time my horse gave me a flying lesson up close and personal with a free pine tree landing included or the time a cow decided to head butt me, or the time my ferret mistook my hand for the piece of barbequed chicken I was trying to reclaim from it. None of those were exactly life-threatening but I'm going into a zoology technician training course at a local community college and I'll be working with all kinds of fascinating creatures there. I'm hoping that after I get out of the program in a year and a half that I'll be able to work at Sea World. Then, maybe, eventually fulfill my dream of helping Steve to get the message out to the world in order to save animals. There's also a Primate Sanctuary/Retirement Home called Jungle Friends that I'll be volunteering at soon. We'll see how that goes. Pers. P.S. I start classes in 9 and 1/2 weeks! Wish me luck!
Ouch! A cottenmouth! That has got to hurt. I was bitten twice, by a harmless corn snake and a water mokason! [I can't spell sorry!] A cottenmouth must of been scary!
I would consider the horse and cow close calls! lol! Anyway congrads and best of luck!
Ever heard of a house spider?!As Steveo would say ,"Just Kidding!"Any way I'm Proud to say that I'm an East Texas girl! Have you ever heard of a rat snake?this one was about 6 feet long.I was doing the Steve thing with this wwild snake when I got too close to the snakes neck.Snip! I made a mistake by throwing the snack I pulled 5 teeth out of her mouth.I even kept one as a soviner!
Spider bites are awful! They get itchy really fast. I'm a NE Texas girl, so I unfortunately deal with way too many spiders! I once got bitten by a bull snake that was hiding in the pool drain of the pool I was lifeguarding. OUCH!! I'm deathly afraid of snakes so it was really scary and only made me more afraid!
Ouchy! Anyway, As steve always says, "Don't try this at home!" You should never pick up a snake. But I have to admit, That would be pretty cool. And to get a snake tooth! cool!
Youlittlebugger:
I love you name! Anyway, I REALLY don't like spiders so I think I would stay in Florida/North carolina. Anyway, That bull snake must of hurt [like all other bites].
Snakeboy123:
Wow, Thats a REAL close call. All mine and most of the people up there ^ have been bitten but not just close.
OMG! Just yesterday, my friends and I thought a snake was a stick, and the allmighty stupid moi thought it'd be a great slingshot stick-I PICKED IT UP!!!!!!!I'm an idiot! Thank god I watch steve and terri, or I wouldn't have recognized it to be a RATTLESNAKE!!!!!EEEEEEE!!!! I dropped it and we all ran to get into the house.......'cept *dum dum dum dummm* el stupido, a.k.a., me. I just had an itch to be steve for 5 seconds, but the snake slithered away-thank god.
Well, I almost stepped on a snake a couple of years ago, but it turned out to be just a little Black Racer. Well, not that little, but not venomous anyway! Also almost got split open by a little turtle I found in the backyard a few years ago. I was holding him by the shell, and his little foot came up and that claw grazed my hand. I was more worried about his mouth though!
Other than that, my close calls have been domestic. I volunteered as a kennel tech at a spay/neuter clinic in the area, and I delt with post-op cats and dogs. Had to walk them, clean the cages, and then give them back to the owners. Well, lets just say that I have LOTS of cat scars, and one dog tried to eat me alive. But I had more luck than most.
Funny thing, there was a HUGE Rottweiler that I was walking out to the owner as she was coming in with her leash. She looked at me and said, "Oh, people usually have problems with him. Doesn't take to people too well." Apparently, he was on the list of animals that the owners were supposed to come back and get, but I missed that memo! Sweetest dog though. Maybe it was the drugs.
I had a close call a while ago... There was this big male moose in our neighborhood, in the gully about a year ago. I frequently went down into the gully to see him, always staying very far away just in case. One day, he wasn't where he usually was so I left. Then, the neighbors called and told us that the moose was in another part of the gully, up the street. As usual, loving animals the way I do, even though I had seen him about 10 times before I wasn't about to let this chance get away from me. I went up with a few neighborhood friends and as we were walking up to this other part of the gully I was turned around, talking to one of my friends and then he yelled "LAUREN!" and pointed ahead of me. There, charging at me, was the big bull moose!! I backed up, and coincidentally (spelling?) the moose decided to stop charging me, and to turn around and go the other way. Wow, was that was close or what? I think of it as, "I was charged by a moose, and lived to tell the tale!" Would that be considered a "Close call" compared to some other things on here?
Yes orcalover11aolcom that is a close call! Not everyday is a person almost trampled on by a moose. lol. Anyway that must of been really cool seeing a moose though.
I LOVE MOOSE!! I went to Maine a few summers ago and I got a stuffed moose that sits on my bed! I wish they were tame so I could hug them! My grandma once saw a bull moose outside their house when they lived in Maine, but thankfully it didn't charge. You're a lucky girl!
Dudes, when you are out in the bush you never know what you might just sit next to. I went on sort of a walk along this creek, stopped sat down fair smack next to a 3ft. juvinial Pacific rattler. Now at first I thought I was hearing some kids wind-up toy but quickly realized that this little bugger was about to stike me on the behind. Luckily I moved as he struck and as fast as it happened the little tacker split. Now how would you get out the poison from that area or even better how to put a preasure on your bottom?
My three sister's and I were camping and we were awoken by the sound of somthing circleing our tent. We heard the leafs crunching and twigs snapping and the thing went around and around. I grabbed a fashlight and peaked out the window and saw a rabid fox. He was circleing the tent..foaming at the mouth and shaking his head. My littelest sister started screaming so I clamped my hand over her mouth and told her to shut up. We sat there very still and very quiet until he went away. He could have easily clawed and chewed through the tent...we were very lucky to have gotten out of that unscaved.
And one other time I was chasing dust bunnies on our stair way and I slipped and started flying down the stairs...I reached out and grabbed the railing and yanked my arm out of the socket. Got ta watch those dust bunnies, they can kill!!
we had a water moccasin at my summer camp that we called Charlie that would wait until we were all in the water swimming, canoeing, sailing in a small slough (pronounced slew) or cove to you "yankees", then he would swim from his nest area across all the activity to the opposite "corner" and then about 30 minutes later would make the return trip. Right when he had us watching for him from one spot, he would change his start point. And Mark O'Shea wonders if snakes are intelligent! And as Steve has said numerous times if you leave a rattlesnake alone it will leave you alone. There were 3 years when the rattlers had a population EXPLOSION around my grandmother's house and we weren't allowed out of sight of the house, not that that helped with the one that took up residence under her house, but we left it alone and only heard it on occasion. The closest call was when a Black Bear decided to join our picnic and with our noses stuck firmly in our books at the time we didn't know it was there until a guy who had watched it come down the hill FINALLY decided to say something, by that time this 400+pound jet black bear with beautiful honey colored eyes was propped on the bench next to my Mom - so close she could have kissed him. The picnic ground was closed for several years after that.
My friend and I were walking by the creek in the valley behind my house when I saw a snake!! Viki (My friends name) is sooooooo scared of them, so I wanted to show her that they were OK. I wasn't gonna pick it up, !) (yeah right!) but I wanted to get closer to it. (I was already pretty close to strike range, about 3 1/2 feet from it) Viki kept saying "Let's go! I'm scared, leave it alone. Let's go, it'll bite you!" Well, I took one more step, and it reared up. It was a really ticked off snake!! (At that time I was only 12 and very stupid. I didn't recognize how freaked the snake was.) My friend Viki grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me back about 2 steps, just as the snake struck!! I could feel the snake's fangs brush my leg!! I had venom drops from where they dripped from the fangs onto my leg and shoe!! The snake slithered away, and Viki ended up screeching into my ear that I'd been bit. I calmed her down, and showed her my leg. (See! No holes!! I'm fine!) Well, I dunno if the snake would've struck anyways, or it it only did because Viki jerked me back. But I guess if that's not a close call, nothing is!!
I had a few wildlife encounters when I was in the Army. A memorable occasion was at Fort Benning when we were doing push-ups in a sandy area. When the Sergeant running the training told us to get up, my arms were covered with fire ants. I hadn't even realized the sneaky buggers were crawling on me! The guy next to me started brushing them off me (the ants wait for a signal then they all start biting at the same time) then the little monsters started chowing on my arms big time. To make matters worse the Sergeant yelled at us to stop moving around while standing in formation. When all was said and done I had a couple hundred bites. Luckily I was already taking Benadryl and Amoxicyllin for a poison ivy rash that had become infected. If it weren't for that my arms would have blown up like the Michelin Man. It was still unpleasant though, and to this day I have a strong dislike for fire ants. I can't say I'm too crazy about Fort Benning either.
i was walking and a persons Dog got off his leash he said "don't run just lie down" so being me i ran i was half way to my house when the dog jumped on me, I think he was about to bite me and the owner got the dog and said thanks for letting my dog jump on you so i could put the leash on him this was so real i'm not lieing but yall have the best story then me. lots of luck who like to mess with stuff
i like to go to the water alot this is soo funny wel a dolphin was swiming to my friend krystal so i thought it was a shark so i started yelling SHARK SHARK to my friend people were runnig out of the water the life guard was about to get in the water the the dolphin jumped it was so funny but not to the life guard lol
I guess I haven't had very many close calls. Although the potential has been there quite frequently. I've had many opportunities to be bitten by brown recluses, as they are endemic here in TN (I suppose they are pretty common elsewhere in the states as well, not really sure), and in my old house there were plenty of the little buggers living in the floors and such. I had a few run across my face or legs in bed from time to time. Fortunately, since the move we've only encountered a few (perhaps 5 or 10 in the past 8 years).
I have been bitten by a very large grass spider of some sort though. Central air went out one summer for a few days, so we left some windows open. This joker comes in, and is lying in wait outside the bathroom door one night. I come out of the bath and step on him in my bare feet. I felt him, and probably should've stepped down the rest of the way and squashed it, but instead pulled my foot away. He took the opportunity to rear back and bite me on the side of the foot. No big deal, I suppose, a little swelling and aching the next day.
Interesting story is that we had an infestation of fruit tarantulas in our home for a couple of years. Remember that I've lived in Tennessee all my life, so that doesn't make much sense, eh? We had bought some tangelos in bulk, and one of the crates contained a pregnant female tarantula, I guess. These things became to us much like a mouse or cockroach problem would be to anyone else. Only thing is, that our "common household pest" was a species of potentially harmful spider, some of which were as large as a basketball. Really...we actually saw some of these in our house that were that big. We managed to capture a baby (still about as big as a field mouse) and had a lab verify that it was a tarantula. We figured that being tropical/subtropical spiders they couldn't survive a TN winter. However, as near as we can figure, they were grouping together in the house's insulation and hibernating until spring. We had them for about three years, before we finally stopped seeing them. Creepy...
And then once, when I was quite young, my parents and I were camping in the Smokies, just on the North Carolina side of the TN/NC line. One particular night, a black bear invaded our site, ate some roasted potatoes we had carelessly left on the grill, and as she was leaving she hit the side of our tent twice quite sharply...almost as if to say, "thanks for the food and goodbye"...
I can't believe you shared space with them and aren't locked in a rubber room with a white jacket wrapped around you....I would be! I am absolutely petrified of spiders. Ones that big would have sent me right over the edge. man, after all these stories I am DEFINITELY not going to be sleeping well tonight! Nightmares galore!
Years ago, my family went on a cross country trip, 5 of us in a Dodge Ram van, traveling all over the place. One place that we visited was Yellow Stone National Park. We had been driving around the park for a while, stopping here and there to check things out. We saw a little picnic area with an outhouse, and decided to make a pit stop. My little sister had just gone into the outhouse, I was standing outside of it waiting my turn, and my Mother, Father, and little brother had gotten back into the van. The next thing I new, I heard my brother slam the van door shut, and my mother yelling my name. I looked behind me just in time to see 5 or 6 coyotes running over to me. I did the only thing I could think of, I jumped on top of the nearest picnic table hoping they wouldn’t follow suit, and yelled to my sister, telling her not to come out of the bathroom. Well, after my dad yelled at they coyotes for a while from the van, I guess they figured out that I wasn’t going to give them any food, so they left, and I was able to finally get off of the picnic table and take my turn in the bathroom (thank goodness!). But that is a very good example of why you should NEVER feed wild animals! I’d sure that people had fed them before, and that’s why they approached me, assuming that I would have some food for them. That is very dangerous, for both the animals, as well as people!
I also had a bit of an experience with spiders once. My parents moved to a new house a few years ago. Their old house was in the city, and they decided that they wanted a more relaxing environment, so they moved about 35 minutes north, to a house with woods in the back yard. Well, right away they noticed how there were so many more bugs at the new place, and my Mother called me one night telling me that she was finding these huge spiders all over the place. When I would go visit them for a while, I’d catch as many of the spiders as I could, and “free” them in the back yard, I’d never seen that kind of spider before, but I thought it was some kind of wood spider or something. For two years I’d go down there and take spiders out of their house, I’d flick them into cups and buckets with my hand, or a magazine or something. One day I caught a pretty big one, and didn’t have any buckets or large cups readily available, so I just dropped him into the cage that I kept crickets in for my fire bellied toads. This thing went to town on the crickets, I didn’t think he could eat that much. I brought him into work with me one day to show to one of the entomologists that I know here at the University, and he informed me that it was a brown recluse. I was a bit shocked! Needless to say, although I still do catch them and free them, I’m a little more careful now.
I used to live in Florida and we would play with any living creature so I had A LOT of close calls. I have been biten by snakes, lizards, iguana's, dogs, cats, mice[the usuals], birds, turtles, rabits, mostly anything! But anybody else out there who had a close call tell me about it! 
] A cottenmouth must of been scary! 
I made a mistake by throwing the snack I pulled 5 teeth out of her mouth.I even kept one as a soviner!
Maybe it was the drugs. 
