animal encounters

[Iron Horse Racing]

Have been hiking and riding with my kids since they were born, they're now 21 and 19....When my Son was about 7 he confronted me, we were hiking in the mountains and he wanted to know why when there were bear tracks I would start sining loud....appartly the kids fiqured it out... but there mother up to then never did.....she didnt go hiking much after that....she was nervous about bears...

We were out hiking and were caught out in a light rain while climbing up a ridge near Two O'Clock Creek, we hid under a cliff till the rain stoped then proceeded up onto the top of the over hang, the trail had fresh tracks on it and my daughter wanted to know what song we should sing re the kitties tracks. Seems a Cougar was right above us while we hid under the cliff....

" Hit the road Jack" comes to mind now, then it was just lets go back the way we came .....

 

[Uturn]

I have a fairly large red fox hanging around the yard for the last 2 weeks. Last night (4am) was the second time I saw him. The St. Bernard barks like crazy at him outside, then the beagle gets going inside and NO ONE sleeps.

Not sure how I`m going to get rid of it. Shooting it in the middle of the night will just bring the cops and lots of hassles. Might go buy a blunt for my arrow and see if it will stick around long enough for a thump in the a$$.

Anyone have any ideas.

 

[sirkdev]

Trap it and relocate it, call the fish cops I sure they would have some suggestions. Google it lots of stuff came up when I searched. Repellents etc.

 

[H2SNOW]

dog came back face full of quills ..two hours later snip and pull

 

[Iron Horse Racing]

Have one horse thats tryed playing with a porky pine twice....what a rodeo that is getting them cut and pulled....hobbled front and back knocked him down had one rope holding his feet, his head tied, then had one guy sitting on his head while I cut and pulled....1200 lbs of pissed off horse....but when all was done and we untied him he just stood there ... I gave him two apples....he luvs apples....so far it's been a year and no more quills so he must have fiqured it out the second time....pork's are not to be played with...

 

[Iron Horse Racing]

Animals I wouldnt want to encounter!!!!

 

[BC Sno-Ghost]

My Kid's hamster pi$$ed in my hand once ...... That's about it.

 

[sumx54]

My Kid's hamster pi$$ed in my hand once ...... That's about it.

You need to get out more

 

[-Swede-]

-T-boned about a 1yr old cow moose with a honda 300 quad. (nobody Hurt)

LMAO!!!



once when i was younger, me and a friend were out sledding at night, it was dark as... well... you know... anyway when we get to where we were going he takes off his helmet and says:
"wow, why did that bull moose get so close to ya?"

turns out a big bull had been running alongside me for a few yards, not 6 feet away from the sled!

and I, blind as a bat, didn't even notice!

 

[crazy_wheeler]

Spotted these critters grazing approx. 500 yds from where we were camped last monday evening.

 

[Thunderr]

Crazy birds.

 

[DEVER]

does Alien Encounters Count????

 

[ZRrrr]

Spotted these critters grazing approx. 500 yds from where we were camped last monday evening.

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Mind me asking a rough location and at what elevation? Just curious.

 

[crazy_wheeler]

Mind me asking a rough location and at what elevation? Just curious.

It's the old Cabin Creek airstrip by the Berland river north of Hinton. Elevation wise it's around the 3400 ft mark.

 

[ZRrrr]

Thanks!

I was just in Crowsnest for a week. Did some flyfishing on the Crowsnest, and upstream on the Livingston, Oldman and Racehorse. Saw lots of wildlife but was short a Grizzly. Looking around it seemed there wasn't much ready for them to eat so I was curious to to the local and elevation of your sighting.

Lucky you.

 

[ZRrrr]

Fishing a spot on the Oldman river last week these critters came down off the mountain to join us. It was starting to get dark. There were several of them hanging around and didn't seem to mind us a whole lot. Don't get a close up look at these often so it was a real treat to watch them for a while. Youngun's were funny as they were quite intersted in us too.

 

[MtnMaster]

Had a ton of encounters, but heres some recent...

out riding my dirtbike last week, I came ripping around a corner to my truck, and there was a little grizzly sittin there waiting for me. I slid to a stop, and revved up my bike, a CRF450, so quite loud. Didn't even phaze him, he looked at me like "what the heck do you want" I was maybe only 50 ft away. He didn't seem too concerned about me, so I whipped out the camera. Then he started to walk away from the truck, sort of in my direction. So, I snapped a quick pick, and promptly fired a bearbanger about 3 feet above his head.... He took off into the bush at a hundred miles an hour. Never loaded my bike so fast in my life.... I had bearspray too, so I wasn't all that concerned, but didn't want to have to use it. That pic is not zoomed at all!

Last summer, a buddy and I were on a climbing/caving trip, and we had our basecamp set up on a high alpine plateau. Probably about 6000 feet, it was late June, and there was probably 5 or 6 feet of snow on the ground still. We had our food stashed in the only tree up there, which was just a dead stick sticking up out of the snow. I awoke in the middle of the night, to something trying to get at our food, so I peeked out the tent and saw about a 150-200 lb Timberwolf, about a 100 feet away. He was a BIG bugger! I tried to wake my buddy quietly, and he jumped awake "what, what, what the he** do you want" he says loudly. I told him there was a wolf outside, and he froze. We decided to just yell and scream, and rattle the sides of the tent, he took off running down into the trees, so I decided to get up, and see what mess he had made. When I got up I saw his tracks ALL over our camp, including ones circling the tent, and right up to the door, 2 feet from our heads.... I actually had a fairly large handgun with us, for that exact reason(yes, its registered and I'm licensed.) But, I figured if we could just scare him away, there was no point in firing a warning shot and scaring the bejeesus out of him...

 

[rubirose]

Last night hubby and I are out for a walk around our subdivision. He spots a young skunk at side of road in grass. Dean darts real quick to the right as he warns me about skunk. I just stop, move a bit to the right and watch the little sucker. He did have his tail up when he first noticed us but actually turned to face us and lower his tail. We just stared at each other for a couple of minutes. If the dog had been with us she would have been sprayed for sure, but alas she is in the hospital.

 

[carter.c]

I was cruising down a back road once and seen a Lynx eating on a roadkill deer. It didn't seem to be scared off by my presence so I drove past it about 40 or 50 yards and parked and shut off my truck. I new I had my camera somewhere in the truck. The cat seemed to be patient for me while I found my camera but just as I was about to open my door and get out I noticed that the Lynx was gone off the kill. I got out of the truck with the camera and decided to walk back to the kill and see if he was still around. When I walked past the back of the box on my pickup I looked to my left and I was Face to Face with the Lynx, less than 8 feet away. It startled me and I let out a school girl scream and we both ran in opposite directions. I never did get a picture of it.

wow that would be scary!