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  1. Emanuel Theodorus

    Emanuel Theodorus Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Bitten by my pet hedgehog before. It hurts like hell.
     
  2. Gary

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    Bitten by Old English Sheepdog (mine) as a teen, clawed and bitten by my 2 cats, butted by a pygmy goat, bitten by my hamster and rabbit as a kid and pecked by African Grey Parrot (my parents) and a cockatiel ( escapee I caught and rescued).

    In my experience you get the bad with the good, most animals are as moody as people. 99 times out if 100 they'll be fine but you never know.

    Only a couple of scars to show but plenty of blood lost!
     
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  3. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Your parents are African Gray Parrots!? How does that work?!
     
  4. ZooBinh

    ZooBinh Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    He meant that it was his parent's bird ;)
     
  5. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Well @Gary could be an African Grey Parrot, as after all, they are famous for talking.
     
  6. Killer Guppy

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    Seagulls, bombarded me with their little “bombs”, does that count as an attack?
     
  7. Hipporex

    Hipporex Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    While I've never been full on "attacked" I have been bitten, rammed, and pooped on by various animals. Probably my most unusual attacker was a baby binturong a couple years back.
     
  8. Buldeo

    Buldeo Well-Known Member

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    I've also been attacked by leeches in Madagascar, and a had serious nip from a vicious Ringtail. A bamboo lemur wasn't enthusiastic about having his belly rubbed either.

    I do daily battle with a girl cat who thinks she's a full fledged panther.
     
  9. ZooBinh

    ZooBinh Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Why'd you try to rub a Bamboo Lemur's belly?
     
  10. Ebirah766

    Ebirah766 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I stepped on a dead blue crab at the beach once. Hurt. I also got stung by wasps on multiple occasions. The second time, I didn't even notice, and it was even bleeding. My brother got peed on by a guinea pig, I've been bit by my dog so many times it barely even hurts anymore. If I think of any more, I'll post here.
     
  11. MurphyFox

    MurphyFox Well-Known Member

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    I have been chased and approached by Canada Geese on two different occasions (once at Philly Zoo and once at park in Virginia) because they wanted to be fed.
    I was also charged by an Elk in Yellowstone
     
  12. CarLover

    CarLover Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have been bitten by dogs, cats, rabbits, biting insects, and I have been stung by a wasp. My most interesting attack was by an azure-winged magpie. It pecked me in the back. It felt like someone poked me with a pencil.
     
  13. Black Footed Beast

    Black Footed Beast Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Emus were biting me quite a bit when I went to Safari Lake Geneva
     
  14. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    OMG I am not even going to start to describe the Canada geese in Toronto. They are so unafraid of humans, and are as powerful of swans, but also noisy. The worst thing is that they a natural poop machines though.

    Apart from them, a few angry foxes, a dastardly pigeon and an angry tiger on the other side of a fence.

    Although when I was 4 I got tackled to the ground by a cat in Cyprus, and it hurt but was kinda funny at the same time.
     
  15. LowlandGorilla4

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    I got chased by a goat at this farm in Michigan, then that same goat (several years ago) dragged me by her leash for 20 feet. I got chased by an "aroused" donkey to. Man that was a fun summer. :D
     
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  16. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Penguins.......I've probably said that before.......OK, more Penguins. Irritable cock pheasants of various species.
     
  17. ZooBinh

    ZooBinh Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    This probably isn't rare at all, but dogs. Dogs. I can't say how many times I'll be walking around my neighborhood and someone will be walking their dogs, and all of a sudden their "sweet little honey booboo" turns into some demon that runs up and barks and tries to bite and bare it's teeth.
     
  18. Yoshistar888

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    Apart from the usual suspects, (mosquitoes, a wasp, dogs and cats), I've had close calls with many territorial birds on occasion.

    Red Wattlebirds and noisy miners have almost had my head, as have Australian Magpies but luckily ive gotten out of the way.

    Although this dosent count as an attack a wild cockatoo at a restaurant in Lorne screeched in my ear. That was not fun at all.

    When I was little (around 4 or 5) an injured duck (Can't remember if it was a mallard, a domestic or a pacific black duck) (It's leg had been mutilated by the aggresive domestic geese) at Fairfield boat house almost chopped my finger off as I was attempting to alert the people at the park as it had been injured. I learnt my lesson not to put my finger anywhere near a ducks mouth.
     
  19. Onychorhynchus coronatus

    Onychorhynchus coronatus Well-Known Member

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    Lots... but the most interesting attack experience and one of the most bizarre I can remember having was a baby spider monkey which in a tantrum yanked out quite a substantial chunk of my hair with it's tail. Quite painful too :confused:
     
  20. WhistlingKite24

    WhistlingKite24 Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    Beside the usual lapwings and magpies, the one that stands out for me was a Little Corella that latched onto my ear for about a minute at a local bird park. It drew blood and the bird managed to really dig into my ear. It took quite some effort for the keeper to get the bird to let go. The place I visited rescues a lot of parrots and cockatoos from traumatic backgrounds (some absolute horror stories - pet owners intentionally stepping on their parrots etc) so I certainly don't blame the bird.