Posted on 09/06/2014 6:44:42 AM PDT by Loyalist
Jeremy McNaughton won’t quickly forget his encounter with a rogue beaver that attacked him off the shores of Nova Scotia.
The 23-year-old Halifax man was snorkelling in Spanish Ship Bay, near Sherbrooke, with a couple of friends, when one of them looked down and noticed an animal of generous proportions with reddish-brown fur following them.
“I thought it must be a seal,” said Paul Skerry, who was in the water with McNaughton, due to the sheer size of the creature, which he estimates weighed nearly 50 pounds.
Never suspecting its true identity, considering beavers live exclusively in freshwater, Skerry couldn’t make sense of what the animal was until it approached him.
“I quickly realized it could only be a beaver,” once he recognized the animal’s markings, including buck teeth and a distinctly paddle-shaped tail, he said.
The beaver approached Skerry, who said it seemed intent on attacking him.
“He was swimming much too close to me, and seemed to be zeroing in for a bite,” he said. “So I pushed him away with my flippers.”
The beaver obliged, and took up Mr. McNaughton as his victim. It pushed past Skerry, launched itself at McNaughton and sunk its teeth into him, ultimately gouging a 2-inch cavity into McNaughton’s thigh.
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There’s a long history of our northern neighbors chasing down these critters - maybe the tide is turning!
Somewhere in the archives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is an accident report about an employee who was viciously attacked by a trapped snapping beaver. The critter had become trapped within a cyclone fence when the river went up then went back down. When the employee opened the gate to help the animal get out the critter thought it was trapped and attacked him. There were many, many stitches and a long round of rabies shots. The leg lacerations were pretty darn serious.
So, if you are ever confronted by a snapping beaver stay clear.
Every man remembers his first encounter with a rogue beaver...
Such an awesome video, good stuff, good reminder.
Awesome thread in general, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0 Canadians and beaver
I saw Primus that tour... Les Claypool is one of the most talented bass players ever... that is undisputable.
p.s. “Primus Sucks”
True story as related by Jeff Foxworthy...
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