I have a few stories of my own.
But I would rather tell you about a friend who was born on a farm and always has all kinds of livestock.
A number of years ago he bought several Texas Longhorns. The real deal shipped in from Texas.
One day when I visited his farm, I noticed the old truck he used to patrol pasture fence and other rough jobs had a terrible crushed front fender as well as part of the driver’s door.
So I said something like “Looks like you hit a tree or had a wreck”.
His reply was that he drove the truck out in the pasture for some reason and one of his dogs followed the truck. The Longhorns tried to kill the dog, who took refuge under the truck and the Longhorns ruined the truck trying to get to the dog.
I guess conditioned to guard calves from coyotes.
I promise you that if you saw the condition of that truck, you would never cross that fence.
LOL, I don’t think I even need to see the truck to not want to cross that fence...I have a healthy respect for all animals, even domesticated dogs and cats lest they revert for even a second at the wrong time back to their buried undomesticated nature.
If I have a gun, great. But anything that is a physical contest, humans are for the large part, comparatively soft and squishy for nearly any animal.
I wasn’t always so careful, when I was a kid, I lived in the Philippines, and I viewed any animal as something to be approached and captured, snakes, lizards, primates, shellfish, bugs (and they had a lot of huge ones there) you name it. (never did actually try to capture one of those nasty baboon-like primates they had over there) but I did capture a four foot monitor lizard once...:)
They had one particular seashell I caught that could, if you got stung by it, die in less than 15 minutes (called a Geography Cone) but I was lucky, I went diving with another kid who was well versed in those things because his older brothers and father were seriously into that, real divers. His father administered the SERE training they gave to pilots who were deploying to Vietnam, so he knew all about those things. (The knowledge of how to set a trap for a monitor lizard came from him)
Now, I am content to view wildlife and that is it. If they approach, I retreat. Except for birds. I have become a birder as I get on in years, and I do all I can with some success to interact with them. LOL, most of them can’t kill or severely injure you!