The cutest looking animals, as I am wont to remind my animal-loving wife, can be some of the nastiest sons-of-bitches in the wild.
Like dolphins. When dolphins attack, they can make sharks look like total wusses in comparison.
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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The cutest looking animals, as I am wont to remind my animal-loving wife, can be some of the nastiest sons-of-bitches in the wild.
Like dolphins. When dolphins attack, they can make sharks look like total wusses in comparison.
Was Molly available for comment?
Was Molly available for comment?
Holy cow, total brain space. Meant to say Wynona
June sent him to bed without supper..
An elderly swimmer was attacked by a rabid beaver in Maryland last year.
With the current grooming fashions, the lad probably never saw a beaver with fur on it before.
“Vicious beaver attacks Halifax snorkeler off Nova Scotia’s coast”
Mermaid?
We could have gone all day without that crack.
Thanks for correctly using the plural of son-of-a-bitch as sons-of-bitches. Maybe you should instruct the talking heads on various news outlets who think the plural of attorney general is “attorney generals” and refer to people like Eric Holder as “General Holder.” They apparently do not realize that general is an adjectival form and that attorney is the principal noun.
I would not mind if the got the rank rear admiral wrong especially when Rear Kirby is trying to make sense out of Obamanisms.
I think I see what you did there.......
It does remind me of a story whose last line is “...and no wonder, look at the condition of the gums!”
I hate it when that happens.
Beware the beavers. They can be vicious.
I remember seeing a tree downed by a beaver. I was shocked at the size of the wood chips they bit out. Their jaws must be extremely powerful.
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