Denray Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Attacked by an animal while doing an inspection yesterday. It was horrible. There I was leaning way low looking at the bottom of a water heater. I felt something messing with the hair, what little there is, on the back of my head. I turn around and there it was. A rat. Teeth nibbling away. I thought about the slow death I was going to contract from rodentchia . Then I realized it was in a cage. It was a pet. The end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Attacked by an animal while doing an inspection yesterday. It was horrible. There I was leaning way low looking at the bottom of a water heater. I felt something messing with the hair, what little there is, on the back of my head. I turn around and there it was. A rat. Teeth nibbling away. I thought about the slow death I was going to contract from rodentchia . Then I realized it was in a cage. It was a pet. The end! But then again, the experience might stimulate regrowth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 When I was a kid we had cats that liked to sleep next to the water heater. Every once in a while one of them would get singed when the thing fired up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Hockstein Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 I recently had a cat jump out from above a suspended ceiling in the basement. I was startled but I think it was more scared of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Coulda been Willard. I had a full on cat attack several years ago, thankfully before LED's and I still carried a giant flashlight. The cat kept attacking and clawing up my legs trying to get to my face, hard, fast, and violent. Totally nuts. I walloped it a couple times, and it kept coming. I had to fight my way out of the room and slam the door. I can see how a full size mountain lion could take out a human in a tenth of a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 They always go for the head. Or the neck. Click to Enlarge 24.9 KB Click to Enlarge 45.4 KB Denny, had a similar fright once, crouched down between the WH and the furnace. That one was a stinking Ferret, out of its cage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Is that your bow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Is that your bow? Nope. That was in a house I inspected. I did forestry for over 20 years and saw more than my share of wildlife on foot with no weapon but maybe bear spray. Never shot anything. That ferret, I would have shot. [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjr6550 Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 That's nothing. I came upon this last week. Click to Enlarge 48.47 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Hansen Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 That's nothing. I came upon this last week. Click to Enlarge 48.47 KB It's Hobbes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Some people go to far with their trophies. Click to Enlarge 59.32 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 During the time when municipalities just piled their trash on the edge of town, and it would catch fire either spontaneously or on purpose, we as teens would drive to the dump at night and get out with 22 rifles, flashlights taped to barrels, and hunt for rats. Some of them would turn and charge you if you didn't take them with the first shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welmoed Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 This one surprised me as I got up to the second floor of the log cabin. Every room had a variation of a dead deer in it. The song Gaston sings in "Beauty and the Beast" kept running through my head... "I use antlers in all of my decorating..." Click to Enlarge 78.94 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 During the time when municipalities just piled their trash on the edge of town, and it would catch fire either spontaneously or on purpose, we as teens would drive to the dump at night and get out with 22 rifles, flashlights taped to barrels, and hunt for rats. Some of them would turn and charge you if you didn't take them with the first shot. We'd just sit on the back porch and wait for them to traverse the yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 During the time when municipalities just piled their trash on the edge of town, and it would catch fire either spontaneously or on purpose, we as teens would drive to the dump at night and get out with 22 rifles, flashlights taped to barrels, and hunt for rats. Some of them would turn and charge you if you didn't take them with the first shot. We'd just sit on the back porch and wait for them to traverse the yard. That was 'pit-lamping' back in the day. People had spotlights mounted on the car for hunting deer in the dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Animal attacks are Really Really bad when your friends turn on you. Happy Thanksgiving. Download Attachment: thanksgiving.jpg 28.07 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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