I think the beaver…
…was just protecting his namesake lake:
A 67-year-old woman says she was attacked by a beaver while paddleboarding on a lake named after the rodent in North Carolina.
Betsy Bent told the Citizen-Times of Asheville that the beaver knocked her board over from underneath the water Friday at Beaver Lake, then latched on to her leg and wouldn’t let go.
The 67-year-old paddleboarder says a fisherman on the lake knocked the beaver off her twice, but it attacked again before letting her go.
A bulldoggish beaver. And she had to get rabies shots.
I once was standing about 15 feet from a river when a large beaver waddled up to me and passed within an inch or so of my feet. Practically had to step over my feet, then turned left, waddled down the embankment and into the river.
I remember going to a pond near my house and seeing an enormous rat’s head looking up at me. I was so relieved when I noticed the teeth and realized it was a beaver. What is it about rats? Squirrels, mice, beavers, just about anything in the family is fine, but rats freak me out.
I thought Jerry Mathers was the Beaver…
What would Jimmy Carter do in this situation?
That was a wascally wabbit.
The beavers behavior sounds abnormal to me. Rabies is a strong possibility. The series of rabies shots is a good idea.
A few years ago I had an encounter with a raccoon that wandered into the house through the kitchen; fortunately he left the same way, but not after going up and down the stairs to the bedrooms. This was in South Philly…!
A fisherman in Belarus was bitten to death by a beaver, and all he was doing was trying to take its picture, Sky News reports. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends at Lake Shestakov, but as he approached to take a photograph, the beaver bit him on the thigh. The animal managed to sever an artery, and his friends couldn’t stop the blood flow.
And If they handed out merit badges for bravery during a beaver attack, the boys of Troop 32 would be first in line. One of the leaders of the upstate New York troop was swimming in the Delaware River when he was attacked by the rabid animal. “It came through my legs and attached itself to my chest,” he tells the Poughkeepsie Journal. “I thought it was a giant carp fish.” He was bitten six times as he tried to fight the beaver off. He eventually managed to grab it by the jaw and bring it to shore, where Scouts stoned it to death as their leader lay injured.
Rabies is usually why
Otherwise mostly benign when not molested
As neo story points out
Even longer time ago on opening day trout fishing an attack
Odd world
The beaver jokes write themselves, so I won’t…0_0 (I spend way too much time over at Ace’s)….
I bet more than a few people saw rats come out while on their death bed or walking over corpses. (Middle Ages etc.,).
Probably why more people are instinctively creeped out by rats than beavers.
I was sitting on a trail in the Rockies one time and had a Pine Marten come slowly up the hill, sniffing as he proceeded, and slowly worked his way across my boots and on up the hill. I have to think his sense of smell was really bad, as I hadn’t showered in several days. Cute little bugger.
OTOH, another time, in East Africa, I stopped to answer a call of nature and had a Cape Buffalo explode out of the bush in front of me. I didn’t see him until he stood up and started running. Fortunately, he was facing away from me and just went forward. Had he been facing toward me i would have been trampled badly.
It’s a good thing you didn’t smell like wood.
Jenk Says:
“The beaver jokes write themselves, so I won’t…0_0 (I spend way too much time over at Ace’s)….”
Great minds and all that… In my case, growing up on the streets of Brooklyn did it to me.
The video artfl was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN3mMOh-hG8
Neo, I notice you immediately jumped to commenting on the Beaver-American’s motives. But we don’t know xer’s motives–who can say what microaggression triggered xer? Please, please, don’t give in to beevo-phobia.
I don’t know, man. Maybe it isn’t rabies. Maybe the beavers have gone all Liam Neeson. They’ve had enough. This is their time.
Event reminds me of a startled female cousin’s, in this instance infelicitous, use of the idiom some years ago; as she breathlessly reported back that as she was on her way to the outhouse located in a copse of trees, ” When I got to those bushes over there, I shook out a deer”
The beaver “knocked her board over”? Or knocked her overboard?