Have you ever had an encounter with a wild animal? The closest thing I can think of, is when I...

lissah · 36-40, F

A fricking possum in my garage the other night when i forgot to shut the door when it got dark.

No, but I was literally next to a skunk looking up at me and it walked w/me. I had just moved from the city, so I wasn’t expecting to run into anything walking on my new street. I thought wth is this, please don’t spray. It didn’t. Another time I saw one chase my friend when he was trying to scare me at my window. It was so funny as he ran and the skunk was looking like he was hopping chasing him far down the street. I watched from my window 🤣

I also was terrified of a pitbull at my then bf’s sister’s house. They insisted she get used to me before we went to sleep and even w/a muzzle on she tried to attack me. They said she sleeps in their room not to worry if I had to go to the bathroom or kitchen. The bf asked me to get him water and after getting a glass I went to walk back to the room and saw in my peripheral vision the dog watching me like wtf why isn’t she scared anymore 😂🤣 I thought I was done but remembered being told as a kid to not look or act scared.

deadgerbil · 26-30, M

Opossums, racoons, snakes. I also run into deer but it's unremarkable as they are common here

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I often startle animals in the woods. Mostly roe deer, sometimes snakes, hares, three times I came across boars. Once there was a group of does crossing our trail. I was lucky to see some foxes too but it's pretty rare and it was always far away from trails I normally walk.

HikingMan · 56-60, M

Too many to count.
Some were serene and others were downright frightening.

Everything from waking up in the woods with a chipmunk on my chest in NH, to a momma bear and her 3 cubs 15 feet away from me in the Sequoia Natl. Forest, to a giant 9' tall bull moose walking out of the woods and staring at me for 15 unnerving seconds on the slopes of Mt. Katahdin in ME, all the way to a whale bumping the tiny boat I was on off Cape Cod ...

Many more times of near misses and close calls of all sorts as well

AthrillatheHunt · 56-60, M

Coral snake in Indonesia 1997

Lilnonames · F

yes a bear,possum,raccoon a deer and a bobcat

Gibbon · 70-79, M

Yup.
Possum Raccoon Fox Doe Buck

One Raccoon was the scariest.The thing had rabies and was agressive out of nowhere

The others were I'm just in the neighborhood visitors.

meggie · F

Only a couple of adders in the UK and they quickly slithered/swam off. But I have snorkelled with seals and dolphins, which I was prepared to meet.

exexec · 70-79, C

Lots of snakes, including venomous cottonmouths and copperheads, possums, raccoons, deer, a bobcat, alligators and some really ferocious squirrels and bunnies

Fentonisfree · 51-55, MVIP

Grass snake 🐍 or was it a adder don’t know didn’t stick around 😝