Cute Canadian Lynx - Big Wolf Ranch Rescue
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fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
In 1995, I was driving up to my lot. My house wasn't here yet. And there was a bob cat sitting in a driveway. Just sitting there. I stopped, and backed up. The cat didn't move. He was looking around. I stayed there watching him for about 15 minutes. My being there didn't seem to bother him at all. I had to meet the contractor, so I left. Never saw him again.
Isn't it amazing when a wild animal seems to have no reaction to a human?
I had a similar experience in my back yard with a coyote. I took my dog out, it was around 1:00pm. My back yard is half an acre. When I take him out, I check the yard for anything dangerous. I walked to the back of the yard & a coyote is casually lying down in the grass. I expected him to run away as I approached him, but he just lay there looking at me like someone's dog in their house would - even when I got 5 feet from him.
I didn't want my dog to see him. I clapped & yelled & he jumped up, ran to a tall fence & jumped & climbed over it in a flash.
Can be creepy, too.
My husband has been an avid outdoorsman and hunter his entire life, and so you can only imagine the sights he's experienced over the years, but his blood ran cold on one particular outing, where he and a monstrous timber wolf met face-to-face in a clearing.
Hubby said the timber wolf was close, no more than approx. 50' away, it was fearless, stood it's ground, and just cold-stared him up and down, and even after my husband cycled the action of his rifle a couple of times in an attempt to prompt the animal to move along, it just stood there eying him up.
Ruth n Jersey
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- Northern New Jersey
We have a resident bear in our neighborhood. He minds his own business and we go about ours. He isn't troublesome such as getting into our garbage cans or breaking into our homes. I have had 2 very close encounters with him. The first time I was weeding and he walked right by just a few feet from me. The second time I was doing the same thing and he decided to sit and watch.
That scared me a little bit but I continued on with my work. I could see the drool from his mouth. I was hoping it wasn't a sign of hunger. He eventually got bored and moved on.
That scared me a little bit but I continued on with my work. I could see the drool from his mouth. I was hoping it wasn't a sign of hunger. He eventually got bored and moved on.
I find that's when wild animals are most likely to approach a human, is when a human is busy and down on all fours. I think for a wild animal they see a similarity in what we're doing as compared to what they do, so they're intrigued as to what exactly is going on, because to them it must seem as though we're foraging for food or something.