Dangerous animals in your backyard

A friend/co-worker of mine had an interesting encounter with a vicious little predator hell bent on tearing chunks of flesh from his leg. I had no idea these creatures even existed up until a few days ago. According to his story, he was enjoying a nighttime bike ride through his secluded neighborhood when he noticed a silhouetted animals in the moonlight. He thought it was a cat until it made this terrible scream and bolted at him at full blast.He stated he was lucky that he was at the crest of a hill otherwise he couldn't have outrun it on his bike.Picture a miniature wolverine. Just as violent, only slightly smaller.I give you the Fisher sometimes referred to as (Fisher Cat) although it is not at all feline, but rather descends from the weasel family.These little bastards are so vicious and make this god awful screech that sounds like a woman or child being murdered or tortured. These things make badgers look tame.I could only find one video that corroborates their terrible nature.Because they are fairly small an adult could fend them off relatively easily, but you'd probably loose flesh in the process. They are opportunists and are known to attack children and pets, killing hundreds of cats and dogs each year.So, what dangerous little critters live in your neck of the woods?Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

I have seen foxes, coyotes, weasels, and several types of birds of prey. As to them being dangerous, the most dangerous was a rabid raccoon.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Got 4 dogs. Any dangerous animal in the forest behind my house is gone by now.

Lose pitbulls.- Oni

Not in my back yard but a distant relative of the Fisher won the Guiness World Record, some time ago for being the bravest animal around.I give you the Honey BadgerHoney badger - WikipediaOne tough motherfucker, it is.In my back yard there is a burgeoning colony of local cats cats that all seem to hang out together.It's very disconcerting when the young sea gulls are fledging and about 4 or 5 cats are sat on the pavement all looking up to the rooftops at one sea gull chick flapping around.All a bit sinister, if you ask me.

Pretty much all Mustelids are feisty buggers. I've actually been threatened by a weasel. It happened to cross a path that me, my Dad and my Brother were walking along. It stopped, turned to us and hissed at us aggressively. It paused for a moment, seemingly to see if we were going to run away. Since we didn't run, it appeared to think better of it and run off, but the point is it thought it was worth a try.Weasels are about 6-10 inches long.For more on the ferocious honey badger;

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British blamed for Basra badgers. British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgersDon't mess with the Mustelidae folks. They may be wee, but they're wiry.Mutate and Survive

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"A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it." - Jacques Monod

In Florida as a child I dealt with a possum (possibly rabid) when I climbed a huge ficus tree. I unwittingly stumbled on to its den and we were both startled by the encounter. It was snapping and hissing and me. I could only scramble out of the tree so fast. Damn marsupials.

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

Oh yeah! I was on the back side of the University of Miami, near the science labs (towards Red Road) when a pit bull ambled out of some bushes (about 200 yards from me) and it was pissed off. I had nowhere to go. Thankfully it didn't charge me or I'd have been done.

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

We have badgers in America too. Although they are slightly less aggressive than its cousin the Honey Badger, they are still all piss and vinegar.When I was in the Navy we had to patrol large swaths of land including dense brush in California. This was an area where cougars and badgers were present. I never encountered either while trekking in to the unknown, but I always pulled my pistol or carried a shotgun in the event of a chance encounter. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

Part of the video on this link shows Kleinman happen upon a snake with a fresh rodent kill.Being a honey badger he decides to steal the kill and promptly does so, devouring in front of the pissed off snake.Then Kleinman decides to eat the snake! After killing the snake he falls victim to the snakes venom and goes into a coma before he can eat all of the snake.A few hours later Kleinman awakens, none the worse for wares, finishes eating the snake and goes on about his way.Kleinman rules.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0tycmec1fw