I was going to list mosquitoes, but around here, they are more annoying than dangerous.
richbuff Talk about a high intensity walk —— What’s your heartrate when the shit hits the fan
Good for you! You’re on the same Pace as me. Around Thanksgiving I’ll hit 25k miles after a little
more than 10 years of hiking with my Husky/German Shepherd. He will be 11 the day after Christmas. He’s still in great shape.
I’ve seen several coyotes rattlesnakes copperheads that’s
About it 4 scary animals.
Any animal with rabies can be scary. I seen rabid raccoons and foxes before.
My blood work comes back perfect every year. My lipid panel and CMP. Thanks to Baron. I’m 61.
It’s Widder Maker time in Texas.
The Black Widow population is in full bloom. The moms are laying egg sacks all over the place.
I usually leave most critters be. But theses creepy crawly critters seem to love to hang out by my outside doors.
Out comes the bug spray.
They also like to hide in the corners of my office downtown.
Thoop, Thoop, is the sound when a thumbnail sized Widow gets sucked by the shop vac.
Important safety tip. DO NOT use a Bug Assalt thingy on a spider located in a corner above your head.
The air blast propels said spider directly back at you.
I eventually recovered and my blood pressure is getting back to normal.
Black Widow trivia. Ever notice how a Black Widow silk strand actually goes “Snap” when it breaks?
They are way thicker than regular spider silk.
In years gone by, the cross-hairs in rifle scopes, range finders Etc. were made of Black Widow silk thread.
Pictures from Australia land with fields covered in webs for acres - Too damn spooky to be real!
All the Best,
Jeff
Scorpions,
When I first move into my own house 40 something years ago. It bordered on empty land.
When that started getting developed it was Scorpion city here.
I stopped counting at 30 something found inside the house.
Luckily I had a great cat that was hell on the bugs.
He would wait for then to try to scurry away and smack the hell ot of them with a lightning paw.
This would go on until the bug gave up the ghost or I came to terminate the game.
Had that cat for 22 years. He was my best bud. We traveled all over together. He loved riding in the car.
I still miss him.
All the Best,
Jeff
When I started to type my post, there were no other replies yet. So, I will clarify: This topic hit a major raw nerve, it was not any of the posts that hit a major raw nerve.
https://blog.dogsbite.org/2021/09/puna-woman-dies-after-dogs-attacked-three-adults-hawaii-county.html#comment-38508 Please scroll up to see what I replied to.
"Police have “... ...and we don’t know what provoked the dogs to attack," Amaral said."
What a decorticate, decerebrate statement to make!
What provoked the dogs to attack? How about that they are predatory animals with a strong prey drive, that were specifically bred to kill, unprovoked. And they located their perfect victims, that is, unarmed victims. How about that for the obvious answer to such a ridiculous question.
There are only two reasons why more than a few million Americans get bitten by dogs every year. Because two of the following applied at the same time: a) They were within reasonable proximity to a canine animal, and b) Because the person was not covered by a self-defensive firearm.
In the USA, one percent of all dog bites are immediately terminated with a self-defensive firearm. For every seven million Americans that get attack bit annually, 70,000 attacking dogs are shot annually.
Question: If next year, there were a one percent reduction of successful attack bites, that is, only 98% of all dog attack bites actually occurred, because two percent of the immediately attacking dogs were shot, would that be better or worse than last year?
Both kinds,criminally negligent and criminally willful at-large dog offenders prefer Unarmed victims. Don't cave in to them! Don't be unarmed!
Yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, bees…mostly just dangerous to me though.
in their own special way, just about every single animal
has the potential to be dangerous in some form or another.
recently, a new one has shown up locally: armadillos.
on a nearby public trail, owls have clawed runners.
finally, we have a few aggressive stray cats (rabid?).
I’m more worried about nutty people than animals. The most dangerous animal I’ve seen around my place is an Opossum and it wasn’t bothersome. (apparently they consume thousands of ticks every season so I’m willing to live and let live) Mostly I just see hordes of bunnies. I’ve seen as many as 12 on a single 30 minute walk.
There is only One reason why people keep and bear dangerous canines. Because they are convinced that their dangerous canine is only a risk to other people, not their selves or their own family.
But wait, not so fast! They kill their owners newborns, infants, toddlers: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/67171/109
How fast would the problem disappear they only attacked their owners? In a very short time, normal people who love their neighbor would be able to walk down the street without a gun. There would be no more furry attackers loose on the street. Yay! Dear God, please make them attack bite only their owners. Amen.
Ticks, mosquitoes (West Nile yep been there), Copperheads, rattlesnakes, black widow, brown recluse, legendary cougar that supposedly prowls the area…and never know when a normally timid creature might show up rabid instead.
I forgot about wasps and bees. 
2-legged douchebags on 2- or 4-wheels, usually at night.
Come on. We have to cope with all dangers we encounter ourselves while you have a sister that even kills rattlers (for you). 
Hey, she gets 1000 experience points and 500 gold for every rattler she kills! 
Oh look! This must be "National Let Our Nanny Dogs Kill Little Old Ladies Week"!
followed without undue delay by: https://blog.dogsbite.org/2021/09/elderly-woman-dies-attacked-by-three-pit-bulls-mahaffey-lane.html#comment-38531
Who's next? There's only one requirement: Someone who is not defended with a self-defensive firearm. All you have to do is not carry a gun, and you can let you neighbors' nanny dogs butcher you on the public street.
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Black and Brown Widows over here. I’m told the Brown ones came in on a boat from South America but I don’t know. The Black ones like ground level nests. Found a female once in the water meter box with 3 empty egg sacs and one full. Torched it with carburetor cleaner.
Brown Widows like living 3 ft off ground level and are slightly sma!ler.
Humans are by far the most dangerous, gangsters will shoot you for fun at 15 yrs old.
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Is it hard to hit an attacking dog with a pistol? Moving targets aren’t easy. Crunch time.
Death adders
blue blotched snake
brown snake
black snake
red belly black.
Black snakes and red belly blacks eat brown snakes. Blacks and red belly blacks are timid and easy to kill but you will then get browns. The best way to keep snakes away is put road kill out for goannas because the goannas eat snakes. However goannas are cunning and will follow you around so the best way to deal with goannas is to give them a whack with a bit of poly pipe to make them scared of you.
The first one was a classic ambush attack. Out came the German shepherd from a blind driveway, about one and three quarters seconds away from me, full charge, snarling and growling. Deep within my few seconds legal, personal self-defense time-space. I drew and fired one shot. It got hit in the side of its skull. It was four feet away, one tenth of a second away from me. All persons in Prescott were critical of me, because I was too afraid to offer my flesh and blood to their Almighty Dog, whom they worship and serve.
My second time was similar distance and timing. My first two shots grazed the Queensland heeler in the legs, third shot in side of head, fourth shot center of its head. It never decelerated. It never veered off. Full terror of immediate hospitalization injury, until sudden stop one-thirtieth of a second away from me.
Five shots per two tiny split second stops. Police fire significantly more shots per shot dog. Closer to five rounds per dog.
Successful defense with pepper spray is almost totally unobtainable. Unarmed defense is virtually completely futile.