Groundhog Attacks!

[walkswithdog]

Well, this is pathetic! I was bitten by a hamster on steroids! Yesterday I let the dogs into the yard and a commotion started. I ran out to see and something large fell off a low branch of a tree. Too big too be a squirrel. What the? And there it is a groundhog circling, defending itself, growling and chattering. I got nost of the dogs inside and started ushering his perturbed self out the yard. But NO, he wasn't going, he attacked, lunged and leapt at me. I knocked him to the ground with a stick and thought for sure he would run then? Nope. Ran up an bit my shin. I left Cricket guarding him, despite the fact that he outweighed her by a few pounds, she's a small rat terrier, and got a Rubbermaid bin. Scooped the bugger up and dumped him out of the yard. Run NOW? Nope try to get back inthe fence to eat me. Fine, once more into the bin, this time w a lid so I could go call animal control.

So today a vicious gerbil on steroids dies to find out if he was just mean or rabid and I'll know tomorrow if I have to do the shots. It's truly sad and pathetic to have to call law enforcement and say you've been attacked by a groundhog. Pathetic. At least it wasn't a rabid cow... Sigh

 

[speckledhen]

Good grief, Cher, that is just nuts! I hope that critter isn't rabid.

Hamster on steroids, LOL.

 

[Matthew3590]

It was high on bath salts.

 

[redhen]

 

[sfw2]

 

[bigT88]

It was high on bath salts.

 

[KristyHall]

I hope it isn't rabid. the good thing is that modern rabies shots are not as bad as they use to be.

 

[ChicknThief]

Oh my, this was quite the visual

Glad you are ok!

A pic of the bite is definitely required. You know, for science....

 

[MeatKing]

So glad you are ok, please keep us posted as to your results!!!

that must've been scary !!!!

 

[Stumpy]

Oh, gosh, I know that was quite alarming!

I'll share two embarrassing stories that should make you feel better. One day when I was in my early 20's, alone and single, I glanced over at a table in my office while I was eating lunch. There was a rattlesnake wrapped around my hamster cage. I called the sheriff's office to get someone to kill it

. Now I do my own snake killing.

Many years later I was bitten by a mouse and my husband insisted that I go to the emergency room and get a tetanus shot. I was embarrassed beyond belief.