"Make sure you don't get killed by a bear!"

Not bears by my wife who is originally from Lithuania had her house burn down when she was a child and they were all circled by a pack of Wolves.

It was staying close to the fire that saved them. This was before mobile phones and they lived in a completely remote part of a village and was complete luck that someone came across the fire.
 
adam cool dude said:
Not bears by my wife who is originally from Lithuania had her house burn down when she was a child and they were all circled by a pack of Wolves.

It was staying close to the fire that saved them. This was before mobile phones and they lived in a completely remote part of a village and was complete luck that someone came across the fire.
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Aren't Lithuanian pyrowolves supposed to be extinct?
 
Mr Badger said:
Aren't Lithuanian pyrowolves supposed to be extinct?
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Haha. No it wasn't the Wolves that burnt the house down. Most likely dodgy soviet electronics but seeing as they lived in a massive wooded area the heat and light most likely attracted everything nearby.

She said you could see their eyes but nothing really else as it was night time.

All we get around here is the odd deer and badger.
 
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Lopéz said:
we don't really have any large predators in the UK - no wolves, no bears.
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Were supposed to have Panthers, Puma and leopards- which is worry enough for me:

Scientists believe big cats are lurking in the UK countryside after DNA belonging to lions and snow leopards was found on a carcass.



Prof Robin Allaby claims he has found proof of big cats in the wild in the UK and believes there may be 100 prowling through our countryside.

Recent sightings stretch from Devon to Worcestershire and past Cumbria and into Scotland.

Allaby, of Warwick University, analysed a sample taken from a sheep's carcass in the Lake District.

He discovered 'Panthera genus' DNA - meaning it had to have come from a lion, leopard, tiger, jaguar or snow leopard.
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About 20-25 years ago we had a spate of sightings of what appeared to be a big cat (black panther if I remember right) and several sheep were were killed. Nothing since though.
 
I'm right next to a private estate with extensive grounds. Most of the grounds are open to the public with about 6-8 square miles of mixed forest. There's usually several hundred deer in there with occasional culls. So I usually see deer everytime I go for a walk in the deeper parts of the forest/fields. Singular most of the year and then large herds during the rutting season. They can see, smell or hear you usually before you spot them. Though they aren't too bothered when they are in the open.

Closest I've been was to a full grown stagg that I basically walked around a tree and he was right there. I'm 6'2" and we were eye to eye. After a few secounds he bounded off which I coud feel through my feet!

The most dangerous animals I come across are pregnant cows so I give them a wide berth. Maybe the odd badger in town pilfering the bins at night. They won't back down so again give them space. I've been near some wild bour before and they could make some really scary sounds if you didn't know what it was.

I'm more wary of Horse Flies as I've had the odd bad reaction from bites with one making my right hand and forearm swell up which needed steriods to help get under control.
 
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