What is your worst animal injury?

[Domush]

Having just been "love tapped" (swift kicked) by my horse a few moments ago, I'm wondering what other people have been through when it comes to the obsession of living with non-humans. Man my calf muscle hurts. She wasn't even aiming for me, it was a warning to another horse which she's "not interested" in. I just happened to be a foot or so next to the evil nibbler. She really has to work on her aim :shocked:

Of course, that is not the worst ever, though my calf muscle may disagree. The worst has to be getting bitten in the butt by a completely trained-to-attack-anyone dog owned by some backwoods folks. Some at-the-time friends, who shouldn't have had a baby, put their kid down to walk around and, as expected (by only me, apparently), this dog made a snarling B-line straight for the 2 year old. I stooped between the kid and the dog to grab up the kid (there wasn't enough time, so it was me or the kid) and the dog took a chunk right out of my butt.

Imagine camping in the middle of nowhere and having to do first aid on your behind.. or more accurately, my wife having to do first aid. I think at the time we actually carried a first aid kit, so I was patched up fairly cleanly, but you can bet I was less than thrilled regarding my companions for the rest of the night.

So, tell us your story! Wrestle any bears lately?

 

[Fi-Q]

Ok, hornest are not animals, but when I was around 7-8 , me and some kids cross the river on a natural wood dam, and I walk right into a nest, was it yellow jacket or hornet ??? No clue but i paniced and stay right there ( kids can be dumb). So my friends have to pull me out of there and bring me back to my parents rv. Got stung approx 50 times they could count.

 

[texasjohn]

grew up horseback, working sheep, goats, cattle, horses.

Been extremely lucky.

Worst injury was getting on horse from downhill side (in big hurry, knew better) left foot in stirrup, hand on saddle horn, standing about 1 foot below horses feet, pulled on saddle horn to assist mounting, horse moved left front hoof onto my right big toe (boot, not steel toe) to maintain balance, not her fault. Twisting hoof neatly removed big toe nail, didn't even take boot/sock off, rode 5 miles back to pens driving 500 head of angora goats, worked them then went to house to house to discover damage. About 5 hours from injury to removing boot...bloody mess, but no broken bones.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Wife and I were planning a five hour drive to see my step son and family. I had gone to the barn to take care of the horses. Having fed them, I proceeded to put them out for the day to graze. We had swing type doors. For whatever reason, when I went to let the last mare out, as soon as she heard that latch click, she blew through the door.

Me, not expecting this or simply having my mind on the trip of the day, got slammed across the aisle into the stall on the opposite side. I guess it was fortunate that I had left that door open and swung in. Anyway, I bounced off the wall with the mare following me. As I landed on the floor, she spun around on me, went back into her stall and just stood there. She knew she had done wrong.

I made it to the house and told my wife what had happened as I sat down. Everytime I tried to get up, I about lost it so my wife called 911. After a ride in the meat wagon to the hospital and some cat scans and xrays, etc., the doctor decided that I had hit the wall so hard, it had shook up my brain and after the bruising went away, I would be fine. No broken bones but I was black and blue from one end to the other.

Our current barn also has swing doors. I do keep a direct eye on my horses and am ready when I unlatch the doors and swing them open.

 

[Depmandog]

We were 13 or so, was planning a camping trip on the "back 40". We got all of our supplies together (planned on living and eating like kings ), we had a lot of stuff to hand carry 1/2 mile to the camp site.

So we got smart, put every thing on a PALLET, took a rope and tied it to the pallet and around the neck of one of the horses. Since we planned on turning the horse loose once we got back to the camp, we decided we would ride double, bareback, with no bridle - just two lead ropes snapped to the halter - bad idea, really bad idea.

It started off pretty well, if you consider twelve feet of travel a good start to the trip - and that's when all h..l broke loose. The pallet bounced and hopped around, spooking the horse who took off like a rocket. Well, I wasn't the best horseman around, little alone riding double with no saddle. I was on back and soon found myself bouncing off the rear of the horse - the getting clobbered by the pallet - completely smashing all of our food and gear; except for the cast iron skillet that smacked me pretty good as we were both rolling along the ground.

My buddy took the cowards way and jumped to safety. When it was all said and done. I had a dozen eggs plastered to my shirt, I was bloody and bruised. Everything was coated in ketchup and dirt. My clothes were torn - and then we had to go rescue the horse who ran halfway to the back 40 till he got the pallet hung up in between some trees.

Needless to say - the camping trip was cancelled. FWIW, the horse was fine. Although he didn't seem to want anything to do with either of us for quite sometime after that adventure. That day I learned that a halter does not a bridle make

 

[riptides]

The snake bite where the snake would not let go was sort of primordial,

the fracture finger (from a horse!) is STILL the most painful and aggravating injury (by animal, reptile or fish) to date!

 

[HiddenHollow]

My wife was triming hooves on our goats(nigerian dwarf) and as she lifted the doe onto the milk stand the doe snapped her head back and caught my wife in the temple with her horn. It split her wide open. It took 5 stiches to close it up. That has been the worst. One of our sows took me off my feet as a warning to stop picking up the piglets. She made her point. We all have been attacked by a very cranky rooster until he lost a fight with the dog. He had been tormenting the dog for quite a while before the dog had had enough.

 

[koamfps]

Knew a guy that got kicked in the forhead by a sheep. Seen him at the local watering hole laughing my A** off. Three days late he was dead from appearent head trauma. Never went to the hospital to get checked out!

 

[rockinmywaypa]

A number of years ago I worked at a local sales barn. Was working the sort pen behind the weigh scales ahead of the sales ring. Had to work fast to keep up the flow of cattle and this mid size black steer weighing about 600 lbs lashed out and nailed me between the knees, only higher. My vision went dark while my legs buckled and I slumped down in the **** into a corner of the pen which happened to be beside the viewing alley. So to add insult to injury I had all these farmers chuckling at my misfortune.
Another time there I was helping to load a bunch of 1100 lb steers up a chute into the truck when the dumbass driver reached over and prodded them with an electric prod, causing one to kick which sent it's hoof flashing past my face. All I could do was glare at the driver as I walked away to let him fight them on his own.

 

[Domush]

He never tried to bite anyone again.

Your dad or the dog? Geez.