Attack of the crazed woodchuck!

[Rivernut]

Had the family and kid's friends in the pool today having a big loud water fight. My wife says "Hey look at that". There was a groundhog drinking the spillover water off the pool tarp. I watch it then pounce on a pool noodle and bite into it and bear-hug it while growling. I whacked it over the head with a heavy water-logged pool noodle. It waddled away towards our house until my mini-collie spotted it and they squred off on the front yard. The dog nipped it a few times but avoided getting bit by the lunging rodent. It took off into the woods, but my dog chased it down to the road behind my neighbor's house. We got the dog back into the house and called the police and told them about the encounter. The dispatch person said an officer or animal control person would stop by. Ten minutes later the woodchuck is back. It walked right past the kids in the pool and went into the open garage. Where's Bill Murray when you need him? I shut the garage door and called back to report it catured. Then I start hearing stuff crashing around in my garage / shop. I put on my groundhog proof hip boots, welding gloves and the first weapon I could find, a big umbrella. As I go out through the house entrance I heard it smashing around my jack stands and engine parts. I bumped something and it heard me and took off running around my log splitter towards me. I ran back into the house. I opened the garage door again and it was right there looking for me! I slammed the door on its face and it attacked the door for 30 seconds, chewing, scratching and growling! The animal control guy showed up. He was setting off my Deliverance alarm, but what can you expect for that position? He brought a .22 and asked if it's okay to shoot inside my garage. I suggested we net it and kick the $hit out of it. I got my magnum rubber landing net and we opened the center garage door. "Chuck Norris" did not let us down. He charged out right at us. Bill Murray Jr. slammed the net down on him, followed by me with the trash can. We dragged him down to the side of the driveway and blasted him. Blood everywhere. Tossed him in a body bag and hosed down the crime scene and spay bleached it for good measure.

[Crestliner]

Big meanys! Laughing1 Well, here's another true story....

When my wife & I first got married, we camped at Granville State Forest. We had been doing that for many years. The Forest Ranger and a F&W officer were having coffee with us after supper. I was telling them about the terrible time were having with the raccoons. They kept telling me they were harmless.

But the growling and fighting kept us up at night and they were into everything. On this particular evening, I had my SKB O/U 12 ga. by my side. The ranger was chuckling because he thought I was over re-acting.

Just before dark this big raccoon comes charging from around the car, directly at my wife & I as I sat in front of the fireplace. It was snarling and snapping it's jaws savagely. The ranger and F&W guy were sitting on the picnic table to my left. My wife was sitting in a camp chair to my right.

I heard it first...then saw the beast charging us. I elbowed my wife hard, knocking her backwards in her chair....dropped the and pulled off a shot about 2' from the muizzle of the gun. Blew the friggin' head almost off that coon instantly! Being a partridge and woodcock hunter, this was one of my better shots!

The ranger and F&W officer couldn't believe it! Then two more coon come at us from behind. I popped off another one about 4' away, then the rest scattered. I asked them, "now do you believe me!" They were really shocked. The next day they had a bunch of traps set out. We left the next day, as we were planning anyway.

Somewhere, I have a pic of my wife holding that old coon.....I'll have to pull it out. Smile1

[SmallieHunter]

You Should of thrown a Magnum Chug Bug with 3X mustad triple grip hooks with 80# braid then called for the net after Setting the hook on the poor thing. I caught (snagged) a beaver this past Saturday in the Chicopee section on a Jerk Bait. Needless to say my $15 pointer needed new hooks I thought I had a tank smallie at first.

[Bigbear]

Ye ha Dave nice going. Thumbsup
Cresty I would like to see that photo.

[woz]

good entertaining storys,thanks for sharing

[mossboss]

MachineGun I hope someone filmed that, it would be hilarious to seeLaughing1

[Capt.Shay]

A pool noodle and an umbrella???
You should have used strong words Laughing1Laughing1Laughing1

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[Gary P]

LOL @ Capt--maybe he should change his name to BroadwayNut and get a Tutu!!!!

[Jihad Joe]

Sounds like it was rabid.....watch your dog carefully. If he was exposed to any saliva from the chuck I would get him to the vet and get his rabies updated. Also watch you and you family for exposure to the dogs saliva.

When and if the dog starts to show symptoms it's too late....there is no cure.

Hope the dog is OK though but an ounce of prevention is worth avoiding something that has no cure.

Been through this with my dogs and raccoons.

Joey
Chill1

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http://yankeeartifacts.com/Images/woodchuck.jpg

Sounds like he was rabid usually they will retreat at any sound like Joey said keep a eye out on your pets.

[Rivernut]

Gary- your clothes are too big for me!

[Rivernut]

My dogs are legal, vaccines up to date. What's withe Joey's anti Obama? Don't like progress and seeing the country recovering after Bush screwed everything up? Your giving rednecks a bad rap.

[thortum]

Two great stories!!!! Thumbsup Thumbsup

Rivernut....I can't believe that you wouldn't let the guy shoot it IN your garage!! Yikes Yikes Laughing1 Laughing1 Nothing like having bullets ricocheting off the concrete floor.

Cresty....Sounds like a case of self defence, but were there any other campers in the area? I think that I would be a LITTLE concerned if I had someone shooting in the adjoining campsite!! Yikes

[DaveGH]

The next step is too lure from the garage into your bedroom and fight it there!Yikes Yikes Laughing1 WTF! Wow, I've never heard of such a thing. Were the kids freaking out. Probably make a nice bar-b-q, lol. What does a groundhog weigh anyways? I was fishing the river shore the other day and heard a noise behind me, a beaver came out of a hole in the cut bank and scurried to the river 5 feet next to me. I thought it might attack me for a second, maybe a mega slap on the face or take some toes.... A hefty critter for sure.

[Rivernut]

It weighed about 12 pounds. It was going after anything that made sound or moved. I wish I had a video of it fighting with my dog. Animals with advanced rabies go into sensory overload and have difficulty drinking water. I guess that's why it came to the big waterfight looking for easy water and a fight...Twice. I was hoping the police would show up with a Tazer gun. I could have shot it myself. I thought once the dog chased it away that would be the end of it. I wasn't going to get near it with just a bathing suit on.

[noresman]

Could of won $10,000.00 on Americas Funniest Videos but they wouldn't have shown the shooting part. Thankfully no-one got bit.

[Jihad Joe]

My dogs actually hot bit and scratched....they also were up to date on their rabies shots but the vet said that they should still have a booster because of the exposure to the saliva and the bites and scratches.

[Machine09]

did he look something like this???

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/YodaEnslaver7/chippy.jpg

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[Rivernut]

He got carted off in a bag in the back of deliverance guy's truck. I will always look both ways going out my door from now on.