Who has the best wound?

DesertRhino150

DesertRhino150

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I have just regained feeling in my middle finger after getting a pretty bad bite from a centipede in my garden and then on checking found that no one else has made an 'animal wound comparison thread' yet.

Anyway, to start off I shall list all the worst injuries I have suffered at the teeth/claws/beak/horns of various animals, as well as the most terrifying of the near-misses.

As well as the recent centipede bite, I have been:
- Bitten on the ear by a white-bellied caique
- Head-butted by a goat as a small child
- Pinched several times by my pet lizards
- Had a turaco pitch itself into my face and cut me just over the eye with its beak
- Bitten by a pet rat and a wild bank vole
- Scratched on the scalp by a coati
- Narrowly dodged being kicked by a donkey and trampled by a pair of startled ponies on two separate occassions
- Just about avoided a finger attack by a particularly savage long-billed corella

All that, along with the usual mosquito, spider and wasp stings. Anyone on here who can best these? :)
 
I lived in Bunbury, Western Australia, for a couple of years when I was a kid and almost 25 years later I still have a small scar on my left arm (hidden under a t-shirt as it is near the shoulder) from a jellyfish sting.
 
When I was 3 or 4 a grey kangaroo pushed me over and jumped on me.
Bitten on the nose by a 'tame' cockatoo.
Bitten by multiple pythons over the years.
Bitten by multiple wombats, usually around the ankles or feet
Bitten and scratched by koalas
Bitten by kangaroos
Bitten by budgies, cockatiels and African Lovebirds
Pricked numerous times by echidnas
Bitten by a giraffe
Headbutted by a giraffe
Recently stung on the forehead by a jellyfish.

Probably others that I can't remember.

:p

Hix
 
Let's see....

-Knocked over by a goat as a small child (just like DesertRhino)
-The usual spider bites and bee stings
-Stung by jellyfish multiple times
-clawed by cats
-Pricked by a hedgehog countless times
-Bitten by a chincilla
-Bitten by a ferret

And for the times I came close to death...

-Tried to shimmy under a spider web, but stopped to see a black widow an inch in front of my face
-A Whitetail deer doe kicked out at me, but I moved my face just in time, with her hoof going about half a foot from my head

Not very impressive, eh?
 
Worst wound was when I was three, and a big rooster knocked me over and raked its claws repeatedly over my back, which was rather traumatic. That bird didn't live much longer.

Butted into a ditch full of thorny rose cuttings by a goat a few years later. That goat lived to be 19, despite us running over his head with the Land Cruiser (accidentally).

Bitten on my ear by cockatoo who didnt like gingers...

Various other minor wounds from cats, dogs, other birds, insects, etc.
 
Nothing majorly over the years.

Bitten on the hand by a Pike, but I knew to keep my hand still once bitten. (their teeth are in rows going backwards, so if you try to pull
your hand out it would serrate the skin)
Bitten by a dogfish on my wrist.
Bitten by a tarantula (really not that bad, or I was lucky)
Unknown bite (UK insect I guess), made my face on one side swell up pretty bad, looked like I had been really wacked in the face.
Most painful of all, getting jellyfish in my eye.
 
As well as the usual dogs, cats, insects, jellyfish and spiders.
I have also had the honour of being nibbled by the following:
A green monkey - friends pet in singapore, it was on my scooter and I objected so took scooter back and the monkey objected, monkey won, a few stitches and a number of jabs needed, monkey ok.
A lion cub piddled on me as I bottle fed it, jacket ditched.
A tiger cub mistook my thumb for the bottle teat, small amount of blood, no tears by either party.
Various domestic livestock have tried to win a battle of wills, I usually won, occasionally smelling a bit less fregrant!.
There may be others I have forgotten. such as bonkers budgies and lunatic bunnies.
Adult Cheetah decided he wanted to play, they have rough claws, plenty of scratches.
 
Bitten on the hand by a zebra when I was 5. Long story short... I didn't pay attention to the "Don't pet me, I bite sign" on my day camp trip to the local roadside menagerie ;).
 
I fell asleep on a wasp and woke up with NO feeling in my left side, at first I was convinced I was having a stroke and only realised what had happened once I got back in bed and put my foot on the little bugger. I was limping for weeks!
On a slightly more dramatic note, we had an Amazon blue which used to hate me and took several chunks out of me whilst I was growing up! I hated that parrot! :p
 
I was bitten by a wild pipistrelle bat that was hiding underneath a sock! I picked up the sock and disturbed the bat, who bit my thumb. Luckily I didn't get rabies or another disease. (the only downside was that everyone called me 'batman' for a few weeks).
 
My dad is probably going to win this

Bad knees from playing American Football in high school
Broke ribs in the 70s water sking (after smoking a J he told me)
Various Farm Injuries
1993 Heart Attack
1994 Stroke
1996 Appendix Burst
1998 Artery Stents
2000 Treatment for bulging discs (from farm work)
2001 Open Heart Surgery for Aortic Valve Replacment with mechanical valve.
2001 (3 days later) a Brain bleed/Temp Renal Failure caused by the drug Trayslol (look it up) which required brain surgery to repair
Resulting from this - Left side paralysis
2002 - Left Shoulder joint replacement (it was deteriorating from lack of movement)
2003 Menegitis
2004 Pneumonia which led to a collapsed lung
2005 Swelling in private areas from prolonged sitting
2006 Broke both bones in lower left leg one complete the other greenstick. Had steel rod inserted to stabilize leg
2007 Mini stroke
2008 More kidney problems
2009 Surgical repair of stomach ulcers at the top and bottom of the stomach
2011 More Kidney problems
Currently in the hospital for being minimally conscious this morning probably from ammonia in liver buildup

Not to mention numerous smaller hospital stays since 2001 like blood sugar being out of control or his blood thinning meds being out of whack. He is also a type 2 diabetic.

He has been completely paralyzed on his left side for 12 years now. And he is still alive and in good spirits. My dad is a tough SOB thats for sure.

He is on 19 daily medications including Fentanyl and Demerol for pain. I've heard the phrase "he isn't going to live through the night" at least 100 times and they've been wrong 100 times (don't worry right now he isn't relatively that serious he is in stable condition. But he was hospitalized a few weeks ago for a bad UTI (I told a few here). Well a week stay in a hospital bed for a semi handicapped man weakened him below the plateau we had established. He has fallen several times int he intervening weeks while transferring including colliding with a toilet so he is in there for trauma from that. But its relatively stable I guess Im desensitized.
 
tschandler71 said:
My dad is probably going to win this

Bad knees from playing American Football in high school
Broke ribs in the 70s water sking (after smoking a J he told me)
Various Farm Injuries
1993 Heart Attack
1994 Stroke
1996 Appendix Burst
1998 Artery Stents
2000 Treatment for bulging discs (from farm work)
2001 Open Heart Surgery for Aortic Valve Replacment with mechanical valve.
2001 (3 days later) a Brain bleed/Temp Renal Failure caused by the drug Trayslol (look it up) which required brain surgery to repair
Resulting from this - Left side paralysis
2002 - Left Shoulder joint replacement (it was deteriorating from lack of movement)
2003 Menegitis
2004 Pneumonia which led to a collapsed lung
2005 Swelling in private areas from prolonged sitting
2006 Broke both bones in lower left leg one complete the other greenstick. Had steel rod inserted to stabilize leg
2007 Mini stroke
2008 More kidney problems
2009 Surgical repair of stomach ulcers at the top and bottom of the stomach
2011 More Kidney problems
Currently in the hospital for being minimally conscious this morning probably from ammonia in liver buildup

Not to mention numerous smaller hospital stays since 2001 like blood sugar being out of control or his blood thinning meds being out of whack. He is also a type 2 diabetic.

He has been completely paralyzed on his left side for 12 years now. And he is still alive and in good spirits. My dad is a tough SOB thats for sure.

He is on 19 daily medications including Fentanyl and Demerol for pain. I've heard the phrase "he isn't going to live through the night" at least 100 times and they've been wrong 100 times (don't worry right now he isn't relatively that serious he is in stable condition. But he was hospitalized a few weeks ago for a bad UTI (I told a few here). Well a week stay in a hospital bed for a semi handicapped man weakened him below the plateau we had established. He has fallen several times int he intervening weeks while transferring including colliding with a toilet so he is in there for trauma from that. But its relatively stable I guess Im desensitized.
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very few of those are wounds and apart for potentially the "Various Farm Injuries" none are animal-inflicted. So in fact your dad loses on all counts.
 
Chlidonias said:
very few of those are wounds and apart for potentially the "Various Farm Injuries" none are animal-inflicted. So in fact your dad loses on all counts.
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I don't want him winning anything haha. I didn't read the beginning of the thread about it being specifically animal related though I should have known.
 
I was spurred by our Shamo cross cock when I picked up one of his hens without catching him first. Leg swelled up, antibiotics needed.
I have permanent damage to my right metatarsals from tripping over a rabbit I was trying to put to bed.
 
FBBird said:
I have permanent damage to my right metatarsals from tripping over a rabbit I was trying to put to bed.
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You know, sometimes its best not to share information about yourself on line :D :D

My rabbit related injury was from mowing my parents lawn as a teenager. My foot went through the grass into a rabbit hole and I twisted my ankle, a great failure I admit.
 
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