I've never been attacked by an armadillo, but for some reason I always find dead ones in the field. My mexican neighbors love armidillo meat, so when I find a fresh-un, I take him back with me and make a few bucks off it.

The Lizard,

hehehehe

Mj

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PantericA

When I was hunting shrooms in Florida, two times at Dinsmore Dairy I ran into live big water mocassins and also Cow pies growing with Rocks near them or partially cover rocks with manure and shrooms, please watch out for Black widow spiders. I did come across a few of those on several ocassions picking shrooms and seeing one scuttle across a piece of decomposed manure. So watch your hands and this is not a joke. It is serious, the spiders are in the fields under wood and rocks. so be careful
> mj

I have been chased twice by serious youn male cows and also once by the big bull himself. In Hawaii I was treed for about 30 minuttes by a wild boar and a fwew times I have had horse chase me to a fence .

mj

im not sure if black widows are even in florida(id really like to know for a fact though). crab spiders and bannana spiders.. heck i eat them things for breakfast! gg's no stranger to crawling around in the bushes

wild boars quite honestly scare me. dont remember ever seeing them in a field with me before. they usually travel in packs, and some of em get to be a good 150 pounds.. ..lord or the rings dude.

big hurds of cows that follow you around and try hold their ground are pretty funny cause they act all tough, but then if you make even the slightest quick movement, all hundred of them will run away. so much easier when theyre not around.

fortunatly none of my favorite fields around have bulls in them. ..i believe i once went to the dinsmore dairy in jacksonville once. and that is the first time i met a really pissed off bull. i was cutting down the center of the field at night. i saw all the cows on my left, didnt see the one bigass bull to my right who was standing guard. thing got up and started scraping its hoves on the ground so hard that my feet felt the vibration.

definately worry about the bulls. but a lot of people say that the cows tried to chase or attack them. ..if i see a herd of cows running towards me, theyll run really fast until theyre close to me but then theyll just stop and stare. if you run theyll chase you, if you walk they wont.

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Yes I do happen to know what a cotton mouth looks like and yes, Florida is home to Black Widows. And I was not makeing that up about finding them. The Snake was in a swamy area of a pasture at Dinsmore Dairy farm. I was with my son and we killed it because we were picking there. We became awarre of its presence when the cattle suddenly went off in another direction.

I also have seen many black widows their in Jacksonville when I was there.

Mj

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ehehehhh

i was walking along a nature path about 2 weeks ago and these two enormous big black vultures were standing there in the middle of the path. they wouldnt move or fly away for me, they were blocking the path from me! so i stood there stareing at them for a few minutes.. really REally REALly weird. stared walking towards them and they would scoot a little bit forward and look back. that went on for like 5-10 minutes and then another black vulture flew by overhead ( )and the other two following me took off. heh that stories really hard to explain

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a bear would just be really bad news to come across in the middle of nowhere, in the forest. luckily bears dont grow in florida.

what we do have in (southern) florida that i am constantly looking out for is them Florida Panthers. those things get to be very big, very strong, very fast and will attack people. ....

i dont think that bannana spiders are poisonous, but i do know that they will bite you. theyll jump right off their web and onto the back of your shirt or the top of your head in yer hair. saw a bannana spider yesterday that was no joke six inches long with big evil Hairy arms.

DUDE... crazy animal medicine there. You should track down a good book on the native American science of Animal symbolism and find out what the Fuck...

Vulture boy.

Vulture/Buzzard/Condor's Wisdom Includes:
Death and rebirth
Prophecy
Love of the Mother goddess
Knowledge concerning the death of a loved one
New vision
Purification

"You may have a fresh start
any moment you choose,
for this thing we call failure
is not the falling down,
but the staying down."

-Mary Pickford

and heres what they say about our friend the armadillo;

Armadillo's Wisdom Includes:

Understanding your personal boundary
Respecting the boundaries of others
Carrying your protection with you at all times
Understanding your vulnerabilities
Empathy
Discrimination

heres the link to one of my favorite websites;
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4076/index1.html

Just ask this guy about bulls, he'll tell ya

The Lizard,

thats wrong lizard. thats wrong.

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it really gives me a headache to see it, really.

she tries to act all tough sometimes. ive never seen a girl ever "I'll kick the shit out of an armadillo before the fucker gets a chance to bites me."

thats not ladylike now is it lizard? not on these bulletin boards it isnt.

and lizard, being the only female at the mushroom hunting forum does not mean you should hide your femininity as a women.

You should know better than that GGreatOne.

Seriously, I'm a male. Sometimes the thought of being female is appealing though I guess thats cause I'm a guy

The Lizard,