Author Topic: An armadillo "attacked" me (Read 2035 times)

Specklebelly · « **on:** April 21, 2013, 03:40:39 PM »

In the last two days I have seen six or seven armadillos, quite unusual for around where I go. Today while turkey hunting I had a strange and interesting thing happen to me as I did get "attacked" by an armadillo.

When I was sitting in a cedar tree an armadillo came walking up on me and I put my feet together because he was heading right under my seat. He walked up and stopped, then rammed my feet twice and then started sniffing in the air. I pushed him with my foot and he ran off into the woods. Strange experience and pretty entertaining.

JonnyReb · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2013, 03:53:21 PM »

Be glad you were not at ground level and kept your legs together as this is armadillo mating season, um..you made a friend.

Ranger99 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2013, 03:53:57 PM »

they depend on scent more than
their poor eyesight. thank you for
letting it walk. a lot of folks this
day and age pop 'em just for grins.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2013, 03:54:05 PM »

Armadillos cant see for squat. That long nose is their eyes. Dont know why he butted you, might have thought you were breeding competition. Better than being mistaken for breeding partner!

Wow we posted almost at the same time and the same theme!

Ranger99 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2013, 03:57:09 PM »

what is that. . . .great minds something-something? $:-\$

JonnyReb · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2013, 04:12:33 PM »

Briliance, pure Brilliance at work

JonnyReb · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2013, 04:15:19 PM »

Or maybe its more like "been there done that", hey Mom look the dogs hugging my leg lol

streak · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2013, 05:05:36 PM »

Yep!
I have had them to root right up under the sole of my hip boots!!

bulletstuffer · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2013, 07:13:58 PM »

About 5-6 years ago I was driving some back roads in a swampy area of Florida with a friend. Saw an armadillo walking on the gravel road and I stopped to take a picture. I walked up to the critter and stood right above it to take shot from above.

That critter jumped straight up in the air and jumped almost as high as I did

Didn't know that they could jump!

Bulletstuffer

streak · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2013, 06:41:43 AM »

Yep! They can jump, and if need can run fairly fast!
Although they can also be destructive around the home place!

JonnyReb · « **Reply #10 on:** April 22, 2013, 11:33:53 AM »

Dilla's are under a "shoot on sight" order at the hunt club i frequent in low country S.C.
They are recently additions to S.C., only arriving in the last 10 years or so but have already had a negative impact on ground nesting birds, most notably for us the wild turkey and quail. If we see them we roll em. J

Oldshooter · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2013, 11:45:18 AM »

Well it is sad. Here there seems to be a drinking problem amongst the dillos. We are spending way to much tax dollars putting them in the huskow due to public drunkenness.

45-70.gov · « **Reply #12 on:** April 22, 2013, 11:49:44 AM »

any body else eat one ??

Oldshooter · « **Reply #13 on:** April 22, 2013, 11:54:09 AM »

Wont say wont but ain't been that hungry yet!

Ranger99 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 22, 2013, 12:34:49 PM »

well that's the first i've ever heard
of armadillos eating baby birds.
all the ones i've ever seen root
around and eat grubs and bugs and such.
never heard of that, but then i
don't know everything.

streak · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2013, 05:24:08 PM »

Quote from: 45-70.gov on April 22, 2013, 11:49:44 AM

any body else eat one ??

Yep!
I have eaten BBQ armadillo! Not bad!Also have eaten roasted possum!

pastorp · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2013, 02:31:36 AM »

I believe it was about 50years ago when they arrived in Florida. The fish & game folks tried to get us hunters interested in them as a food animal but that didn't go over well. F & G even put on a few Armadillo BBQs.
They are destructive to our pastures & yards and we shoot them here on the ranch but can't kill them all. They move in to replace their fallen brothers. Same with the hogs. If we don't keep them thinned out they just overrun the place.
There tough, I remember one night driving up to our hunting lease. I was following my friend in his new Datsun pickup in my ford pickup. A diller ran across the highway and his front tires missed it but one rear tire centered it. That thing came out from under his tire running and jumping higher than his pickup onto the roadside. From my vantage point right behind he appeared unharmed.

Regards,

Dee · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2013, 04:36:45 AM »

Armadillos carry a strain of leprosy, and dig up yards. See one on my place. Bye bye dillo.

45-70.gov · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2013, 05:43:18 AM »

i have cooked 2
one was real good the other was not...think it was the BBQ sauce was bad

pastorp · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2013, 03:10:57 AM »

I've killed quite a few but never was hungry enough to consider cooking one.

Regards,

Dee · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2013, 03:25:14 AM »

Me either

streak · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2013, 05:47:32 AM »

I have not ate another one after I saw three of them run out from the inside of a dead horse carcass!!

Tom W. · « **Reply #22 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:19:55 AM »

And I saw something as rare as a bigfoot. I saw a LIVE 'diller along the side of a highway!

Streak, are you sure you ain't confused with possums?

streak · « **Reply #23 on:** May 06, 2013, 11:42:45 AM »

Quote from: Tom W. on May 06, 2013, 09:19:55 AM

And I saw something as rare as a bigfoot. I saw a LIVE 'diller along the side of a highway!

Streak, are you sure you ain't confused with possums?

Nope it was BBQ armadillo and roasted possum with stuffed baked shoat stuffed with dressing that you squeezed out the rear end of the shoat by applying pressure on the backend of the stomach area of the shoat!!