The swan and the dog
By Torunn
@Torunn (8607)
Norway
August 22, 2021 1:51am CST
I suppose The Swan and Dog could have been a name for some English pub :-)
Not sure if that was his inspiration, but when I finally made it abroad this summer I went to Helsinki to visit my friend and her dog. The dog loves swimming and although he has been attacked by a swan before he tried to hang out with one again. The swan wasn't having it, and luckily the dog decided to turn around before they met.
Have you had any scary bird encounters?
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@crossbones27 (50069)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
@Belexhanns Depends on the dog, most dogs are just nice but some dogs can be mean too and even mean birds will go no, that guy will eat me .
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@crossbones27 (50069)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
@Torunn Wow really tried messing with it and broke the kids arm, that's crazy. Yeah I never mess with birds period. I always think they come back and crap on my head just for fun. 
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
22 Aug 21
This one had spent some time chasing another swan so it was already bad-tempered. I think it was two swan families, and the fathers weren't really friends.
Ravens are really smart, so it might have tried the trick before and found out that it worked 
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
22 Aug 21
@LadyDuck I've got lot of pictures from somewhere in Germany of a swan chasing of it's offspring from last year. It was quite a spectacle. I prefer to have some distance between me and them, they're big birds.
That's not a pleasant experience! Not too smart of the raven, maybe it was one of the dumber ones ;-)
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
22 Aug 21
Birds have flown into me, but I have never been attacked by a bird.
A Danish man who was sailing on a kayak was attacked by a swan, and he fell out of the kayak. He was able to swim and nothing happened to him, but it was a shocking experience.
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
22 Aug 21
This swan was showing off to some people on those stand up surfboards and to kayakers just before it decided to come closer to the shore to scare the dogs.
Maybe because it was swimming around outside the house of Finnish precident (or prime minister? I never remember), it felt like it was in charge of the place.
@JESSY3236 (20236)
• United States
31 Aug 21
lol yeah my mother was attacked by birds one time when we went to the beach.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
29 Sep 21
That dog's face says it all. What a great picture that took.
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@snowy22315 (185247)
• United States
31 Dec 21
Swans and geese are both fairly aggressive. No scary bird encounters that I can recall.
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@crossbones27 (50069)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
Birds can be quite mean, people do not think of them that way , unless like a eagle or vultures but all wild birds can, they are decedents of dinosaurs after all. Never mess with crows either that murder of crows saying is true. They band together like no other species if you harm or kill one of them.
A man tried to remove a crow off his car and the rest of the Crows attacked him#animalattack#karmaisabitch#crowattack#birds#stupiddecision#didntknowwasrecord...
