Run-ins with animals? ...literally

[DuctTape]

The other week I had a mouse crawl up the tree and down my suspension straps to amsteel lines. I would hear him coming and wiggle in my hammock and he would fall off. He did this numerous times. Must have thought it was a game.

A few years ago I had a bear sniff and nudge me in the middle of the night. A few mumbled expletives and he rumbled off.

[Migrating Bird]

It was last June in ME on the AT two or three days south of Monson. I set up - stealth, on a narrow bench half way up a mountain, had dinner and settled in, exhausted after a long days hike. It was pitch black. No sooner then "light" out, here comes a very large animal - tromp, tromp, tromp - up over the lip of the bench toward me. I think well it will either smell me or see me. Nope, it passes real close left to right never breaking stride (I'm thinking Moose too heavy for a deer). I listen as it climbs the mountain goes out of hearing. I think WOW it missed me, that could have been a real mess. Then dozing off again, here it comes, down the mountain right to left, across the bench, over the lip and down out of hearing. I start thinking of the Larson cartoon of two spiders building a web at the bottom of a slippery slide - one says to the other - "Frank, if we pull this off we are gonna eat like Kings" and drifted off to sleep.

[tbone]

And you had almost put my mind at ease about being some piece of bacons midnight snack..

Just keep some pineapple slices and mustard in your hammock , that should scare away any pig.

[Bradley]

Just keep some pineapple slices and mustard in your hammock , that should scare away any pig.

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[coolkayaker1]

Just keep some pineapple slices and mustard in your hammock , that should scare away any pig.

But it will attract drunken Amishmen.

[timabababaluka]

But it will attract drunken Amishmen.

Like that's a bad thing! Get enough drunken Amishmen, and you can throw yourself a rockin' good hammock-raising party. Drunken Amishmen getting a little rowdy, and you want some sleep? Throw the pineapple slices and mustard in the woods--problem solved.

[DGrav]

You're in Lancaster, PA, newlease. Maybe you were bumped by an Amish fellow, drunk and crawling home on all fours.

Or Dutch himself

[perdidochas]

Hate to tell you but there are no feral pigs in PA.

I believe you are incorrect in that assumption:

http://www.dailyyonder.com/feral-pig...e-now-wildlife
from 2008

The most controversial figures in Pennsylvania these days aren't running for president, but for their lives. Feral pigs have become a nuisance -- a hazard, some say -- in the Keystone State, rooting up the land, attacking deer and out-competing native animals for food. One major concern is that the wild pig population could threaten Pennsylvania's $271 million domestic hog industry by infecting farm animals. (No wild pigs in Pennsylvania have yet been found to carry disease.)