# Beaver Shot! (No, not what you're probably thinking) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452 "2012-07-16T22:43:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/1 "2012-07-16T22:43:37Z")
This is a golf story. I was playing a course in Ontario today. The course wasn’t crowded, so it was just me out there. I teed off on the 10th hole. My ball went nicely, far down the fairway, and bounced over a little ridge in the fairway. No problem; I’ll see it when I get past the ridge. And I did, but it was being guarded by a beaver! The beaver was looking at my ball, then when I came in sight, at me. The beaver wasn’t moving. I backed up a bit. The beaver shuffled around. I backed up a little more. The beaver finally started moving, and ambled off across the fairway. I could step forward and hit my ball. But then it occurred to me–what if my tee shot had hit the beaver? Poor thing! But it also occurred to me that I have a great story about a beaver shot. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/2 "2012-07-16T23:21:31Z")
I ddin’t think it’d involve golf, but I figured that the story was about the animal. (And yes, normally I DO have a dirty mind) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/3 "2012-07-17T06:57:23Z")
I had to make up some elective credits in college so I signed up for a golf class (cheap and worth 3 credits to make up for a couple I lost in transfer). Never swung a club before that. We met on a three-par in South Pasadena, and I actually got my ball \*stuck in a tree \*on the second time out on the actual course! Wedged tight right in a branch. I wouldn’t have believed it if you told me it could happen. I did not play thru. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/4 "2012-07-17T10:47:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I could step forward and hit my ball. But then it occurred to me–what if my tee shot had hit the beaver? Poor thing! But it also occurred to me that I have a great story about a beaver shot. 😉 Hah, I can imagine the beaver going “WTF?! Who threw that?” and waiting for you to show up, finally deciding he didn’t want to mess with you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/5 "2012-07-17T10:58:08Z")
[Last year there were a few cases of rabies in beavers in Pennsylvania.](http://www.livescience.com/14464-rabies-beavers-pennsylvania.html). I was trying to find a news article rom a few years back in which a fisherman was attacked in the water. He went all Rambo on the animal, holding it underwater until it stopped struggling. It tested positive for rabies also. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/6 "2012-07-18T01:33:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > The beaver was looking at my ball, then when I came in sight, at me. The beaver wasn’t moving. Don’t worry, you weren’t in any danger. The beaver was only interested in your woods. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/7 "2012-07-18T01:35:31Z")
Thank Og! I was afraid you’d unloaded a clip into Jerry Mathers. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beaver-shot-no-not-what-youre-probably-thinking/628452/8 "2012-07-18T16:24:20Z")
A few of the most notable animals I have seen golfing: Alligators, Turkeys, deer, Fox, copperheads, cottonmouths, bobcats, eagles, snapping turtles, muskrats. I have seen a beaver, at a pre-bachelor party.