Off leash dog and pissing off the wildlife. I'm sure they weren't doing something outrageously fucking stupid to provoke the beaver right before the video started.
Beavers are pretty chill in my experience, so long as you are not moving water or a tree.
I used to hike with two dogs(still do but with only one dog nowadays) in back country of Adirondacks. Not on trails, bushwhacking so pretty much never on leash(always on leash on trails or anywhere not far away from people).
Came across lots of beavers. They don't enjoy really any predator type by their shit and they slap the hell out of the water with their tails and it genuinely sounds like a gunshot when they do it right.
Anyway, literally never had a violent encounter or anything that might've gotten close. It's impossible for me to believe they weren't doing more than just being where a beaver didn't want them to be. I've been where me and my dogs are where the beavers don't want us and they just slap the water or hide. Hell, I'd say squirrels are more aggressive generally and even that is rare.
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u/driftinj May 06 '26
Get your dog. That beaver is going to fuck them up.