Source  –  Dan Wherley and his 7-year-old daughter Layla were kayaking in Adams County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, when their trip took a dark turn. A large beaver attacked their kayak and put up quite a fight, according to the dad’s Facebook post, and the animal later turned out to be rabid.

Wherley says he, Layla and their dog were on the creek by their house when he felt something grab his kayak. Wherley says at first he thought it was just his dog pulling the boat, but it wasn’t. “It was a big ass crazy beaver,” the father wrote in the Facebook post.

“It kept trying to bite and get into the kayak after me. I kept beating it with the paddle, this went one for a few minutes. It wouldn’t give up,” Wherley wrote. His photos show a beaver jumping out of the water, appearing to bite an oar. The beaver battle only escalated from there. 

“Finally it swam to the opposite side of the creek and turned and saw Layla on her kayak who is now 30 yards in front of me. It takes off straight after her. I yell at her to get to the shore, I jump out of my kayak to help,” the father described in his Facebook post. He says the beaver made it to Layla’s kayak and started to climb onto the back. “(S)he was screaming bloody murder,” he wrote.

The tenacious beaver wouldn’t give up. Wherley says he punched the animal and it fell into the water, but then it started lunging back at him. “I was punching, kicking and trying to get away from it. I ran to the bank with Layla and it followed me still trying to attack us,” he wrote. 

Wherley says the attack continued on land. He says he started pummeling the beaver with rocks, but it did not stop. “After about 5 more big rocks to the head, it swam away a little bit, then came right back. I grabbed a big stick and smacked it on the head 5 times as hard as I could and the last hit crushed its skull.”

“It sounds like a damn horror movie the way she [was] screaming and the water splashing,” Wherley wrote of the short video clip he took of the rabid beaver. “I’m just glad it didn’t bite either of us. Our sissy bloodhound hid safely in the weeds far away during all of this.”

Beavers can be deadly.  A few years ago a man in Russia was killed defending his family from a rabid Beaver when the Beaver severed the man’s femoral artery after getting bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ0ikxq0gX8

Wrestling a wet beaver in its natural habitat can’t be easy but dad super strength should always be factored into feel-good dead beaver stories like this.  Punching the beaver in the face and repeatedly hitting the little fucker in the head with rocks and sticks until the threat was gone is the real story here, not the death of a dick beaver.

My daughter asked me what I would do if a coyote attacked us the other day when we were walking our dog.  I told her I’d drive my thumb into its eye socket and brain until it was dead.  She said, “That’s good that you know how to do that.”

The honest answer?   “Grab the dog and run like my hair is on fire in hopes I can run faster than you, kid.”