{"id":3113,"date":"2012-07-19T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/07\/19\/and-i-thought-otters-were-supposed-to\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:04","slug":"and-i-thought-otters-were-supposed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"And I Thought Otters Were Supposed To Be Playful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15472,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogger.com\\\/goog_1833127787&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15473,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.startribune.com\\\/local\\\/north\\\/162482036.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Otters are cute and playful except when they aren&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1833127787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/north\/162482036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Minnesota tri-athlete who was practicing open water swimming in a lake outside Duluth<\/a> ran into one of the non-cute and non-playful otters. She had 25 bites on her feet, back, and legs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Fangs pierced Leah Prudhomme&#8217;s legs as she swam across the deep, dark rum-colored northern Minnesota lake. It could be anything, she thought &#8212; muskrats, beavers, maybe a muskie. But it didn&#8217;t let up.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of Island Lake near Duluth, the triathlete struggled as the animal sunk its needle-sharp teeth into her legs, feet and back, leaving 25 bite marks, some 2 inches deep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just kept coming after me,&#8221; said Prudhomme, 33, of Anoka. &#8220;You never knew where it was going to bite next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In between peppering her with puncture marks, the animal&#8217;s head popped up a few feet away. That&#8217;s when Prudhomme noticed its distinctive long tapered tail, small beady eyes and gray head. An otter.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wildlife officers are not sure whether the otter was rabid or merely a mother protecting her young. Prudhomme received treatment at a local hospital and has started the shot series for someone presumed to have been bitten by a rabid animal. Her injuries might have been worse if she was not wearing a wet suit which gave her some protection from the otter&#8217;s bites.<\/p>\n<p>\nPrudhomme is a trouper and will be returning to the same lake next month to participate in the Duluth Triathlon. She is not letting this incident stop her from competing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otters are cute and playful except when they aren&#8217;t. A Minnesota tri-athlete who was practicing open water swimming in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weird-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}