Otter attacked man in dinghy
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1955.125.B17
Original Tape ID
Summary
Otter attacked man in dinghy.
The contributor and his friend Donald MacLeod were out on the loch one fine moonlit night and heard a lot of splashing, which the contributor took to be an otter fighting with a fish. He went ashore to look, saw the otter going ashore, and told his companion. Donald came over in the boat and followed the otter and poked at its cairn with an oar. To his great surprise the otter began snapping and snarling and tried to climb into the dinghy to attack him. It was probably too late for the otter to have young in the cairn. The attack was a complete surprise. The contributor knows nothing about the skin of a male otter being used for a cure.
Item Subject/Person
MacLeod, Donald
Recording Location
County - Sutherland
Item Location
County - Sutherland
Language
English
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good