Sidehill Gouger

All About How You Home Away From Home.

Moderators: Sluggo, Amskeptic

Post Reply
User avatar
hambone
Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
Location: Portland, Ore.
Status: Offline

Sidehill Gouger

Post by hambone » Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:31 pm

Sidehill gouger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Sidehill Gouger: a "left-sided" mother looks forlornly at her "right-sided" pup.
Sidehill gougers are North American folkloric creatures adapted to living on hillsides by having legs on one side of their body shorter than the legs on the opposite side (trapping the beast in an endless circular, uphill path.) The creature is variously known as the Sidehill Ousel, Gyascutus, Sidewinder, Wowser, Gudaphro, Hunkus, Rickaboo Racker, Prock, Gwinter, or Cutter Cuss.
Sidehill gougers are herbivorous mammals who dwell in hillside burrows,[1] and are occasionally depicted as laying eggs.[2] There are usually 6 to 8 pups to a litter.[3] Since the gouger is footed for hillsides, it cannot stand up on level ground. If by accident a gouger falls from a hill, it can easily be captured or starves to death.[2] Gougers are said to have migrated to the west from New England, a feat accomplished by a pair of gougers who clung to each other in a fashion comparable to, "a pair of drunks going home from town"[3] with their longer legs on the outer sides. If two gougers (one clockwise and another counter clockwise) meet, they have to fight to the death since they can only go in one direction.[2] A Vermont variation is known as the Wampahoofus. It was reported that farmers crossbreed them with their cows so they could graze easily on mountain sides. There is also a similar mythical creature in France known as the dahu.

Image
http://greencascadia.blogspot.com
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat

User avatar
Emily's Owner
Old School!
Location: Canby, Oregon
Status: Offline

Re: Sidehill Gouger

Post by Emily's Owner » Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:07 pm

IIRC, there was an old motorcycle club in Oregon with that name, I've seen old photos somewhere.
Margaret



Lead me not into temptation...... Oh hell, who are we kidding, follow me, I know a shortcut.

User avatar
hambone
Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
Location: Portland, Ore.
Status: Offline

Re: Sidehill Gouger

Post by hambone » Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:22 pm

Funny, our entire wilderness camp, I couldn't get these fellas outa my mind. Sidehill gouger!
http://greencascadia.blogspot.com
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat

User avatar
hambone
Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
Location: Portland, Ore.
Status: Offline

Re: Sidehill Gouger

Post by hambone » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:30 pm

Saw 27 of them on the last camp. Truly. Abbot Road is teeming with them. And Sasquatches.

video:
Image
http://greencascadia.blogspot.com
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat

User avatar
ruckman101
Lord God King Bwana
Location: Up next to a volcano.
Contact:
Status: Offline

Re: Sidehill Gouger

Post by ruckman101 » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:42 pm

Looks like Don in the background there is wrestling one on a lead. Tastes like chicken?


neal
The slipper has no teeth.

Post Reply