That is true. I have seen black bear a few times in the woods and bobcat but we didn't interact so I have no negative feeling toward them.

I did have a confrontation with a doe one year though. I was hiking in the woods about a half mile from home and apparently came close to a fawn (it was June). The doe came charging at me and stopped just a few feet from and kept snorting and stomping her feet. I was thinking, oh great, I am about to be attacked by a very pissed off deer. I stepped behind a tree and looked for my German shepherd and she had already headed for home without me. Yeah, protective dog, yeah right. I was carrying a machete that I used to kill briers and not knowing what else to do I stepped from behind the tree and started swinging the machete in wide circles over my head while yelling, F### You, Bambi, F### You, Bambi!!!! The deer was startled by my bizarre behavior and ran about twenty yards back into the brush and I decided the dog had the right idea and I headed for home looking back over my shoulder for the deer. The dog beat me home.