I too have a fear of walking out of the woods in the dark. Mostly my fear is not of the four legged animal, though. I have had men in the woods with me that were not supposed to be there. They are what gives me the creeps. We have a lot of problems in my area with people coming onto someone else' s land and growing a certain illegal crop, because my land backs up to about 3000 acres of posted land with an absent owner we always have someone on our land each year who doesn' t belong. If my husband can' t meet me at my stand and walk out with me I carry a Glock 40 S & W in with me. It is not legal to carry a firearm on public land during bow season but on private land they really can' t say much about it.