So I was wandering Skyrim's plains in search of elk/deer to try to snag some more leather to gear up my battlemage for a particularly tough bandit cave, when, I disturbed a 2 apprentice mages (the fire / frost ones) duel. They proceeded to focus on me and I cast Fury, missing one of the mages and hitting the Elk on the other hill, the elk went straight towards me making it an easy kill.

This made me realize instead of chasing down animals, I should just use fury on them to piss them off to come to me, eliminating chase and the chance of them getting away

Ha... but you still have to target them with the Fury spell, dontcha?
-Loth

PS Works on bunnies, too... watch out, their teeth are sharp!

Yes, but with magic you can be a quite a distance, so you don't need to worry about them running at the sight of you.

So why not launch a fireball to begin with ?