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pinkieloveheartpastel · 2 years

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People who keep wild animals as pets, people who want to, and people who think that shit is cute, will soon be in for a very rude, and lethal awakening.

#wild animals are not pets #wild animals are called wild animals for a reason #they are not your fucking friends #they will k*ll you #it’s also disrespectful for you to treat them like they can be contained #let them be free as they were meant to be

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sinkpisser3000 · 3 days

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Kind of a stupid rant, but like... c'mon, guys.

WILD ANIMALS ARE. NOT. PETS. I keep seeing photos on my dash of people holding bats or keeping them as pets and saying that bats are 'so cute!!!!'. THAT IS NOT A CUTE PET. THAT IS A WILD ANIMAL KNOWN TO CARRY RABIES. IF IT SCRATCHES OR BITES YOU, YOU HAVE TO GET MULTIPLE VERY FUCKING PAINFUL RABIES SHOTS. Be fucking smart around wild animals to avoid having to suffer the painful consequences of HOLDING A WILD FUCKING ANIMAL WITH YOUR BARE FUCKING HANDS.

#rant post #wild animals are not pets #sinkpisser3000 back on their bullshit

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sp00ky-frog · 1 year

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Seeing videos of people keeping wild animals as pets genuinely stresses me out, especially if the person has a large following. They don’t understand how much harm they are doing.

If you find an orphaned or injured animal, DON’T KEEP IT AS A PET! Please contact a wildlife center.

#rant #wildlife #wild animals are not pets #wildlife management #zoology #this has been a psa #this is about a TikTok I saw #pet coyote #pet raccoon #exotic pets #pet fox #OP

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yolas0 · 4 months

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#animals #beautiful animals #funny #funny animals #exotic #exotic animals #wild cats #wild world #pets #wild animals #tiger #big cats #cats

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rebeccathenaturalist · 6 months

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Unsurprisingly, a lot of the commentary I'm seeing about this has been of the "But--but--I would do the same thing because I don't want anything bad to happen to the deer!"

Look. I love wildlife, and I love getting to see deer, coyotes, and even the occasional black bear in my neighborhood. But they are here because there is good habitat nearby with lots of natural food sources, not because I deliberately put out food for them to eat. I respect them as wild animals with whom my relationship is very different compared to the domesticated animals I take care of every day. A deer is not a sheep or a horse; a coyote is not a dog.

People who do things like try to tame deer or, worse yet, try to raise a fawn or other young wildlife like pets are robbing those wild animals of their natural existences. We've already wrought our own preferences on the landscape to a severe degree, tearing the wildness out of it to create lawns and farms and subdivisions and strip malls. When we then dismiss the wildness of these animals and impress our own desire for connection on our terms on them, we are harming them.

I've already written elsewhere about the difference between "tame" and "domesticated". No matter how docile that deer seems, it is never going to be as (relatively) safe and tractable as a domesticated sheep or goat. It will always be more unpredictable, and more likely to lash out suddenly at a person due to fear, or hormones, or protection of young.

These animals need their wild instincts to be intact if they are going to survive without being dependent on us. They need those instincts in order to find mates and keep the gene pool stirred up. Their instincts keep them safe from danger, including humans. And their instincts never totally go away, no matter how much we may try to tame them otherwise.

This is why a good wildlife rehab is going to minimize handling of the wild animals they care for, especially those that are going to be able to be released back into the wild. The less comfortable these animals are with humans, the better their chances of surviving in the wild and having fulfilling, natural lives. Wildlife that retain their wariness of humans are less likely to end up falling prey to hunting, or being killed as nuisance animals when they get too aggressive in seeking food or otherwise coming into conflict with people.

The person who painted "pet" on a fully grown white-tailed buck and put a collar around his neck may have felt like they were doing that deer a kindness, but they have likely robbed him of the chance to just live a natural life as his own, independent being out in the woods and fields. He might be out there, sure, but perhaps he won't mate because he imprinted on humans. Or maybe he will end up shot by a hunter in spite of the precautions because he's just too friendly and those antlers are worth taking the shot.

There will always be something missing from this deer's life because of the arrogance of someone who thought they could own and keep and control a wild-born animal for their own enjoyment, instead of allowing him to come and go as he pleased. Honestly, it reminds me of King Haggard from Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, whose response to seeing something beautiful was to capture it and keep it rather than simply enjoying and remembering that magical moment:

"I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull I must have them, all of them, all there are. For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their grace. So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns, my unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself."

That's how I feel about people who are willing to drastically alter a wild animal's behavior for their own selfish benefit, even if they think they're being kind. I know I'm fighting a bit of an uphill battle in this, but I'm rather stubborn that way.

#deer #wildlife #wild animals #nature #animal welfare #animal cruelty #hunting #white tailed deer #zoology #animal behavior #ecology #environment #conservation #wildlife conservation #feeding wildlife #pets #animals #The Last Unicorn

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mydemoniccat · 4 months

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He looks like a miniature panther 🐈‍⬛

#cats of tumblr #cats cats cats #cat #cute cats #pets #animals #black cat #wild cats

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bunjywunjy · 1 year

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hey Bunjy what do you mean the bear's getting euthanised? T__T

black bears are naturally very shy, but they are large predators that can and do attack humans occasionally with fatal results. states with black bears are in a constant battle to keep those bears from LOSING that shyness and getting too habituated to humans.

a bear that's habituated to humans through eating garbage or being fed by idiots who think that bears are just big cute dogs will eventually lose all its fear of humans and begin to associate humans with food, at which point it may start to break into buildings with human occupants, and attack human pedestrians. obviously this is terrible and carries a HUGE danger to anyone in the vicinity of these habituated bears.

so generally a bear will get three strikes before it's considered to be so habituated to humans that it absolutely has to be euthanized for everyone's safety- the first two strikes see a bear sedated, tagged, and relocated to a wild area far away from humans.

however.

the bear in that video was already demonstrating the highest level of human habituation, "entering a building where a human is present without fear", so it probably won't be long before it DOES start attacking humans outright for food. again, this often proves fatal to the human involved, because it's a fucking bear.

so in this case, they may just skip right over the first two strikes since this behavior is so far along, for the safety of all humans in the area!

basically, every human who fed this bear and treated it like a big cute harmless adorable toy is now responsible for its death. please just leave the goddam wildlife alone.

#wild animals are not cute pets please #you are going to get your head crunched in #or someone else's head crunched in #speaking specifically to that one person who was super gross and anthropomophising in the tags of that bear post

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liberate-te · 10 months

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The truth about fireworks

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ecoharbor · 5 months

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#video #nature #paradise #natureza #paraiso #view #snow #neve #leopard #leopardo #first snow ball #winter #animal #wild #explore #travel #pet #viajar #inverno #selvagem #eyelashes #feline #felino

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jayblanc · 2 months

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Regular Reminder about Big Cats

If you see "cute" content here or on any other social media, that's a video of a Big Cat or other wild Cat, where the animal is directly interacting with a human in an uncontrolled situations - DO NOT RESHARE IT.

Particularly if it comes from Russia, where the practice of keeping Big Cats as "pets" or in fake "wildlife centres" has become terrifyingly widespread.

You can not keep a Big Cat or other wild cat as a pet, or in a home. They may have nice periods where you get cute videos, but they are still wild animals being kept in conditions they are not adapted to. You don't get to see the times their owners punish them for being wild animals, the "training" brutality needed to break a Big Cat into appearing 'tame', or what happens to them when they stop being cute.

#big cats #cute animals #pets #wild animals

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fluffygif · 8 months

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