I once rescued an injured duckling from our cat and nursed it back to health.
I fed and watered it several times a day while it convalesced. Each time I reached my hand in the box that tiny adorable creature thrashed its wings and bit my fingers.
After about 3 days I had had enough of it biting the hand that feeds. It was barely larger than a marshmallow but it was kicking my ass.
I decided it must be strong enough so I returned it to its mother, who was conveniently still in the nearby pond. It launched itself toward her and literally ran across the water to be reunited.
That part was touching, so I guess it was worth the effort, but I learned a valuable lesson. Imagine if instead of a tiny bird it had been a dangerous predator with fangs and claws
I once rescued a duckling as well. sometimes duck mothers simply decide they’re just gonna ditch a kid. took about 3 months until it was ready to be released, I had built it a full outside enclosure where it could stay in the meantime, so it was mostly self sufficient towards the end. it definitely did learn to recognize me, and while it still hated being touched, it had absolutely bonded and kept trying to run back to me when I released it.
luckily where I grew up there was a spring fed one where ducks stay year round, so I can actually confirm it’s still there and recognized me up till about 3 years later.
they’re absolutely vicious tho. still have the scars from when I had to handle it!
Coyotes like racoons and a load of other random north American animals actually make weirdly solid pets. Just not your normal suburban pet tho.
If you like out in the sticks and have a bunch of other dogs coyotes end up being fine. They integrate ok into existing packs.
Coyotes have evidence of being kept like dogs for over a 1000 years all over the Americas. Not nearly as wide spread as dogs. But not all that uncommon either.
Hell the few times in recent times someone’s tried to domesticate coyotes they just turn into dogs basically. How we ended up with coydogs, and then if you don’t try to keep the coyote in them they sorta just breed out after a few generations of modern dogs in the gene pool.
Honestly the bigger problem is a coyote is smart, coydogs and their various breeds are kinda all stupid as fuck. Yet to see a hybrid breed that retains any level of intelligence.
So you end up with something as stubborn and willful as a husky and as stupid as a rock. Not a great combo…
Wild animals are wild.
I once rescued an injured duckling from our cat and nursed it back to health.
I fed and watered it several times a day while it convalesced. Each time I reached my hand in the box that tiny adorable creature thrashed its wings and bit my fingers.
After about 3 days I had had enough of it biting the hand that feeds. It was barely larger than a marshmallow but it was kicking my ass.
I decided it must be strong enough so I returned it to its mother, who was conveniently still in the nearby pond. It launched itself toward her and literally ran across the water to be reunited.
That part was touching, so I guess it was worth the effort, but I learned a valuable lesson. Imagine if instead of a tiny bird it had been a dangerous predator with fangs and claws
I once rescued a duckling as well. sometimes duck mothers simply decide they’re just gonna ditch a kid. took about 3 months until it was ready to be released, I had built it a full outside enclosure where it could stay in the meantime, so it was mostly self sufficient towards the end. it definitely did learn to recognize me, and while it still hated being touched, it had absolutely bonded and kept trying to run back to me when I released it.
luckily where I grew up there was a spring fed one where ducks stay year round, so I can actually confirm it’s still there and recognized me up till about 3 years later.
they’re absolutely vicious tho. still have the scars from when I had to handle it!
Coyotes like racoons and a load of other random north American animals actually make weirdly solid pets. Just not your normal suburban pet tho.
If you like out in the sticks and have a bunch of other dogs coyotes end up being fine. They integrate ok into existing packs.
Coyotes have evidence of being kept like dogs for over a 1000 years all over the Americas. Not nearly as wide spread as dogs. But not all that uncommon either.
Hell the few times in recent times someone’s tried to domesticate coyotes they just turn into dogs basically. How we ended up with coydogs, and then if you don’t try to keep the coyote in them they sorta just breed out after a few generations of modern dogs in the gene pool.
Honestly the bigger problem is a coyote is smart, coydogs and their various breeds are kinda all stupid as fuck. Yet to see a hybrid breed that retains any level of intelligence.
So you end up with something as stubborn and willful as a husky and as stupid as a rock. Not a great combo…
My husky is as willful and stubborn as a husky and stupid as a rock, to be fair.
I bet if you had tried for 4 day it would totally have worked.
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