Only ignorant people say such things about animals. I have had a great many encounters with a wide variety of animals in my life. I have taken naps with my head on a lion's chest. I have kissed an elephant's snout. I have hand fed sharks in the wild and not from inside a cage. This morning I sat in my back yard in Florida and fed dozens of feral parrots who frequently come to visit. There are multiple flocks of them in my area. Mostly they are the descendants of escaped pets. Laws banning the feeding or interaction between humans and wild birds don't apply since they are an invasive species. I could actually capture them all and sell them as pets and make enough to retire on. But I choose not to because they deserve their freedom. They are extremely friendly and some even have a small vocabulary. They are of various mixed species including a couple of sun conures. Those are particularly friendly. But the most intelligent ones are the crows by my observation. I have bird feeders and feed whoever comes to visit. The crows go through about $20 in bird feed every month. They love visiting me as well as I not only feed them but I also provide them with water to drink and a bath. My neighbor hates birds. The crows know it. My neighbor screams at them. He throws rocks at the crows and sometimes the parrots. One of the parrots swears bac at him. The crows don't but interestingly the crows as a flock of a few hundred cover his entire place, especially his car, with droppings. His roof is covered in it to the point where the water that runs down his gutters is toxic. He has to take his car to the car wash twice a week. I have never observed a single crow pooping anywhere in my yard or on my house and they mostly hang out in the oak tree above my roof and my roof is poop free. I have had many hundreds of hours of entertainment watching them dive bomb them. He once complained to city hall that I trained them to eat food I provide and then dive bomb his place. I wish I knew how to train crows. Nope. They thought all that up themselves. City hall came by and looked at his place and then cited him for having a health hazard and told me to have a nice day. A couple of years ago I found a pelican that had been tangled in fishing line and had a fishing lure stuck in his wing with three hooks. I always keep some tools in my back pack so I went up to him and wrapped him in my light windbreaker so he would not panic and I went to town snipping all the line then carefully removing the lure hook by hook backing them out like I would from a child's finger. When I was done I took my windbreaker off him and back up and he looked at me very surprised and then just started to walk around trying out his new found freedom and then he flew off. A few weeks later I was fishing near that spot and the same pelican landed three feet from me and usually they try to steal fish but instead he just watched for a while then flew off and then dove into the water and when he came up he flew back and dumped a half dozen bait size fish on the dock at my face then flew off. I don't know if he understood but I definitely took it as a friendly gesture of gratitude.
u Nah; animals are pretty smart. It may not be inspirational, or anything, but I learned that several years ago.
I smoke, and when I was in my early 20's, I would go out on my back porch, which faced some woods. There was a raccoon that lived in there, and apparently he got used to seeing me outside, as he'd come out when I was there.
Eventually, he got to the point where he'd come right up to the porch, so I started tossing him little scraps of food when he did. Obviously, he liked that, so he'd come back, and even started coming up on the porch with me. When I saw him, I'd go inside to grab him something. He never begged; he would always sit patiently and wait for me. Then he'd take the food and walk off.
Eventually, he found a mate, and started bringing her around, too. Same deal; they would both come sit on the porch and wait patiently while I got them some food. They even brought their babies around me, when they had some.
One day, I heard some nasty hissing/spitting coming from out back, so I went to see what was going on. I saw "my" raccoons in a fight with another male. He was threatening them, and that's the hissing that I heard. The male that I knew was hissing right back, with the female and babies behind him.
As soon as I got out there, the female and babies hauled ass up the porch and hid behind my legs, because they knew that I would protect them. The male followed them, slowly backing up onto the porch, still keeping the rival male in sight. Almost like he was daring the newcomer to challenge "his" human. The rival looked at me, and decided he was fucked, so he took off, and never came back.
I guess you could say I domesticated those raccoons, by feeding them, but the fact that they trusted me enough to know to hide behind me told me that they were smart enough to know they could count on me. 😊
Animals are unique & spiritual beings 🐾🐾✌️
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I always like this story about how a cat saved a man from suicide
https://www.youtube.com/embed/PamDE6IVQ0A" In this powerfully inspirational story, we follow a brave young soldier from a battlefield in Iraq, where he sustained traumatic injuries in a mortar attack, to Fort Riley, Kansas. There, during a thunderstorm, a kitten suddenly appears to save the soldier’s life, then later disappears, only to reappear at another pivotal moment in both their lives."
When I was little we had a golden retiever. This dog would protect my brother and I. If another dog would try and mess with us he would get between us and the other dog. He would do this with other kids as well.
He was never trained, he just knew that he had to protect us.
I've grown to start admiring Opossums over the past couple years, for most of my life I was kind of creeped out or thought they were nasty since they look like big rats, but I feel I've learned to appreciate them more since they do great things for the environment
I agree with you. I was thinking on that the other day.
I once waved at a brown bear. It waved me back
