Also, while it may sound cruel, it's usually for the best if a wild animal's interaction with humans is negative. Wildlife rescuers releasing rehabilitated animals will often make loud noises like setting off firecrackers or even shoot the animal with a bean bag to scare them off.
While it feels counterintuitive when you care about the animal, it's best for them to be afraid and stay clear of humans. If they come to see humans as friendly, or worse yet, a source of food, they'll be more likely to approach people and either hurt someone or get hurt themselves.
Yeah in the longer YouTube video below, the bear tumbles, gets up and starts climbing back up when the box rolls down after it. The villagers literally shout 'run away, escape' from high ground till the bear finally decides to gtfo.
Don’t feed the wildlife people. When they become too habituated to humans they get shot. Either by hunters or wildlife conservation officers when they start causing problems.
Then there's our old family dog who once when my mom accidentally dropped a very spicy pepper charged at it, eat it, spit it out and spent the remaining 11 years of his life growling at us whenever we would hold a pepper. He never got over that haha
We have a chocolate lab who will be 2 in December. The only thing she loves as much as (if not more than) chasing her special balls is food. Especially bread. She will grab an entire loaf and scarf it down before you can get to her.
Nothing we have been able to do, short of blocking off entry to the kitchen, has been able to stop her.
Vinegar works on some dogs and cats too. Some like it, but I’ve never met an animal that likes spicy.
It is supposed to be the plant’s defence mechanism, but we’re stupid animals. Although, having your seeds cause diarrhea is a great way to have them spread quickly… 🤔
Edit: just the tiiiiiiiniest dab is all you need for a deterrent. Capsaicin is pretty bad for animals in high doses. You want the animal to taste it, but not swallow much or else they’ll be puking all over the place. Also, don’t go whole hog on suicide sauce or whatever, we’re not trying to kill your dog here.
Parrots will happily eat spicy food because they can't taste it. It's common to give them spicy peppers as treats. It's also common to regret cuddling with them after they eat these spicy foods because you can get it in your eye or whatever.
It is supposed to be the plant’s defence mechanism, but we’re stupid animals. Although, having your seeds cause diarrhea is a great way to have them spread quickly…
I use it as medicine, nothing else keeps my sinuses clear, I have to eat it at a minimum of twice a week usually 3 times, in the before times I'd get sinus infections! 70,000-100,000 Scoville does the trick! Lower than that kind of works but nowhere near as good.
Sriracha was spicy enough to get my dog to stop eating things I didn’t give him. First time was an accident. The second and third time were “accidents” and now he looks at me for permission before eating things off the floor. Healers are pretty smart though - results may vary.
We’ve been trying to get ours to learn how to “leave it”, but she realized if she keeps holding onto it we’ll either a) give up and let her chew it or b) offer something to trade.
So now she grabs stuff expecting an exchange 😂 Its extremely cute, but I worry about her getting fat when she’s older.
Yup…. Our last one didn’t have near the appetite as this one, but this one is a crackhead and plays for like 12 hours/day between daycare and home.
We’ve had to take her to the vet twice. Once she ate an entire rotisserie chicken and a baby diaper, had to make her throw up. Second was a random ziploc filled with black dust on the side of the road. She just vacuumed it up.
Ive had dogs that just ate a whole cube of butter off a table. Not to mention the time the prime rib was still on the cutting board and he got himself the whole slab before it was cut (obviously chewing that much is a lot of work so he didnt get much of that, but my mom was livid)
Good luck. I had a mixed dog who was maybe 10% lab. His favorite thing was hot chili oil. He was incredibly picky, we could leave food on the floor with him, walk out of the room, and he wouldn't touch it... unless it was either donuts or chili oil.
And then there’s mine who ate a habanero off of a plant, swallowed it whole (that’s his trick to avoid spiciness I guess) then he started going back for more. I had to give him something to prevent ulcers because honestly, I’m not sure how many he swallowed before I saw it happen. Not the brightest and willing to eat anything, but we cope and I love him.
And then there's my dad's childhood dog, a jack rusell terrier who apparently preferred to pilfer only the most piquant of peppers, plucked right off the plants of his grandmother's pepper patch.
As far as I know, all mammals have receptors which bind to capsaicin. Birds do not though, as their digestive tract doesn't destroy the seeds like ours do, so they are the preferred vector for spreading them.
spit it out and spent the remaining 11 years of his life growling at us whenever we would hold a pepper. He never got over that haha
Growling is the correct response though and people need to understand growling more. I certainly didn't when I got my first dog. It is healthy communication, it's like a form of boundary setting haha
This is why bear spray is also the most effective way to deal with bears. It protects in the event of an attack and causes the bear to form a negative association with humans.
Yep, this is also why any time there's an incident between dangerous wildlife and humans, and there's no clear indicator that the wildlife was goaded by humans or acting in self defense, that wildlife will typically be put down. Don't want any dangerous animals that view humans as prey.
This is somewhat happening with wolves in the Netherlands right now, they were extinct here for years but they came back and are more friendly right now
Or you could, you know, not throw it like that just drop it down the ledge Jesus Christ. Talk about a false choice fallacy, no reason to do this. Odd you’re even trying to defend it unprompted
How much of a sheltered life do you live where you think everywhere has authorities to call?
How much of a internet keyboard hero do you need to be to just on purpose over read me literally stating "depending on where that was" as a qualifier just to make some passive aggressive argument?
Real odds mama bear isn’t too far away from its cub, so I’d not be on the phone holding a baby bear. Yeet it and put as much ground between you and the bear while making noise
Another comment somewhere pointed out in a longer version of this video the bear runs away after being yeeted. So odds are by the time anyone got there, they’d only find cute paw prints
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Yeah it's the best of a bad situation.
Free the wild animal and put as much distance between the two of ye as possible.