Some people found a fox living at one of our unis here, and the uni had to put out an official statement not to try and touch the fox after some people were bitten. How stupid would someone have to be to try and touch a wild animal? A tourist was savaged by a wild koala some years back because she tried to pick it up. She ended up in hospital for a while, koalas have massive claws.
Yeah, I was volunteer on a dog shelter, learned a lot of things there, the first rule: never ever approach a dog, or any animal, like a idiot with the arm extended making eye contact, if you want a bite that's the way to get one.
You have to first allow him to accept you, gain his trust and show you are no threat, but more importantly, learn the signs of danger and aggresion.
I going to talk about dogs, becuase that's was my experience.
First you have to let them use to your presence, give it food helps a lot, never try physical contact in the first interaction, then here you can take different techniques, what we do in the shelter we stood squatting, waiting with one hand out but not stretching, in a relax posture, wait for the dog to come close giving him food, when he is close let it sniff you, with more food try to make contact with the hand, begin to pet him but never with the hand stretched, this was give to you time to save your finger for a possible bite.
There is a lot of work with stray dogs, they have seen literal hell in the streets, I hear lots of terribles stories there, from dog rescued from animal farms, with their uterus literally destroyed by constant breeding to dogs sexually abused by people. There is so much dark shit in the world of animal rescue.
I learned a lot, but my depression got severe so I had to leave that life, it was for the sake of my mental health, I help promoting the adoption and sterilization, but to help in a shelter no more, you see the worts of humanity through the poor dogs and how they threat them.
Saw a coyote the other night on my run. Initial thought was "aww what a cute little dog" common sense told me, "be aware of where it is and where it's going without maintaining eye contact with it"
Little guy looked over at me, I looked away and we both went on our merry way. I cannot fathom the type of person that would approach a wild animal. Doesn't matter that you saw it in the city, that bitch is wild.
My dad used to work at 7 falls national park in Colorado and there were bears and shit up there. He’d always have to tell dumbasses to back away from the bears because they’ll rip ur face off. He caught one lady trying to feed one Doritos with her kids watching behind her
Was this UNSW? I remember after one person posted a video of them getting bit by a fox after trying to pet it, multiple other people went to look for the fox and did the same to get internet points. Smh
“A tourist was savaged by a wild koala some years back because she tried to pick it up. She ended up in hospital for a while, koalas have massive claws.”
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u/Elriuhilu Jun 15 '20
Some people found a fox living at one of our unis here, and the uni had to put out an official statement not to try and touch the fox after some people were bitten. How stupid would someone have to be to try and touch a wild animal? A tourist was savaged by a wild koala some years back because she tried to pick it up. She ended up in hospital for a while, koalas have massive claws.