Crazy Deer

[Jennifer]

Pam, you misunderstand! 🙂 I technically have wild pets too- parrots are not domesticated. But, they were bred in captivity and not taken from their natural environment, just as your lovely wolfdogs were not born out in the wild. I sincerely doubt you’d ever take wolf pups from the den of a wild mother, just as I’d never take a wild bird from the nest to try and make it a pet. Melody’s lovely Edwina is not a domesticated animal but nor was it born in the wilds if Australia and then taken from its habitat. 😉

That is what I’m talking about- the people that will take a wild animal out of the wild to try and keep it as a pet. These sorts of people rarely know what they are doing and the animal ends up sick, suffering or worse.

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[Pam]

Ah, ok. I see what you are saying. I doubt this person got their deer directly from the wild though. Smaller animals, like squirels, oppossums, rabbit, and coon, are probably the most common animals that people take directly from the wild, because they are common, easy to catch when they are young, and easy to tame, but even those can be bought captive born. Immagine trying to catch 10 deer though! Deer are raised by the hundreds on farms however, so I imagine this is where he probably got them. I suppose he could have got them from the wild, but that’s not how most people get deer. (Not that it makes his treatment of them any better or anything…) It would be like wanting a horse and going out trying to catch a wild mustang, when you can get a tame horse for just a few hundred dollars.

EDIT: And I guess it just depends also how and when you take the animal from the wild and if you have proper permits. Several of mine were wild-taken, but it was when they were very, very young, and it was all legal. We have permits and everything. And since the animals were taken so young, they are as tame as if they had been born here in captivity.

[Jennifer]

I agree… though I have known someone who took two fawns (fawns, sadly, are easy to ‘catch’ and take with you) from the wild and tried to keep them as ‘pets’. The family didn’t want to keep them anymore after they got big and set them ‘free’… they of course didn’t know how to be truly wild and they met a sad end. 🙁

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Lokie wrote:

SilverArrow wrote:

Is that for real? It almost looked like the deer was cut and paste. The lighting looked a little off to me.

I wondered that myself for a bit when I first saw it. The driver of the motorcycle who is jumped over actually turns his head in the direction of the deer and dunks a tiny bit in the last second while the driver on the right turns his head to look at what is going on. Also, when the video is slowed down, the deer’s shadow (especially when he’s jumping) is visible on the pavement.

However, the deer’s shadow isn’t as dark as the the motorists (and possibly not to the left as much?), and I really have no idea if it should be or not 😕

I wonder if I can find a deer and two motorcyclists willing to reenact the situation so I can observe shadows 😛

Yea, you’re probably right. And yes, I think we need to re-enact it to test our theories. 😆 😆

[David]

Nambroth wrote:

That is what I’m talking about- the people that will take a wild animal out of the wild to try and keep it as a pet. These sorts of people rarely know what they are doing and the animal ends up sick, suffering or worse.

I am Guilty as Charged.

One of the saddest moments when my daughter was young was when her pet rabbit Licorice died. It died horribly.

I couldn’t afford to buy a ready-made cage, so I went down to the lumber yard for a stack of pressure-treated wood and chicken wire and made a nice big cage myself.

The rabbit died of arsenic poisoning.

[Alyssa]

Lokie wrote:

This was posted on a motorcycle forum I frequent:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=629_1187712839
Well I was finally able to view this and all I can say is WOW. I showed my bf and I asked him what if that was him and would he crash. He said that is would be freaky and that he might stumble a little bit, but probably wouldn’t crash.

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