Animal Rescue Megathread - Sharing the good rescues and documenting the bad "rescues"

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George Lucas said:
Wait, BROWN bears? Not black ones? Holy shit, that is terrifying.
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Yeah; whichever kind of bear you're talking about, black bears are pretty much ONLY dangerous when they've been habituated and associate humans with food. A wild black bear has a huge preference to just avoid people and confrontations in general, but obviously they WOULD fuck you up if they wanted, and the only time they want to is when they're used to humans and really hungry. Grizzlies are a different story, they extincted those in CA like you said on purpose and for a reason.

I get your point about rescues, it kind of feels like now that circuses are all human and zoos are looked down on, rescue is the excuse to have the exotic pets that people have always dabbled with, and tons of stuff gets excused when it's "for education". That said, there's a fine line between natural and managed, and I'm fine with putting a thumb on the scale (as long as that thumb actually knows what it's doing), and having people experienced with care of these animals is a good asset.
 
George Lucas said:
Honeybees are domesticated, so that isn’t even an exception. Do you know about the research in Russia about domesticated foxes? That’s actual, positive work in animal husbandry. SaveAFox was a woman’s fashion collection, except with living animals. Did she even have any education in zoology or veterinary medicine?
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The Fox experiement was more of a state sponsored, long term scientific study than an animal rescue operation. Although I will say, by far and away the animals were treated significantly better than whatever the fuck was going with the Zoophile panderer.
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
I appreciate you speaking up against Rescuing All Things. I live in an area where brown bears are easily tricked into human habituation through cultural norms that leave garbage unsecured. Every year, a bear inadvertently consumes some misplaced or discarded human foodstuffs - AND THEY'RE INSTANTLY ADDICTED FOR LIFE, like any crackhead you run across in your local metropolitan area. Why forage for bugs, roots, and berries - if someone is going to leave a half eaten hotdog in a ditch, or a bag of chicken bones and skin in a bag in an unlocked dumpster?

For my entire lifetime, bearhuggers have been crying about "humane trapping" these garbage bears for relocation in the wild. What we have learned is that its hard to entice a bear into a cage, but if you do, and then you move a caged bear 100+ miles into the wild, it only takes them a week to walk/swim back to a stinky city. Also, bears will learn to be afraid of the police like any nigger, once they understand the uniformed man with flashing lights is there to racially profile them.

The bottom line is a "fed" bear, is a dead bear.

But Yogi, try telling that to the gaping and drooling mass of humanity. Parking in traffic. Getting out of their vehicles, and having a selfie with a wild animal.
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Never in my life did I think I'd see these guys get described as niggers, but honestly, if they weren't so adorable everyone else would probably feel the same.

Edit: Apologies for double posting
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
Steve Kroscel
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Owner of wildlife facility near Haines now faces felony animal cruelty charges​

Reached by phone on Friday morning, Kroschel was in Central Russia and not yet aware of the charges.

“This is insane, absolutely insane,” he said. “My heart, my spirit, my mind, is all about taking care of life on Earth.” ...
Kroschel remains adamant that the charges are unfair and inaccurate.

“Every animal that I’ve had that passed away was either examined in a necropsy that I requested, or the state, and it was either old age or something like that,” he said. “It was not because of negligence. But they’re trying to pin that on me as animal cruelty, that’s insane.”
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I guess the reindeer petting zoo didn't pan out.
 
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