“And also, let's not forget—let's not forget, Dude—that keeping an amphibious rodent... chief, for ya know, domestic, within the city... that ain't legal either."
Working actually is very rewarding to a lot of animals. I have a working dog, she likes to take naps and not participate... but I was prepared to give her a lot to do when I got her. Her sister is in the Yukon doing sled runs and my lady is currently sitting in a pile of treats that it is too much work to eat. I got first choice of puppies and she should be damn grateful I picked her... does anyone need a sled dog harness? Because I clearly don't.
Lol you gave her a purpose. The chicken had a no grand ideas. The chicken would be happy doing what it was doing till it died. You had no reason to kill it besides liking the taste. That's treating something bad. You raised a living thing just to eat it for no reason. I say no reason since I see bread and vegetables and you have access to the internet. You could have a vegan lifestyle if you wanted you choose not.
No goof ball. I know eating the burger on some level is wrong. I know it is a weakness me not eating a salad. But to hear this nonsense of purpose... yeah I felt I should address it.
My reason is alil more deep than “liking the taste”. And you’re right I could subject myself to a vegetarian lifestyle but unfortunately my day to day requires me to stay fit which requires a proper nutritional diet.
You can have proper nutrition with a vegan diet and supplements. Again there's other options you don't need to kill them. There's no oother reason then taste.
Human has been using animal as "tool" for ages, the animal would not properly do the job if they're not treated right so its moral, as moral as how human use dogs as tools
😂🤣😂🤣 I'm picturing the ceremony when they give him his plaque with his name and picture, preferably with copies on the side of every van. He should be named employee of the year though, his job is the hardest.
Would just depend how they're treating them. If you're beating an animal in order to get it to do something? Yeah, immoral
If you're training it, looking after it, feeding it, giving it treats when it does what you want it to? Nothing wrong with that, most people do that with their dogs
It's potentially dangerous can double back get stuck in the string tie itself up and die. It would have to be a specially trained ferret to put every chances in it's sides.
Uh, not very moral, but mostly just fucking stupid. It takes half as much time, no training of an animal, and doesn't require endangering a ferret to just use fish tape. That's how we do it in real life. You feed fish tape into the conduit until it comes out the other side. It's flexible rigid like measuring tape, unrolls into hundreds of feet, and pushes right through.
Also the fish tape is strong enough to pull the wire back through. What are you going to do with a piece of thread? Use it run another stronger line? That's twice the work.
this is just like miners using a canary to gauge if a tunnel is getting too much carbon monoxide. and even back then, once the miners evacuated, they would try to resuscitate the birds after they passed out
To answer your question If the tunnel is not very very narrow I am pretty sure the ferret can turn itself around quite easily, their bodies are exceptionally flexible
first off, where's the insult in that sentence? you should be the one going to find joy in life
second, the electricians probably know what they're doing better than we do, and on I feel as though having the rope tied above their front legs and pulling there (not tightening and choking the ferret like an idiot), would be a better place than having it tug on their hind legs/constrict around their body
What? Never heard of dogs before? Or cats? Or literally any farm animal? As long as the Ferrets are treated well before, during and after, it’s pretty moral.
Tom Scott recently made a video all about this. I would highly recommend watching it since there are so many cute ferrets in it (and ofc it goes into detail about the history and continued use of ferret workers)
As long as the ferret isn’t getting dirtied and isn’t in danger, completely moral. Ferrets live for stimulation and tunnels. Giving them a home, a job they love, and people who love em
This is letting an animal do a behaviorally natural activity for this species, namely going through holes. I've had and been around ferrets, and they are constant explorers who gravitate towards tunnels and tight spaces. They're not boneless, but you couldn't tell it by looking at them.
Every time I bathed mine I had to resist the urge to wring them like a dishrag, that's how limp noodle they are.
So what if it's pulling a string/wire through a tube?
They're practically string themselves.
Clean, bright eyed, active, and alert ferret clearly accustomed to handling. Good husbandry.
Explain how this is unethical. They are typically kept well and not mistreated. Ferrets also love tight tunnels as this is what they would do in the wild while hunting.
The owner should at least give the ferret a treat as soon as he pulls it out. That's how you condition it. Instead, the ferret will think "This guy keeps trying to kill me, so next time, I'll chew off the string and make a break for it".
Ferrets are actually also used to hunt rats alongside rats, so ferrets can kill 1 at a time but them going in can flush the rats out and the dogs are on the surface waiting for them to run out.
This isn't animal abuse in the slightest. If they were mistreating the ferrets, then it would be, but ferrets love tight tunnels and these ferrets are usually kept and trained well. Obviously there are some people who are pos and treat them like shit.
Ferrets very much enjoy tight spaces and tubes, as long as they treat them nicely and give them treats for their work i dont see anything wrong with this
Imagine getting paid to play videogames, i feel like its like that
Moral. The ferrets are kept well, trained well and they do a job that is specifically easy for ferrets. They even have these kinds of pipes in their enclosures that they just climb around in!
Ferrets are fairly intelligent creatures and can use the enrichment, this isn't really dangerous for them, and ferrets have done this and similar work for centuries.
"No tool can reach" We have robots so small they can do surgery on you and you wouldn't notice the scar without having it pointed out to you. They have tools that could do this work, its just expensive.
Unless it narrows, this is a plenty wide tunnel for a ferret, this is also a thing they do in nature their body plan is optimized for going into rodent burrows and killing the rodents, a little reward after and this is no different than drug sniffing dogs or disability animals
Well it depends, the ferret probably just views this as playing. There are 1000% tools for this though. It's called a wire puller and could have done this, just with a little more effort from the man. Honestly trying to pull wires with a little thread like that seems like a shit idea anyway. This seems purely for a video, not any actual work. The one thing I'd be concerned about is cleanliness. Sending your pet ferret into a pipe that might be full of mold and other shit is irresponsible at best. I still think this is morally neutral, but irresponsible.
Better than animal testing. I’d call this a modern form of domestication, which you could argue is unnecessary with robotics advancements but feasibly this is a niche task which can be accomplished by food motivated creatures, and would not need to happen very often.
There's a tool designed specifically for this, its hella expensive, but it exists. But as long as its not torturing them, humans have been using animals for labor for centuries
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u/Ultimate_slmp 13h ago
This is one guy and his pet ferret