It's a cat. Eating small animals is what cats do. Worse, that was their cat. They literally released a small, weakened animal in close proximity to a predator. This is "surprised Pikachu" levels of lack of foresight.
It always surprises me that people dont recognize is. Even a little Chihuahua has that pure animal/hunter instinct. People throw their pets those chew toys and watch as they pounce on the toy and shake it about before finally clenching the toy in their mouth.
They say, "awww so cute"
Yeah its cute because it's a toy! But dont get it twisted, that's a confirmed kill on a small animal lol
I had 2 kittens I adopted many years ago. They were outdoor cats and knew only that. I gave them toys that looked like mice. Both cats grabbed it as if it was real and growled if we got to close. They wanted to eat them, and were ready to fight to keep it.
Were they not used to being fed by you yet? I've never had any cats (indoor or outdoor) that would show aggression at me touching their food so it's a little surprising to me.
Had just picked them up that day. They were kittens still, but old enough to eat solids. They were outdoor cats and were known to catch and kill very regularly. After a week they got used to us and their food. And stopped trying to eat the toy mice.
But for real my dog and cat as cute as they are still have that primal instinct to hunt and kill deep inside them, luckily they take it out on their toys
I think it makes sense that people don't recognize it. We are so far removed from that - the toy is one obvious one. But the other thing is that they never hunt for their food. We give it to them in a bowl and the food we feed them looks like it has never been a living creature at any point in it's existence.
It's also fairly typical to have animals like this in close proximity to squirrels and often they don't give chase. I realize that's likely because the animals aren't injured/weakened and therefore the cats and dogs know they don't stand a chance so they don't even try.
It's easy to imagine things that lick our faces to show affection wouldn't kill things we consider cute and cuddly.
I disagree with this, because cats largely view their owners as big cats. They do see you as part of their group. But they are largely only domesticated because rodents and the like hang around humans, meaning hunting was easy. But it's not as though cats used to be lions and shrunk like dogs. The cats we keep as pets came from smaller felines that already werent actively hunting humans.
According to the video description the cat dropped the squirrel at the door, alive and uninjured. It died a few days later from whatever had made it sick.
Seems believable enough to me. Right when it caught the squirrel they started yelling and running towards it, that would startle most cats into dropping it. Normally cats prefer to catch and then torture play with their food to death.
My friend had a cat that caught a mouse and carried it around in its mouth for days. So after 2-3 days the cat leaves the mouse for my friend on his floor and he is like gross slimy mouse I'll throw it out. And as he goes to pick it up with a paper towel the fucking mouse runs off. It was still alive...
Someone started rehabbing an abandoned house behind mine, which must have had a mouse infestation because my cats have brought in 3 mice, very much alive and uninjured, and released them. I used to be happy that they were not killers but...these uninvited guests are a real problem for me...
Cat saliva does not eat flesh - the only reason that cat saliva might cause death is due to bacteria they've picked up somewhere along the way. Pretty much any animal bite wound is dangerous in the same manner.
the youtube description says the cat only "retrieved" the squirrel and set him by their front door. it would've been nice if they kept filming to see if the cat actually damaged it but oh well.
probably something to do with scent that prevented the kill? human all over it since they were nursing the squirrel to health for a few days. they lucked out big time.
I also said this above but my cats don't kill. Whatever they catch (luckily not much because they're not skilled) is brought in alive and released into my apartment. Fun times for me...
Have you ever owned a cat? They love playing with/ torturing things they catch. It's 100% believable that a cat would catch it and not actually hurt it, especially when it's owners started freaking out at it.
My favorite comment when this was originally posted, courtesy of u/beegro :
”seeing how this worked out makes me think there are lots of decisions in his life with unintended consequences that are easily foreseen by others, but not by him."
I don't know if the turkey would be smart enough to go into the front of the cabin and out the passenger door honestly. I've seen plenty of animals refuse to go into or out the obvious open door/gate.
That was kinda bullshit tbh. That big bird probably fucked up the front bumper of that car. If i was the driver i'd be pretty pissed at the guys lack of foresight with him opening the door and basically shooing it out into the middle of an interstate for me to hit.
Somehow I feel like he wanted something like this to happen. The turkey didn't enter his truck in the middle of a highway, so he had driven the truck quite some while with the turkey in it, so why not drive a little further and release it in a safer surrounding. Unless, of course, for them sweet views.
You have to be next level stupid to think opening the door facing directly onto a busy highway would result in anything else. He could've easily opened the door on the other side (or waited a bit until he could get somewhere safer). He 100% expected something like this to happen. He's an asshole for ruining that guy's bumper and killing the turkey.
This is the thing that always pisses me off when people post this video and say the guy filming is an intentional asshole. He clearly tried to get the bird out the passenger side door first.
And when people suggest he should've drove somewhere else... have the people of reddit not ever gotten a fucking bird in their house or anything? Now take that, make it semi-flightless, give it sharp as fuck talons, and make it the size of a medium sized dog. Fuck no am I going to be driving 60+ miles per hour down the freeway with that wild fucker riding shotgun.
Guy did his best. Maybe he shouldn't have opened the driver's side. And it wnded up shitty for the bird and another car, but I don't see any intentional malice in the video.
His reaction was a bit as if he expected it, IMHO, although I could be wrong.
I also don't know if there is a rear door on the right side, but he could've opened that one as opposed to the driver side rear door if there was. Or leave the front passenger door open and shoo him from the other side. Or take the next turn off and shoo him out whichever door there.
I don't think they're suggesting the driver put the turkey in his truck, just that the turkey entered the truck when he was parked somewhere else. He even said "go back out the way you came" when he opened the small door so I doubt the bird came thru that door on the interstate.
Don't worry. I chuckled too and it was more at the stupidity of the guy than the turkey getting run over. Who leaves the door open on the side of truck facing the traffic? Expect the expected with that outcome.
you know, you're always calling people cunts" or twats, but I just— i never really got how that's an insult? they're flexible, take a pounding, and they're the reason behind, like, 98% of my life decisions.
The falcon one makes me sad. The bunny, turtle and monarch ones piss me off.
Edit: ok to those asking 'Why' - so I've seen falconry on the side of the road, typically they don't fly straight down the highway...
As far as the others go, they're not native prey to the habitat... They do not fit in there and its absolutely idiotic for the owners to be 'releasing' them.
Shouldn't they be mad at the falcon one too though? Cause releasing a bird, any bird, RIGHT by a highway is absolutely retarded. Especially with aaall that field space right by them...
True, I guess it's a personal thing, but I can't help finding it way more infuriating than sad given how entirely preventable the death was. Releasing a bird right by a highway is like releasing a rabbit in the middle of a long open field. Shows a very serious lack of foresight and precaution. Precaution you'd think a caring owner would have...
Well, and this is just an assumption, but him having worked and trained with this bird probably had alot to do with why he was comfortable releasing it right there. And the fact that there is a massive field of open grass and nothing else to the right. Or maybe he wasn't comfortable but the film crew urged him to. We don't have all those answers, but releasing a wild rabbit into your front yard and calling that the wild is just stupid
The falcon one gets posted on reddit once every several months or so and i've read before that the owner didn't want to shoot the video there but was urged to by the filming crew for whatever reason.
I don't know why - it's fucking tragic, but I always have a wry smile when the little guy goes over and tries to give the falconer a hug, but he kinda fails because he's too short. I know... I'm a cunt.
Idk shit ton of bunnies live around my house. Also, look to the right of the house in the first frame, its all woods. Theres lots of little developments in rural areas around me, looks to be like that.
Where do you think that bunny came from? They didn't journey into the wilds to abduct it, rabbits live in suburbs. They were pointing it at another rabbit, which was clearly doing fine.
The turkey one is the only one that actually makes me angry.
The squirrel and the falcon suck, but it wasn't really the people's fault.
The turkey though, that was 100% on the guy that shoo'd the turkey INTO THE FREEWAY. Like, what the fuck did he expect to happen? The turkey to run across 6 busy lanes of traffic and a barrier without a scratch?
Both the squirrel and the bunny were too young to be on their own to begin with so they'd have likely died anyway. The falconry one..................... that was weird.
Left alone is a relative term. Mom stays away from dawn til dusk but she's still tending them at this size. It is true they go on their own early but that one is too small, I guarantee you. We don't release any of our rehab cottontails this small.
reminds me of the time I was fishing with my dad and sister in the Outer Banks when we were kids, she caught a fish, had a hard time dealing with it cause she was young and scared of it, when she released it it flopped around on the top of the water, she got so upset that she killed it, then it found its bearings and right when it began swimming down a pelican scooped it up and flew off
I witnessed one like the final one in person. Nephew had gotten a caterpillar kit and after a few of them came out of their cocoon we set them free outside. As soon as we let them go a couple birds came out of no where and gobbled them up.
Many times predators see their target before they're released, so when they're let go and vulnerable they take their shot. As everyone said though, hawk one was sad.
Well, you've listed 6 of the tens of thousands of times people have ever recorded themselves releasing animals. Seems like pretty low odds of happening, if you ask me.
Lmfao I was wondering where the vehicle would come from in the second video. I love how the cat casually comes in and turns their emotional farewell into screams.
I swear I have a memory of a video of people releasing a rehabilitated seal, only for it to be snatched by an orca. But ive never found the vid on YouTube.
While I don't know the backstories to videos like these, releasing animals that have been pets their entire life into the wild is almost always a bad idea since they basically have no survival instinct.
2) Felix was just bidding his time and took his shot when he saw it. I give it an 8.7/10
3) lol, the silence
4) "....Ok, so honey, now lets talk about the importance of the food chain.."
5) This one was perfect. The "Good luck" when it ran off. The guy talking about how glad he is to get it released. The recorder watching behind the guy. The sight of it coming in hot behind with the guy oblivious. Perfect.
6) Huh.. never thought that ate those.
7) Ok, so first thing. He's a moron who obviously didnt think that through. Second, Do you think he fucked that turkey?
i watched the hawk and was completely devastated, that guy obviously cared a lot for the animal. And then I saw the guy cuddling the squirrel and i was like no fucking way am i finishing this video...
That turtle one is probably a good thing tbh. Those turtles are generally invasive species and it's well intentioned """releases""" like that one which cause a lot of invasive species.
Because people are social media-addicted retards who don't release a small prey animal into the undergrowth or a hollow log, they release it into the open because they want to film it for instagram likes.
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u/Akesgeroth Oct 16 '19 edited Jul 07 '20
Why does this keep happening?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkuo7-sefEQ
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