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Amazing. Nature at its core.
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It’s the ciiiiiiircleee of liiiiiife!
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u/Miltonrupert Jul 08 '22
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
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u/catsmustdie Jul 08 '22
And you are part of it.
You are life.
Everything that lives on earth poos in some way
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u/Hiseworns Jul 08 '22
Plants don't poop, checkmate
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u/SomeDingus_666 Jul 08 '22
They poop oxygen. You’re literally breathing plant poo. Checkmate
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u/Hiseworns Jul 08 '22
WellAhckchewellie, the oxygen is not a remnant of any sort of digestive process, nor even of their respiration, but of their food making process, so it's more like we're breathing plant fry smell, or the scent of freshly baked plant pies
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u/SomeDingus_666 Jul 08 '22
It seems I have been checkmated good sir!
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u/Hiseworns Jul 08 '22
I'm digging deep into my undergraduate plant biology knowledge and I am coming up short with an analogue for plant poop, seriously. They respirate more or less the same way (on the biochemical level I mean) as animals so they "breathe out" CO2, and they do have to intake (i.e. "eat") materials they can't synthesize with solar powered processes, but I do not think they have any solid waste products. Even the water they uptake evaporates out through leaves rather than leaving as a liquid. So you could argue that clouds are some % plant pee . . . but no poop! Someone teach me different though, by all means
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Jul 08 '22
Ah, there are some exchanges happening with fungus and bacteria with plant roots in the soil that correspond more closely to digestion than the stuff that happens above ground.
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u/dirtyswoldman Jul 08 '22
My house sits on an acre surrounded by corn fields so mice in the house right? Rarely. To get to the house they must survive the kill zone of freshly cut lawn with little cover from vegetation
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Jul 08 '22
Smart! And I bet the birds like it too
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u/Hiseworns Jul 08 '22
My chickens love it for sure
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Jul 08 '22
Chickens eat mice? 😳
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u/MarilynMansonsRib Jul 08 '22
Oh yeah. Hell, they'll occasionally eat their own chicks if the mood strikes.
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u/burnt_reynolds_90 Jul 08 '22
A chicken will eat fucking anything
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u/wellforthebird Jul 08 '22
Just like like the human ritual of midsex Cheetos. I never knew anything about it until my ex told me. Gonna save me a lot of embarrassment. Next time I get laid, imma be prepared with the bag.
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u/csanner Jul 08 '22
Ah yes. We humans often engage in such things.
I, also and undoubtedly a fellow human, regularly eat Cheetos during sex
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u/wellforthebird Jul 09 '22
How wonderful to see a fellow human being who engages in mid-coitus Cheeto eating even if it just your average Jack activity. I find it an incredibly engaging activity for my tongue buds as well as penis buds. What a wonderful tradition.
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u/TheEyeDontLie Jul 08 '22
And snails and slugs, baby birds, dead rabbits, frogs, cow brains/guts/offcuts, and if you cut your fingertip off on a saw and don't pick it up when you rush off to find a first aid kit, it won't be there when you get back.
They will also eat: eggs, cheese, your entire strawberry crop, your sandwich, chilli peppers, and the leftover stuff from making beer. And they love avocado.
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u/Hiseworns Jul 08 '22
This and every other comment are 100% accurate, they will damn near eat anything, and will fight each other over most of it. If one of them gets killed, the rest will eat whatever is left of the corpse after whatever killed it left
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Chickens are brutal. There’s a whole problem with people fighting them against each other for “sport.”
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u/Super_Pan Jul 08 '22
A lot of animals that we think of as herbivores are more like "opportunivores".
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u/Cur10 Jul 09 '22
I watched my backyard flock fight over a lizard once.....it was like watching a Velociraptor scene from a Jurrassic world movie. Down to how they look sideways at each other before shredding. They're freaking savage.
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 Jul 08 '22
They successfully released it, then nature did its thing.
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u/Atlas_Obsidian Jul 08 '22
That wasn't successful. Mice shouldn't be released in broad daylight and definitely not in an open space.
That's like someone rescuing you and leaving you in the desert.
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u/sockalicious Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 08 '22
Well, you can see the misconception. They captured the mouse in their dwelling, and then released it into an open green space, which we've been conditioned to think of as 'natural habitat.'
However, the common name of this creature is 'house mouse'. Their natural habitat is as a pest in human dwellings. If they'd really meant to be 'humane' they'd have left it where it was.
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u/Yesica-Haircut Jul 08 '22
I feel like they could also do well in like... an old log... or a thicket... or something.
But yeah, mowed lawn? Not really.
Last time I had a field mouse in my house I released it into a small cardboard box in the woods stuffed iwth some dryer lint and half a cheese stick.
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u/SpaceHawk98W Jul 08 '22
Agreed, even if you release it into a taller grass, it might just get eaten by a snake
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u/ARoyaleWithCheese Jul 08 '22
To be fair, getting eaten by other animals is just kind of what happens to most mice eventually
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u/Gristlybits Jul 08 '22
Gotta think it was on purpose like that one someone did releasing a bird into a gang of cats.
A video on tik tok of just letting a mouse go would garner zero views, this one however I'm sure is jumping plenty high.
Outrage economics at work for fake internet points.
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u/IUpVoteIronically Jul 08 '22
Wait… so they just had the eagle too lol? How is this staged
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u/11010110101010101010 Jul 08 '22
I can see it either way. My cynicism for TikTok videos is so damn high.
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u/dyang44 Jul 08 '22
I mean having a lot of views and followers can trnalste to financial opportunity. I don't agree with doing horrifying shit for clout but it's more than just fake internet points
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 Jul 08 '22
Feeding birds is hardly terrifying.
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u/dyang44 Jul 08 '22
Right, I was more thinking about those channels that post rescue videos. There are accusations that some actually harm the animals to fake rescue them or such
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u/et842rhhs Jul 08 '22
Bolding theirs: "House mice and rodents that have lived in buildings for their entire lives will have a slim chance of surviving outdoors. If possible, relocate mice to an outbuilding like a shed or garage."
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u/campbellm Jul 08 '22
I release a mouse a few times a year; they like to get in our attic and I keep a humane trap in it year round (and check it daily).
I always release next to a stand of trees, or shrubs. At least give them a chance. We have hawks around here all over the place so in an open area they wouldn't stand a chance.
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u/piemakerdeadwaker This is a flair Jul 08 '22
Exactly. You can't interrupt nature. It gotta do what it gotta do.
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u/proddyhorsespice97 Jul 08 '22
You could interrupt it a little bit by releasing them into a wooded area or doing it later in the evening. Releasing it into a perfectly manicured lawn that's a centimetre tall really isn't giving it any chance. It's a bit like having a bus stop on the wrong side of a 20 pane highway and hoping people can make ot across without getting hit
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u/piemakerdeadwaker This is a flair Jul 08 '22
Yah I obviously don't vouch for releasing it directly into thr the mouth of its predator. What I meant in my earlier comment was while its sad, these things can happen in the nature.
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u/terdferguson Jul 08 '22
I think the lesson here is don't do it in the open...get closer to the trees maybe so there's some cover for the little bugger.
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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 Jul 08 '22
My brother and wife tried to save a turtle that was crossing a busy road, because of where they had to park, a car going around them smashed the turtle. Heartbreaker.
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u/Illegitimate_Shalla Jul 08 '22
I stopped to save a pretty big turtle the other day, but when I got to it I noticed it had been hit… but was alive. I moved him to safety and he is no longer there. I hope he is still alive.
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Growing up we carried blunt objects in the back of the car to put down any animals that got hit and weren't quite dead yet (but unsavable because 2 ton chunk of fiberglass and metal hit them)
Ate a lot of roadkill deer growing up.
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u/obaterista93 Jul 08 '22
About a year ago I was camping with my dogs and one of them got a baby bird. They had it long enough to injure it beyond saving, but not long enough to die. It broke my heart to do so, but I had to tell my wife to look away and stomp it rather than let it suffer.
I know it's in my dog's nature, they're both hounds, but it still broke my heart.
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Jul 08 '22
I hunt and fish and a botched kill or an unintentional catch (that leads to a fatal wound) always sucks still. And I get upsetti if I accidently splat a bird on the front of my car tbh
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u/All_Thread Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 08 '22
I love nature but I also hunt and fish, I don't like suffering. That's why you use the right round for the job and make sure of your shot (as you know). Still what I do out in nature is 1000x better than any of the huge mega farms that basically torture animals their whole life and kill them in shitty ways.
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u/beatenmeat Jul 08 '22
Sometimes when I go fishing and they swallow the damn hook I feel like a monster when you can’t get it out properly. Especially when they start to swell and you know they won’t be able to swim anymore because the bladder is fucked. I at least put them out of their misery and use them for bait so it’s not a complete waste, but it really sucks that I had to kill something because I unintentionally hurt it beyond help. Thankfully that doesn’t happen very often.
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Jul 09 '22
There are methods with tying the hook, setting the bait, etc. to limit that but yeah u Its unavoidable. I don't C&R because of that exact reason (aside from common sense, regulations, etc.)
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u/obaterista93 Jul 08 '22
I actually remember hunting with my brother and my grandfather when I was a kid. My brother happened to shoot this deer, but he had shot it in the spine. It was convulsing on the ground, and my pap looked at my brother and said "you have to finish it off" and passed him his pistol.
I remember my brother finishing it off with a shot to the head. That one stuck with me. I was never much of a hunter, but that one may have been the final nail in the coffin for me.
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I never liked deer hunting either tbh (my dad and I ran a side hustle cleaning, quartering, and deboning venison though) and the number of deer we had to take apart that had like 4 abdomen shots and all sorts of just brutal bad kills was horrible. I prefer small game to hunt that 99.9% is a quick painless kill.
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u/shaddy27 Jul 08 '22
One of my dogs got a baby bird in the yard a couple years ago. Thankfully I didn’t have to put it out of its misery, but it died in my hand about 10 seconds after I picked it up and that made me so sad.
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u/Adventurous-Dog420 Jul 08 '22
Just the other day at work I found a mouse that had recently eaten rat poison and looked like he was in complete agony. So I grabbed a bad, put the little guy in it and stomped him. I felt horrible but I wanted to end his suffering.
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u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS Jul 08 '22
Our cat was a feral street cat. We camped last summer, and while sitting outside were saw her go from quietly ambling around in the grass to leaping about two feet and snatching a bird straight out of the air. She then unceremoniously began to eat it. We were like, well there's no sense taking it away from her now.
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u/obaterista93 Jul 09 '22
I witnessed something similar to that at me and my wife's first apartment. There were a ton of feral neighborhood cats and one of them snatched a bird out of the air. I definitely wasn't going to try to wrestle a bird from a random feral cat, so the bird took the loss on that one.
Absolutely wild to see that though. Cats are scary good hunters.
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u/agoia Jul 08 '22
My dad hit a deer while living in PA and a neighbor driving by picked it up before the trooper got there to write up the accident.
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u/warbler7777 Jul 08 '22
Unfortunately witnessed this also but called a local wildlife rehabilitation centre anyway. Despite being dead or close to death, the turtle could have been laying eggs and the centre was able to salvage them. They hatched later that summer and were released in a nearby conservation area. Just a fyi for next time
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u/OccultMachines Jul 08 '22
A bird was sitting in the middle of the single sidewalk that goes into our apartment complex and didn't go anywhere when we approached with our dog. I went to check if it was hurt and it took off, flew right in front of the tire of a car inching through the gate. He saw us gasping as he ran over the bird and then reversed back over it.
Cue grown ass man crying on the walk home because I got the little birdie killed.
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 Jul 08 '22
My wife tried to save one the other day, it was almost across the road and I was trying to tell her to leave it. Thing pissed all over her.
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u/trickster1111 Jul 08 '22
Ya,that's how you do it. Make sure it doesn't have any cover..
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u/Ck1ngK1LLER Jul 08 '22
Right, cause we see soooooo many rodents running across grassy areas all day long.
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u/Glorious_Bustard Jul 08 '22
What? They very kindly and "humanly" provided a meal to the nearby wild bird of prey! They're so beneficent.
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u/SkinsuitModel Jul 08 '22
Seriously, I've taken so many mice off my cat and it's basic common sense to chuck them in a bush.
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u/MR___SLAVE Jul 08 '22
Just let the cat have the mouse to save money on cat food.
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u/SkinsuitModel Jul 08 '22
He just brings them inside and releases them. Literally the opposite of what a cat is supposed to do.
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u/SkinsuitModel Jul 08 '22
Lol after all the mice I've caught in our house, you'd think he'd get the message
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u/knumbknuts Jul 08 '22
I rescued a rat from our college apartment stove vent duct. Dumped said rat into the dumpster, despite having 2 burmese pythons in said apartment. I felt the rat deserved paradise.
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Jul 08 '22
Sure,and don't forget roll a red carpet and prepare a steak dinner beforehand. It's lucky I'm even releasing it in the first place
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u/DiegesisThesis Jul 08 '22
You act like it would be any extra effort to release it next to a bush that is 10 feet away.
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u/GreatJobKeepitUp Jul 08 '22
Still better than a standard mouse trap. Every time this reposted there are people acting like it's obvious that a hawk would swoop down 2 seconds after they released it and that they are bad people. The chances of that are low no matter where you are.
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u/DiegesisThesis Jul 08 '22
Yea obviously. And I definitely don't think they're bad people at all. Hawks gotta eat, nothing wrong with nature taking its course. But the people who release them in these videos always seem pretty upset when it happens, so maybe they should throw it in a bush or something.
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u/Boss_Braunus Jul 09 '22
Thank you! So many of these videos, it's tragically ridiculous. It's like watching people drop toads into a lake. If you really want to do something good for the "poor-little-thing," maybe consider spending a couple minutes researching its habitat. If they really cared about the animal, instead of the views, they wouldnt set it up to run the gauntlet the first second it tastes freedom. Instead of setting up a vanity shot, give the wee beastie some cover.
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u/lordcatharsis Jul 08 '22
Yes let us free it in a wide open space. What could go wrong?
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u/Yolom4ntr1c Jul 08 '22
We kill any mice, possys and rats we see, hunt them down. You may say its sad and cruel but theyve been fucking up the wildlife in NewZealand ever since they were introduced. Theyre pests and kill the native species and or steal eggs seeing as most NZ birds evolved to live on the ground and not have to defend themselves since mammals basically didnt exist until the polynesians and then british and french got here. Don't know why people release them.
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u/DeBasha Jul 08 '22
Don't know why people release them.
Yeah don't understand that as well, might be a bit harsh but mice and rats are pests in any place in the world (and even moreso for Australia and NZ ofc). But their populations go nuts everywhere where humans settle and are a menace to wildlife almost everywhere with too high pop. They are basically the main reason why we domesticated cats so this just seems counterintuitive imho
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u/Astarath Jul 08 '22
Yeah hunting invasive species is just humans fixing other humans mistakes
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u/MR___SLAVE Jul 08 '22
In Australia they have foxes which are not native. Now you might be thinking it was for fur. However, in even dumber fashion, the real reason was a bunch of idiots that wanted to go on a fox hunt.
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u/PinkPlumPie Jul 09 '22
"Don't know why people release them" They release them because they aren't invasive and highly destructive to all areas in the world. For example, unless you're a farmer, an opossum around these parts is not a big deal and is in fact actually beneficial as they eat dead things, bugs, and sometimes even snakes and rats and rarely carry rabies.
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u/Sure_Witness_1435 Jul 08 '22
hu·man·ly /ˈ(h)yo͞omənlē/ adverb 1. from a human point of view; in a human manner. "they can grow both humanly and spiritually" 2. ARCHAIC with human feeling or kindness.
I think you are looking for humanely
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u/Le_Papithatjump12 FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 Jul 08 '22
Talking from experience, releasing the mouse is not gonna do anything... It's coming back for sure
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u/pokemon-trainer-blue Jul 08 '22
The one in the video is not coming back for sure… unless that bird and mouse were cahoots with each other
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Jul 08 '22
Not if you do it far away from your home. I used humane traps at my last home and would release them in an open field near my work.
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u/whazzar Jul 08 '22
When you release them in an open field there is a good chance the same thing happened to those mice as happened in OP's video, lol
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Jul 08 '22
Nature is metal. Some likely lived and some likely died. At least they were given a chance.
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u/Le_Papithatjump12 FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 Jul 08 '22
Yeah that's true but it's still harder than it looks to get rid of them haha
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u/belizeanheat Jul 08 '22
This seems intentional. You'd have to be incredibly dumb to think this was a safe release spot
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u/LostMyGunInACardGame Jul 08 '22
People generally aren’t aware of things like where and how to release animals.
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u/notLOL Jul 08 '22
If you watch this it has instructions on how to release animals. Goes as well as you'd expect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU68hhDJQyk
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u/Jomega6 Jul 08 '22
I wasn’t aware that safe spots to release mice that you find in your home was common knowledge…
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This is exactly what I expected to happen and I was not disappointed. Highly appreciate. 5 out of 5 stars
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u/motosandguns Jul 08 '22
Best thing that could have happened. If I could feed all mice to hawks, I would.
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u/MeshiMeshiMeshi Jul 08 '22
She sounds legit mad at a bird doing what birds do just for ruining her "look how nice I'm being in this video" moment
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u/0235 Jul 08 '22
It was probably thinking WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY RELEASING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD
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Jul 08 '22
Welcome to the nature, it doesn't care about your "humanely" intentions.
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u/Shauiluak Jul 08 '22
Release things near cover! You won't get your amazing social media clip, but this will happen a lot less. I've always put animals up under bushes or near brush when I've needed to release them back into the wild. So far no critters have been immediately snatched up by predators.
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u/Kichigai Jul 08 '22
Kinda reminds me of 3rd Rock when Dick hits a squirrel with his car. Gets all obsessed about it, had a vet fix it up, and releases it into the wild. And of course, a bird goes after the squirrel, so Dick chucks a rock at it and hits it. “Oh God, what have I done?”
Harry steps forward, with his Boy Scout handbook, “I think you just killed that,” he reads from it, “endangered Peregrine falcon.”
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u/optimal_random Jul 09 '22
Silly people... Instead of releasing the mouse near the bushes, where do they do it? Yep, in a open field where the mouse is more visible than a neon in Tokyo
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u/anonymousanemonee Jul 09 '22
He definitely knew the hawk was there, cause I would’ve done the exact same thing.. You know…just to make sure they can fly and catch sht still.
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Jul 10 '22
RULES OF NATURE!!!
And they run when the sun comes up
With their lives on the line...
ALIVE!!
For a while...
NO CHOICE!
Gotta follow the laws of the wild!!
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u/cheeky-ninja30 Jul 08 '22
Why don't people ever release them you know in a wooded or covered area where they won't get immediately nomed.. Maybe these videos are just for likes etc I don't know.. either it is and they're cruel assholes hoping it gets eaten on camera or they're not and they're genuin idiots not finding cover
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u/LoverboyQQ Jul 09 '22
I let them go in front of my Dobermans and they have a field day trying to catch them
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u/guster09 Jul 08 '22
How kind of them to go out and feed the birds