you just described cats

This argument is always so silly. Domestication is the process of changing animals so they become more suitable to living with humans. The fact that wild animals aren't domesticated and therefore have traits that are problematic for that is tautological.

Hi I really like raccoons but have not seen this video. Do you have a link to this video?

Even better, if after their domestication they were still smart and resistant enough to not fall into the hands of owners that treat them like toys.

Right. They are not yet domesticated to the level of companion animals and trying to keep one as a pet now is a bad idea.

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Did your balls tell you that? You shouldn't listen to them...they're nuts.

Some people would want those!

I hope they were native squirrels! The netherlands almost had an escaped-pet-turned-invasive-species problem because some imported squirrels escaped.

A friend has a pair of these. Rambunctious little fuckers!

HE REMEMBERS ME!

But so are rats and pigeons, right? And people still keep them as pets.

Sand Hills aren't very afraid of humans anyway. I've just gotten to know these two well, because they sleep in front of my house every night, for the last several years.

The only time we don't see them, is when they have an egg at wherever they have their day time spot. For the last few days, only George has been showing up, which means Martha is probably on the egg somewhere. Soon, he'll stay with her, and we won't see them for a couple of months, until their new babies are old enough to fly to our house, their normal nighttime spot.

The first time they returned with two babies, my mom opened the door, and there was George, most of the way up the driveway, which he had never done before, with Martha and their two babies at the end of the driveway. George wanted to introduce me to his new family!

So I said "George! Welcome back! Are these your new babies? They're beautiful!" And I walked up to the babies and stood right near them. They got nervous, but Martha and George were fine, so the babies settled down.

They don't always show back up with babies, which is sad. They laid one in front of our house one year, but it disappeared after a few weeks. We think a coyote took it. George was very sad, and when I approached him after it disappeared, he lifted his head and called loudly. He was sharing his grief with me.

I know who all the animals around my house are, every bird and mammal, and even a couple of gators, but we don't have relationships. George and I are true friends.

Kinda funny actually, because cassowaries are about the same length as a velociraptor, but the average cassowary would be four times the weight. TIL

Kinda different, one is a miniaturised hippo, another is mr worldwide.