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Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 3:18:35 PM   
Kirata


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I remember a video a while back about a couple of guys who raised a lion cub, until they had to give it up because it had grown into ...well, what would you expect, a lion! Years after it was released into the wild, they went to see it. They were warned it was dangerous and told the lion wouldn't remember them, but they went anyway. And what a reunion! The lion not only recognized them, it was all over them hugging and licking...

Stories like that have a special place in my heart, and here's another one... this time about a goose. If you know of other stories about unusual human-animal relationships, tack'em on to the thread?

Meanwhile: The Goose Who Fell in Love

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 3:57:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the lion video in case anyone hasn't seen it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCjyWp3rEk

ETA: In my intro psych classes (a million years ago), we learned about the phenomenon - imprinting. Here is a link to the picture that was in my textbook:

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)


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RE: Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 5:40:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Siegfried and Roy might have a different opinion on how safe wild animals really are.

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 8:08:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, Siegfried has said on numerous occasions that the bite that killed Roy was not an aggressive attack but an effort to drag him to safety after he fell.   If you watch the video of the attack, he has a point as the cat did not violently shake or claw at him.    Additionally, this was not the first time Roy had been bitten by one of his tigers and he continued to work with them.

I grew up around horses and cattle, both can be quite dangerous and you can't get stupid with them.   This said, I wouldn't call it any more safe than a professional handling exotic cats (especially if you're comparing bulls to big cats, those buggers get mean.)

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 8:10:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Unless he was attacked again and I haven't heard about it, Roy didn't die from the mauling.

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/4/2011 9:12:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you for the correction hlen!!!!

It's been quite a while since  read up on it and he has simply retired from the business as a result of paralysis from the stroke he suffered, big mistake on my part.




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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 1:23:35 AM   
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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 12:01:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		You know, I was going to post about how I nursed back to health two baby birds and that before they flew south they would land on my shoulder and I would feed them.

But that lion story reeeeeeally set the bar high...stupid birds...

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 12:15:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		I once raised a bunch of baby opossums.  And another time a baby black vulture.  I guess I'm too weird to raise normal baby animals like doves or something.

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 12:16:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not spectacular and I posted it about 3 years ago but a cute story.

Friends from my parents had ordered a regular delivery of bread rolls from our local bakery at home. They ordered 3 rolls (maybe they were 4, but that doesnt really matter, so I stick with 3 now) to be delivered regular each sunday to the front of their door...they got up, happy about their delivery...but only found 2 in there...so they complained to the bakery about that where they have been told that they had put in 3 rolls. So the next week they observed their delivery and what happened? The observed how a squirrel had taken out a roll and run off with it.

Following that they decided to order 4 rolls...to keep that squirrel happy as well as themselves


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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 12:24:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here is another, about a man and his fox from Kent in England.

One man and his fox

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 12:34:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		i once had a young magpie, that had obviously been hand reared and set free, come and sit on my hand and then my head. it then flew off and brought a shiney fag packet to me. i was quite chuffed that it had come to me, however, it flew to another family who sadly weren't so impressed. poor thing didn't know what to do and i guess that's the problem with imprinting on humans and then not keeping the animal.

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/5/2011 2:41:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		well...here one cat kept five fire crews occupied today as it is on the news over here today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373598/Operation-overkill-25-firemen-engines-sent-rescue-cat-stranded-roof.html

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RE: Animal Stories - 4/7/2011 9:53:01 PM   
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"‘It strengthens our case that we need more people to make sure we have enough cover to cope with the demands of the service.’"

Now that's really rich.

"‘If a cat is stuck on a roof there is a chance the owner could get distressed and try to rescue it themselves and we would end up having to rescue them as well.'"

If they got that much manpower,,,,,, well it would've probably made for a great show.

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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 12:41:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a wolf dog that sings a baby to sleep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhA_TTKetyM&feature=related


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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 12:50:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		The story of the lion and setting it to be free again I know, It has been several times on Discovery over here.

I did rescue one of my former cats... Isa... who was about a year. You really cant appreciate the thankfullness enough ever.
She's deceased now, but silly me misses her every day still.
Thankfull I still have all of her pic's.

But my dogs all were rescued in Spain, before I adopted them.


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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 2:49:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		This one is about a parrot who falls not in love... but in lust. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfJs1P-0Xc Okay, so it's not exactly the same kind of warm feeling you might get from some of these other stories. But it's pretty amusing in my opinion. Especially the noise the parrot starts making. >_>

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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 3:36:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		This is a story out of Carel Voorhoeve's collection "Legenden van Holland's kust". (1932; I dunno what that English genitive is doing in the title.)

The story is titled "Het vrouwken en de Ooievaar" (collected in Egmond) "The old woman and the stork"

In the time of Heer Wouter van Egmond (12th century) a stork that lived on the monastery had a broken leg. A boy that worked there found him, and brought him to his old, impoverished mother. She set the leg and the boy caught fish and eels that they fed the stork with. When he was healed, they released him and he returned to his nest on the roof of the monastery.

When the time came that the birds fly south, that stork too went with the others to the place where they winter. (We now know that they winter in Africa.)

Then again when the time came that those birds return, that stork returned as well, carrying a stone in its beak. It landed in front of the old woman and dropped the stone before her - and next returned to the roof of the monastery.

The old woman was exceedingly amazed about what had occurred. She took the stone to the abbot and told him about the case.

It was supposed that the stork had found the rough stone in a river among other stones without value. Because it was rough, no value could be estimated. The abbot had the stone cut. It proved to be a beautiful carbuncle. It was placed in the midst of a gold plate dedicated to Jesus Christ. During the night it shone like the moon, a bit on the greenish side.

The old woman was recompensed and was not obliged to work anymore for the rest of her life.

In my opinion this shows gratitude, memory, honor, perseverance, awareness and nobility in this stork. A shiver goes through me whenever I reread this story. Think of it! This stork flies from The Netherlands to sub-Saharan Africa, lives there and notices a remarkable stone in some river bed, and decides to bring it with him on his return flight across thousands of miles to The Netherlands and to there gift it to the human who took care of him during the previous spring/summer.

I always have been convinced that this was the true origin of the - now lost - famous Florentine Diamond.

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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 4:16:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		As a student I adopted a young lynx without knowing what it was, some stupid cow had bought it illegally because she thought it would be "cool" and when the kitten started scratching her designer furniture to bits, decided to have it put down... I overheard while waiting at the vet's for my cat to get shots, after a bit of taking sense to her (read "Would you like me to inform the authorities and the press? This would make a splendid headline...") she decided I could have the blasted "cat" - well it did have a cute kittenish look despite being a rather big cat and I felt so sorry because he was missing the tail (thought maybe it had an accident and lost it or some Manx in it), and cute feathered ears, so I called him Spock. Brought him home, he went for my cat, went for me, but obviously terrified, I couldn't raise my hand without him going into attack mode, it was a rather tense few days until he escaped, I wasn't too sorry because I thought he might be happier outside, in the evening he was back, affectionate and sweet, ignoring Humphrey (the other cat), so I let him out each morning and when I came back from uni let him in again, he settled down nicely and became a super affectionate cat with dog like behaviour (brought you balls to throw for him and all that) and even got on with my old cat, just didn't stop growing. When he reached knee height I called the vet and asked if he might be from near a nuclear plant because he's clearly a bit of a mutant, and he said "Oh, you weren't aware that he's a lynx?" DOH! Never had problems with him, though the people around me loved him, at the time I was living in Germany and weasels were a big problem in the city, they bit through the cables of parked cars and caught massive damage as the plastic smelled like food to them - the weasel population in our street went rapidly down...

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RE: Animal Stories - 6/14/2011 4:39:58 AM   
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