There is so many things wrong with this I don’t even know where to start
This is what I meant in that post about media influencing people–I hope that poor owl gets surrendered to the appropriate authorities and I hope her dumb ass stays away from animals forever
–mod Nick
her name is vegan hippie dont expect intelligence outta her
I’m a dipshit. what exactly is wrong here besides the leather strap thingy?
She has a “pet” owl, and she’s advertising on social media how to “care” for it, which is dangerous ( and more then likely is incorrect information) because other idiots with no clue are going to want an owl for a pet because it’s “exotic”
(There’s actually nothing wrong with the strap, which is called a jess. It allows for handlers to keep control of a bird, and you’ll often usually see it in falconry.)
No the big issue is that, normal (untrained or uneducated in wildlife or animal science) people shouldn’t have wildlife as pets. There’s this trend of people buying “exotic” wildlife, for the aesthetic but are completely unequipped to properly care or house these animals.
There’s a reason wildlife should only ever be kept in specialised facilities, taken care of by highly trained professionals.
It also raises the question of how she brought the owl in the first place. They aren’t extactly sold in pet shops or given away to normal people wanting a pet. I can almost guarantee that that owl was unethically sourced.
It’s also illegal in certain countries for private individuals to keep native owls asa pets. Only trained and licensed individuals are allowed to keep wildlife like this but only for the purpose of rehabilitation, as part of a breeding program, or for educational purposes.
And her username just makes it worse. Funny that vegans want to claim they care more about animals then everyone else, yet they continue to contribute to animal abuse with shit like this.
Also, having the owl perch on her shoulder like that is just *asking* to lose an eye or have the bird clench its feet and drive those talons to the bone.
Here is a picture of me being stupid with a tame screech owl. (seriously, this was fucking dumb on my part and I was chanting “don’t clench your toooooes” the entire time)
If pointy birb had decided to flex those feet, those talons would have gone all the way in my flesh. Look at how large they are even on this small a bird. Now imagine how big they are on a barn owl. We’re talking about 4 times as long, and much, much thicker.
Great point!
I don’t have much experience with birds (unless the bird is 6 feet tall and flightless), let alone with handling raptors.
Basics of owning an owl:
1: own a zoo or wildlife sanctuary
2: DON’T show it off as “look at my cute awesome pet lol :D”
Umm, @why-animals-do-the-thing that IS aggression, right? Because that dog does NOT look like it wants to be petted.
Augh, yeah, this looks like aggression to me. Which makes this video really disturbing, because it’s a very severely escalated response being played off as funny and cute since the dude isn’t actually getting hurt. This is a really prime example of what happens when people think aggressive behavior from little dogs is cute because it doesn’t do any damage and the dog ends up reacting more and more extremely in order to try to communicate that it is serious.
This looks like an older dog – notice the graying on the face – and it also appears to be missing most of it’s teeth (look at how the tongue hangs out of the mouth – it can only do that at that angle if there are no teeth in the way). It looks fairly comfortable being held, since the few lip licks at the beginning that don’t look associated with being toothless aren’t reflected in the dog’s posture or facial expression.
As soon as the person actually goes to touch the dog’s head, though, you get multiple repeated bites. It doesn’t matter if the dog doesn’t have enough teeth to make it hurt, it’s still a bite. There’s three things here telling me this isn’t play (which is what I’ve seen a lot of people interpreting this as): hard ridges on the face, full-mouthed bites, and the continuation of the reaction when the guy takes a break.
Happy playing dogs will still have soft facial skin, even when the lips are drawn back for bitey-face or full-mouthed grabs. You’ll see some skin tension around the lips and maybe even a weird front-of-mouth lip position, but skin around the eyes will still be soft and the tension in the rest of the fact won’t be harsh. This dog has serious, rock-hard ridges both around the muzzle and around the eyes. The ears are also pulled back hard – another sign of stress.
Second, the dog is biting hard and with a full mouth. Play bites shouldn’t hurt (because then you lose your playmate) so they’re generally soft-pressure and often with just the front of the mouth. This chihuahua is putting the fingers towards the back of the mouth – where its nonexistent teeth would normally exert the most crushing force – and it doesn’t appear to be pulling any punches.
Lastly, when the guy stops messing with the dog for a second and removes his hand, the dog’s face doesn’t change – it’s still reacting to the hand as if it is a threat (which it is, since he then immediately goes back to bothering the dog).
That is not the face of a dog that is happy with this interaction or wants that hand to come back. Note the really tight, drawn-back lips, the hard eyes and the tense backwards ears. When he moves his hand sideways, you can see a decent example of what whale eye looks like (although there’s no visible whites of the eyes due to the angle of the video and the morphology of the dog’s skull).
Notice how it’s still watching his hand with a hard eye and hard face, while orienting the head somewhat away from it? That’s what I mean when I’ve said before that whale eye should be an immediate warning that a bite is probably the next escalation.
This guy may think he’s playing with his dog or that it’s just a funny interaction, but everything I’m seeing tells me here that the dog is not enjoying this interaction and would like it to stop. My guess is that the animal doesn’t try to get down or leave because small dogs learn pretty quickly they don’t have that sort of bodily autonomy.
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