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10-13-22, 05:37 PM | #1 |
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The feel good thread
Here you post feel good stories/video klip.
Try not to turn it into funny picture thread. Following video clip will make you feel good. https://twitter.com/FredSchultz35/st...72583128625152 Markus
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10-13-22, 06:09 PM | #2 |
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When I see a European red Eichhörnchen, I immediately feel joy and my heart becomes lighter a bit. Its inevitable. Its more than just being amused, its real joy. I am convinced of: Eichhörnchen bringen Freude in das Leben. I could watch them hours and hours, and in fact I do, via my wildlife cam. When one of those little Fellnasen crosses my way, it sticks on my mind, and I still smile long after the encounter has ended.
If I would have the space and place, I would be a squirrel rehabber, no doubt on that. I have the time, the (theoretical) knowledge, even the emergency equipment (though I do not expect seriously the lightning will ever struck my place...) and the love for it. I have all what it takes - just not the place. A tragedy! At least I can maintain nut-bars and fill-em-up drinking stations in the garden and film them there, and this way help to increase their chances to get over the winter. Of hunger and weakening from it they must not die, at least this I can make sure. And the have mapped the place, they know it since their first months exploring the world when they left their mother. Of the three brothers that I follow and observe since 2020, and who now lived through their third summer, two are still coming frequently, and currently daily again, collecting nuts like crazy. Kira had health issues, but seems to have fully recovered. Taro is as confident and fit and calm and resting in himself as he always has been. Only Sari is MIA. I am surprising myself, but I take great joy from them. If one day they will not come anymore, I will really miss them. The European red squirrel can live up to 10-12 years in a well-cared "Voliere", but in freedom they live only 3-5 years, due to the stress and exhaustion, many get killed earlier by predators. American grey squirrels (sciurus virginensis) can live up to 25-28 years! In germany, squirrels are under spoecial protection of the law. Unfortunately that really needs to be so, the population struggles. In the first summer, six diofferent an imals frequen tly came to my feeders. Now, its two left. I am mad for squirrels. And a full chanel of beautiful shot videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/Tinemeier/videos
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10-13-22, 06:58 PM | #3 |
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Thank so much Skybird for your real life feel good story.
We do not have these animal on our island for some reason-Some say we have I haven't seen any in my garden and I have a few trees, maybe they aren't big enough. Markus
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10-14-22, 04:24 PM | #4 | |
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Ukraine Girl Bereft Without Her Cat is Reunited Thanks to Kind Strangers in 5 Countries and 7,000 Miles
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10-14-22, 06:34 PM | #5 | |
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(Partially) domesticated animals benefit from physical closeness and social touch just like humans do, they have comparable hormonal reactions and brain stimulations during such perceptions. I stopped laughing a long time ago when some pet owners cuddle their animals or, like the girl in the picture, take them to bed with them, regularly or occasionally. It makes sense.
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10-15-22, 06:59 AM | #6 |
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Here's another feel good video of a dog who seems to be very interested in horse race.
https://twitter.com/HeavenPuppies/st...61521207005185 Markus
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I feed them a variety of nuts; peanuts, pecans and hazelnuts. The most squirrels I ever attracted was 12. They will all come to my backyard. I also give them peanuts in the shell which they find even more delightful. I also have 4 bluejays who have taken up residence outside my home, and I have a couple of Downy woodpeckers and there is a beautiful Northern Flicker that shows up a lot. Your european squirrels do seem much prettier. Mine have very bushy tails and thick coats, but they are very rat like in looks. They also seem to be very husky and muscular, but that might be the nuts... I will have to take some pictures. They are so tame from the feeding that I can come within feet of them even when walking my cat on her leash. I make sure i don't overfeed them of course, and only feed during certain times of the month. |
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10-14-22, 05:23 PM | #8 |
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Thank you Platapus and Shady Bill for your inspire ful story.
I myself hope to win the big one in lotto-when I does I will open a few farms around in the country Denmark. It will be ordinary animals you see on a farm-Cows, pigs, sheep a.s.o Only different will be-They will not be killed or in other way be harmed-It will be their otium Only when an animal get so sick that there no cure-I will put it to eternal rest. Done by a vet. Markus
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10-14-22, 06:20 PM | #9 | |
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The American red squirrel and the European red squirrel are not the same, they are quite different in fact, the US boys are way more aggressive, for exmaple, and can be very noisy. The Japanese red squirrel (sciurus lis) however is very close, genetically, to the European one. Your grey squirrels even pick fights with rattlesnakes - and win! They also have partial immunity to the poison. We have two populations of US greys in Europe, in britain, and northern Italy and now Switzerland, Austria. The british population carries a virus to which the grey ones are immune but that is absolutely lethal for European squirrels, also, the grey ones are stronger and more aggressive and push back red populations where they meet. There is no chance of coexistence, where the species meet, the red ones go MIA. The Italian population is apparently free of the virus, but it spreads, the alps are no more a natural containment barrier. I fear in the long run, over the next decades, this and the climate drama will let the red squirrel go extinct in most of Europe. Yes, they are cuter, very much so. But also weaker, smaller, fleeing from meeting other squirrels, and more vulnerable. Too many of them die early. Only in forests with dense vegetations of firs and spruces they can outlast the grey ones, which prefer decidious and mixed forests. Also, the presence of tree martens kill red squirrels, but kill even more grey squirrels since they do not know our tree martrens and thus are not evolutionary adapted. Where grey and red squirrels and martens come together its good for the red and not good for the greys. Life expectancy varies widely between squirele species. We have only one tree squirrel, and one ground squirrel species: alpine marmots.
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