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Ciel,
First of all, thank you so much for visiting me today and for your prayers for Laurie and baby Amaya. I'm ashamed that it has taken me so long to return your kindness.
Secondly, let me say this. No wild animal will EVER become tame. EVER. It makes me sick that people take wild creatures out of their natural environments and think that they can make "pets" out of them. It is a dangerous and cruel practise, and just once, I wish the roles could be reversed. I guarantee we wouldn't like it one bit.
I'm just finishing up the last of a series of dream posts I've had over the past six months regarding tigers. You might want to visit me again to read it.
Be blessed my friend.
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on April 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM
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good post and well written
i agree, wild is wild and usually dangerous, a time bomb waiting to go off. we have a wolf perserve not far from here and we visit and get to go into the compound with the wolves, we are told if the wolf wants something you have let them have it, therefore we do not take our camera, we do not wear leather, as one day a woman was in a wheel chair and the arm rests were leather and the wolf started knawing on the armrest and the trained workers distracted the wolf with meat and they quickly removed the woman in her wheel chair.
these wolves were human inprinted as pups, that being humans were the first things they saw and were bottle raised by humans. they are reintroduced into the pack at about 6 months old, it is something to witness, how the pack immediately starts to show the young wolves their place in the pack.
wild is wild.
posted by
jeansaw
on April 5, 2013 at 9:28 PM
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Re: Annicita,
Are you talking about the wild animals here, or men?
posted by
Ciel
on April 5, 2013 at 6:45 PM
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Re: Naut,
We agree on this. Few wild animals would rather hang out with a human than be in the habitat they are genetically made for.
The matter of the foxes is different in that they actually have been domesticated. The domestic fox wants human company. And it is quite different in nature from even a tame wild fox. According to what I read, a lot more trouble than the average dog, however.
posted by
Ciel
on April 5, 2013 at 6:45 PM
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i think its the element of danger....not saying they are intelligent....
posted by
Annicita
on April 5, 2013 at 6:38 PM
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Ciel
An excellent post! But let me put my cards on the table - I know people will do it, but I am in principle opposed to taming wild animals, more for the animals' sake than ours! I would make an exception in cases where someone saves an injured animal and bonds with it, and where it may be impossible for the animal to live freely again...But people who are eaten by their pet tigers have only themselves to blame, LOL...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM
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great well thought out post. yes we want to own or become best friends with
a wild animal but it isn't the right waay to go. Enjoy them if they share your environment but keep your distance...that is what we do here...well with everything except Chipmonks. they love to take peanuts from my hand.
posted by
Kabu
on April 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM
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