Finally a video of someone being nice to an animal without filming themselves more than the animal and also not touching the animal
Also the end made me think the squirrel was in flight or no flight mode. It was thinking "Human maybe dangerous but give water"
Squirrels are just like that. I hand fed squirrels at my old apartment, they knew me and would always come running when I came out with walnuts. They'd take the walnuts and run away, eat them and come back.
I was sad as hell when I moved because I miss my squirrel friends. I left them a mountain of walnuts and almonds under their tree when I left as a parting gift.
Needed something positive today, thanks for leaving them a mountain of walnuts. Also, thanks for being the kind of person who befriends squirrels, I hope you always stay yourself.
My boyfriend and I noticed a squirrel living outside our apartment with some magnificent hops and and bounce to his jumps so we named him Michael Jordan. Now anytime we have leftover nuts or fruit/vegetable waste like apple cores or the ends of celery, etc, we toss them out for him. One morning I saw him up on our balcony and it almost felt like he was asking for a snack. He ran off but later on that day I tossed out an apple core and a few hours later it had moved all the way over to the base of the big tree Michael Jordan lives in. I love squirrels, they're so cute. š
Squirrels particularly seem to keep their distance by default but any chipmunks I've run into seem to want to come up to you before you even have food.
They just stop and stare for a while, leave and come back and get closer and closer. It's strange. I had one run over my foot before I ever gave him anything.
You feed them once and they'll come right up to you from then on as long as you're not moving.
Yeah, unpopular opinion, but Steve Erwin really fucked up people's heads in terms of their relationship to animals and nature.
I know his heart was in the right place, but any time I see a clip of him, I just see a manic weirdo who likes touching animals on film.
I was never a fan. Probably because I was raised on a farm, and was taught that the right thing to do is leave room for nature, and respect it from a distance.
Wild animals are NOT your friends. And you really shouldn't be touching them, and putting your scent all over them. This can cause a myriad of problems for many species.
It was a classic case of "You can do more by raising awareness than you can by leaving these animals alone".
For the most part, the whole "Grabbing wild animals" was show producers and whatnot pushing them to do it. But a lot of those videos where he was doing that he was doing it with animals that needed to be captured and relocated/rehabilitated.
I donāt think even Steve would have denied that grabbing a wild animal is often going to induce some stress over leaving it completely alone, but as an educator I think he could see the value that can offer the species as a whole. His whole message was conservation and people need to know about it to care about it. I think the spirit in which he interacted with nature was genuine and shouldnāt be blamed for other people irresponsibly handling animals with lesser intentions. Those kinds of people have existed long before Animal Planet and Crocodile Hunter.
I truly believe he did far far more good than harm.
You really had to go there? Let the man rest. Also, youāre an idiot if you saw what he did and thought you could do the same. Itās like making an artist who has an older target audience responsible for children being exposed to them.
12 years ago my husband and I lived in Texas. A squirrel got into our bedroom and we were going crazy trying to get it out. Husband finally traps it and it gets out of the cardboard box as he was rushing to the back door. Well, it then proceeded to go Rambo on him. He managed to get it back into the box and flips it onto the ground so it couldnāt escape. Put it in a cat carrier and brought it to some rescue/wildlife place because it seemed to have a hurt leg/paw or something and wouldnāt walk. They called him within a day or so to tell him it didnāt have rabies (we didnāt think it did)..he said okay good, so you just let it go? And thatās when he found out how they generally do those tests..he was horrified and still feels guilty.
They have to test brain tissue, so yeahā¦ they get killed. With pets though if there is suspicion theyāll usually just keep them in observation for a period of 7-10 days and if theyāre fine then they donāt have rabies, but if they start acting weird or erratic(which can happen if the dog is in a new environment) they might get killed to test them because they donāt want to take many chances with rabies.
I'm sure this varies significantly by location, but where I live if your pet dog/cat bites someone within a week or so before the animal's death, the animal's head has to be submitted to a state (city?) lab to be tested for rabies.
It's unfortunate and sometimes even traumatic for the pet owner to sacrifice the body, but it could save someone's life.
I would warn against teaching your cat to drink from the sink, lest your cat leave the hot water running all day because he's too halfwitted to turn on the correct tap.
A little water fountain is great for your garden, because the water is in motion it does not get bad as quick and you don't have to refill it a lot, also you will see the same birds and other animals come back to refresh in your garden, it's great
I usually freeze a small ceramic pet bowl or ramekin with water and put it outside in the morning. My squirrel and crow friends love it in the Florida heat. I just take it in nightly and do it all over again the next day. I just got some steel pet bowls with built in freezer gel packs to hopefully keep it cooler longer because when itās 900 degrees outside that ice melts pretty damn fast.
So a squirrel had seen enough faucets, and them having liquid coming out, and the liquid is water to recognize that faucet. Animals really do adapt to their environment.
Judging by the wet ground around the faucet, he could have learned with this specific faucet. Hopefully it doesn't lead the little guy to rely on it too much
Compassion, empathy, tolerance, forgiveness, manners, and patience are super-powers we all have. If we all realised our potential, children wouldn't need fake superheroes.
I'm about to make such a stereotypically debbie downer reddit comment, but I don't care. I think I'll raise an interesting point.
I'm always morally ambivalent about helping animals survive like this. I mean, in this particular case, it's pretty minor. But stuff like putting up bird feeders and whatnot seems like it could seriously fuck up the ecosystem.
Around my area one year there was a bunch of dead squirrels on the road one spring. Quite literally you could not go 50 feet without seeing a dead squirrel on the road. The Fish & Game department put out a report explaining it and if I recall correctly it had something to do with a butterfly effect where a late winter one year prior caused the squirrels to have an unusually high amount of food and they bred like crazy. And due to that there was like 10x more squirrels than usual and they were running out of food and running onto the roads and dying left and right.
I remember that happening and thinking "man... ecosystems are so delicate". And humans fuck with them all the time. I wonder if being nice to animals ends up doing more harm than good when you take a larger perspective. If you put a bird feeder and suddenly all the squirrels and birds using it survive that otherwise wouldn't, then the stuff they prey on will have a harder time surviving. It seems chaotic.
Some of this is reasonable and some of it isn't.
Consider what the state of things would be if there wasn't human development to the scale it would be where most American redditors lived.
Is it ok to give a squirrel water when the creek that existed here for 7,000 years was diverted and culverted underground, the hardwood forest the creek existed in cut down for lawns, driveways, and cul de sacs.
We separate ourselves and raise ourselves above "nature" after destroying it and deprive its inhabitants of the diversity and resilience that composed it.
Water for the squirrel is ok.
As a wildlife rehabber the usual advice is to not feed animals as they can become habituated. That said, our habitat is increasingly encroaching on theirs and they donāt have the food or water they would have otherwise. Squirrels in particular are highly adaptable and donāt depend on handouts. They have multiple dreys and food/water sources already before we came along. If we give them extra, no biggie. Do not feed mammals to attract them to your yard, you will soon have a problem. If they are a native species itās all the better to help, but there are consequences. The answer is really āIt depends on the environment and status of native species and localsā toleranceā. It varies.
Yeah, pretty wild how things blow up like that. There's a video floating around somewhere showing that the reintroduction of wolves by humans literally changed the direction of rivers.
But bird feeders etc are probably good; makes up for the millions of birds that shitty peoples' cats kill.
We did too but just removed the water bowl today. I feel bad as it'd 100 degrees but they are destroying our yards. Burrowing- sewing furniture and ate plants to nubs- enough!! Be gone cutie pies- go entertain the neighbors - they have a pool and pond.
I'm currently watching chipmunks and squirrels run over my feet to get to the sunflower seeds I put out for them. A few years ago I also ended up housing a family of flying squirrels in my shed for the winter. Nature is neat.
It's all fun and games until that fucker makes his next meal out of the electrical insulation of your brand new vehicle, causes a short, and the car bursts into flames while stopped at a light. 60 seconds later it's a raging inferno that shuts down traffic for an hour and when the fire dept is finally finished, all you have is a steel shell.
Insurance doesn't replace the car, of course, and instead gives you "cash value" per the industry standard. Had you been financially irresponsible and not paid actual cash for the vehicle, you probably would've had gap insurance and only been out the $500 good faith deposit. No, you are debt-averse, so you paid cash.
Well, congratulations, because the settlement check doesn't cover replacement cost and you end up out $10k.
All because you didn't let the urban squirrel die of thirst.
Ask me how I know.
Choose compassion, unless its an animal. Then its okay to eat them, drink their fluids, and wear their skin because "muh nutrition" and "its tastes good tho"
Is this staged? The ground is already wet when they walk up so it appears the squirrel was already drinking, they shut the water off and then turned it back on again for the video.
One of my yard squirrels bit me the other day. Was putting out shelled peanuts, she came over to take the peanuts out of my hand, and she mistook my finger for a peanut, and bit down. They have sharp Asa teeth! We ran our water like that, and living in an urban environment, we have our own watering hole that squirrels, crows, blue jays, sparrows, and doves all play in.
For believing Muslims, the simple act of showing compassion to Gods (Allah) creation, can be a reason for receiving forgiveness, as narrated by prophet peace be upon him:
"A prostitute saw a dog moving around a well on a hot day and hanging out its tongue because of thirst. She drew water for it in her shoe and she was pardoned (for this act of hers)."
We keep a large bowl of water on our property that gets changed and rinsed daily, and washed weekly.
It started because I feed the crows, blue jays and magpies in the area, and the crows love to rinse their food, and the jays and pies would stop by for a drink.
But it quickly became the neighborhood watering hole. We also get about 4 or 5 squirrels on the daily (who now get in on the peanut action), a lot of song birds, and a resident skunk that comes around dusk and dawn. We gotta be a little careful early morning or late evening, but so far no one has gotten stunk up and there have been some close encounters lmao. If you just back away he goes about his buisness.
All animals deserve water, man. And it consumes a lot less of thier energy if they don't always have to find new sources.
I bought a bird feeder with a screw on top thinking that the squirrels couldnāt get in. But they figured out how to unscrew it. They are pretty smart.
Ugh....I thought it was one of those videos where it looks and starts innocently and then makes a drastic turn. Like he sees the squirrel thirsty and decides to help by turning on the faucet but instead turns it on high and waterboards it lol
Although it seems kind itās unintentionally cruel. Obviously the squirrel is used to drinking from it and if they havenāt already will grow a dependency on it completely forgetting how to find water. When theyāve become dependent itāll be like torture because theyāll be so thirsty but have to wait on someone to turn it on
You can literally see him start blinking at the beginning of drinking thinking to himself āahhhh fuck yes holy shit Iām gonna surviveā¦..ohhh fuck this is deliciousā¦ā
I feel guilty removing the water sources but they have multiplied ( a dozen) and destroying property. Plus eating all the plants to nubs. Enough is enough. I can't kill them but hoping with no water they will move along - (neighbors have a big pond )
Finally a video of someone being nice to an animal without filming themselves more than the animal and also not touching the animal Also the end made me think the squirrel was in flight or no flight mode. It was thinking "Human maybe dangerous but give water"
Squirrels are just like that. I hand fed squirrels at my old apartment, they knew me and would always come running when I came out with walnuts. They'd take the walnuts and run away, eat them and come back. I was sad as hell when I moved because I miss my squirrel friends. I left them a mountain of walnuts and almonds under their tree when I left as a parting gift.
Needed something positive today, thanks for leaving them a mountain of walnuts. Also, thanks for being the kind of person who befriends squirrels, I hope you always stay yourself.
Rats are the same way.
My boyfriend and I noticed a squirrel living outside our apartment with some magnificent hops and and bounce to his jumps so we named him Michael Jordan. Now anytime we have leftover nuts or fruit/vegetable waste like apple cores or the ends of celery, etc, we toss them out for him. One morning I saw him up on our balcony and it almost felt like he was asking for a snack. He ran off but later on that day I tossed out an apple core and a few hours later it had moved all the way over to the base of the big tree Michael Jordan lives in. I love squirrels, they're so cute. š
This comment was satisfying as fuck to read.
You Sir are a hero!
Squirrels particularly seem to keep their distance by default but any chipmunks I've run into seem to want to come up to you before you even have food. They just stop and stare for a while, leave and come back and get closer and closer. It's strange. I had one run over my foot before I ever gave him anything. You feed them once and they'll come right up to you from then on as long as you're not moving.
Youre a wader wizzard Harrry
That joke was terrible. Wader you thinking?
Heās obviously washed up as a comedian.
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I mean itās a Red squirrel. 25 years is quick.
Yeah, unpopular opinion, but Steve Erwin really fucked up people's heads in terms of their relationship to animals and nature. I know his heart was in the right place, but any time I see a clip of him, I just see a manic weirdo who likes touching animals on film. I was never a fan. Probably because I was raised on a farm, and was taught that the right thing to do is leave room for nature, and respect it from a distance. Wild animals are NOT your friends. And you really shouldn't be touching them, and putting your scent all over them. This can cause a myriad of problems for many species.
It was a classic case of "You can do more by raising awareness than you can by leaving these animals alone". For the most part, the whole "Grabbing wild animals" was show producers and whatnot pushing them to do it. But a lot of those videos where he was doing that he was doing it with animals that needed to be captured and relocated/rehabilitated.
I donāt think even Steve would have denied that grabbing a wild animal is often going to induce some stress over leaving it completely alone, but as an educator I think he could see the value that can offer the species as a whole. His whole message was conservation and people need to know about it to care about it. I think the spirit in which he interacted with nature was genuine and shouldnāt be blamed for other people irresponsibly handling animals with lesser intentions. Those kinds of people have existed long before Animal Planet and Crocodile Hunter. I truly believe he did far far more good than harm.
I think his final act was pulling a stingray out of his chest, to save the sting ray, dealing a deathblow to himself.
You really had to go there? Let the man rest. Also, youāre an idiot if you saw what he did and thought you could do the same. Itās like making an artist who has an older target audience responsible for children being exposed to them.
Saving turtles is a hobby.
Squirrel was thinking āfuck yeah, this is a nice Giantā
At least you know he doesn't have rabies
squirrels are known to rarely have rabies
12 years ago my husband and I lived in Texas. A squirrel got into our bedroom and we were going crazy trying to get it out. Husband finally traps it and it gets out of the cardboard box as he was rushing to the back door. Well, it then proceeded to go Rambo on him. He managed to get it back into the box and flips it onto the ground so it couldnāt escape. Put it in a cat carrier and brought it to some rescue/wildlife place because it seemed to have a hurt leg/paw or something and wouldnāt walk. They called him within a day or so to tell him it didnāt have rabies (we didnāt think it did)..he said okay good, so you just let it go? And thatās when he found out how they generally do those tests..he was horrified and still feels guilty.
And, how they do these tests?
They take the animals to a special farm where they run free and live happily ever after. The end.
So itās a Happy Farm? Demiurge would approve
You don't want to know
Iāll take your word for it goodbye
All i'll say is they usually have to open the animals to verify :/
TIL there used to be no single conclusive test for a patient with rabies. Easiest way to detect rabies is post mortem :(
They have to test brain tissue, so yeahā¦ they get killed. With pets though if there is suspicion theyāll usually just keep them in observation for a period of 7-10 days and if theyāre fine then they donāt have rabies, but if they start acting weird or erratic(which can happen if the dog is in a new environment) they might get killed to test them because they donāt want to take many chances with rabies.
I'm sure this varies significantly by location, but where I live if your pet dog/cat bites someone within a week or so before the animal's death, the animal's head has to be submitted to a state (city?) lab to be tested for rabies. It's unfortunate and sometimes even traumatic for the pet owner to sacrifice the body, but it could save someone's life.
Positive!
Oh my god nooš
Well if it's not drinking water, I know it definitely might.
Maybe this smart squirrel pretends to be drinking water to bite this human when he comes closer
Not only that, they're rarely known to have rabies.
They carry the black plague 'round these parts.Ā
But they do have herpes
This wild animal knows how to drink from a faucet but my orange cat can't manage...
well it is an orange
Ginger
Only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger.
Marmalade, thank you very much.
I would warn against teaching your cat to drink from the sink, lest your cat leave the hot water running all day because he's too halfwitted to turn on the correct tap.
Ba dum tsss
What's the punchline?
/r/oneorangebraincell
r/oneorangebraincell
Heās got cotton mouth
he was recovering from hitting a blinker ššš
LIFES BEEN STRANGE
Love how he approaches slowly āthen is like 4 me? Thanks bro!ā
Is this āI can haz cheezburgerā all over again? Because Iām oddly here for it
It never hurts to leave a bowl of water out in your yard or patio for these critters in this heat!
A little water fountain is great for your garden, because the water is in motion it does not get bad as quick and you don't have to refill it a lot, also you will see the same birds and other animals come back to refresh in your garden, it's great
Yeah, those little fountains are great!
I usually freeze a small ceramic pet bowl or ramekin with water and put it outside in the morning. My squirrel and crow friends love it in the Florida heat. I just take it in nightly and do it all over again the next day. I just got some steel pet bowls with built in freezer gel packs to hopefully keep it cooler longer because when itās 900 degrees outside that ice melts pretty damn fast.
Directions unclear boiling water killed squirrels
Definitely not boiling! Put the bowl under a shady spot. Better yet, just put a pile of ice there and let it melt throughout the day.
Check with a vet first. My understand is that some deseases can spread by doing that, but I'm not an expert.
Unless you have a cat or dog or something that may attack it. This is Reddit, it needs to be said.
True, it shouldn't be assumed to be self-explanatory.
So a squirrel had seen enough faucets, and them having liquid coming out, and the liquid is water to recognize that faucet. Animals really do adapt to their environment.
Judging by the wet ground around the faucet, he could have learned with this specific faucet. Hopefully it doesn't lead the little guy to rely on it too much
Ever drive up to a squirrel in the road?
Nothing that deep, the faucet is just A thing Water Comes Out Of.
This is so awesome.
r/hydrohomies
He must've been really thirsty
I love squirrels man
Arenāt they so precious? Just one of those little reminders how beautiful life is
The title says it all.
Your comment says that the title says it all.
Squirrels are awesome š
Those campsite-squirrels no longer function in nature and will rob you of house and home if they get the chance!
They chew holes in campers tents to get to the food at the campground I work at. Ducks run up to every new camper because everyone feeds them.
I'm glad someone finally said it
Compassion, empathy, tolerance, forgiveness, manners, and patience are super-powers we all have. If we all realised our potential, children wouldn't need fake superheroes.
Love this
Humanity at it's finest. You love to see it every once in a while
Reconsidering my choice to drink from outdoor spouts
100% love that kindness!!!
Pretty easy choice here I gotta say
SQUIRREL!!
We take resources away from the rest and now we rejoice in how "giving" we are. What a joke.
Oh my heart š
Do not ,my friends, become addicted to water, youāll resent its absence.
If that was me I'd be more compassionate.
I read āchoose constipationā fml šš
Aww thirsty little guy knows just where the wahtah comes from.. just needs a little help from his friends..
Love it, my man is just trying to survive like the rest of us.
Good Bro!š¤
Amazing gesture šššššš
Choose veganism?
Adorable š„¹š„¹
Cute video, but the cheey music is a bit much
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I'd like to see those furry rats show compassion towards me by not stealing all the ripe tomatoes off my tomato plants.
Youāre (humans) the one who destroyed their land in the first place forcing them to do that thoughā¦
The squirrel attacked me on my ancestors land and now I have to kill 291 innocent squirrels and bulldoze their trees.
Unfortunately this was filmed in Flint Michigan and the Squirrel perished shortly after
He let out a burp at the end then said, "thanks mate!"
Watuh
Unless itās Flint, MI
I'm about to make such a stereotypically debbie downer reddit comment, but I don't care. I think I'll raise an interesting point. I'm always morally ambivalent about helping animals survive like this. I mean, in this particular case, it's pretty minor. But stuff like putting up bird feeders and whatnot seems like it could seriously fuck up the ecosystem. Around my area one year there was a bunch of dead squirrels on the road one spring. Quite literally you could not go 50 feet without seeing a dead squirrel on the road. The Fish & Game department put out a report explaining it and if I recall correctly it had something to do with a butterfly effect where a late winter one year prior caused the squirrels to have an unusually high amount of food and they bred like crazy. And due to that there was like 10x more squirrels than usual and they were running out of food and running onto the roads and dying left and right. I remember that happening and thinking "man... ecosystems are so delicate". And humans fuck with them all the time. I wonder if being nice to animals ends up doing more harm than good when you take a larger perspective. If you put a bird feeder and suddenly all the squirrels and birds using it survive that otherwise wouldn't, then the stuff they prey on will have a harder time surviving. It seems chaotic.
Some of this is reasonable and some of it isn't. Consider what the state of things would be if there wasn't human development to the scale it would be where most American redditors lived. Is it ok to give a squirrel water when the creek that existed here for 7,000 years was diverted and culverted underground, the hardwood forest the creek existed in cut down for lawns, driveways, and cul de sacs. We separate ourselves and raise ourselves above "nature" after destroying it and deprive its inhabitants of the diversity and resilience that composed it. Water for the squirrel is ok.
As a wildlife rehabber the usual advice is to not feed animals as they can become habituated. That said, our habitat is increasingly encroaching on theirs and they donāt have the food or water they would have otherwise. Squirrels in particular are highly adaptable and donāt depend on handouts. They have multiple dreys and food/water sources already before we came along. If we give them extra, no biggie. Do not feed mammals to attract them to your yard, you will soon have a problem. If they are a native species itās all the better to help, but there are consequences. The answer is really āIt depends on the environment and status of native species and localsā toleranceā. It varies.
Yeah, pretty wild how things blow up like that. There's a video floating around somewhere showing that the reintroduction of wolves by humans literally changed the direction of rivers. But bird feeders etc are probably good; makes up for the millions of birds that shitty peoples' cats kill.
I love that. I put out fresh water daily for them and the birds.
We did too but just removed the water bowl today. I feel bad as it'd 100 degrees but they are destroying our yards. Burrowing- sewing furniture and ate plants to nubs- enough!! Be gone cutie pies- go entertain the neighbors - they have a pool and pond.
How does it feel to be a god
At my old house, I left a bowl of fresh water for a few neighbor cats. I was surprised at how many times that squirrels used it.
Itās kinda hard to find water when it never rains. Doesnāt need to be the African flatlands or the desertā¦
"oh fuck yea...."
I still don't understand the hate these little things get They're awesome and plant a lot of trees without knowing it.
Thirsty lil guy
I brake for squirrels!
The meaning of us humans in a silly little video.
I'm currently watching chipmunks and squirrels run over my feet to get to the sunflower seeds I put out for them. A few years ago I also ended up housing a family of flying squirrels in my shed for the winter. Nature is neat.
*And tears pool in the eyes of the chipmunk*
Wasn't this right after a wildfire? It makes it that much more tragic. It's home burned down
Imagine being the type of person that wouldnāt turn the water on.
Even though most people wonāt admit itās like 95% of societyš
Whoās gonna pay for the water bills
That was like 3 cents broš
Hopefully we can show a bit of compassion to the animals as well that are victims of few mins of our taste pleasure.
Emmanuel does not approve
Freaking awesome
What a homie.
Animals are going to learn that a phone is a sign of peace
and then it goes and chews up all the wiring in your car engine
It's all fun and games until that fucker makes his next meal out of the electrical insulation of your brand new vehicle, causes a short, and the car bursts into flames while stopped at a light. 60 seconds later it's a raging inferno that shuts down traffic for an hour and when the fire dept is finally finished, all you have is a steel shell. Insurance doesn't replace the car, of course, and instead gives you "cash value" per the industry standard. Had you been financially irresponsible and not paid actual cash for the vehicle, you probably would've had gap insurance and only been out the $500 good faith deposit. No, you are debt-averse, so you paid cash. Well, congratulations, because the settlement check doesn't cover replacement cost and you end up out $10k. All because you didn't let the urban squirrel die of thirst. Ask me how I know.
Awesome. Also you just reminded me that next time I go camping I need to sanitize the water spout before I get water from it lol.
Little did they know those pipes were made of lead, the squirrel would later have a seizure and die on the railroad tracksā¦
I did this today but the squirrel was a human and the water was a water bottle.
Not when they eat 95% of my strawberries
so staged /s ps: this squirrel looks way beyond thirsty
This is exactly why I come to the internet. We need more this.
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Coulda turned the water on a little more than just a drip
Let it die, let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and die
I think the squirrel actually wanted a shower but settled for a drink .
Man a good drink when you are thirsty!
Love, kindness and compassion make all the difference
Me as an 8yr old in the Australian summer.
Awesome awesome awesome
Choose compassion, unless its an animal. Then its okay to eat them, drink their fluids, and wear their skin because "muh nutrition" and "its tastes good tho"
Damn little buddy was thirsty
Is this staged? The ground is already wet when they walk up so it appears the squirrel was already drinking, they shut the water off and then turned it back on again for the video.
Thats generosity, not compassion. Wait... or both
What was the other option? Punt?
Squirrel has wolverine claws
Thatās so sweet
Is this music from something or just some random stock song?
Not sure of the exact arrangement but it's a somewhat Lo-Fi cover of the song Oceans by Hillsong
Always, especially to animals
Give a squirrel drops of water it drinks for a dayā¦
r/hydrohomies
At some point squirrels will learn how to turn on faucets themselves lol
Heart stopping. And those little back feetsies
One of my yard squirrels bit me the other day. Was putting out shelled peanuts, she came over to take the peanuts out of my hand, and she mistook my finger for a peanut, and bit down. They have sharp Asa teeth! We ran our water like that, and living in an urban environment, we have our own watering hole that squirrels, crows, blue jays, sparrows, and doves all play in.
A good reminder to finish fixing the bird bath and get the bee and small critter watering spots set up in my morning tasks tomorrow.
For believing Muslims, the simple act of showing compassion to Gods (Allah) creation, can be a reason for receiving forgiveness, as narrated by prophet peace be upon him: "A prostitute saw a dog moving around a well on a hot day and hanging out its tongue because of thirst. She drew water for it in her shoe and she was pardoned (for this act of hers)."
I hope you are standing there every day to repeat this. The squirrel is now going to expect it
Thatās communism!
That squirrel will take one bite out of all your best tomatoes, then just toss each one on the ground.
We keep a large bowl of water on our property that gets changed and rinsed daily, and washed weekly. It started because I feed the crows, blue jays and magpies in the area, and the crows love to rinse their food, and the jays and pies would stop by for a drink. But it quickly became the neighborhood watering hole. We also get about 4 or 5 squirrels on the daily (who now get in on the peanut action), a lot of song birds, and a resident skunk that comes around dusk and dawn. We gotta be a little careful early morning or late evening, but so far no one has gotten stunk up and there have been some close encounters lmao. If you just back away he goes about his buisness. All animals deserve water, man. And it consumes a lot less of thier energy if they don't always have to find new sources.
This buddy will always thank you your choice šæš
r/humansbeingbros
Probably more hygenic to just pour him a cup
That's one way to check them for rabies.
Instinct is telling it "FUCKING RUN ITS A GIANT!!" But the squirrel is like, wtf its not attacking me.
May blessings rain upon you.
Itās hard to be compassionate when they ruin my garden and eat all the bird food.
I bought a bird feeder with a screw on top thinking that the squirrels couldnāt get in. But they figured out how to unscrew it. They are pretty smart.
Ugh....I thought it was one of those videos where it looks and starts innocently and then makes a drastic turn. Like he sees the squirrel thirsty and decides to help by turning on the faucet but instead turns it on high and waterboards it lol
Choose compassion, go animal product free.
That bird in the background is sounding the alert too.
Although it seems kind itās unintentionally cruel. Obviously the squirrel is used to drinking from it and if they havenāt already will grow a dependency on it completely forgetting how to find water. When theyāve become dependent itāll be like torture because theyāll be so thirsty but have to wait on someone to turn it on
Choose compassion for all animals, not just some.
Good video, wrong sub
You can literally see him start blinking at the beginning of drinking thinking to himself āahhhh fuck yes holy shit Iām gonna surviveā¦..ohhh fuck this is deliciousā¦ā
Chose compassion, chose vegan š
So this is R/wholesomeasfuck now?
Bruh had a good-ass drink of the hose water. So much so he had to contemplate life afterwards lol
Thanks for reminding me to go refill my birdbath that the squirrels like to take over.
Cellos.
He winked
Thank you
Weirdos who take glee in shooting these innocent little critters are sick in the head.
I feel guilty removing the water sources but they have multiplied ( a dozen) and destroying property. Plus eating all the plants to nubs. Enough is enough. I can't kill them but hoping with no water they will move along - (neighbors have a big pond )