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More domestication of humans.
November 8, 2022 at 11:35 pm
I came home to find this visitor on my front porch:
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No doubt that he/she was there to consume the excess bird seed, but, we both had a pleasant (mostly, one-way) conversation before retiring for the evening. As far as I can tell, it looks like he'll be camping-out for awhile, as, per my wife, an entire racoon family lives across the street in my neighbor's backyard.
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RE: More domestication of humans.
November 8, 2022 at 11:48 pm
They rip chickens heads off for fun. Don't even eat em. You missed your chance to stop a murderer. 
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RE: More domestication of humans.
November 8, 2022 at 11:49 pm
(November 8, 2022 at 11:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: They rip chickens heads off for fun.
So do foxes, but we adore them.
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RE: More domestication of humans.
November 8, 2022 at 11:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2022 at 11:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, wrapped around my wife's neck. Getting an animal to like you despite what you intend to do to it, or it's things, is a pretty good example of the domestication of humans. It's a favorite subject of mine, as we don't always seem to realize when we're the domesticate in a relationship with other life.
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RE: More domestication of humans.
November 8, 2022 at 11:58 pm
Perfectly understandable. My interest wasn't meant as part of the darker practice. Rather, I meant it as an appreciation from a distance.
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RE: More domestication of humans.
November 9, 2022 at 7:37 am
(November 8, 2022 at 11:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: They rip chickens heads off for fun. Don't even eat em. You missed your chance to stop a murderer.
Reminds me of an episode of Wild Kratts (hosted by "The Kratt brothers", both of whom have undergraduate biology degrees) that I was watching with my daughter who, in one episode, were filming a spider devouring a monarch butterfly who had flown into its web. I remember thinking, "Gross!", but the Kratt bros rightly pointed out that the spider needed to eat in order to survive and there were "neither good nor bad" predators. Per the city ordinance where I live, one can own chickens, and, so, if predation is a concern, they would need to be brought inside, as the local raccoons will likely someday tire of the excess bird seed.
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