Yeah, like the woman who posts vids of her cute foxes is basically running a fox sanctuary. Most people who think of getting a pet are going to want to fit it into their otherwise normal lives.
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I don’t doubt that the vast majority of the time the consequences are grave and terrible for both the animal and the human. I’m just surprised at how many exceptions there appear to be.
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despite me showing him this video and several others, my husband maintains that we do not need an otter to go with our cats, sigh.
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Bad-dum-bum…crash.
Came here to make a “He otter…” joke, but looks like I’m too late.
EDIT: Oh, and funny coincidence…we have a tiny brown hamster which the kids decided to name Mochi. Because it actually does look like a mochi when it’s curled up and sleeping.
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I imagine it’s easier to put up with nips and otter poo in the kitchen if you’re bringing in a steady YouTube paycheck from the cute videos.
I had ferrets for a while. The amount of trouble they could get into was amazing. I shudder to think what would happen with a ferret that’s big enough to open doors and the refrigerator by itself.
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I think what you’re mostly seeing is how mellow juvenile wild animals are. Once they reach full maturity they get much more aggressive.
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Yeah, as in can and will literally tear you limb from limb in the case of adult chimpanzees. It’s a travesty that juvenile chimps have been used as cute animals in TV and movies and then abandoned once they mature into dangerous and uncontrollable adults.
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Many wild animal pets that are featured in videos are young. Young wild animals often are friendly and act pet-like because at that stage in life they are being cared for by their mothers in nature. When they mature they often become unmanageable (and yet their behavior is often distorted enough to make them living without humans impossible as their humans haven’t taught them to hunt like their mothers would). So not a good idea long term for either the humans or the animals.
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I’m SQUEEEEE(d) forever I think.
There can be no return.
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Oooh I’d love a giant squid as a pet!
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Clearly, more research is needed to isolate the spooning gene in mammals.
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You otter know…
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You don’t know the circumstances surrounding this particular otter - it’s clearly a cub, and if it’s mother has died, or it’s been separated, then the poor little creature will die unless someone takes care of it.
It may even be part of a captive breeding population; we have such here in the U.K., after the otter population was almost wiped out through hunting and pesticides, (read ‘Ring Of Bright Water’), and now otters are even appearing in rivers in city centres, like Bristol and Salisbury.
However, they’re vulnerable to road traffic, and cubs are found orphaned, and are often brought up in human homes before being carefully trained to fend for themselves then returned to the wild.
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I got sidetracked, I came to post that watching those two cuddling, with squeaky otter noises, has helped me go to bed after a tiring day with a stupid-ass grin on my face!
Squeeeeeeee!
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Here’s one about how they met:
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Yes, indeed it “may” be. It may also be a part of the Epstein/Maxwelll sex abuse ring. We just don’t know!
Here’s what the owner says about themselves on their Youtube channel:
“My name is Mako the owner of this otter Sakura and cat mochi.
Our daily life channel update are on Wednesday and Saturday in Japanese time!”
That doesn’t sound much like a rehab situation to me. It sounds to me more like part of the incredibly damaging wild pet trade. Believe what you like.
Get that horn-dog otter away from that sweet orange kitty.
It is obvious what that otter has in mind.
Nothing innocent here.
Save the Orange Kitty!!!
