"adopt" a wild animal Options

[JlIaTMK]

So, I have a question on this, because I am sure that most haven't.

Have any of you adopted a wild animal before?

Bleh, a couple days ago [Friday I believe] a baby fox squirrel, yes it was blind, fell out of my tree and I decided to pick it up with gloves and put it in a box. Now, someone noted to me that it's mother does not come back after a human hand touches it, so I "adopted it". I have fed it what it said that I should feed it, online, and it, in the little time that I have "adopted" it, has grown fast, and has opened its eyes and can see. The only thing I will have a problem with is letting it go when it gets older :sigh:.

[*jooleeah*]

Would you consider a chicken a wild animal?

[Saeglopur]

A Lakota Wolf.



I wish.

[sadolakced acid]

it won't leave when it's older....

at least, if the movies are correct.

[iheartsimba]

That's really awesome!...I've found turtles and kept them for a little bit when I was younger OH. And in our garage, my dad had some old shoes in there, and there's a birds nest with all these hatchlings and everything ...if that counts as adopting. And if it counts as a wild animal.

[shanny]

we "adopted" a possum and raccoon. i don't think those are very wild though

[Nicolatofu]

I adopted a baby bird for like 2 hours until it flew on the roof and died.

[JlIaTMK]

we "adopted" a possum and  raccoon. i don't think those are very wild though

Hm, yes that would be a wild animal, technically. Did they live in the wild though? Or were they born domesticated?

Oh and a chicken would not be considered a wild animal x].

[Flaunted]

OMG its like fox and the hound!!! omgomgomgomg!!!! i love that movie, it was so sad!
my cousin has a duck for like the past 4 years.
that duck is mean, and also, it lost its voice.

[JlIaTMK]

I adopted a baby bird for like 2 hours until it flew on the roof and died.

I so do not want that to happen with my baby.

Meh, I don't know if it has rabies or other diseases though!

[pinkd0tcom]

I've adopted 2 squirrels. One of them fell from a tree. Then another time, when I was little, one of them climbed up my jeans at my g-mizzle's house. I loved those thangs. I was sad when we had to give them up.

[Chaos13]

I want to adopt a cheetah and some other wild cats. Or a polar bear, panda, and a koala

[jnukes]

i adopted a rollie polli when i was 5 and it ran away =[

[Shattered_Hope]

I "adopted" two baby birds when I was younger...but...ummm it was only for a few hours only and both died....

[JlIaTMK]

I've adopted 2 squirrels. One of them fell from a tree. Then another time, when I was little, one of them climbed up my jeans at my g-mizzle's house.  I loved those thangs. I was sad when we had to give them up.

=O... why did you have to give them away?!

[pinkd0tcom]

Oh we didn't give them up. We let them loose. I felt their ora telling me they needed to be set free into Mother Nature. //Kidding about the mother nature mumbo jumbo.

[JlIaTMK]

Bleh... why did you have to tell me you set them free?!

:(

You're supposed to tell me "and they lived happily ever after".

Now I feel poo-ish.

[Ballpointpencil]

it won't leave when it's older....

at least, if the movies are correct.

It won't leave if it has an easy food source. To make it leave, you just have to cut off it's food supply from you (gradually, of course) so that it learns to make it's own way. My dad has had squirrels before, back when he was a park ranger.


Well, usually we don't mess with the wild animals around here, but occasionally one will be in trouble so we help it out for the time being.
Example: I found a dove at school that was acting sick and couldn't fly more than a few feet. Borrowed the band director's lost and found box and took it home, where Dad helped me to feed and water it (and keep it in a reasonably temperate room). Trinity (as we called her) lived for three days, but died of the disease that had made her act like that in the first place. She had contracted the disease that had been going around the birds of the area for a little less than a month, and very few survived it. The vet said that we were at least able to make her last few days much more comfortable.

I volunteer at a local animal rehab, and Dad is fairly well-known among the rangers in the area (even though he hasn't been a park ranger since he became a preacher, years and years ago, heh) so we do tend to take in a lot of animals. We've taken in raccoons, birds (including young raptors, my specialty as I am working towards a falconry license), possums, squirrels, et cetera. So... we don't really "adopt" wild animals, as we rarely have them for more than a few months.

[pinkd0tcom]

.. and they lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER. Which in reality they did because they hung around. Just not as much as when we had them imprisoned in the cage.

[*stephinika*]

does a caterpillar count? when i was in grade 6 or 7, i can't quite remember, i took in a caterpillar and i kept it until it became a moth. i was upset it wasn't a butterfly though...lol

[toodlepops.]

I think it was a stray cat.
My mom gave it away because it was not hygenic and I had asthma and stuff. :'(

[alice1017]

well i guess you can keep adopting it...maybe it won't be 'wild' after staying in your house for some time..and won't be able to go back to the nature and live by itself after u adopting it...just keep it and see

[*Weird addiction*]

i am a wild animal and adopting a wild animal will just be TOO much for my mom

[supersuperidiot]

Um.

I remember when I used to catch spiders in the country side.....it was fun

I kept them for like 2 months, then they escaped one by one XD

[xMayleex]

I used to catch ladybirds before the nice ones not the evil ones that eat everything. I had a squirrel before and it was very cute, we let it go in the end. I have adopted a panda it doesnt exactly live with me but i send it like money every month, i think its like from a wwf charity, ooo i love pandas lol.

[mznina]

aww poor thing. i had a pet squirrel, the thing was nuts!!!

[shortiiex]

at my family's office(very mess and dirty...it's in the the dirty part of Brooklyn)i think we adopted birds, a flying chicken(yes i know...it flys..scary), cats with kittens

[Eryi]

I feel bad for the baby animal. I wouldn't adopt a wild animal. rabies

[innovation]

I adopted a baby bird for like 2 hours until it flew on the roof and died.

that made me crack up. hahaha.. omg, i'm a horrible person. *hides in shame*

[angel-roh]

Ooh a baby squirrel? How do you know it was blind? Maybe it was just born, so they couldn't see anything? Maybe...


Anyways, that's sad that you have to let it go, I mean I bet the momma squirrel really misses her baby. I mean you adopted her without her permission, that's kinda like stealing hehe. But since it's all grown-up...I think you should give its freedom. And, if the squirrel wants to come back to you, then let the squirrel in. Just be sure you have a collar for your pet, squirrel.


I don't think I ever adopted an animal. But I babysitted a bunny hehe. A white bunny. I named it snow white when her real name is Sony An. She's asian that's why...she's from asia. Well I don't know if it's called adoption or babysitted because we took care of that bunny for 8 months and let it go. Because this korean rich family couldn't take care of the bunny for awhile, so i told them that i will... for free. since i liked bunnies that time, but not anymore. they scare me.

i dont think jenny would know this because she was like a baby lol. so yeah i was like 2 years old ^-^

[smthngcrprategrl...]

i wanted to adopt a penguin....but my mom said no:(

[heyyfrankie]

my 2nd grade class adopted a full grown manatee from a zoo.

[loljuliana]

i adopted a bird before, but we let it go around 2 days later =)

[*liquidize*]

JORDAN I LOVE FOXES TAKE A PIC OF IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pndaluvr13]

I used to catch ladybirds before the nice ones not the evil ones that eat everything. I had a squirrel before and it was very cute, we let it go in the end. I have adopted a panda it doesnt exactly live with me but i send it like money every month, i think its like from a wwf charity, ooo i love pandas lol.

pandas 4 eva!!! i wanna "adopt" a panda!! thats cool

[jue]

thats really kind of you
and nope; i never had any pets -.-

[xenosaga]

a baby pig...this was in philippines though..so adorable. but after it grew.....it had TORTURE!

[__PASS10NAT3]

awww`..tats veryy sweet of yooh =).. lol~

[JlIaTMK]

I feel bad for the baby animal.  I wouldn't adopt a wild animal. rabies

Just to tell you sir, rabies is carried mainly through bats, raccoons, possums, other wild, larger omnivorous animals. Hm.... but yes, there is a VERY VERY low chance that you get rabies from squirrels, as the rehibilitator told me.... and she even picked up my squirrel with her bare hands while i was careful that it wouldn't scratch me. I hope he's doing okay :/.

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

I wanted a parrot that could talk x__X;

[soulless727]

purple ponies (self-deleted 12/06)

[emazing]

Interesting! xD Good luck in taking care of that squirrel; and it will be harder to let go... I had a dream yesterday that I was taking care of a minscule seal. It was weird, but I liked it a lot.

[JlIaTMK]

Ooh a baby squirrel? How do you know it was blind? Maybe it was just born, so they couldn't see anything? Maybe...
Anyways, that's sad that you have to let it go, I mean I bet the momma squirrel really misses her baby. I mean you adopted her without her permission, that's kinda like stealing hehe. But since it's all grown-up...I think you should give its freedom. And, if the squirrel wants to come back to you, then let the squirrel in. Just be sure you have a collar for your pet, squirrel.
I don't think I ever adopted an animal. But I babysitted a bunny hehe. A white bunny. I named it snow white when her real name is Sony An. She's asian that's why...she's from asia. Well I don't know if it's called adoption or babysitted because we took care of that bunny for 8 months and let it go. Because this korean rich family couldn't take care of the bunny for awhile, so i told them that i will... for free. since i liked bunnies that time, but not anymore. they scare me.

i dont think jenny would know this because she was like a baby lol. so yeah i was like 2 years old ^-^

Uhm,
1. the "momma squirrel" didn't come back after 2 and a half days of leaving it in a little cozy box outside of the tree where it fell from, so I naturally took care of it after.
2. If the "momma squirrel" doesn't come back, you naturally have to take care of it because if you don't it dies, because after all, it is a baby.
3. It's not "all grown up". He happened to be about 6 weeks old when I gave him to the rehibilitator. They are babies until they are about 12 weeks old.

>.>

And, emazing, read what I put a couple entries back instead of reading just my first entry >.>. I did give him away to the Humane Society, despite giving him proper treatment, as the lady told me I did. =)