‘help’ can include ‘interacting positively with’ and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
I feed anything I come across. I helped a tortoise into the trees a few days ago. Second time I’ve seen him. We have frogs lately after it rains. Cute little guys. I love animals and wish I encountered more every day.
Specifically avoiding running into the wildlife when driving, mostly to protect the car but I suppose it does help the wildlife
Do my bird feeders count? Does my garden built with biodiversity and creating small pockets for criters and bugs count?
Not using pesticides and trying to use organic products to manage my gardens.
If those count, then 100% daily through active and passive means.
Our yard has bunnies, wild birds, assorted pollinators, squirrels and even an opossum living under our bay window. All of this on 1/2 acre in the suburbs. Planting perrenials is fun.
Does this count? My wife feeding the Kudu. They get a bucket or so a day of pellets and a bale or two, especially in winter. We have kudu, impala, zebra, etc (even the odd giraffe) passing by most days. And bananas and peanut butter for the bush babies at night.
My dad likes to feed wild racoons and I help him with that. He puts some dog food and a couple other things out for them and they come up every night to get some and hang out for a bit before returning home
On average I don’t really need to go far out my way, because it’s mostly insects or spiders. I just catch the bees and release them outside, not far of their hive, don’t use something because a spider live here or help some thing trapped somewhere stupid.
One day my partner and I did 30km for an injured bat, because there was nobody closer who could take and heal her. I saw the birds the organization took in (for healing/helping) the same day, and you don’t often have a chance to see a baby owl in real life!
“Each day”? Like on average? Trending towards 0, I suppose.
I did help a bug out the window recently, does that count?
Into the inferno? You monster!
It makes absolutely no difference temperature-wise whether you’re in my flat or outside.
it does :)
We have a parking garage with a few windows in its corners (fucking incompetent design) and birds will often get confused / trapped by the windows.
I will ALWAYS stop and help get them out but sliding a folder / book under them and moving them to an opening.
What’s interesting is that the birds always allow me to help. Perhaps it’s because they’re just exhausted, or perhaps they really understand that I’m trying to help them. I do not know.
Them being compliant is a defensive behavior called freezing. If they get hurt fighting you, they won’t be able to escape, so they’re waiting to see what you are going to do before they decide if fighting is worth the risk.
Exactly like me in the biker bar.
You’ve got the idea!
I was on a walk and saw a beetle on its back. I turned the beetle around so that it could carry on.
What if you ruined their tan!
i documented cat torture in asia by myself for a year and now i have a house full of cats and im crying for no reason every day
cat tax? 🥺 (pictures)
Not OP but I’d be happy to foot the bill.
🫲👋🫱👋👋 pats and scritches, good sir
such big sniffer you got there
“Do you have games on your phone”?
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I started working at a wild animal rehab this year. I’ve fed a few hundred squirrels, dozens of song birds, some really cool raptors, and a good handful of mammals.
I consider my time with them positive, but they really don’t want much to do with us. I just released an owl this weekend and it bit me multiple times as I was trying to let it go. That’s the attitude it takes for it to survive, so getting a positive attitude back is typically not an outcome I should, or realistically want to see.
The person being hostile in this thread is going pretty extreme. We shouldn’t be touching or feeding animals directly, but many do need indirect human presence to survive. They evolved with us to an extent, and they take advantage of our food storage and waste and some of the molding of the environment that we do by creating fields and farmland.
Most animal injuries I see are from cars, pets, manmade structures, and cutting down trees animals live in. What people are feeding the birds is likely a very small portion of their diet, as they eat pretty constantly. Keep your bird and squirrel stations clean and provide shelter from predators and you likely aren’t hurting anything in the grand scheme of things. A loose dog or cat is way worse IMO.
Not much, there arent many wild animals around on my typical day.
I have a spider in the corner of my bathroom that I leave alone.
I watch squirrels in the front yard, they need nothing from me.
The front yard is riddled with moles and dying grass. I live in a condo that is responsible for yard care and they aren’t doing much about the moles. I don’t especially like large, green grass yards so I don’t care if they’re letting the moles destroy it all. Letting them do their thing.
There’s a crow I give peanuts to every morning on my way to work.
every morning on my way to work.
So you don’t go out of your way. Another zero.
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I walk my dog 4km every morning and scare the shit out of about 40 bunnies, 1 or 2 skunks, occasionally a fox or 2, and perhaps once a year we get scared shitless by a bear.
Since I don’t go out of my way to do so, the correct answer is, “never.”
I avoid killing spiders? I live in the city, there aren’t many wild animals here. Back when I lived in Marseille, the only ones were dirty rats and I really have close to zero empathy for them, I’m sorry.
