Whatever next

[Tugmanade]

WTF is going on in the world

Staff at US wildlife centre wear fox mask to care for rescued kit Wildlife staff wear fox mask to care for rescued kit

 

[Len the dog]

Not too many years from now, the Gen Zers will be ruling our lives and making all the important decisions.

 

[opticron1]

I did think this was a bit daft when I first saw the article.....fox KIT? ......I always thought they were CUBs, but there you go.......

The other thing was that I remembered an article about rearing young Cranes a few years back and the people doing the rearing work wearing "crane" outfits to try and avoid the young cranes associating humans with food and trying to embed a degree of natural behaviour. I presume the fox cub staff are trying to do the same trick, although I could understand a rare species such as Cranes getting mollycoddled, but maybe not so much with foxes!

 

[Len the dog]

Maybe they should have dressed as a sheep so that the fox saw lambs as siblings rather than dinner.

 

[sh1kar]

I did think this was a bit daft when I first saw the article.....fox KIT? ......I always thought they were CUBs, but there you go.......

The other thing was that I remembered an article about rearing young Cranes a few years back and the people doing the rearing work wearing "crane" outfits to try and avoid the young cranes associating humans with food and trying to embed a degree of natural behaviour. I presume the fox cub staff are trying to do the same trick, although I could understand a rare species such as Cranes getting mollycoddled, but maybe not so much with foxes!

Conrad Lorenz Imprinting

 

[Foxyboy43]

Not too many years from now, the Gen Zers will be ruining our lives and making all the important decisions.

Fixed that for you.
You are welcome.

 

[Smellydog]

That's nothing, wait until they start messing with the fox's gender!

 

[Foxyboy43]

That's nothing, wait until they start messing with the fox's gender!

And then introduce a “season” for shooting males and females!
Might even have to change my moniker…..

 

[Len the dog]

But whatever you do, don’t refer to the fox as either dog or vixen, or even use anything other than the fox’s preferred pronoun.

 

[Tugmanade]

But whatever you do, don’t refer to the fox as either dog or vixen, or even use anything other than the fox’s preferred pronoun.

Maybe a vixdog would be in order.

 

[VSS]

I did think this was a bit daft when I first saw the article.....fox KIT? ......I always thought they were CUBs, but there you go.......

Either is correct when referring to foxes, but cubs is the word most commonly used in the UK.

 

[Mungo]

WTF is going on in the world

Staff at US wildlife centre wear fox mask to care for rescued kit Wildlife staff wear fox mask to care for rescued kit

Pretty common when rearing things that are intended to be released back to the wild.

Aim is to try to stop them imprinting on humans as food sources/caregivers. Which isn’t such a ridiculous idea, really.

They use glove puppets a lot when hand rearing all sorts of birds, and if you want a real laugh, google panda bear care - the staff there all dress up as pandas.

 

[Len the dog]

the staff there all dress up as pandas.

That could end badly if you inadvertently dress up as a female panda whilst looking after a male panda.

 

[Mungo]

That could end badly if you inadvertently dress up as a female panda whilst looking after a male panda.

Given how useless pandas are at actually breeding, I imagine you’d be safe enough!

 

[Tugmanade]

Pretty common when rearing things that are intended to be released back to the wild.

Aim is to try to stop them imprinting on humans as food sources/caregivers. Which isn’t such a ridiculous idea, really.

They use glove puppets a lot when hand rearing all sorts of birds, and if you want a real laugh, google panda bear care - the staff there all dress up as pandas.

I just think it’s a shame these people / organisations don’t put in the same amount of dedication in to try & help the more rare or endangered species that the fox cub is going to dine out on when it’s released back into the wild.

 

[Len the dog]

I just think it’s a shame these people / organisations don’t put in the same amount of dedication in to try & help the more rare or endangered species that the fox cub is going to dine out on when it’s released back into the wild.

They are mostly funded by the general public but unfortunately the general public can’t see past cute & cuddly.
Take nature programmes, images of starving lion cubs will have viewers in tears and willing the lionesses to finally make a kill, but show a newborn giraffe tottering about and then being flattened by a lion, and those same viewers will be on team giraffe and complaining that the camera man didn’t intervene.
Nobody is particularly interested in curlew, plovers and partridges because they don’t have anything like the ahhh factor that a young fox has and they are too ignorant of how nature really works.