Critters you have tamed!

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Years ago we had a baby fawn show up inide of our boy's tent one summer. The dog was barking up a storm and I sent my son out to check out what she was barking at. He ran back in and said there was a deer in his tent. We kept if for a couple of weeks and fed it lamb starter out of a bottle. Mother never came back. We didn't pen it just fed it and it stayed around the house.. gave it to someone that raised deer and he got in trouble with the game warden. My wife called the game warden first and he said to take it and drop it in the woods.... Nope!

Here is a pic of my youngest with the deer. This Pic is about 17 years old.


Critters I had as a kid...
I tamed three racoons at different times, I had a ground hog for a couple of weeks before he escaped and we had a squirrell when I was really young.

I didn't want to hijack the Coyote thread but it got me thinking of critters.

 

[westcliffe01]

 

[STx]

Not me but, I know of a guy here in Texas that has a hunting ranch in Mexico where they have tamed a bobcat and a javelina. He's posted video of both of them playing with his dogs and riding around on the UTV.

We have a lot of javelina on our place in South Texas and I'm determined that I'm going to domesticate one. They smell TERRIBLE but they are really neat little animals.

 

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Very cool deer video!

 

[murphy1244]

I had a Raccoon for 12 years. Did tricks for Goldfish crackers. Love to watch Baseball.

 

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I had a Raccoon for 12 years. Did tricks for Goldfish crackers. Love to watch Baseball.

Was he a Reds or Indians fan? :laughing:

Pet Raccons are the greatest. I had one of mine for a year and he was very tame.. would sit on my shoulder.. came in the house all the time. I couldn't keep him any more with work and school and gave him to a guy who coon hunted and I think he thought he was getting a wild coon that never came out of a cage.

He worked with my dad. He came into to work the next day and said that coon was TAME! My Grandkids and I had it in the living room floor playing with it. He loved it!

 

[murphy1244]

Was he a Reds or Indians fan? :laughing:

Cleveland Indians, We watched the world series.. Those were the days.

 

[tcreeley]

Had birds eat out of my hand just by filling the feeder on a regular basis - chickadees. Later after I moved I made a scarecrow and left it in a lawn chair by the feeder. I put an old knit hat on it and sprinkled it with seed. The chickadees would land and grab a sunflower seed. Then I tried taking the scarecrows place. They landed on my head for seed. I found I could be anywhere in the yard and they would come and land on my seed carrying knit hat, standing or sitting.
I once rescued a cedar waxwing that had hit the window. We caged it in the house and fed it elderberries we picked from the bushes in the yard. After a week I took it outside and set it on an apple tree limb. It didn't fly, just hopped out of reach. I went and got some more elderberries and it came down for them. I carried him back inside and fed him for another week. Took him out again to the same tree. I opened my hand and he took off flying strongly and to the south (fall migration time). I was glad to see him do so well.

 

[/pine]

Anyone seen the show on one of the cable channels where the guy adopts a clutch of wild turkeys ?
One of the amazing things was how the turkey's bond with the human gave him a "free pass" with other wildlife...

People that feed the birds generally despise squirrels...but IMO they are quite amazing animals...very smart for a rodent species...( it can be a challenge being smarter than your average squirrel when it comes to bird seed etc...) FWIW... Chick-a-dees are easily tamed to fetch shelled peanuts from your open palm...

I have a grey fox that catches marshmallows on the fly...tossed from my porch...!

 

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Had birds eat out of my hand just by filling the feeder on a regular basis - chickadees. Later after I moved I made a scarecrow and left it in a lawn chair by the feeder. I put an old knit hat on it and sprinkled it with seed. The chickadees would land and grab a sunflower seed. Then I tried taking the scarecrows place. They landed on my head for seed. I found I could be anywhere in the yard and they would come and land on my seed carrying knit hat, standing or sitting.
I once rescued a cedar waxwing that had hit the window. We caged it in the house and fed it elderberries we picked from the bushes in the yard. After a week I took it outside and set it on an apple tree limb. It didn't fly, just hopped out of reach. I went and got some more elderberries and it came down for them. I carried him back inside and fed him for another week. Took him out again to the same tree. I opened my hand and he took off flying strongly and to the south (fall migration time). I was glad to see him do so well.

My parents are both big bird lovers and my dad flips out when he has a ceder Waxwing coming into feed... he loves em.

 

[Sprinklerman]

My wife , well I tried to tame her .

 

[Alien]

I was chopping some chicken frames for the dogs on a stump a couple of days ago and a Kookaburra landed right beside the machete as it came down. Frightened the poo out of me but he wasn't phased much. Just flew to a tree beside me and watched hoping to get some chicken.

 

[kenmac]

Keeping or trying to keep wild game around here will get you in serious trouble.. State law says, that all wildlife in the state belongs to the state.. I know a few that have had to pay serious fines for keeping coons
A wild animal is just that.. You may think you have it tamed, and the next thing it attacks you or someone else
I see a few baby coons at times, and think , wow ! it would be cool to have 1 as a pet, but it just ain't worth the liability for me

 

[murphy1244]

Keeping or trying to keep wild game around here will get you in serious trouble.. State law says, that all wildlife in the state belongs to the state.. I know a few that have had to pay serious fines for keeping coons
A wild animal is just that.. You may think you have it tamed, and the next thing it attacks you or someone else
I see a few baby coons at times, and think , wow ! it would be cool to have 1 as a per, but it just ain't worth the liability for me

My coon was bought from a pet store. 3rd generation tame I was told. We did have to register every year with the game agent.

 

[kenmac]

My coon was bought from a pet store. 3rd generation tame I was told. We did have to register every year with the game agent.

Wow ! never heard of that.. Wouldn't happen here.. I only wish we could buy 1 like that
what about shots ,and such, like rabies ?? You wouldn't even get a vet here to give 1 a rabies shot

 

[PILOON]

I have a friend who lives near a pond that has suck families come to his door daily for lunch. They first came for dropped seed from their bird feeder. Now they eat out of your hands.
He also had a moose spend the winter in his back yard and you could walk up to within 10 ft of it as long as you talked quietly to it.
The moose trimmed all his tree under brush clean over the winter.

 

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Keeping or trying to keep wild game around here will get you in serious trouble.. State law says, that all wildlife in the state belongs to the state.. I know a few that have had to pay serious fines for keeping coons
A wild animal is just that.. You may think you have it tamed, and the next thing it attacks you or someone else
I see a few baby coons at times, and think , wow ! it would be cool to have 1 as a pet, but it just ain't worth the liability for me

Anyone who has or has had coons knows this. You can get permits for them but I didn't. My dad knew it.. I never penned my coon. he slept in the loft of our shed. He never had any reason to leave... but he could have any time he wanted.

 

[Bull Of The Woods]

My dad had a young groundhog when he was a kid, not sure how long he had it. Then when I was a kid my dad found a very young gray squirrel, gave it milk with an eye dropper. We had it till he was probably about half grown, he would climb the curtains and run along the top curtain rod. Then if you can believe it..... one day he FELL off the curtain rod and hit his head on the edge of a table. He acted really odd after that, not nearly as active and then he died the next day.

 

[murphy1244]

Wow ! never heard of that.. Wouldn't happen here.. I only wish we could buy 1 like that
what about shots ,and such, like rabies ?? You wouldn't even get a vet here to give 1 a rabies shot

He seen the vet once a year for shots and had his own room in the house ate dog food or eggs and used a kitty litter box. Never let him out when not home. The things he got himself into. When it got quiet I looked for him cause somewhere some damage was done.

 

[polo1665]

I remember feeding the squirrels when I was a young kid. Dad had them tame enough to come and take food from your hand, usually bread crust. They would sit next to you and eat. You could pet the top of their head, but you better not try and pick one up. They got tame enough that they would climb up your pant leg and check your pants pocket for food.