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.