r/MadeMeSmile • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • May 20 '26

ANIMALS Forever grateful

By @abbyandersonmusic

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u/DoctorCIS May 20 '26

Yeah, some deer populations have started adapting to human presence by taking advantage of predators not wanting to approach and have been leaving their kids right next to houses.

Basically the 90s kid equivalent of being left in the K B Toys while mom went and did her mall shopping.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail May 20 '26

This is how domestication starts.

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u/Your_Cat_In_Disguise May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26

I read an article about how raccoons are the housecats of the future on account of them domesticating themselves.

Edit: thanks for the award! I love how many people are coming out of the woodwork to talk about their self-domesticated raccoon friends lmao

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u/Few-Emergency-3791 May 20 '26

Turns out animals like being given food without having to expend any energy to get it.

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u/Your_Cat_In_Disguise May 20 '26

In my experience, the fastest way to befriend ANY mammal is to regularly offer them food that they like.

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u/GhostGirl32 May 20 '26

This also works for Corvids.

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u/Your_Cat_In_Disguise May 21 '26

Absolutely! I had a room mate once that used to have one of those crow whistles and she would go into the back yard and squawk it a few times before dumping out a bunch of unsalted whole shell peanuts into a pile on a patch of dirt where a bush used to be. 

We were getting all kinds of strange shiny trinkets on our back porch for the two years we lived there.

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u/Few-Emergency-3791 May 20 '26

Like berries in a basket?

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u/Forbden_Gratificatn May 20 '26

The fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. We're just big trash pandas.

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u/WillieDoggg May 20 '26

The real reason we keep getting fatter and fatter.