r/MadeMeSmile • u/AnIgnorablePerson • Jun 28 '26

ANIMALS Little village girl with her unlikely friendship with a civet and a porcupine

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

I love when humans are able to connect with animals. Friendship transcends everything, even what species we are from.

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u/Ok-Primary2176 Jun 28 '26

Its why I have a hard time trusting people who say they don't like animals. Its like saying you don't like humans, or trees, or grass. That's not something you can have an opinion on 

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u/PurpleOrcaLover Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

It's small things too. I had a spider that I could put out my hand and it would go into it. My toddler knew it as friend. One day it wasn't there anymore

Edit: Him saying "Spider!? where are you!?" broke my heart 

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

Awww😭 I am quite afraid of spiders, but when I see a spider near me, and if I want to remove it, I just blow air near it, so that it relocates, or I take a paper and help it onto the paper, so that I can free it in the garden.

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u/Prior_Cardiologist36 Jun 28 '26

Im not crying, youre crying 😭

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u/LondonDogInTheFog Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

That's if you're raised and surrounded by people thinking like this. Breaking the social convention for compassionate reason will isolate you faster than CDC would isolate a person with ebola.

When I went to the farm of my distant family for holiday the whole village was mocking me the next day for being kind to the farm dog, feeding and petting it. For them dog was not a sentient being but a farm alarm & a deterrent. The more angry and traumatised the better. 40 years later it's illegal to keep chained dogs, it's illegal to starve them and people go to prison for that. But the whole generation had to pass. And it might as well go the other way around.

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

Ikr, same here, finally someone who thinks like me in this context

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u/QeveQobs Jun 28 '26

My mom doesn’t like animals. Later in life I learned it’s because had a kitten when she was little and it died and she was so sad she didn’t want to like animals anymore because she didn’t want to be that sad again. People have their reasons bro

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

Yeah they do, but bro said that they are skeptical of people who outright say they hate animals. I am also skeptical of such people. Most people don't have valid reasons.

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u/QeveQobs Jun 28 '26

I’m just saying generalizations often don’t leave room for empathy

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

I know what you are pointing at. But to hate animals just because a kitten died is also not completely right. What did the other animals do, they didn't cause her pain? To choose to not attach is different, but to choose to hate animals is different. I am ngl, if we genuinely think logically, there is absolutely no reason to hate animals. You may justify it by experiences that people had, but if the experiences they had are causing them to hate animals, they are basically generalizing their experiences onto all the animals.

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u/QeveQobs Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Jesus Christ you’re exactly what I just warned against. You want to be judgmental go ahead, don’t ever expect to get the benefit of doubt then. If you can’t understand nuance in the human experience then you have nothing important to say

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

And I am not being judgemental, and I understand it must hurt when I am saying that people should use logic to get out of their trauma responses, but that is how humans grow man. It's difficult to do that, and easier to just continue responding to past trauma in different ways. I am sorry though, didn't mean to hurt you.

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u/Deaffin Jun 28 '26

Heya. That bit of sugar you're trying to cover up your toxicity with? It doesn't actually work. The little germs just eat the sugar and we all end up with a more complex grossness.

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

See, there was a friend of mine who was barked upon by street dogs. You know what he decided? He decided that he would kill all the dogs in his city when he would gain enough power. He was 17 yo back then, the friendship didn't last long for other reasons. And this is an extreme case of hating on animals, but do you want me to have empathy for people like them too? I am an empath, but I am highly logical too, I am not hating on anyone, that's not what I stand for.

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u/Deaffin Jun 28 '26

I've been around for a while, and I don't recall directly perceiving a single human who straight up says "I hate animals." So I'm interpreting that as an uncharitable presentation because we're in the gossip zone right now, with no checks and balances, and people tend toward extreme rhetoric in that context.

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u/GeneralZojirushi Jun 28 '26

To be fair, grass (in the pampered, unnatural, monoculture, fertilized, herbicided, pesticided and manicured form) is pretty dang awful to the planet. Like, literally killing it awful.

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u/icanhascheeseberder Jun 28 '26

I will never forget this animal documentary that I saw on some streaming service where some goat or other animal adopted another animal that was blind and they were just pals and the one would follow the other around. I wish so bad that reddit would do it's thing and link it for me, I have searched so many times.

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u/Booster_Goldest Jun 28 '26

Are you talking about Jack and Charlie? A goat that leads a blind horse around.

https://youtu.be/uLdBafu6fEE

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u/icanhascheeseberder Jun 28 '26

Thanks for that link! It's not the one I saw, it was well over ten years ago, probably lost in the noise.

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u/imunfair Jun 28 '26

I bet porcupines are pretty easy to domesticate - they're prey animals so if you convince them you're a safe source of food there isn't much that can go wrong. Not like taming a lion or something that might go rogue and try to kill you in your sleep - if they get skittish they'll just try to escape.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

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u/NateMikka Jun 28 '26

My wife handles rescue animals and we do have a pair of porcupine. They are quiet unique as they don't naturally fear humans, although they do take special care, part of it includes having a safe area to retreat to

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

To convince them must be the difficult part though

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u/imunfair Jun 28 '26

I don't know, I've run into them in the wild and they didn't seem particularly scared. I think if you had something that smelled tasty you could probably slowly get close enough to tempt them.

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

Yeah maybe, but to lure it to the point that it follows you everywhere, must be more of an emotional connection.

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u/cant_get_fooledagain Jun 29 '26

But we are also responsible for the extinction of most megafauna since our arrival and quite possibly the 6th mass extinction in earths history.

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u/VampireInFire Jun 29 '26

Yeah, I hate humans for that :/

If there exists god, God must be regretting making us. I appreciate animals, and try to do what I can so that animals around me get some amount of kindness in their lives.

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u/cant_get_fooledagain Jun 29 '26

I think believing in god kind of undermines the wonders of life and evolution.

Anyway, who doesn’t dream about cute animals befriending us?

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u/VampireInFire Jun 29 '26

Yeah maybe, that is why I said, "if god exists".😭 As we can't be completely sure of any of the 2 possibilities. I really love animals though💕🙂‍↕️