Comments on: Wild Animals Shouldn’t Be Wild http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/ A bitter 30 something redhead ranting shouty thoughts and miscellany with the world… Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:47:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: foxsden http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/#comment-137 foxsden Fri, 30 May 2008 13:30:25 +0000 http://www.racefox.com/?p=140#comment-137 Lindy that is absolutely shocking... I hope you grassed her up... Lindy that is absolutely shocking… I hope you grassed her up…

]]> By: Lindy http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/#comment-136 Lindy Fri, 30 May 2008 00:09:51 +0000 http://www.racefox.com/?p=140#comment-136 We let them roam at our zoo too. I actually came across a group of people one morning all carrying loads of the beautiful tail feathers. I asked them where they got them & a woman in the group said she plucked them. A little farther down the trail I came across the peacock she plucked them from. He was standing in a corner, scared to death making a sad little whimpering noise. His tail was bald & bloodied. I'm constantly reminding parents & little ones that are chasing them around that they are WILD animals & will attack. Stupid, cruel people. Sometimes I wish the animals got their chance to pluck them back. We let them roam at our zoo too. I actually came across a group of people one morning all carrying loads of the beautiful tail feathers. I asked them where they got them & a woman in the group said she plucked them. A little farther down the trail I came across the peacock she plucked them from. He was standing in a corner, scared to death making a sad little whimpering noise. His tail was bald & bloodied. I’m constantly reminding parents & little ones that are chasing them around that they are WILD animals & will attack. Stupid, cruel people. Sometimes I wish the animals got their chance to pluck them back.

]]> By: foxsden http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/#comment-135 foxsden Thu, 29 May 2008 11:25:23 +0000 http://www.racefox.com/?p=140#comment-135 Shefaly - thanks for reading - I'd never seen a white peacock until I was looking for a picture for this post.. really beautiful. Did you throw the crisps at them and run? :-) Suburban..I think you're exactly right about them associating visitors with food...and they are quite arrogant birds to start with. Shefaly – thanks for reading – I’d never seen a white peacock until I was looking for a picture for this post.. really beautiful. Did you throw the crisps at them and run? :-)

Suburban..I think you’re exactly right about them associating visitors with food…and they are quite arrogant birds to start with.

]]> By: Suburban Mum http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/#comment-134 Suburban Mum Thu, 29 May 2008 10:40:08 +0000 http://www.racefox.com/?p=140#comment-134 I guess the problem in a lot of cases with these free-roaming birds is that they get fed by the public so they can get a bit aggressive if they see people with food as they think it's for them. We used to go walking round a lake where we used to live and I would never let ST walk on his own because the geese would come up and try and peck at your hands. I used to power walk the buggy past them! But you would see people with toddlers holding bits of bread supposedly to feed them, but not having any clue what they were doing and trying to eat it themselves, as toddlers do, and of course the geese would be right there in their faces. I guess the problem in a lot of cases with these free-roaming birds is that they get fed by the public so they can get a bit aggressive if they see people with food as they think it’s for them. We used to go walking round a lake where we used to live and I would never let ST walk on his own because the geese would come up and try and peck at your hands. I used to power walk the buggy past them! But you would see people with toddlers holding bits of bread supposedly to feed them, but not having any clue what they were doing and trying to eat it themselves, as toddlers do, and of course the geese would be right there in their faces.

]]> By: Shefaly http://www.racefox.com/2008/05/wild-animals-shouldnt-be-wild/#comment-133 Shefaly Thu, 29 May 2008 10:29:47 +0000 http://www.racefox.com/?p=140#comment-133 Very interesting point. I once encountered 2 very aggressive - and very hungry since they kept wanting the crisps which I had in my hand - peacocks in the grounds of Blair Castle, up in Scotland. I was eventually so scared by their chasing me round that I sat in the car and shut the door. They roam the Castle grounds freely but something has clearly riled them about visitors. Somehow in my head, I have two images: one from my childhood, of peacocks sitting on a turret tower of a college nearby and loudly serenading the clouds; and one is from a zoo, where I saw a white peacock that suddenly fanned out its wings and do a merry little jig. Ah, joy! :-) Very interesting point.

I once encountered 2 very aggressive – and very hungry since they kept wanting the crisps which I had in my hand – peacocks in the grounds of Blair Castle, up in Scotland. I was eventually so scared by their chasing me round that I sat in the car and shut the door. They roam the Castle grounds freely but something has clearly riled them about visitors.

Somehow in my head, I have two images: one from my childhood, of peacocks sitting on a turret tower of a college nearby and loudly serenading the clouds; and one is from a zoo, where I saw a white peacock that suddenly fanned out its wings and do a merry little jig. Ah, joy! :-)

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