Posted on 02/23/2021 3:26:21 PM PST by Kriggerel
A farmer in northern B.C. who caught a lynx in his chicken coop on Sunday didn't react the way one might expect. He didn't grab a gun or yell at the wild animal.
Instead, Chris Paulson grabbed the lynx by the scruff of its neck, lifted it off the ground and scooped it from the coop.
Then he gave it a gentle scolding.
"He just looked ... a bit like [a kid] with its hand in the chocolate chip bag," Paulson told CBC News from his home near Decker Lake, west of Prince George.
Knock him out John!!!
Not having worked with wild animals myself, I’ll take your word for it. Not something I would’ve done.
The conservation officer said while some people may think what happened was preferable to shooting and killing the lynx, “it is technically illegal to capture live wildlife and move them to a new location and can result in a fine.”
Next time, shoot it
The conservation officer? sarc
He’ll probably now be arrested for violating some endangered wildlife law.
I get a kick out of people anthropomorphizing animals and other creatures of nature. More than likely the look was "holy moly! nobody's ever done this before! Please don't kill me and eat me!"
Story still makes me laugh.
When I was a kid, one of my uncles in Alabama had that album and played it at a family gathering.
You’ve never seen so many people laugh so hard.
A feral tomcat can do damage if you go hand to claw with it. Front claws are for hanging on. Back claws and teeth do the work. I wouldn’t want to tangle with a cat the size of that lynx.
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Yeah, every so often around here a mountain lion will take out a jogger. Though mostly they eat deer. They are considered a protected species but they are not really endangered; they don’t have any natural predators I can think of, other than the state park rangers.
I have a little girl shelter kitty who probably doesn’t weigh more than 8 pounds. She’s very sweet and affectionate—but she’s a deranged NIGHTMARE when it comes to letting us give her medicine or occasionally snipping out small matted fur tufts on back of her tail. I can immobilize her for only just a few seconds by scruffing, but not much longer than a few seconds.
She goes BESERK like a rabid raging beast any time we have to restrain her for something. If she could, I know she’d rip my face off LOL.
Grab a cat by the scruff just right and it will go passive and still. When we had cats we used to ‘turn them off’ like that all the time. it’s a reflex they have from kitten hood, when the mother might need to get them out of harms way, picking them up in her mouth. Of course you have to be able to get behind them to do it.
That’s the only way we can pick up our feral female. Come from behind, get the scruff of the neck, and pick her up. She’s a mellow rag doll. Our vet does that when she has to, too.
Canadian Lynx are bigger than bobcats and just as wild. And this one looks fairly mature. See how still it is? That’s what i mean by “turning him off.” Guess maybe farmers know a little something about animals after all. Or at least Canadians do.
sss
Seems a little twisted in the first place to make the video so the cynical part of me thinks the guy might have killed the chickens himself and it might be a setup video for publicity for some freakish reason. I don’t know how he got the animal to be that tame while he’s holding it or if it’s a pet but that just seems insane and extraordinarily unlikely that that cat would not rip him up.
See what you did there, buddy?
Growlly growl
Now that wasn’t good, see what a mess you made?
Growlllllll.....
The cat did not look remorseful to me, at all!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The guy must have 6 foot arms if he could keep hold of a lynx without getting scratched.
After watching the video, the adult lynx looks a little stupefied. Not sure what’s going on, but no adult wild animal has ever acted like that when I picked it up.
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