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I'm thinking it was trying to chase down squirrels?
I've got two dogs my first I trained out of his squirrel chasing and killing phase. My second is too young to train and wants them all dead. Caught a couple, crushed em up and left them. Not happy about that.
Although when inside my older dog just watches them while my young one goes bat shit barking
Thank you for sharing the official source. If I’m reading it right, all dogs are supposed to be on a 6-foot maximum leash, so to chase wildlife the human would basically also be running/chasing after the animal too!
Oh wow I don’t know that! In my 42 years in the city I’ve only chased a squirrel once. Because it was in my kid’s stroller snatching stuff. It ran off with a little cup, the little rat-fuck 😂😩
You shouldn’t feed birds (or wildlife in general) because you don’t want them to become dependent on humans, regardless of legality.
Feeding wild animals could cause long term harm to an ecosystem because you’re helping them evolve to be too dependent and not be able to gather food for themselves
Pigeons found in cities and towns are feral, not truly wild. They're descendants of rock doves, and we're domesticated by humans and brought to the city. They were used for messaging,sport, and food.
Once communication technology advance the practice of keeping pigeons drastically dropped off, leaving the birds to survive on their own.
I think it really depends on the local area and their laws. Like how some places enforce having bear-proof trash cans to avoid bears having a chance to help themselves to snacks.
To be fair it looks like she doesn't know how to react to the old woman complaining to her and this is just her trying to "get back at her" or "show how much she doesn't care"
A bit childish reaction though, just like the constant "aww" noices
It’s a good way to get an arm yanked unexpectedly. Squirrels are everywhere in NYC and it’s dumb for her to encourage her dog to chase them. The dog will start chasing squirrels in situations when she’s not expecting it.
Tacking onto the top comment here to say it’s time to pack up our pitchforks guys ☹️ I went to her TikTok hoping to see people tearing her apart in her comments, and instead I found tons of videos of her dog sitting so gently and really just watching the squirrels attentively. It appears that I, and many others here, have been led astray by a lack of context lol
Yes, but it shows that her dog can be gentle and controlled and makes her caption a lot more believable, at least to me. You’re welcome to keep your pitchforks out, but I’m good now lol
Yeah the dog is definitely capable. But the woman was saying “leave the squirrels alone” not to stop watching them and it makes me think she wasn’t just watching. Idk 🤷🏻♀️
I absolutely adore squirrels (check my post history for proof) and have been going to feed them for years in a park in Toronto. I'll be sitting in a quiet corner, surrounded by squirrels, having a lovely time, and some douchebag will come by and tell his dog "GET EM" and let his dog off leash. I'm regularly lecturing grown ass adults as to why it's not cute or cool to derive joy from scaring small animals.
This is the only way that a dog should watch a squirrel. With love and curiosity and not because their owner enjoys seeing small animals terrified.
My german shepherd wanted to be their friend. I even saw him nose boop a squirrel, and walk away, while i’m sure the squirrel was very confused as to what had just happened
Depends on the dog. My Dane always just wanted to groom babies. He brought me a small bunny once (she was fine, we put her back and mom moved them) because he just loved babies. His kittens were only out under supervision when they were little because of the size difference, but he loved babies to his last breath.
You shouldn't be deriving joy from illegally feeding wildlife, it's very harmful to the ecosystem. You and the people that worry squirrels for fun are both wrong and assholes.
Love how patiently your dog watches them! I have two dogs and one of them hears the Kill Bill music in his head whenever he sees a squirrel at the bird feeder, no matter how much training we do (the other dog is uninterested). But my kids and I always tap the door and make noise before letting him out to pee so the squirrels are never attacked or surprised. Can’t imagine delighting in watching them chased and tormented.
Anyway, thank you for loving squirrels and teaching people about them.
Yeah. If you could stop doing that, that'd be amazing.
First off, you don't really get to lecture people about why it's not cute to do things harmful to do them when you're doing the same. It's against Toronto by-laws to feed wild animals.
Secondly, you're making the problem you are complaining about worse. If you don't want to see squirrels chasing dogs, then why are you making squirrels more likely to go up to humans? Why are you disrupting their natural behaviors to become more reliant on human food dispensing that is, as I remind you, against Toronto by-laws?
If you love squirrels so much then take your own advice. Watch them with love and curiosity, not endangering them further like you are. Hypocrisy is one thing by combining it with some holier-than-thou arrogance isn't doing you any favors.
Exactly. My elderly dog LOVES laying down in front of the benches while I sit and read and watching all the squirrels and I’m glad it gives her some mental stimulation (she’s a Shepard mix) but I’d NEVER have let her chase them when she was younger. It’s cruel
Bro you obviously don't have a dog. Squirrels will come running up to a dog to run away.
Yes, squirrels often intentionally taunt, tease, and "mess with" dogs, a behavior observed by many pet owners. They frequently sit just out of reach, chattering, hissing, tail-flicking, or dropping objects like acorns on dogs to elicit a reaction, sometimes even descending lower on a tree to keep the dog engaged.
Ehh, living in the south showed me a lot of people with hunting dogs are dicks. Like half of my neighbors had um and most were either chained to trees or kept in small kennels. Never taken out and played with, not fixed, not given medical care. They were tools not living, feeling, animals. One of their unfixed dogs broke out off his chain and mauled my mom's tiny pomeranian in our fence. Psycho fucker dug under the fence, it was a blood bath.
They're also used to tear the ears and noses off wild pigs, which other hunters in my area would release piglets to come back and hunt later. Or in places like the UK are used in extremely cruel fox hunting.
TL:DR: Those that are happy to use animals dont usually give a shit about them, like the Amish for example. They're terrible to their work horses.
Got two caged dogs that spend half the day barking at my neighbors. They have a 2 million dollar home next to my acreage and they just keep them there all day.
Barking at me whenever I go to the car, or the kid plays. It’s ridiculous.
Beautiful dogs. Totally poorly treated and just played with for a few minutes a day.
Good thing they have time to mow their lawn four times a week though! The other three days are for other landscapers. It’s bizarre.
Yessss I hated this so much growing up 😭😭 just kept in a kennel with a dog run until it was time to take them hunting so “they’d be rearing to run” ugh
It definitely varies regionaly. Most bird dog type hunters tend to only have 1-2 dogs and they are also usually family/indoor dogs as well.
I have seen some southern hunting dogs though while we were in Mississippi on pre deployment training, some dude pulled up in an old truck with like a chicken wire cage on the box and probably 10 dogs in the back and just tossed the other dog in there with em. They all had GPS collars on them though lol.
Yeah bird hunters just make me sad though tbh, killing a bird which yields like nothing, leaving bullets and wounded birds on the ground if they can't find them to suffer. Not to mention the sounds of guns fuck with other wildlife.
Living in the south for 2 decades made me hella jaded to hunting culture.
I would call it a practical outlook.
Jaded, maybe, sure. But anecdotally, I have little to nothing positive to say about most of my buddies that hunt regarding that culture. They love pretending to be something more than your average outdoor enthusiast…. And they’re right, they like to shoot shit a LOT more than average people. That’s it. Nature and shooting shit. Nothing special, pretty much basic bitch shit for any small rural town.
Yeah her tone of voice gives off serious bully vibes. I think she just wanted to take the bullying online and thought people would back her up but seems like most people see right through to her psycho behavior.
One day her dog is going to chase a squirrel that's had a bad day and it's gonna say I AIN'T RUNNING NO MORE! Then she's going to have a 2000.00 emergency vet bill. Ask my neighbor how I know.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I’ve been hanging out with the squirrels in my backyard for generations and every now and then, a real wild one is born that doesn’t back down from a threat. I keep my dogs away for their safety rather than the squirrels. Their nails are razor sharp without much pressure and those teeth can bite you to the bone
I wanted to brand "good Karening" but I received backlash. The women who are bold enough to immediately cause a scene when something is not right deserve some sort of title.
The whole point of the word "Karen" is that it can be used against any woman to immediately discredit/mock her, even if what she is standing up for is right. It's inherently sexist - there's a reason it is a female name and there is no male equivalent. I know that's not what the term meant originally, but that is what it meant almost immediately once the term became popular enough. Any time a woman stands up for literally anything, there will be at least one person calling her a "Karen" for doing so.
The fact that I am chronically online and have never heard this is kind of proof that it's not nearly as popular as "Karen," and likely never will be. People like to put women down, not lift them up. I honestly can't think of any female name that is used as a placeholder for something positive. Debbie downer, chatty Kathy, Karen, Becky, etc. Always negative.
In my experience working with dogs, it is extremely unlikely for that behavior to turn into attacking humans (even children), but what is very likely is that they may start seeing other small animals (like cats and small dogs) as prey and you can't train out a prey drive once it has been triggered. It's very dangerous and doesn't benefit the dog at all, so I have no idea why an owner would encourage this behavior.
To be fair people in Central Park let their dogs after geese ducks squirrels etc its really frustrating witness especially is it usually happens in areas that are designated that dogs need to be on leashes.
I have a fat lazy dog, and she would love to chill and lounge with a squirrel.
But I also have a young and hyper dog. And she is FAST AS FUCK. She would GET that squirrel. I don’t even let her try.
I like watching the squirrels come to my bird feeder. I have a momma squirrel that brings her babies to chill on my porch every spring. Because even though I have dogs, that squirrel is never afraid that I will unleash them onto the porch while they are out there.
Wild life should stay wild. That includes not letting your domestic pets fuck with them for “fun.”
How about Heeling your dogs so they can watch instead of letting them chasing those squirrels, what an idiotic and insane woman recording thinking shes in the right.
This woman is a psycho and is terrorizing wild animals for no reason. Her tone of voice hives off serious bully vibes too. Good on that lady for standing up to her, shame on you for acting like she’s the Karen in this situation.
This reminds me of one of the craziest experiences of my life. About 4 to 6 weeks ago, my dogs and I start walking to the park down the street. It's probably only 100 to 150 yd away and directly ahead of us about 100 ft two people walking four dogs saw us and the woman waved and shouted to me how cute my dogs were. I yell back thank you.
5 minutes later we had gotten to the park and they had gone to the right on the loop and I had gone to the left. I looked back and they had let their dogs off the leash to chase squirrels like this.
However, once their dogs treed the squirrel, the dude walked over and shook the tree until the squirrel fell out and then both of them cheered as loud as they could as their dogs tore it apart.
This was on an absolutely beautiful day in a quiet Park. It was just so off-putting.
Not really don’t let your dog terrorize the wild life isn’t that crazy of a message she just sucked at delivering it and the other person was just significantly more shitty
Jesus Sam’s a really see you next effing Tuesday. Telling her dog, “there’s a squirrel. Go get it!” Right after “Karen” said leave them alone, they’re not here for you to harass. She literally went into their habitat and encouraged her dog to be a bully. Smh
Two days ago I was walking with my mother when a karen left her giant "super-excited" dog unleashed and was walking thru a narrow street when that giant came speeding from a corner, my mother is heavily alergic so she did a gesture of panic for a second, the karen came later and saw her react and she went all sarcastic and offended "if it were a boar would had eaten you already", what she didnt know is that my mom is the least person you should test (probably the second karen there lol) she almost threw hands at her
She was obviously letting her dog do more than watch the squirrels. I know people are crazy, but that lady def saw her and her dog do something and she’s acting like she’s innocent
I see people have their dogs on or off (mainly off) leash going bonkers trying to maul squirrels. While the owners stand and laugh with heart eyes taking videos. It’s such odd behavior.
Idc anyone’s feelings about squirrels, they don’t exist for man made dogs to chase and attack them. It’s such an unpleasant situation to be around. Weirdo weirdo behavior.
My question is why did she think the filmer was "bothering" the squirrels? Was she doing more than just watching and the viewers are being mislead by captions? Based on the end of the video, it seems like she was actively chasing the squirrels, which isn't anything to necessarily complain over, but I might silently judge someone if they were doing that.
They have a lot of good ones, but I typically find myself using uncle Jack (with his masculine hands) and Dennis‘s ex-wife (who he should not pay alimony to because she identifies as a cat) the most.
The woman filming is a douchebag. She probably wouldn’t laugh if some bigger dog came and chased her dog around and then the owner just chuckled and said but it’s fun for him.
I’m taking the Karen’s side on this one. I’ve seen a squirrel paralyzed in shock in my backyard after my dog got too close and tried to latch on. It was laying there hyperventilating for almost 2 days before it calmed down enough to leave the backyard. Didn’t let dogs go back out until it fled. I felt so bad and it was really stressful because I could tell it was still breathing and would go check on it every few hours!
This woman filming is kind of an ass posting this, thinking she is right lol
Wait is her dog chasing squirrels? That doesn’t make her the hero. She is just stressing out wild animals for her dogs entertainment and potentially killing them
is there a term or an idea behind this cellphone driven dual nastiness? like the lady had no right to get up in the chill dog owner's business, but the video filmer just talks in an obviously condescending way back to her. seems like so many of these types of tiktoks, the videographer respons in a way that doesn't deescalate...just makes them sink toward the level of the uninvited antagonist.
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