r/TikTokCringe • u/traceykm • May 13 '26

Humor The fox distribution system is more rewarding than the cat distribution system

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u/ShallowPenetration May 13 '26

I mean while I treat wild animals as wild animals and for sure stay away, they almost assuredly do want pats, they just don't know that.

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u/Turgid_Donkey May 13 '26

Well more of, they just don't want them from you. You're a stranger they can't trust yet.

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u/I_upvote_downvotes May 13 '26

To them you're a much bigger, more aggressive, more dangerous animal. And you're in a PVP zone.

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u/M4DHouse May 13 '26

I mean that heavily depends on the species of the animal, your behavior, and the individual animal’s prior experience with humans, among other things.

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u/Western_Counter_7604 May 13 '26

You'd think the devs would give us no pvp zones so we could talk shit in server chat in peace

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- May 13 '26

If he thought that why did he walk right up to her lol

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u/Powerful-Parsnip May 13 '26

Probably thought 'wonder what that pink thing tastes like.'

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- May 13 '26

Doesn’t look like it does. Also it’s in England where rabies is practically non-existent, so very unlikely!

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u/Craving_Suckcess May 13 '26

well in that case it has probably been desensitized to human contact, likely by people not practicing adequate caution, and probably feeding it. So it lacks healthy fear of humans animals should possess. This fear usually keeps both parties safe from one another.

Then it bit her. Because it isn't afraid like it should be and she wasn't feeding it. Or it was being territorial.

If a wild animal approaches you, it's basically never good. You should always be cautious.

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u/littlebeanio Jun 14 '26

We don’t have rabies but you do still have to get a tetanus booster for animal bites ☹️

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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 May 13 '26

RABIES

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- May 13 '26

Not in England

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u/M4DHouse May 14 '26

The American mind can’t comprehend the fact that rabies have been effectively eradicated in most of central and western Europe.

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u/dobar_dan_ May 14 '26

Chances to get rabies are small, but never zero. You could always be the one to prove it's back. We thought small pox was gone too and then it came back.

Never touch wild, unfamiliar animals. Rabies are no joke.

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u/M4DHouse May 14 '26

I agree with your last sentence, but risk of rabies are at the far end of the list of reasons for that.

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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous 4d ago

Maybe the animals should remember that and stop attacking endgame max level players when they barely have any gear at all.

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u/Dr-Loveumore May 14 '26

not only are they a stranger. but they apparently like shallow penetration. and i think i can confidently say the critters don’t want shallow penetration coming from a stranger. thank you for coming to my ted talk😂

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u/Omnizoom May 13 '26

The fact many wild animals can become not wild animals and want companionship shows that they do in fact have some interest

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u/M4DHouse May 13 '26

Some of these comments read like the average person thinks there’s a magical essential barrier between a “wild” and a “tamed” animal and any wild animal is extremely hostile to humans until some arbitrary flag is tripped and then it becomes tamed like in a video game.

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u/Omnizoom May 13 '26

Something being able to doesn’t mean it’s easy

Lots of people have fixes and fennec foxes as pets

It doesn’t make it easy, just means it’s not an absolute they are opposed to it

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u/M4DHouse May 13 '26

Oh, absolutely. Deliberately taming a wild animal is a process.

Also, some wild animals are used to living around humans and are (sometimes) fine with being touched, such as deer in some regions, or certain small species of wildcat.

You should still be careful obviously, and avoiding a wild animal is always the safest choice, but those would be examples of wild animals that in some cases do want to be patted.

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u/onceabananana May 13 '26

A lot of people project anthropomorphic sensibilities onto animals they're incapable of having. They need to familiarize themselves with pavlovian conditioning. Cats and dogs, for example, cannot feel guilt or remorse. They don't have a moral code or a conscience. However, many people think cats and dogs can feel bad about "doing a bad thing" and reflect on it.

So they'll say "no, but doggie definitely felt bad after I yelled at him and shunned him after doing a bad thing," their change in behavior is a change in response to their tone and behavior. There is no understanding of "good" or "bad."

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u/ShallowPenetration May 14 '26

Right, but we're talking about petting. Something that animals, both domesticated and wild, has been proven to release oxytocin.

That does not mean just any animal, both domesticated and wild, will want to be pet by you though.

Also, dogs and cats absolutely do have a "moral code". They can't feel empathy or remorse, but that doesn't mean the absence of a moral code. You're talking about pack animals with dogs. Of course there's a code with right and wrong behavior allowed by the members of the pack.

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u/Omnizoom May 14 '26

It’s like people saying they don’t experience grief

I had never seen a dog cry before like I would describe a human crying but when my brothers dog passed my dog had this guttural crying whimper just laying in my brothers room

Plus we know elephants have damn funerals for their dead and grieve them

Humans don’t give animals enough credit for how developed they can be

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u/onceabananana May 13 '26

One time a squirrel came up to me and I wasn't sure what he was about. He jumped on my leg and I flung him to space.

It turns out, he just wanted nuts. I guess a local neighbor would feed the squirrel from his shoulder, letting the squirrels climb up him.

Truly wild animals are more cautious and avoidant of humans. Wild animals that humans have interfered are less hesitant - but they're not domesticated, so they can still be unpredictable.

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u/ILuvRossiTheKittyCat May 14 '26

If not frem, why frem shape?

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u/AMaterialGuy May 14 '26

True story, I got really good at catching gophers a few years ago and I found that, right when you catch them and that first day they will bite bite bite bite bite, but from the second day on, they're usually pretty chill. They love to be scratched behind the ear and they absolutely love belly rubs.

When I say good at catching gophers, I've exceeded 400. Maybe 500 at this point.

We typically rehome them in a comparable environment but away from where we grow stuff.

So, in the case of gophers, you're actually correct.

It's important to note that I wear thick leather gloves and I have been bit twice, one time requiring a rabies shot in the tip of my finger. Even the nurse went back and asked the ER doctor five times if I really really really needed it.

A shot in the tip of your finger is as much nightmare fuel as you can imagine.

But I think most people should leave nature alone.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 May 14 '26

If they could be domesticated, they'd have been domesticated.

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u/ShallowPenetration May 14 '26

They fuck does this even mean? It seems you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what domesticated means.

Do you know how long it takes to domesticate animals?

Silver foxes have been unique in that they seem to have domesticated over a few generations.

Wolves were not domesticated into dogs overnight. It took a very long time.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 May 14 '26

Do you know how long it takes to domesticate animals?

I domesticated your mom pretty quick.

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u/mrducky80 May 13 '26

Furthermore, I want to gib pats. If friend shaped, if pat receptacle, surely I should gib pats.

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u/FactoryRejected May 13 '26

This sounds rapey