r/animalid • u/f_crick • Sep 23 '24

Darn thing ate our favorite chicken 🐯🐱 UNKNOWN FELINE 🐱🐯

Spotted them here coming back for more right in the middle of the day.

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u/Pearl-2017 Sep 23 '24

Not if there is a food source. Reenforce your coup

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u/f_crick Sep 23 '24

Coop and run are fine - they’d been let out in the open when it attacked :(

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u/Pearl-2017 Sep 23 '24

You need to invest in a highly trained guardian dog

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u/fentifanta3 Sep 23 '24

Or an alpaca!

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 23 '24

Really? You can use alpacas as guard animals? That's awesome!

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u/Smax140 Sep 24 '24

Along the lines of weird guard animals... Apple Farmers in Japan have a problem w Monkeys attacking their orchards. Soze they use Turkeys to guard the bottoms of the trees.

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 24 '24

That's actually fantastic lol

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u/BleedTheRain Sep 24 '24

Kinda like a donkey, its capable of turning small predators into a literal meat pancake.

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u/KnightDiver381 Sep 24 '24

I saw cannabis farmers in Jamaica use them as lookouts. The farmers would grow on top of the mountain and they’d leave their donkeys lower down the mountain to raise the alarm if anyone started to come up behind them. Neat animals!

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u/ReallyNotBobby Sep 24 '24

Donkeys can be proper assholes but yeah they can absolutely stomp and bite the hell out of a fair few predators.

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u/browneyedgirlpie Sep 24 '24

Reminds me of the video where the donkey was carrying a goat around in his mouth

https://www.reddit.com/r/zoology/s/1ULDfgJOOX

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u/ReallyNotBobby Sep 24 '24

Look at their cousins, zebras. They kick the shit out of everything.

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u/Shadsea2002 Sep 24 '24

Alpacas are powerful and dangerous animals.

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u/Narrow_Obligation_95 Sep 24 '24

Cougars are their main predators in Peru.

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u/D3lacrush 🦕🦄 GENERAL KNOW IT ALL 🦄🦕 Sep 24 '24

And the cougars get their shit kicked in 50% of the time

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u/Excellent_Jaguar_675 Sep 25 '24

Llamas can send them flying. They are larger and taller than alpaca. We adopted an elderly gentleman Llama and he was awesome! The sheep and goats loved him!

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u/Top_Conversation1652 Sep 24 '24

Yeah, but then you have to buy a rhino to keep the Alpacas in the line.

It never stops.

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u/Legitimate-Account46 Sep 24 '24

I saw this episode of The Simpsons and it doesn't bode well

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u/Narrow_Obligation_95 Sep 24 '24

Grain works for pacas.

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u/stickynote_oracle Sep 24 '24

Llamas and alpacas are like security guards but they feel like they are the GOAT secret service for your farm animal friends. They join the home-group and will defend their pack fearlessly.

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u/Extension_Feature700 Sep 25 '24

My in-laws use alpacas to keep coyotes away.

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u/lol_alex Sep 24 '24

Or a donkey! Although Alpacas are cooler and you can use their wool.

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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR Sep 24 '24

I happen to love my donkey-wool socks.

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u/lol_alex Sep 24 '24

Now I am imagining someone having to shear an uncooperative donkey…

You probably just brush them when they shed, right?

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u/nIxMoo Sep 24 '24

If it was a canid I'd say "or a donkey!" But, yeah dog or alpaca.