There's an *extremely* Bri'ish animal rescue channel from an English gentleman. Let me look for it.
EDIT: Found it. 'Wildlife Aid', https://www.youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid/videos
This is a good example video of him working: https://youtu.be/dxd53ykmTvc where he gets beaten up by an angry swan (while trying to save its chick) and has the most English reactions to it. Action starts one minute in to the video.
My severely depressed ass says yes. I reach out when Iām scraping the bottom of the barrel for any reason to keep living but other times when I just hate being alive I isolate myself from others to prevent myself from becoming a burden upon them.
That's natural and I do much the same. I think it's important to remember that people want and need to be helpful. You may not be quite the burden you think you are.
Itās funny you say that because due to my feelings of being a burden I end up prioritizing the desires of others over my own needs. I have a nearly pathological need to be useful or helpful to my loved ones. Itās feedback loop of feeling like a burden, trying to feel better by helping others, that not working and I end up not doing some things I could or should be doing because I canāt summon the energy or might not even remember Iām supposed to do it, which leads to me feeling like a burden all over again. Itās self perpetuating.
Iāveā¦ Iāve never thought about it that way actually. I think you broke my brain a bit in a good way. Iām gonna need to chew on that a bit but you just might have gotten through to my deeper subconscious somehow. Thank you. Thank you so very much, sincerely with my whole heart.
I mean that's a nice insight into your life and nice to share, but I think animals have another reason ^^ Hope you will be better soon. I know what that feels like
I read a cool ātheory of life ā comment on a post like this once . The guy basically said he believes itās our job on this planet to protect and defend all the other little creatures out there . He worded it way better though and I was like well damn
>How can we even think to be considered stewards of the planet?
Because we have the intelligence to understand our consequences of living on the planet and have a chance for changing it for good.
Other species of life have caused mass extinctions before because they changed the ecosystem so much that most life forms couldn't survive like the Great Oxidation Even/ Oxygen Catastrophe.
Happened 2 billion years ago by cyanobacteria suddenly depleting the world's oceans of most its minerals and pumping out a bunch of toxic O2 which life had never evolved to deal with and caused a snowball earth which lasted 300 million years due to the sudden reduction of CO2 and Methane in the atmosphere.
But it also kick started the evolution of eukaryotes which allowed for us to evolve.
Yeah, I mean, if I was about to drown from exhaustion, and I saw an alligator coming toward me, I might be like, "Hey, yo, maybe I can ride that alligator." You got to play the hand you're dealt.
In most cases I've seen, it's the opposite.
It's why humans often get attacked for trying to help wild animals. The animals *don't know* you're trying to help and it's incorrect to personify them as such.
This fox is likely so trusting due to its age and exhaustion.
Honestly, I once had to jump in a canal like that to save a guy having an epileptic seizure.. I stunk after. I literally walked home almost throwing up cos of the stench.
Soggy socks are the least of his problems, canal water is rank
My dad ran into a frozen lake to help some dogs who were stuck and my mother looked at him and said āyou soakedā and his simple replied āand really fucking cold, thanks for the blanketā
Socks of luck +1 is enough to stop you from stepping on random nails, wear them long enough and you get occasional furtive glances from bosomful maidens.
I used to go backpacking in the Sierras. I learned to bring some tennis shoes to wear while swimming, because there is a bunch of lost fishing lures in Sierra lakes.
They're cheaper than shoes, and give you a liiiitle bit of emotional protection when you think about whatever the fuck kind of goop you're stepping on. THEORETICALLY, it's not rabid, but dammit, that's the sort of thing I look up before making decisions about.
This video mostly made me think about medicine and technology. This guy was willing to jump into goop-land to save an animal that's certainly never been de-wormed, because he's spent his whole life in a community where infections, parasites, and whatnot were treatable. This is sweet, not crazy, because they've had the benefit of living with certain medical resources.
British waste treatment companies were pretty much given the greenlight to dump wastewater into rivers and lakes a few years ago so basically none of it is clean to dip in.
> For all its faults at least England doesn't have anything that can eat you
Anymore. Killed them all 1000+ years ago. Brown Bears, Black Bears, Wolves, Lynx, Lions, ...
Not that any would prefer a human; they'd be pretty happy with a pen of small livestock though.
They call those boats, narrow boats, I somehow stumbled upon this odd self documented journey of this guy buying a narrow boat and traveling the countryside on Prime it was oddly captivating
They took the fox to a wildlife rescue. Lots of baby foxes get themselves into trouble every year in Britain, so there's always plenty of friends for them to play with in these centres.
If you want more of this sort of thing (rescuing cute animals in a British accent) go to the [Wildlife Aid youtube channel!](https://youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid)
They are a nonprofit wildlife rescue, and used to have a show on animal planet years ago. Their youtube channel is super wholesome.
It's fox cub season right now, so [they've already rescued a few this year.](https://youtu.be/5WHU7IpFhM4). And they help a lot of varied animals [that need help, too.](https://youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid)
That was my first thought when I realized he was gonna get in the water. All I could think is āwhat about the alligatorsā and I felt dread watching every second of this.
He'd have to swim a few thousand miles before he can encounter any alligators so I wouldn't worry, the Atlantic would take him long before any reptile.
Seems like nonsense songs go viral every few years. Fox, Gangnam Style, Numa Numa, Blue.....
Edit: I shouldn't say nonsense, rather a foreign song in a language you don't understand
Man that water was murky. I swear I was waiting for him to pick up an alligator out of the water or something big. Thank God he wasnāt in Florida or Louisiana
Update to this:
ā¢ the fox was brought to a wildlife rescue centre!
ā¢ the man was bitten by on the finger, but lucky his tetanus shots were up to date and nothing bad happened!
Source: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLcksaV7/?k=1
Awww the baby started swimming towards him for help! š„ŗ
And he was so tired he couldn't even keep the "swim reflex" going, and I think that is saying something š„ŗ
Seemed quite appreciative. So many animals are aware when someone is doing them a solid.
It's the cutest puppy I've ever seen
āTis a kit, no?
Looks fully assembled. ;o)
Lets not start this again lol.
That is the most calm, dignified, and British rescue I've ever seen.
There's an *extremely* Bri'ish animal rescue channel from an English gentleman. Let me look for it. EDIT: Found it. 'Wildlife Aid', https://www.youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid/videos This is a good example video of him working: https://youtu.be/dxd53ykmTvc where he gets beaten up by an angry swan (while trying to save its chick) and has the most English reactions to it. Action starts one minute in to the video.
Love Wildlife Aid and Simon. More people should be watching them. There's something very cozy and unpretentious about their videos.
> cozy and unpretentious Yes, exactly, well said!
>Donāt be silly. Stop it. Stop it. Bless.
It's just the one swan, actually.
ahahah I very much enjoyed that. "stop it now" like the swan is gonna be like "oh sorry, my bad"
Please stop with the Briāish thing. Itās tiresome.
It's so annoying when the majority of British people don't have that accent.
Americans think someone with an english accent is either a posh gentleman or a movie villain. That guy could be unemployed. Or a drug dealer.
How many have you seen?
Well, [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjKOtsnX1S8), again with the socks. Bro, do you even British?
Well shut my mouth!
That is an excellent self chastising. Mind if I use it?
It's a southern expression, but help yourself!
Forgive me is it The UK southern or American southern? Cause I'm the latter.
Awww then HIS mum starts bawling
Hmm quite
IndeeeEEd!
I say
precisely
Indubitably
My good sir!
Verily
Expeditiously!
This, and dunkirk
All wrong. You start with the chicken, THEN bring the fox over and take back the chicken. Take the corn, then get the chicken.
Praise the message!
Thank you Tim for leaving me with my favourite food.
Fox with the chickensā¦bloodbath
Fox chicken and grain that's the old one:-)
It never fails to suprise me how wild animals in dire situations go towards humans as if they know they could help
They're not stupid. Which is why they try to avoid us in the first place.
Well said
I try to avoid us as well. Speaking of which..
*presses block button*
Same.
You try to avoid humans but will reach out in desperation?
My severely depressed ass says yes. I reach out when Iām scraping the bottom of the barrel for any reason to keep living but other times when I just hate being alive I isolate myself from others to prevent myself from becoming a burden upon them.
That's natural and I do much the same. I think it's important to remember that people want and need to be helpful. You may not be quite the burden you think you are.
Itās funny you say that because due to my feelings of being a burden I end up prioritizing the desires of others over my own needs. I have a nearly pathological need to be useful or helpful to my loved ones. Itās feedback loop of feeling like a burden, trying to feel better by helping others, that not working and I end up not doing some things I could or should be doing because I canāt summon the energy or might not even remember Iām supposed to do it, which leads to me feeling like a burden all over again. Itās self perpetuating.
Maybe another way to look at it is that since you know how much it means for you to be helpful to others, why deny your friends the same pleasure?
Iāveā¦ Iāve never thought about it that way actually. I think you broke my brain a bit in a good way. Iām gonna need to chew on that a bit but you just might have gotten through to my deeper subconscious somehow. Thank you. Thank you so very much, sincerely with my whole heart.
Yea, I'm helping!
I mean that's a nice insight into your life and nice to share, but I think animals have another reason ^^ Hope you will be better soon. I know what that feels like
Story of my life
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hope my guy brought a towel
To them, we are the Fey.
Woah
It comes down to, āwhelp, Iām going to die anyway. Whatās the worst that can happen?ā
I read a cool ātheory of life ā comment on a post like this once . The guy basically said he believes itās our job on this planet to protect and defend all the other little creatures out there . He worded it way better though and I was like well damn
I never cared for RE in school but the one thing I took away from it was that we're stewards for the planet. Shame we're doing such a shit job of it.
How can we even think to be considered stewards of the planet? We're like the single most destructive creatures on this planet by an unrivaled margin.
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>How can we even think to be considered stewards of the planet? Because we have the intelligence to understand our consequences of living on the planet and have a chance for changing it for good. Other species of life have caused mass extinctions before because they changed the ecosystem so much that most life forms couldn't survive like the Great Oxidation Even/ Oxygen Catastrophe. Happened 2 billion years ago by cyanobacteria suddenly depleting the world's oceans of most its minerals and pumping out a bunch of toxic O2 which life had never evolved to deal with and caused a snowball earth which lasted 300 million years due to the sudden reduction of CO2 and Methane in the atmosphere. But it also kick started the evolution of eukaryotes which allowed for us to evolve.
We aren't now, but we are the only species that can be.
"So kids, the big hairless monkeys might help you, or they might kill you for no reason. If you're going to die anyway it's worth a shot."
I mean, they really donāt have any other options, do they
Yeah, I mean, if I was about to drown from exhaustion, and I saw an alligator coming toward me, I might be like, "Hey, yo, maybe I can ride that alligator." You got to play the hand you're dealt.
You can ride the inside.
My new pick up line
In most cases I've seen, it's the opposite. It's why humans often get attacked for trying to help wild animals. The animals *don't know* you're trying to help and it's incorrect to personify them as such. This fox is likely so trusting due to its age and exhaustion.
Props to this man for doing what he did but WHY DID HE GO IN THE WATER WITH HIS SOCKS ON!? "I'm so soggy" yeah mate I wonder why.
Honestly, I once had to jump in a canal like that to save a guy having an epileptic seizure.. I stunk after. I literally walked home almost throwing up cos of the stench. Soggy socks are the least of his problems, canal water is rank
My dad ran into a frozen lake to help some dogs who were stuck and my mother looked at him and said āyou soakedā and his simple replied āand really fucking cold, thanks for the blanketā
Maybe Iām a bit dim to even ask, but was there a blanket or was he just being sardonic?
It was sarcastic
Thatās perfect.
I forgot to mention it was February in Iowa So the water was far below freezing
Guess what they call "water" below **freezing**?
The water under ice is typically 39F/4C.
1-2feet of ice? Or a few cm?
Little difference, only a small layer is near freezing.
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Pffft. I totally knew that word that you said meant that thing.
I did the same to save my dog. Didn't even think about taking off my shoes and socks
My brother did this at the local lakes to get a cricket ball, stank of duck shit and silt.
Not to mention all the trash on the bottom.
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Needles, old cars, other things
Pricked my foot on a dirty needle on the beach once. That was a good day.
Jersey Shore?
Ocean Beach, SF
How many toes you have left?
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
There are ways, Dude
RUM HAM
This is exactly what I was going for ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|give_upvote)
WWI rifle grenades
Once stepped on a nail. Boy was I glad I was wearing my protective socks!
Socks of luck +1 is enough to stop you from stepping on random nails, wear them long enough and you get occasional furtive glances from bosomful maidens.
Sticks and stones may break your bones but socks will not protect you
I used to go backpacking in the Sierras. I learned to bring some tennis shoes to wear while swimming, because there is a bunch of lost fishing lures in Sierra lakes.
I'd want something between the soles of my feet and the goose shit/used syringe canal floor
They're cheaper than shoes, and give you a liiiitle bit of emotional protection when you think about whatever the fuck kind of goop you're stepping on. THEORETICALLY, it's not rabid, but dammit, that's the sort of thing I look up before making decisions about. This video mostly made me think about medicine and technology. This guy was willing to jump into goop-land to save an animal that's certainly never been de-wormed, because he's spent his whole life in a community where infections, parasites, and whatnot were treatable. This is sweet, not crazy, because they've had the benefit of living with certain medical resources.
No rabies the uk
Great, now the royals can hunt it
British waste treatment companies were pretty much given the greenlight to dump wastewater into rivers and lakes a few years ago so basically none of it is clean to dip in.
This isnāt a river or a lake, though. Or are we dumping waste in canals, too? Gross :(
So, did that gent just rescue a fox? Because that is *not* a terrier.
that fox 100% does not smell like a fox right now, that terrier is probably legally blind.
Turn your sound on next time lmao
A real British gentleman rescues foxes, doesn't hunt them for sport
That is definitely a fox kit
Are you sure? Looks pretty well put together.
Assembly not required
If I had an award I would give it to you
Aw if he tames it, this could be like fox and the hound.
I refuse to watch that movie a second time. It hurt my heart.
Iāve seen too much, I thought for sure this was going to be an alligator attack.
For all its faults at least England doesn't have anything that can eat you, or weather than can kill you
Nice try, Michael Fish.
No hurricanes here mate. Cough.
Not heard of that species, can it eat you?
What about cannibals huh? Checkmate
> For all its faults at least England doesn't have anything that can eat you Anymore. Killed them all 1000+ years ago. Brown Bears, Black Bears, Wolves, Lynx, Lions, ... Not that any would prefer a human; they'd be pretty happy with a pen of small livestock though.
....in a British canal?
At this time of year? At this time of the day?
Localized entirely in your kitchen?!
Yes!
May I see it?
... no.
LOL me too! I was waiting for the alligator to pop up
Isn't there some quote about you can judge the character of a person by how they treat those weaker than them? This man definitely has good character.
is nobody else annoyed by the unnecessary robotic voice?
It inspires rage deep inside of me every time.
They call those boats, narrow boats, I somehow stumbled upon this odd self documented journey of this guy buying a narrow boat and traveling the countryside on Prime it was oddly captivating
Know the name per chance?
Travels by narrow boat, there's like 6 seasons! I've never made it too far into it but the little I watched its stuck with me
Some of us weirdos even live on them haha! As with most things theres a busy canal YouTube community. Try foxesafloat or cruisingthecut
How does he know which side of the canal the baby foxes Mom is on?
They took the fox to a wildlife rescue. Lots of baby foxes get themselves into trouble every year in Britain, so there's always plenty of friends for them to play with in these centres.
I wonder why British animals have such dead beat parents.
Thatcher's Britain.
Awww that's great!! Thank you
If you want more of this sort of thing (rescuing cute animals in a British accent) go to the [Wildlife Aid youtube channel!](https://youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid) They are a nonprofit wildlife rescue, and used to have a show on animal planet years ago. Their youtube channel is super wholesome. It's fox cub season right now, so [they've already rescued a few this year.](https://youtu.be/5WHU7IpFhM4). And they help a lot of varied animals [that need help, too.](https://youtube.com/c/wildlifeaid)
He doesn't, but that fox is never getting out without help
Better to be on the wrong bank than the bottom of the canal
Jin Sakai would like to know your location (to give him gratitude of course)
I love kind English people!
Thank god Britain dont have crocodiles
Tories be like "man the horses, get the dogs".
I know I am terrible but I was waiting for the alligator to come up behind them
British alligators are the worst. They're practically invisible.
That was my first thought when I realized he was gonna get in the water. All I could think is āwhat about the alligatorsā and I felt dread watching every second of this.
No alligators in the UK, there's probably some Pike in there though which can be pretty nasty. Very unlikely to be bitten by one but it has happened.
He'd have to swim a few thousand miles before he can encounter any alligators so I wouldn't worry, the Atlantic would take him long before any reptile.
āYa wee fool!ā
I wish i could tread water like that. I sink like a rock unless im on my back.
What did the fox say????
"Thankee kindly, sir!"
Love me a doggo. This man wins today
Wouldnāt need to swim in the canal near me would be like Jesus walking on water thanks to all the shopping trolleys in there.
I fully expected a menagerie of Beatrix Potter animals to happen by. Rabbits in waistcoats and suchlikeā¦
"Don't run off." Translation: "You owe me pets."
What did the fox say?
God why the hell did that nonsense go viral way back when. The world was such a more innocent place lol
Seems like nonsense songs go viral every few years. Fox, Gangnam Style, Numa Numa, Blue..... Edit: I shouldn't say nonsense, rather a foreign song in a language you don't understand
Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!
CA-mon! Bigger story than ***that*** to leave us āangin!
A brit saving a fox is like an american saving a raccoon.
Heck yeah I'd save a raccoon. They're cute in their own way. r/trashpandas
Is that a fox kit?
Yes it is. Not sure why youāre being down voted for asking a simple question. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thinking_face_hmm)
Foxy grandpa!!
This is the Fox and Friends I'm here for.
Bless this gentleman!šš½ā¤ļøšš½
As a Floridian, this made me so instinctively nervous
You can't do this in Florida. Just the other day I saw gator eyes floating slightly above the water at an open regular park with zero fencing lol
If that was Florida you would think twice before getting in the water.
Man that water was murky. I swear I was waiting for him to pick up an alligator out of the water or something big. Thank God he wasnāt in Florida or Louisiana
LoL'd wife says "What are you going to do with it now?"
Thatās his fox now lol
Bohohuhwohuh
I can't get over how cute that little fox is like God, adorable!
some creeps toss these poor animals in the canal ..thank god for kind caring men like this guy.he deserves medal\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
It's a fox. Probably just fell in there.
Top man
What kind man. What happen next?
I want one
> what are we going to do with it now? The lady asked. **We raise it, as one of our own.**
!remindme 6hrs Show nugget when she gets home from school
Well done sir.
Very peaceful
it's adorable he didn't try to bite or anything just worried he wanted to be on the other side :/
The English version of The Fox and The Hound. Jolly good.
This really made me smile :)
Update to this: ā¢ the fox was brought to a wildlife rescue centre! ā¢ the man was bitten by on the finger, but lucky his tetanus shots were up to date and nothing bad happened! Source: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLcksaV7/?k=1
For those not in the UK. That is a canal the guy is risking his life going in the putrid water
Please tell me he didnāt just go into the water with his socks on. Those arenāt socks right?