There’s a few contenders out there. But which is the most wholesome?

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Well…dammit. I came here to say this. Now I feel like I can’t say anything because it’s all been said before! What can I say that nobody has ever said before???

      When you think about it, trumps time spent golfing really helps the common man.

      …huh. I guess that’s something nobody has ever said before. I mean, I don’t agree with it, but it is something that nobodies ever said before.

  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m torn on this. Bumblebees are adorable and we’d die without them pollinating things. They sting but almost never.

    Sheep are pretty cute and totally harmless. People aren’t harmed by a rabid sheep!

    Then there’s bunnies. Hopping around being adorable and they’re harmless animals that you can hug.

    It’s a tough one!

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      I wouldn’t say “totally harmless”, don’t get me wrong it isn’t like I am going to be scared of a sheep in the way I might some kind of large predator but males will charge you and ram the shit out of you and if they have horns that has the potential to be nasty.

      We used to have a sheep that loved being stroked and would head butt you in appreciation, the only problem is the more he enjoyed it the more of a run up he got each time, harder and harder. When you are a small kid a sheep ramming the shit out of you literally sends you flying.

      But I love the idiots, they are great!

        • philpo@feddit.org
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          6 hours ago

          Cows can absolutely be assholes, even when raised in a species appropriate environment. I saw a cow intentionally ambush someone once. (And no, he definitely didn’t mistreat it before)

          And they are anything but docile when their calves are around - I literally treated people who nearly died (and know of various cases of people who died) because momma cows found they are a threat.

          I know some large animal vets and they are having lots of “almost killed me” stories of cows - and have far more respect towards them compared to horses, bison, etc.

          But don’t get me wrong: I fucking love them - they are ridiculously nice animals, can be loving and caring, are VER Y social and astonishing creatures. But they are anything but docile.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      One time I was watching one of those youtube videos of stupid drivers dash cam compilations. This one driver is driving in the countryside, and flying over these hills at 90mph. He flies over one hill, goes airborn, and crashes into a fence, and then hit a cow.

      The cow goes down, and suddenly this OTHER cow comes running around from out of nowhere. I thought it was funny at the time, because the cow had this real aura about him like he was running up like “STEVE!!! STEVE ARE YOU OK???”

      I was just imagining that’s what the cow was doing, and it was funny to me.

      Only for me to tell this same story years later, and get told “Actually, cows are very empathetic, and social creatures. That cow WAS running up to check on his friend. That’s what was happening for real.”

      And I think that’s kind of cool. A cow can be your friend.

      • philpo@feddit.org
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        6 hours ago

        Yeah. They are ridiculously social creatures and I absolutely saw them mourning a friend.

        (But they can be assholes as well. Towards humans,but also between themselves. One of the funniest childhood memories I have is a cow intentionally toppling another cow (T-boned crash basically) and then shitting in its face. Comment of the carer: “yeah,she does that when her peers piss her off. She tried to do that with me as well,but missed and headbutted into a wall. See the missing brick? That was her”)