Questions about beavers.

Hey! Could I ask you a question? My buddy just came back from a bear hunt or something (maybe it was carriboos or moose, I don't know), but he said you Canadians keep beavers for housepets, is this true? I know if you get a raccoon young enough it makes a fine pet until it gets big and ornery, but raccoons don't eat table legs and dam up the bathtub.


Is he pulling my leg?

We have beavers down here, too but we usually just trap them, eat parts of them and sell the hides. Some like to sniff of the castor, but I don't associate with such.

In case you do keep them as pets, is there any special way they must be rendered harmless? I got a second-cousin who's a dentist-- I guess he could yank their chompers but then I guess I'd have to put birch bark through the blender.

Thanks for any tips: they are sort of cute; I can see why you snowbirds worship them.

 

I have a couple beavers for breading purposes. Immunizations are a pain, because of the disease that spread here starting with ground squirrels in the northern-states.

To combat thier instint to gnaw on poplar trees, fresh branches are a must. Building a small pond in the yard wil also keep them happy when there isnt much to do. If you are looking into owning a beaver, i reccomend building an artifical lodge for the beaver, sort of like a dog house, with the door on the bottom over the water, but then have some space over land for the beavers to do their thing.

So far, I have never had a problem with thier teeth, but that is because the beavers i own are 3rd generation domesticted beavers, they are pretty dosile when it comes to human interaction, although around breeding time the male is quite teritorial, and during birthing, the female is protective of her new borns, so it is difficult to get them away for the immunizations.

Hope this was helpful

 

there was a great naturalist named grey owl who kept pet beavers--he actually built his log cabin around a beaver lodge

other than that, i thought that pet beavers were sortof like house hippo's. your account was very interesting burbot.

 

Yeah.... Grey Owl's Beavers. Dude actually built his cabin over the river so that they could build their dam in the river, but still in the house. Jellyroll was one of them... what was the other's name?

 

well, only a few people keep beavers as pets. They're a little expensive to maintain. We used to have one, my stepdad built a room for him beside the garage. We filled it with plastic trees so he'd be able to move around and still get exercise, but wouldn't destroy everything in sight. Very soft fur though, and they barely even shed... once you get 'em used to people they're very friendly

 

pet beever?

I'd heard of Grey Owl doing it but I didn't think this practice extended beyond crazy bush people, haha

learn something new everyday

 

with all the talk about Grey Owl, just wondering if everyone knew he was British...

 

Born British, I don't see what that has to do with anything though, givin his lifestyle here he was more Canadian then most Canadians

 

no, what i meant was that he wasn't a First Nations man...

ive seen some people who talk about him, and then didnt know that...but yeah, id consider him canadain too

 

ive never heard of a canadian owning a pet beaver

but I do like sex

 

oh ya, get em young and no problem.. but dont leave them alone in your back yard.. a guy in calgary left his out one night, it chewed one of his trees and it fell right on his neighbours house.. so there was a huge fight and the neighbour shot-gunned the guy's beaver right in front of him ... terrible thing, really.

 

indeed, cooloner. you make a good point.

many canadians have pet beavers. when i was young we had two, and like imhurria, kept them in the garage so they wouldn't eat everything in sight. you have no idea how much destruction a couple of pet beavers can cause. their names were bullwinkle and steve. one day bullwinkle chewed up the wooden dogsled in the garage that my dad had just finished making, and he got pissed and we had to set them loose.

the sleddogs had to pull the crappy dogsled from the year before that had no brakes and it was a hell of a winter getting to school.

anyway, i still miss steve and bullwinkle, hope they're doing alright.


love,

 

^^ yeah really.... are you guys serious lol what the fuck pet beavers??? I swear ive never heard of a pet beaver in my life maybe its because im in hte city?? ....

 

I'm LOL very hard! I was drunk and posted the original nonsensical thread simply because...I was drunk? I have a weird sense of humor?


Jesus! I never thought our frost-bitten Northern neighbors had beavers for pets. (Maybe wolverines.) Christ! Those fuckers chew for a living. Anything that can chew down a 2' diameter tree overnight, ain't to be messed with.

Yovo-- I see you're a stonemason-- so am I. Keep up the good work-- it looks fine. But, wear knee-pads; it'll save you grief when you get older.

Wideyed-- Don't use shotguns on our furry bark-scarfers: it just ruins the pelt. A .22 between the eyes and ears will work just as fine.

And, I'm serious now, is beaver-tail soup really a delicacy?

 

i love this thead . of course about the .22... you only use a shotgun on your enemies' beaver... theyre violent jumpers too by the way.. the man in calgary swore he shot that beaver down mid air as it went for his face. And it was a believable story too, because we all know how those mofos can jump. Hard to say whos telling the truth in those word v word situations...

as far as beaver tail soup? sounds like silliness to me.

 

also the beaver could have been using a "tree attack"...in my time in the woods and raising them, ive seen them come flying down at me one too many times

 

someone told me americans keep black people for pets.

is he pulling my leg?

 

Now, you fuckers are putting me on! Beavers jumping? Those obese fur-sacks would have trouble getting on their tippy-toes. I guess the next thing you'll say is that a herd of them is heading to New Orleans to dam up the levees.


It would be the cheapest solution.

 

I went for a hike yesterday, down to a hidden spot called Jackson Falls and down in this valley there is this old Oak tree, atleast 150 years old. nearly the entire circumferance of the tree's base had been chewn into a good 6 inches deep and 10 iches wide(beave of course). But that looks to have happened a few years ago and the tree is still recovering, at an impressive rate, but healthy.

So ya, fuck beavers, Trees rule!!!

THE MAPLE LEAF FOREVER

...ra ra ra, go nationalism, ra

...I guess

peace

 

I give up. I'm going to bed ,passing out and allow the Devil to take the hindermost.

I shall return, though.

AS YOU WERE!