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I find them to be interesting and heard that they make good pets. Can learn to mimic if tounge is split, too. I was just wondering if anyone here ever owned one and had any information to share, like where to get one. ------------------------------------ Originally posted by BART185 I've had another member on this board post an aireal photograph of my neighborhood,post my wifes name,dig up old ads on GunsAmerica,call me out on everything that I posted. Hell,obmuteR told me to FIST MYSELF. But you are the biggest jackass that I've seen yet, on this board! -------------------------------------- -Ratboy | ||
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Many years ago, so many years that it might have been legal, I had several crows for pets. I have more stories than I care to type, but they can mimic human sounds whether their tongues are split or not. are very entertaining and make good "watch dogs." The crows I had were taken from the nest when they were fully feathered, but before they took their first flight. we fed them by hand and clipped their wing feathers to delay flight. By the time the feathers grew back they knew where the free lunch was and, usually, chose to stay. My Mother credits a pet crow with heroism. I mentioned they're watch dogs, telling on anything unusual from stray cats to people. One day our crow was screaming and raising cane a few feet from the front porch. We went out to find a large copperhead coiled and striking repeatedly at the bird, which proved to be very adept at dodging. Probably there are laws against this sort of thing now, but I have a lot of fond memories about pet crows. Like any animal for a pet, they're not for everbody. Hope that helps. | |||
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Back when I was a small tyke a friend of the family had one. About the most exotic I have had was a young raccoon. I remember it bout killed me when my dad made me turn it loose. I kept it almost a year. Turned it loose in a state park in Oklahoma. Keep yer powder dry and yer knife sharp. | |||
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Way back when I was a kid we had a raven that we hand raised. He made a fascinating pet. We never kept him in a cage, just opened the garage and let him in at night, let him out in the morning to roam the neighborhood. He seemed to be very intelligent, would come to you when called and was happy to ride around on your arm or shoulder. He loved horseplay; you could tease him endlessly. Unfortunately we had one grumpy old woman that didn't like what he did to her fresh laundry hanging on the clothes line so after many complaints we had to give him to some folks that lived in the country. I would expect that they are as smart as a parrot. C.G.B. | |||
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I have similar stories as Bsanders. The first one I had was as a young kid. I zipped off some of the flight feathers with a misplaced 22 shot. My daughter recently nursed one back that was dazed from a car hit. Lived in the house for a few months and then it slept on top of the house for a couple months. We suspect a local great horned owl snatched it as it was just gone one day. | |||
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My grandmother told me that her cousin stole a ravens chick from a nest once. It became a very tame pet, that came flying down to sit on your shoulder. She said it scared here good several times. I can understand it, when a big, black bird suddenly sits on your shoulder, I would have jumped sky high. She said that it used to fly and meet the schoolbus a bit away from the farm, and ride ontop of it home  . It got a bit of a tragic end, one day it had crapped all over the white laundry that was laying on the snow for bleaching(That is they way they did it in the olddays in Norway) Then my grandmothers uncle just got his rifle out and shot the raven down from the barn.. Johan There's plenty of room for all God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes. | |||
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our neighbors had one when I was a kid, they bought him from some Amish kids who could get you one. they named him Jerome, and he just kind of hung out in the neighborhood, mostly at their house. he would trade things with you- I remember having a foil gum wrapper he wanted (he seemed to like shiney things), so he hopped away, and came back with a few long pine needles in his beak, to swap for the foil. he'd fly up and land on your shoulder, too. he did this to the elderly lady next door to us one time and she almost had a goose until she figured out what was going on. he stayed around for a few months, then took up with a flock of crows that came through, and left with them. he could, if you were listening, mimic his owners name, too. a really amusing pet, and he got to go off with his bretheren in the end.
my dad turned mine loose (I couldn't do it, for the same reason you state above) in a state park in Ohio. a couple years later, I heard a noise on the roof outside my bedroom window one night, I went to look, and there was a coon looking at me in through the window- most raccoons I'd seen were black-furred, this one was brown. just like the one I had for a pet... | |||
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I had a pet Magpie when I was in highschool."Maggie" had a toilet paper fetish when we let it in the house. She would eat just about anything. We fed it cat food and it drank from the toilet. The only problen was that it shit on everything. They're smart birds too and I taught it whistle and hiss like a snake. It couldn't or wouldn't talk. She went on car rides and was basically a worthless black and white parrot. She lasted 3 1/2 yrs. and disappeared in the fall of 84'. | |||
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my raccoon ate a hole in the underside of the sofa and lived up in it until she got too big, and she'd only crap in the livingroom next to the TV- I had really tolerant parents, now that I mull it over.
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When I was in my late teens (over 30yrs ago), some friends of mine (two brothers) had a pet crow they got from a nest. He was named "Devil", and was a neat pet. He could say (after no doubt hearing it many times) "get out of here", and "shut the door". It always looked liked he strained so hard to get out the words, but did it often. He would catch pennies thrown his way, then go hide them. Even stole a watch off a picnic table, and I watched him try and haul off spark plugs one day while we were working on a truck. I believe he lived at least 7-8 yrs. | |||
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There's a wild crow with half of its upper beak missing that lives year-round on my place. It will hop onto the porch to eat food out of the dogs' bowl. Sometimes there may be as many as twenty crows at a time, passing thru and eating in the yard. Most days, it's Half-Beak and one or two buddies. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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So what is the rest of the story?? "Science only goes so far then God takes over." | |||
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the point is, I'm just about positive that the raccoon at the window was the same one we had as a pet- when she was little, she stayed in my bedroom. that was the only time any animal had climbed up on the roof. there wasn't any reason I could figure why the raccoon would climb up there other than it was the same one, and she had decided to come home. only time I saw her, though. | |||
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Years ago i found a small one and could have kept it but let it go ,i dont think there is many things more intelligent than a crow ! they would leave a greenie or feminist to dead, when it comes to intelligence and how to use it !nothing i hate more than noisy crows, and i kill em every chance i get !!! screaming kids and barking f...king dogs in suburbia are the next or more worse thing !!!!!!!!!!!! | |||
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He turned his head just as the trigger on my Fireball broke. | |||
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We robbed a nest of them when I was a teenager. We put them in an old chicken coop until they got big enough to fly. We fed them dry dog food soaked in water till it was real moist. They were easy to care for but kind of boring, actually---or maybe I was too impatient. They were smelly too and crapped alot! As they got older, they'd sit on the roof of the chicken coop and fly into the nearby trees. Eventually they grew up and flew farther and farther away and one day too off and we never saw them again. Jordan | |||
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Ole Half-beak was in the yard this morning. She had a nearly grown child following her around, begging for morsels. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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No Crow but raised a Blue Jay once. It was a remarkable bird. Eventually it joined with other Jay's and went feral. I never kept it in a cage except when it was too young to fly. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Crows can make good pets and learn to copy talk very well but there is a bad side to crows.... In sheep farming country crows are shot on sight. They will peck at the eyes and umbilical cord of newly born lambs cuasing serious injury that can lead to death. They will also peck at the vagina of the ewe that has given birth causing ugly wounds that get infected and invaded by parasites such as maggots and these ewes can also die. | |||
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We keep a couple of crows when I was kid use them for drawing crows in to shoot. other then that have no use for them. | |||
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Must be something about crows that they don't like laundry. My Grandpa had a few when he was a kid and had all kind of stories about what they'd do. He lost one to Great Grandma when it got into the habit of walking down the clothes line and pulling all the clothes pins off. Grandpa said they'd follow him to school and fly around the building, looking into each window until they found him. IIRC, they'd make a nusciance of themselves so he lost a few more that way. He also said they'd disappear every fall when the rest of the wild birds would migrate but in the spring they'd check back in and say howdy one last time before full-time crow life. Being a tree trimmer, Grandpa got a few crows for his sons but my mom (their sister) wouldn't let my have anything to do with that knowing what troublemakers crows can be. Stuff like that never bothered Grandpa much though. | |||
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I took one from a nest when I was a kid and hand raised him (I just assumed it was a "him"). He was a fascinating bird. He tormented my mom's cat mercilessly. He would hide behind the door and grab the cat's tail when she came through. On real hot days he liked to cool off in a pan of water. He would immerse himself totally. When I went fishing he would circle overhead and land on my shoulder the minute I hooked one. Looking for a handout. His worst habit was a desire to stick grasshoppers into my ear. If I reached up with my hand he would put it in my fingers instead. I guess he was trying to feed me. He had a running feud with some swallows which had a nest under the eave of the garage. When he was perched up on the ridge, they would dive at him until he would finally have to fly way up to get away from them. He would then come back down and, using a piece of shingle from the roof, stir up what ever was in the nest. Crows and ravens are, as I said before, fascinating birds but are certainlynot everbody's friend. Regards, Bill. | |||
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My Brother brought home two crows when we were kids-don't remember how he got them, but it was spring so probably from a nest. Anyway, they became pets. My Dad and Brother also had three redbone bluetick cross hunting dog pups we were all training. We also had three cats. My Mother took a picture of all of these-crows, dogs and cats on our front yard as my Brother and I were entertaining them all! They all got along! They were really nice pets! Then in October a week after my Brother's birthday, Mother gave the crows the old angel food cake and they... | |||
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