Some animals are hated where they live. Locally, it’s magpies. I absolutely love them. Which triggers some unfriendly language from some people. I also love the great tailed grackles everyone south of here seems to hate. edit: also, wasps :heart:

Rats and mice leave urine trails, poop all over and chew things up. Because of this, some people hate them. Others just get scared because of a fast moving creature they don’t understand. If we don’t want them in our buildings and storage etc we need to take responsibility for keeping them out. It’…

Snakes are also a very common example. My family, for example, hates snakes, but I love them. Many people don’t understand the fact that snakes don’t bite because they want to (we’re not in their menu), but because they’re defending themselves. Most deaths related to snake bites happen because the …

We love spiders and have several living in our house. One large house spider has a web in a somewhat inaccessible corner of our kitchen and my husband feeds her any flies that stray into the house.

We also have spiders, not inside the house, but in our garden. I often throw mosquitos and flies to the web.

In my part of the world (Interior Alaska) it’s the red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). I myself, have mixed feelings about them. Living in old growth boreal forest, they’re a constant presence, year round. They’re noisy, bossy, messy, super territorial, prolific, sometimes predatory, and destruc…

We don’t have magpies here and I’m jealous. But we do have Blue Jays and most people consider them annoying or bullies. Meanwhile anyone new to the area or who doesn’t get outside at all is like wow they’re so beautiful!

Leeches are very graceful when swimming. In Britain we only have one that might suck your blood and that is so rare, it is on the protected list. I might feel differently if we had the ones that drop on to you out of the trees. Many people turn up their noses at mention of water fleas just because …

What "hated" animals do you love?

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Ruminantia_errata January 31, 2024, 8:00pm 20

Locally, many of the folks I know hate carp, which are my favorite critters!

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