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Few years ago, I visited the Columbus Zoo in Ohio (I'm from Alberta btw) and one of the display was gopher aka ground dog. Now, in my opinion, gophers is one of the most hated animal in Western Canada and yet, it is considered loved and cute in Ohio?

Gophers are well known to be digging millions of holes around Western Canada and pissing off homeowners and farmers off.

What other animals that are loved or hated and yet, are the opposited somewhere else?

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lurkette

It's not a geographic issue - it's a contextual issue. Gophers are hated in backyards and golf courses (cf. Caddy Shack) and are loved and cute in zoos where they can't dig tunnels under your expensive sod. Doesn't matter where your lawn is, Canada or Ohio, gophers are a pain in the ass.

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maleficent

Skunks were adorable in the movie Bambi, skunks are adorable in the zoo, skunks are not adorable when they are sitting on the sidewalk between you and your frontdoor at 2:00am when you have to get in the house because you must use the restroom. Skunks are not adorable when your lamebrained building management decides to set some "have a heart" traps to catch the skunk, 10 feet from your opened living room window. (What do you think a skunk will do when it's caged? You'd be correct.)

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Rottweillers: Yes, people have them as family pets, and love them dearly, they are kind and loving dogs. Uh huh -- I wouldn't have a problem having the breed destroyed. A few years back, I walked into my backyard, this family pet jumped out of the kennel he was sitting in (it was at least a 6 foot fence) and came at me. Got my arm and didn't let go. What finally got this beast to let go, was a bullet or two from the cop next door who was just pulling into his driveway and had pretty quick reactions. (Not quick enough though to avoid 22 stitches in my arm)

I have absolutely no use for Rottweillers.

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la petite moi

Definitely agree with Maleficent.

MSD

Gopher holes break horses' legs and make my lawn look like crap. They're useless.

Nitrox

I would have to chime in with "red squirrels"

The little bastards have been waging an intifada against me and my house. They have little suicide bombers that get in the air vents and make their way to the furnace where they are beheaded by the fan and then the smell of rot fills the house. Three times so far this summer.

The HVAC people say they never seen anything like it.

ARTelevision

homo sapiens is an animal we both love and hate.
When we want companionship we love other homo sapiens.
When we want to be alone we hate them.

We also both love and hate ourselves.

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amonkie

I'd have to go with wolves. I think they're really beautiful creatures, but I know many people with farms and land who lose many animals to the wolves and their cousin, the coyote. The beauty comes at a cost of losing sheep, dogs, and small foals for some people.

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Sugar&Spice

Wolves. I hate them. But I have good reason too. After going to feed my dog and pulling her out of her dog house and seeing her throat ripped out I have no use for them. It was in the winter time and all around her dog house were the tell tale tracks. They purely killed her for sport. Not because they were hungry.

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StormBerlin

My vote goes to skunks I can't stand that particular smell in the wild. Can't you de scent them if you keep one as a pet, I never could figure that out?

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Nitrox

Oh, and how about rabbits. Cute fluffy little things, yet are wreaking havoc with my garden.

losthellhound

I know its an insect.. but BEES

bees, workers of the insect world. Keeping the trees healthy and prosperous. Collecting pollen and helping flowers spread, making honey which we gleefully spread across our bread.. Then, they turn thier attention to me. (not a flower).. And voila, they are now instantly transformed into killers the likes of which would turn jack the ripper white as a sheet..

evil evil evil...

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eribrav

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nitrox
[B]I would have to chime in with "red squirrels"

The little bastards have been waging an intifada against me and my house. They have little suicide bombers that get in the air vents and make their way to the furnace where they are beheaded by the fan and then the smell of rot fills the house. Three times so far this summer.


Red squirrels are definitely on the "to be killed on sight" list.

Last year, I saw one near our back door a few times. I couldn't figure out where the little varmint was hiding, but I knew he was up to no good. Next day, purely by accident, I knocked one of our garbage pails over and out he comes! Little bastard had chewed a hole in our pail and made a little home in there.

That's when he made his last mistake. Instead of sprinting for the woods he ran about 20 feet up a tree and started squawking at me. Literally mocking the crap out of me. Little did he know it was deer season and the shotgun was just inside the door. End of story.

:::OshnSoul:::

i love and respect all animals. they all have their own habits, insticts, and way of living- just like us humans.

raeanna74

Mice

They're cute in the wild. I love how tiny their furry bodies look and sound.

I hate them running over my counters and digging under my cupboards carrying their creepy diseases into my kitchen.

Pretty much any critter that isn't a family pet - I hate them in my home. I will take spiders outside if I can catch them but otherwise bugs, mice, spiders, anything else like that does not belong in my home and puts itself in danger of death if I cannot get it out of my house first.

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yabobo

I won't go too far into religion,but I think every animal,bug,human
pest ect... has it's purpose. We use are brains and bullets and rarley control our problems in nature.
Gophers are cuties but a horses leg broken is horrid!
They are in my opinion just pests and shoot to thrill!
May I not go down to hell for that one!

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choskins

Bears are a good example. We all have teddy bears in our house, etc. However, none of us want to meet the real thing in the woods.

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yabobo

A--MEN!

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Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
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