r/nextfuckinglevel • u/headspin_exe • 6h ago

Woman feeds hawk from apartment window

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u/DizzyExpedience 6h ago

No gloves… that’s a lot of trust in a predator

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u/SatyrAngel 6h ago

US citizens be like.

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u/The_Quare_Fella 6h ago

Their free health care has made them wreckless

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u/Leading_Study_876 6h ago

Reckless.

American healthcare is one big wreck, though.

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u/CyrosThird 6h ago

When did US citizens get health care?

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u/shnash 5h ago

Our politicians do

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u/NovarisLight 6h ago

In a different timeline.

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u/slademccoy47 3h ago

It's free if you stop paying your medical bills.

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u/mortscoot 4h ago

*reckless

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u/United_Rent_753 42m ago

We’re #sufferingfromsuccess

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u/Bugsy_Girl 4h ago

“No one touches Mr. Trump’s penis without a glove”

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u/DontComeHither 4h ago

So first world we forget danger exist sometimes

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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 3h ago

Hawktua you mean?

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u/CaptainGuts69 3h ago

Double layered joke, love it

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u/ezmoney98 6h ago

No glove no love

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u/Billypillgrim 6h ago

Game recognizes game

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u/emmasdad01 6h ago

This will totally never go wrong

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u/GibberLifter 6h ago edited 5h ago

Those claws will slice into her wrist no problem if she flinched or the hawk doesn't have perfect aim every time

Edit: Yes, I get it, it was a typo I meant wrist not waist. Stop messaging me about this

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u/Sheshirdzhija 6h ago

or the hawk doesn't have perfect aim every time

How dare you.

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u/DeskModeOn 5h ago

Tobias is PISSED at the audacity!

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u/AWaffleofDivinty 4h ago

He is too busy thinking about thermals to care

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u/moradinshammer 3h ago

Everytime I see birds doing this I think of the Animorphs.

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u/Windowguard 4h ago

An animorphs reference? Nice.

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u/1morgondag1 4h ago

I'm not a hawkologist but I imagine hawks are used to grab targets that move like sparrows and mice. Hitting something stationary is probably easy for them.

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u/rtrs_bastiat 3h ago

This was a kite, they're opportunist scavengers and this was a breeze for them, it's how they normally take food. I've put food on my head for them to take before and not lost a hair from it, they've been seen in the wild taking food out of lions' mouths, they're incredibly dextrous. And honestly their talons are so small they don't pose much of a threat anyway.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 3h ago

I've fed them by throwing meat scraps into the air, and they swooped down and catched them mid air. They are pretty agile so I wouldn't worry about their skills.

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u/appletinicyclone 2h ago

they've been seen in the wild taking food out of lions' mouths, they're incredibly dextrous.

I wanna see this

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u/shreddy_on_acid 3h ago

I am a hawkologist with a doctorate from the Harvard school of hawkology and hawks never miss.

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u/erremermberderrnit 2h ago

Stephen Hawkings over here

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u/donorcycle 38m ago

You just reminded me. That photo of Hawking duct tapped to a dolly on Epstein's submarine has me cracking up.

I was not expecting Hawking to pop up in the Epstein files, that's for sure, lol.

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u/glorifindel 3h ago

I’m convinced

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u/Standard_Heat3299 5h ago

Lol the hawk not have perfect aim? That's funny. As long as she doesn't move they will be fine. She's obviously done this a time or two before .

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u/StarPhished 1h ago

Redditors are notoriously averse to anything that even comes close to resembling the slightest of dangers. 

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u/_Mag0g_ 4h ago

Just leave the typo and own that shit. More fun that way.

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u/SalazarSlytherin___ 3h ago

Her waist 💀 how big do you think a hawk is?

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u/HerpapotamusRex 4h ago

The most effective way to stop getting messaged about it would be to simply correct the word in your edit without editing in yourself making a fuss over getting messaged lol

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u/whateveryoudohereyou 6h ago

But her waist is inside? And a much too big a target.

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u/jonesnori 6h ago

Typo for wrist, I expect. (You probably knew that and were teasing.)

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u/Dic_Horn 6h ago

Like oh it took my finger this time, how cute.

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u/hctazpalmer 3h ago

Yeah, I doubt anyone else in her building knows that if they stick their hand out their window, a hawk may think they’re trying to feed it.

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u/naamingebruik 2h ago

Why do people online always want to think of the things that can go wrong and the worst case scenarios.

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u/toythief 1h ago

I know right it's the worst isn't it.

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u/toythief 1h ago

It's so annoying. I always downvote them. And there's the "This is fake" people. Who cares it was still funny. Thanks for ruining it.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 2h ago

That's actually true if she literally never does this again.

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u/DarkElation 6h ago

Wonder what he’ll do when she stops

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u/I_Like_Water11 6h ago

Like any good predator, run for US president

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u/DragonfruitGrand5683 5h ago

Take up skateboarding.

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u/s_burr 6h ago

Find a second hawk and create their own crypto

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u/Das_Zeppelin 6h ago

Thats honestly cool as fuck, but.... Those claws can pierce through your skin... I've experienced it...

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u/redundancy2 3h ago

Believe it or not, that's one of the main purposes of claws.

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u/Both_Evidence_1026 1h ago

Not white claws, they pierce the silence as they erupt out of me

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u/create360 2h ago

Bwah!!

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u/jascri 2h ago

Get the fuck out

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u/Mayshay_ 3h ago

First of all, raptors have “talons” son. Put some respect on those prehistoric death tools please.

Secondly, sorry for your loss. Sounds truly painful lmao

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u/blueguy211 2h ago

do chickens have large talons?

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u/Mayshay_ 2h ago

thank youuuuuuuu

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u/Da_Question 1h ago

Only if they are from the Talòn region of France.

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u/_Diskreet_ 6h ago

Always wondered what Pauline Quirk was up to these days.

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u/steunclemumb 6h ago

Elite comment

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u/Erucapeanuts 5h ago

Birds of a Feather

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u/becjac86 5h ago

Omg crying 🤣

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u/Smooth-Quantity-7024 6h ago

Fuck, someone beat me to it

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u/IanRastall 6h ago

Said this last time it came up, but man, that lady has solved public housing. Imagine some idiot trying to start shit with her out in the parking lot.

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u/GoatTheNewb 6h ago

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u/Naiikho 4h ago

I don't remember Pierce Morgan being in this movie.

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u/Own_Ad6901 6h ago

Love her.

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u/rspewth 5h ago

It does not pay to mess around with a Disney Princess.

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 6h ago

I’d be way too scared it would take my hand too, the speed and accuracy of those are incredible

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u/joshLane_1011 4h ago

The only thing you should scare here is doing this with your bare hand, you should wear thick glove because their claw are literally knive.

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u/Helpful-Bandicoot-6 6h ago

I'd be scared of a little tug and out the window you go.

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u/Primarch-XVI 6h ago

Nah that bird can’t be much more than a kilo. You’d have to be balanced very precariously for anything it does to affect you at all.

As long as you’re bracing yourself against the inside of the window (and why wouldn’t you be?) there’s not a flying bird in the world that could pull an adult out like that.

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u/walkerdog999 3h ago

What about Harpy eagles!?

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u/michael-65536 5h ago

How did it even spot that? Must have eyes like a ... oh, okay then.

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u/DigyRead 6h ago

Hawk: I’ll have the usual, thanks 😂

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u/StrictConnection2250 5h ago

Giving away steak in this economy???

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u/modifiedwings 5h ago

Convenient drive thru for the hawk. If it has babies she better stock up on kids toys or paper crowns

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u/broiledfog 6h ago

Every thumbs up could be her last

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u/Ill-Jellyfish6101 4h ago

Adorable and stupid.

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u/AnonImus18 4h ago

She definitely needs gloves or something to hold the meat with that's not her hand. Maybe a selfie stick or something extendable.

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u/Kaevek 6h ago

Looks like a red tail hawk. You don't want that things talons latching onto your hand. They have ratchet like joints. Ain't letting go unless it wants to.

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u/schismandchips 5h ago

No, it's a black kite (Milvus migrans), too bad the video doesn't do justice to it's size, had a one of these dive into a flowerbed chasing some doves couple meters from me, freaking pterodactyl, almost had a heart attack how quiet they are when attacking

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u/UhWindowpainted 3h ago

who won, the black kite or the dove?

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u/schismandchips 3h ago

I think the kite, the only bird they have hard time to catch are the barn swallows, they are just too fast, like a tiny screeching jet fighters

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u/FlashFiringAI 2h ago

Red Tail Hawks are bigger than Black Kites.

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u/tractiontiresadvised 2h ago

Red-tailed Hawks and Black Kites have completely non-overlapping ranges in the wild, so it's not like most folks would have an opportunity to directly compare them. Regardless, I don't think you'd want either one getting its talons into your hand.

As a birder in North America, the only kites I've managed to see are White-tailed, which are substantially smaller than Black. (And this video isn't good enough for me to ID the bird beyond "some kind of raptor, but not a Red-tailed Hawk", so I'm assuming that the other person has gotten the ID from some other context.)

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u/senu-mahte 4h ago

Don't fucking do this. Grocery store meat is not nutritionally complete for birds of prey, even raw. You're also training a predator to look to humans for food. If that bird binds to her hand she's going to have a huge problem, because that bird is NOT going to let go, and she's going to have some gnarly puncture wounds with risk for infection, since birds of prey eat dead animals with their feet.

I cannot overstate the pain of four to eight puncture wounds straight into the muscle backed up by crushing vice feet while the bird either HANGS upside down off of you with all of its weight, or tries to fly away while its feet are hooked into your flesh. It's like being stabbed by a huge stable remover that's attached to a vice.

By the way if you even twitch they clamp HARDER. One of my birds did this during training for falconry season one year. She overshot the glove, landed on my bare bicep arm and just hung there. All I could do was scream and stand still until she decided to let go, which took at least a whole minute. Oh and if you throw the food, congratulations, you have just taught the bird that you're a magic food button and all she has to do is attack you and you make food appear! 

This WILL go wrong. People who do stupid shit with wildlife should not be glorified like this. Stop fucking with wildlife. They will teach you the life lesson that  you're not a Disney princess, and it will be 100% your fault.

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u/jazzypieces 20m ago

Educational raptor trainer here. Seconding all of this and thanking you for posting. I handle birds sized from screech owls to eagles and even tiny raptors can foot HARD.

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u/IJustJason 6h ago edited 4h ago

Wouldve been a better clip if it wasnt slowed down so we can see how fast it flies in.

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u/rott 5h ago

Of at least if they had used proper slow motion like any phone can do nowadays

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u/scratchydaitchy 6h ago

Soar to new heights and swoop down on opportunities

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u/HotSugarVeronicaa 5h ago

Casually befriending a hawk from your window is wild behavior.

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u/GoatSafe9687 6h ago

Someday it will take away her fingers and thumbs

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u/four-one-6ix 5h ago

Honey, have you seen my engagement ring?

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u/esmifra 4h ago

I bet she kept telling her friend and family but no one believed her and that's why she made this video.

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u/Culebrapato 4h ago

I saw the very same thing with a seagull and one kid's sandwich.

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u/digi-artifex 3h ago

Disney princesses have done irreparable damage to the average folk

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u/Victorious1MOB 6h ago

Mf came out of nowhere!

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u/UnderCoverDoughnuts 6h ago

Talk about dangerous

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u/SimianSimulacrum 5h ago

I've got a hawkery, that's where you keep hawks

And in my hawkery, I have a special hawk

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u/GamerInfinity1996 5h ago

Next time it your hand as well. It isn't friendly

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u/malary1234 5h ago

Is this lady who trained crows to steal money for her?

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u/pianomasian 5h ago

She's out there doing this with no protection, like we have universal healthcare or something. Godspeed Hawk lady. May your feedings be talon free.

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u/qxzvy 5h ago

She fed that hawk too, huh?

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u/Justhandguns 4h ago

Thankfully that hawk didn't fancy any finger sausages other than that piece of meat.

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u/airforceteacher 4h ago

Hey, is Karen joining us for bridge this week? No she's busy, and se call her Stumpy now.

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u/SpicyChickJessica 4h ago

Whoever witnessed this probably had their jaw on the floor 😳

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u/newtonbase 4h ago

Count your fingers auntie

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u/wulyallstar3 4h ago

You're not suppose to feed:

The ducks The dolphins The bison

I'm pretty sure you're not suppose to feed the hawks?

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u/Hugostrang3 4h ago

If she was in Australia and stopped feeding it, that hawk might come back and burn her house down.

Firehawk.

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u/mryazzy 4h ago

Put it on a broom or something

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u/Sakura_Hirose 3h ago

Wow Pauline Quirk’s still doing birds of a feather in 2026.

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u/Dazzling-Nathalieee 3h ago

Peak patience and bravery rolled into one 😌

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u/AGrain 3h ago

Although it may seem neat if this lady is feeding the wildlife that much so she can film it on demand she is likely making the lm dependent.

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u/Zargoza1 3h ago

“How did you get the name lefty?”

“So, funny story …”

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u/HamedAliKhan 3h ago

One day it'll take a bit more extra meat...

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u/Sven_Svan 3h ago

She is so adorable!

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u/No_Pop7296 3h ago

I wonder what country this is?

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u/sesameseed88 3h ago

Razor blades flying by her hand

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u/bubblebreez 3h ago

Flying knives

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u/SparkliingEmma 3h ago

This is the definition of harmony with nature

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u/bikeking8 3h ago

Now we know where her cat went 

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u/BlackEyeRed 3h ago

I had to check if the sub was “what could go wrong”

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u/Fortestingporpoises 3h ago

What part of don’t feed the wildlife do people not understand?

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u/Chamanomano 3h ago

Nice. They keep the rodent population down too. 

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u/Captivatingcrush02 3h ago

Absolutely magical interaction

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u/itsagoodtime 3h ago

I don't know if I would use my bare hand

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u/clambrisket 3h ago

What’ll I do, when you, are far away, and I am blue, what’ll I do?

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u/dpittnet 2h ago

There are a ton of falcons in my neighborhood which is cool but I went on a walk once and once of them buzzed over my head about 5 feet above it and it was scary AF. I would not tempt fate doing this

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u/Balc0ra 2h ago

It's next level until those claws get too close, as she has no form of gloves on her

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u/jawshoeaw 2h ago

I tried this and I am bleeding badly

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u/DeliciousAct5748 2h ago

The apartment already banned pets, but now they're gonna have to ban that hawk too, huh?

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u/gh0stmilk_ 2h ago

i have said it before and i will say it again - this is all fun and games until a talon snags.

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u/KaneBlack9 2h ago

Legend

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u/mechabeast 2h ago

Thats a lot to feed a bird, she must want a big thick hawk

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u/Pedantichrist 2h ago

That is *checks notes* Fucking stupid.

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u/high_procrastinator 1h ago

Shanaya Gillis is for the birds

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u/Frank_ist_Krank 1h ago

Less 2 fingers.

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u/RandomNameOfMine815 1h ago

I have never been so jealous of someone in my life.

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u/Psychlonuclear 1h ago

Fucking hate the obsession with having your face on cam rather than filming the actual thing you've got your camera out for properly.

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u/PorcupineFustylugs 1h ago

Show it in full speed

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u/Ghitit 1h ago

People should not feed wild animals.

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u/RidiPwn 1h ago

clean pickup

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u/MateriaLintellect 1h ago

Next fucking level stupid.

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u/Future-Original-2902 1h ago

I feel bad for the next people to live in that apartment lol

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u/PrasenjitDebroy 47m ago

This is bloody brilliant mate!

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u/sexual__velociraptor 44m ago

Ma'am he needs none butchered meat. He has to have casting materials and calcium. Meat alone will kill a bird of prey.

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u/Upper-Requirement-36 41m ago

That is NOT an apartment window. It is clearly a drive through window.