Is it normal that I want to run away and go live alone somewhere in nature for the rest of my life?
It is quite natural to dream of it. I had the same dream quite often. I love nature. I am very happy alone. But I admit I am more of a village girl than a “wild nature” girl.But I don’t imagine eating ants or lizards, facing the lack of vitamins and vegetables, losing time to find wood for the fire. I am too busy to spend 10 hours a day at pure survival. I want to learn about nature, I could not do that “in nature”. I love my family too…..I lived in a log cabin in the forest for about ten years. I have enchanted memories of the foxes and deer in front of my window in the morning. However, it was just one hour from Paris in France. I had electricity and a shower with hot water. Half an hour from work.Look for a compromise, I would think, because we don’t have much time to do and learn everything we want.
Should I let my wild (now pet) lizard go?
My goodness you are getting some intense and very preachy uninformed opinions tonight. I applaud you for taking such good care of her. While most everyone who cares for reptiles will state that placing wild caught animals in captivity is not a good idea - many forget WHY such statements have become accepted as fact. In truth most wild caught reptiles are not cared for properly and die quite quickly, clearly in your case this was not the case. Not so much that you need to know, but in case others read this one significant and overlooked reason not to remove animals from the wild is to preserve the breeding population. For this reason it is always important not to remove a breeding adult from the wild - in your case you didn't remove her from the wild - more like rescued her from death in a bathroom AND took exemplary care of her. Now all of that being said - from an ecological and responsibility perspective, no she should not be let go, and here is why: Over the course of the last eight months she has been exposed to a very different diet and set of germs/bacterial/fungal/viral than she would have been in the wild - clearly she has adapted to her new life, however her development no longer matches other lizards not in captivity, she may have picked up a variety of organisms during her time with you and adapted well over the course of the last many months. If she is now carrying foreign organisms of any kind she could very well infect the local population and inadvertently spread disease, thusly damaging the other wild lizards and other reptiles. Not something that you want to do. In addition she herself may not have developed immunities that the local wild lizards have over the last several months and even if her skills are up to the challenge of being on her own her immune system may not be. These are the main reason wildlife re-habbers have to follow such incredibly strict and sometimes seemingly odd guidelines - to protect both the individual and the group. The most responsible thing for all is for you to continue to provide her with good care and enjoy her company. Prevent her exposure to the local population and you will have served all quite well. If you seek to give her a more natural or improved environment you can construct a more elaborate habitat for her in your home, but please at this point do not let her go.
Should I release my hamster to nature? My hamster is trying to "break jail" every night. I wonder if it is eager to be free. Will it be happier living in the wild?
If by "the wild" you mean inside your home, then by all means go ahead.He will love living under your fridge. Ours did, when he escaped. Make sure and leave out some food and water and he'll be happy as a clam. Oh, but he'll need a mate. The two of them will be happy under your fridge or they may decide to move into larger quarters behind the dishwasher when the kids arrive. They'll die eventually, probably from chewing on power cords or falling into the toilet. I don't know how ours did it, but he somehow found a way. (We found him before it was Too Late.) Some of their offspring should survive though, and continue to entertain you by climbing into your sock drawer and chewing up your socks to make a nest.In the outdoors, they will soon get cold and wet, and they won't know how to find food or evade predators, so that is not safe for them. They won't be happy at all.I think what your hamster really wants is some exercise. First, he needs a running wheel in his cage. This is an absolute necessity. Hamsters love to run and explore, that's why they love escaping. In measured wheels, they have been recorded traveling as far as four miles in one night! That doesn't mean they want to be fed to the neighborhood cats and owls in the great outdoors.We let ours out for a run every night, indoors of course. We taught them to come when we called. (They were all very tame to handle, so they were not scared of us.) I call a hamster by scratching and making scuttling sounds with my fingers on the floor. They are so curious about that noise that they always come to see if it might be another hamster. Then I just scoop them up. Sometimes they would fall asleep in certain favourite places, like my shoe cupboard. We got to know where to look for them. Don't ever feed them outside their cage (except as bait). If they can't find any food during their outings they are usually happy to find a treat back in their cage when they return.For the more skittish ones, another way to catch them is to put a small dark box on the floor. We used a tea cannister. Dark holes are irresistible to hamsters, they just can't help themselves, but must go in and take a look. Worked every time. We had full-sized hamsters, not the mini Russian ones. The mini ones are much harder to tame and catch, but I think the same techniques might work.
Why cant I just let nature take its course?
I have been in a relationship for most of my adult life but after my last one ended I said that I wanted to just be single, now I dont want this. I have fallin for the first guy that I went out with have only be single for about 10 months. But now I want to be with someone that doesnt care if I am alive. I hate being by myself an feel like time is running out!! Do you guys think its true that there is someone for everybody? My ex told me no one will ever love me, that they will only use me for sex an my money. I feel he could be right!!!
How do animals can predic a natural disaster before it hapens?
I've heard that some pets freak out before anural disasters such as an earthquake is about to hapen, and that wild animals flee the area, and I have to admit that I had lived it, when I used to live in Mexico there was an earthquake which epicenter was some where in Durango state. when it reached Zacatecas State, in Jerez (where I used to live) I had just taken a shower and I was watching TV and started feeling a little dizzy, then my momk came out and telled, "Esta Temblando!!" zomg It was an ancient house (literaly, like rebolutionary days house (about 100 years old)) powder started droping fron the high sealing, we went outside at the middle of the yard (which was acually in the middle of the house, and the rooms where around it) the trees started skaking and the lightbulbs (holded by a looooong wire from the sealing) roked in a circle.... I was the most scarry thing I've ever felt, eventhough it was a literaly gentle rocking it didnt destroy anything just like.. *rock*anyways......