What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why? (lemmy.cafe)

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For me:

Monkeys and apes: they look too much like humans and expose many terrible traits of humans.
Greyhounds: their thin long body shape look weird to me.

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[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Squirrels. Cute as hell in the wild, not so much in my attic. They are tiny little destructive machines.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago

Their PR team is doing great work

[-] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department:

“Ground squirrels are associated with the spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rat bite fever, tularemia, Chagas’ disease, adiospiromycosis, and encephalomyocarditis. Notably, they can serve as reservoirs for sylvatic (bubonic) plague, a highly infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis…People and their pets can get plague if they visit or live in areas where ground squirrels or other rodents are infected.”

[-] jasep@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

As a fellow Jay who has also had to deal with Squirrels in the attic, I wholeheartedly concur. Squirrels - what a bunch of bastards.

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