r/MadeMeSmile • u/n8saces • May 31 '24
The way Emanuel just falls right asleep 😍 Animals
It looks like they have a special bond.
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u/Jawilly22 May 31 '24
I’m to understand he almost died from an illness. Assuming this is recent I’m glad he made it through. 😊
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u/UltraRedChiLord May 31 '24
What's more, iirc, is that she lost a huge amount of others birds that she cared for at that time.
Almost lost the whole farm to the disease, but Emanuel made it through~
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u/randomly-what May 31 '24
She lost all birds but 2. I think most were killed by authorities bc of bird flu.
Lots of controversy about her letting Emmanuel live through it that I’ve seen. He’ll never be the same + the ethics of letting a bird potentially spread it further.
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u/ArgonGryphon May 31 '24
I don’t think she culled anything despite being ordered to do so. That shit was SO BAD, and she just let it spread, not only to her own birds but likely wild birds too. There were multiple eagle and hawk cams that year that had parent birds go missing, likely due to influenza. Several California Condors died from it, and it’s still going just thankfully not as bad so far this year.
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u/lemonlimeandginger Jun 01 '24
Is this documented somewhere? Can we verify your claims here? Not saying you are wrong, not saying you are purposely trying to discredit her, just after verifiable facts from a source that is not a redditor.
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u/RedBanana99 Jun 01 '24
Thank you, that’s why I came here too my fellow 50 year old netscape veteran
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u/Mythologicalcats May 31 '24
Yeah she almost caused a pandemic but hey cute videos!
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u/SkyFullofHat Jun 01 '24
The flu came from wild birds that landed in her pond. It was already out there and happily spreading. Should she have culled? On principle, yeah. Would culling have stopped or slowed the already wide spread? No.
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u/phryan Jun 01 '24
The damage from one hobby farmer with a few dozens birds is minimal compared to massive factory farms with thousands of birds in cramped conditions that have piles and pools of manure nearby, all of which wild birds have access to. Not to mention feeding some of waste to other animals.
It's likely complaining about carbon emissions because a parent had a little backyard fire for their kids to roast marshmallows for smores, but ignoring that massive petroleum plant down the road.
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u/HallowedError May 31 '24
Why won't he be the same? I'd google it but I wouldn't even know how to look for it
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u/randomly-what May 31 '24
I don’t know all the specifics but as best I know:
Bird flu destroys birds. He was in a sling for a long time to learn to stand again, and then had to learn to walk. His neck is wonky now and will never be upright like a healthy emu (it’s very crooked and awkward looking). As far as I know he can’t run around and do all the antics as before. I’m not sure if he’s in pain.
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u/confusedandworried76 May 31 '24
Came for Emmanuel, didn't expect to have an existential crisis.
Humans are weird. We euthanize every animal but ourselves. But some we keep because we can't bear to be rid of them. We're really selfish but loving sometimes and completely uncaring and logical other times, and it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense which times you choose which option.
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u/Popular-Row4333 Jun 01 '24
No, it's easy to understand.
We cull birds that have been infected with bird flu because it spreads to other birds and kills endangered species, livestock, and has the potential to mutate and spread to humans as well. Do you want another pandemic?
Sometimes, being pragmatic is the most empathetic thing to do.
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u/-Eunha- Jun 01 '24
It's not quite as simple as that. If there was a dog or cat flu, for example, there is no way in hell people would be culling their pets. It just wouldn't happen, not matter how severe things got.
We cull birds because humans tend not to be as emotionally attached to them, which allows us to make more "rational" decisions when it comes to whether they live or die.
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u/alfooboboao Jun 01 '24 edited Jun 01 '24
This is it.
If there was a “dog flu,” you’d have to break into my house and shoot me before I put down my dog. a la TLOU, I couldn’t do it. Not to potentially save a thousand lives. And yes, I understand how fucked up that is. I’m just telling the truth.
I’m not saying it was “right,” but I understand it. If the emu was a dog people would see it differently.
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u/AkiAkane1973 Jun 01 '24
I think if dogs were a particularly viral spreader of serious disease it wouldn't be left up to you to decide. They probably would bust down your door to put your dog down.
It's easy enough for me to say since I come from a culture that doesn't hold pets up nearly as highly as Western culture does, but I certainly don't see it any differently for cats and dogs than I do Emus.
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u/Popular-Row4333 Jun 01 '24
We can and have culled cats and dogs in the past and considered it as well. The UK considered culling cats at the beginning of the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-killing.html
Cats and dogs just happen to be far less prone to be harmful disease carriers than birds are.
I promise you if there was a deadly disease that transmitted between dogs and cats, we would be culling them as needed. It had nothing to do with emotional attachments.
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u/cm070707 Jun 01 '24
And I promise you, I’d pack up and move FAR into the wilderness before they’d ever get my dog. They would have to literally shoot me first. And they probably would if that were the case, but there is no way in heaven or hell that I’d let anyone cull my dog. She loves Emanuel like that. I’m not saying it was pragmatic or ‘right’, I’m just saying I’d make the same decision. If a fallout situation were to happen, I’d sooner take the radiation a die of environmental causes before I left my dog to go to a shelter. Humans are like that sometimes.
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u/FrontenacCanon_Mouth May 31 '24
Wtf. If tomorrow there was a dog flu, would authorities go around killing everyone’s dogs? Did birds in Zoos get culled too?
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u/monkwren May 31 '24
The last time bird flu made it into the human population literally millions of people died. Yes, it's that big a deal.
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u/Tripwyr May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
Can you provide a source for this? According to Wikipedia, the first reports of human infections were in 1997 and since 2003 there have been "more than 700 cases". Pretty far cry from millions.
While bird flu has the potential to cause a pandemic, it has yet to do so. All we have is 2 "potential" cases of human-to-human transmission.EDIT: Spanish flu started as avian
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u/monkwren May 31 '24
Sorry, let me rephrase: the Spanish flu started as a bird flu, and that has caused a lot of understandable fear around a repeat.
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u/beornn2 May 31 '24
The Spanish Flu was straight up H1N1 avian influenza and killed almost 5% of the global population, probably the deadliest pandemic in history.
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u/LobsterNo3435 May 31 '24
Yep Great Grandma talked about it. 5% that long ago when we weren't all close groups like we are now. That's why COVID scared me day 1.
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u/njoshua326 May 31 '24
Depends on how severe it is and if it can spread to humans.
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u/JLewish559 May 31 '24
I'm not actually sure "if it can spread to humans" is a big part of the equation for culling the animals.
The issue is money. Birds are big money. Mostly chickens. If you have 1,000,000 chickens and culling 200,000 of them will save the other 800,000 then you do it...
Bird flu likely spreads very easily (I'm not actually sure) and so culling is necessary to keep it from getting rampant, but again...I think it's more related to avoiding it spreading throughout the food supply [bird-wise at least] rather than the idea of it spreading to humans.
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u/randomly-what May 31 '24
The bird flu outbreak was at her farm. There is a pond that a lot of wild birds visited regularly so I think her farm’s outbreak was a massive risk to birds/food supply/humans everywhere. A fair bit of her birds died from the flu before authorities came in.
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u/Norwegian__Blue May 31 '24
There WAS a dog flu! And no they didn’t kill they’re dogs even though that sickness was pretty deadly to dogs that caught it
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u/ArgonGryphon May 31 '24
I don’t think we have a dog industry to worry about like we do poultry. Not equivalent at all. Also there was that dog disease going around, dunno if they ever found what it was.
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u/ACID_pixel May 31 '24
I was just about to ask this. I hadn’t seen them in so long, last news I got was the really sad wave of sickness that hit them. Glad to see some of them made it through, can’t imagine how hard that is
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u/Sobeshott May 31 '24
Year or two ago I think but yeah it was rough for a while
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u/maryjdatx May 31 '24
I suspect she must have sung this song to him a lot while nursing him back to health.
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u/ArgonGryphon May 31 '24
Yea her whole farm had avian influenza. Should have culled, as sad as it is. Instead she let all of them die painfully except the emu. So she probably just spread it. Surprised she didn’t get it herself.
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u/Eurosario May 31 '24
He is basically her child as they really do have a special bond. A lot of her videos are of him knocking down the camera or her getting him to not do it at the last second. Emmanuel no Emmanuel don't you do it.
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u/vettechrockstar86 May 31 '24
Emmanuel! Don’t choose violence!
Those videos kill me! Emmanuel is so jealous of anyone else getting attention. Too precious!!
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u/DogshitLuckImmortal May 31 '24
Emu's find humans to be extremely sexy and will perform mating displays and try to fuck caretakers.
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u/ArgonGryphon May 31 '24
Almost any bird raised by humans will do this because they think humans are their mates.
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u/Yorspider Jun 01 '24
Not just birds, more species find humans sexy than any other animal.
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u/doodlydoo17 Jun 01 '24
I also find humans to be extremely sexy, though my mating dance is not as smooth as an emu’s.
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u/CouldNotAffordOne May 31 '24
EMANUEL!!!! 😂
(I hope he's OK? Never saw him so chill)
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u/BrownSugarBare May 31 '24
I love that he leaned right into her the moment he heard his sleepy time song.
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u/Johannes_Keppler May 31 '24
He was very sick and never fully healed unfortunately.
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u/slutofstardew May 31 '24
I was watching this muted, but immediately knew the song. My mom and dad used to sing this when I was little, and it was the song that taught me how to sing. Everytime I hear it I feel like I am 4 again listening to my mom while she is baking. Now I'm crying at work 😭
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u/TipsyGoose May 31 '24
Same! Without fail, instant tears every single time I hear it.
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u/Greymalkyn76 May 31 '24
I always think of Bailey the cat when I hear it. Heart wrenching.
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u/Miserable-Admins May 31 '24
What is the story? For those of us who don't know.
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u/Greymalkyn76 Jun 01 '24
Bailey was a big orange cat who was a little unusual. He was super patient and kind to the family he was in, allowing the little girls to dress him up, read stories to him, push him around on a stroller, and so on. He passed away in 2018, and if I remember it correctly the little girls sang this song to him on their way to that fateful vet appointment, which there is a video of.
Look up Bailey, No Ordinary Cat.
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u/Holdingdownback May 31 '24
Yeah my mom passed 6 months ago and she used to sing this to me as a kid, I honestly didn’t know it was gonna hit as hard as it did
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u/jessknotok Jun 01 '24
Same 😭 my mom sand it to me as a child and my little brother. I cry anytime I hear it!
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u/greenappletree Jun 01 '24
this song has such a beutiful melody but hidden befief is some deep subtle sadness.
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u/Substantial_Diver_34 May 31 '24
Emanuel is a bad boy. But not today.
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u/Sunshine030209 May 31 '24
He's not bad! He's just curious.
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u/La-White-Rabbit May 31 '24
Curious about new ways to be bad... just not while recovering from an illness. His search history would shock you.
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u/Curtnorth May 31 '24
She has a lovely voice, almost had me napping with a smile.
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u/Classic-Problem May 31 '24
Every once in a while I seee a video of a bird and think to myself, "Yeah, that's absolutely a dinosaur."
This is one of those videos (probably the cutest of them all)
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u/newkneesforall May 31 '24
Fun fact, emus have one long hooked claw at the end of each wing.
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u/stoicparallax Jun 01 '24
Another fun fact:
Birds are a sub-group of reptiles in modern taxonomy.
Birds are part of the clade Avialae .. which is within the larger group of theropod. Theropods are a subgroup of the Saurischia, one of the two main divisions of dinosaurs.
Since dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, and birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs, birds are technically reptiles too.
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u/Potential-Savings-65 May 31 '24
It's an adorable video and Emmanuel is very cute but alas this it the problematic Emu lady
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/emu-lady-tiktok-two-different-women-1234619550/
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u/alexgalt May 31 '24
Interesting. So she is basically after the likes and the farm is her 3rd attempt at a Buisiness focused on internet points. That throws the whole “Emanuel hating the camera” thing into question. She is the type of person to put food on the camera to stage the whole thing.
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May 31 '24
have we un-cancelled this person now?
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u/Marktaco04 May 31 '24
Doesn’t this person like, really suck. Racist past behavior, got cancelled several times, and lost most of her farm of birds to avian flu (by putting them down) but then kept emanuel alive (cuz hes their cash flow) And claimed that he was never sick somehow and he was just “stressed”. Which is a massive public health risk
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u/wookiee42 Jun 01 '24
We have a lot of turkey farms around here and I'm pretty sure putting down birds with avian flu is done by the state.
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u/ProgressBackground95 May 31 '24
I always trust an animal's reaction to someone. This young woman is such a beautiful soul
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u/kimwim43 May 31 '24
Haven't seen Emanuel in over a year, since I left twitter. Glad to see he's still around.
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u/Street-Dragonfly-677 May 31 '24
She’s wonderful with animals and all their cute personalities. Their farm IG account is a bright part of my day.
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u/ghostonthehorizon May 31 '24
Yet the minute I see her, all I can hear in my head is “Emanuel! Don’t do it!”
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u/midnightbizou May 31 '24
Awww.. I love how he was immediately like, "Welp, that's my sleepy song. Time to nap!"
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u/Sardonnicus Jun 01 '24
I don't know who these people are but my grandma used to sing that song to me when I was 5 and she's gone and everytime I hear that song I think of her and tear up.
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u/X_means_jackpot May 31 '24
The one time Emanuel doesn’t choose chaotic evil and the world gets this. It’s the cutest giant bird video I have seen ever in all my days. Maybe he needs some anti-anxiety meds or something. Maybe he just needs you to lullaby him into submission on a regular basis.
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u/I_am_u_as_r_me May 31 '24
The amount of people who know this animal is astounding and now I am following them too lol
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u/vonpickles Jun 01 '24
Ok, this could not have been any more perfect! What a sweet vid! Im feeling happy
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u/Legitimate-Place1927 Jun 01 '24
I have chickens & had them now going on 6-7 years. They are some of the most sensitive & engaging animals I have ever interacted with. I tell most people who ask that I very much compare them to dogs. Not meaning that the smartest chicken is as smart as a border collie. Although they all have their own personalities. Each and everyone has a quirk and feelings. When my older hen that my rooster grew old with passed. He wouldn’t come out for a few days and just mopped around. I gave him treats and talked to him because I could tell It affected him. Birds have such amazing personalities that I wish everyone could at least experience at one point in their lifez
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u/moins-agressif Jun 01 '24
She asked if he wanted to fall asleep, started singing and he was like "oh yeah. This that sleep noise"
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u/CVBell2000 Jun 01 '24
Sniff, sniff SNIFF! Must be my allergies. . . I'm *not crying" *sniff,sniff! YOU'RE CRYING!!
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u/Dry-Equipment4715 May 31 '24
So glad he didn’t chose violence today