Beaver Welcomes You To Canada

1. laly
   March 7th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

   Beware, for as you stood in the middle of the road, talking to an obviously lost Canadian beaver, you could get run over by a very earnest Canadian moose!

   Sheer nonsense...

2. Johnny Cat
   March 7th, 2009 at 11:15 pm

   Quite a contrast to the macing at the American border crossing, eh?

3. Gauldar
   March 8th, 2009 at 1:47 am

   Careful there Johnny. You remember what happened last time when Neatorama became a bad influence to people when it talked about the hacked road signs and blew that out of perportion. Next thing you know you'll start reading about pepper sprayed beavers.

4. stephbot
   March 8th, 2009 at 3:41 am

   Pepper sprayed beaver is actually one of our finest delicacies. Try it with a little salted goose for good measure and a maple glaze for an authentic Canadian experience.

5. Foreigner1
   March 8th, 2009 at 7:03 am

   I really do not understand what is so funny about 2 people that happily bemuse an animal that is just inches away from being run over by traffic...? Why not just get the animal out of harms way as fast as possible instead of laughing about the whole situation?

6. ted
   March 8th, 2009 at 8:21 am

   Couple of a$$hats coulda got themselves killed walking out in the middle of the highway.
   Not cute or funny - at least the animal has an excuse for it behaviour.

7. HollywoodBob
   March 8th, 2009 at 8:36 am

   @Foreigner1:

   Have you ever been bitten by a large aquatic rodent? Beavers are extremely stubborn, and have excellent reflexes, so for your average passer-by to try and get it off the road, would be quite difficult to "shoo" it away, and if they tried to grab it they could very easily end up in the emergency room having their hand reattached.

   The best thing they could have done was stopped in front of it, in their car, with the hazard signals on, and blasted their horn at it, that might have convinced it to move, or at least protected from the other traffic, until fish and wildlife could be called, though they might just say "Yeh, so? Run it over, eh."

8. Foreigner1
   March 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am

   -HollywoodBob- "The best thing they could have done was stopped in front of it, in their car, with the hazard signals on, and blasted their horn at it, that might have convinced it to move, or at least protected from the other traffic, until fish and wildlife could be called"

   ...I'm glad you come up with such a solution after your 1st remark, because my response to that would have been- So what? Is that relatively small beaver even dangerous against you in your fortified position (your car)? Looking at statistics, we humans seldom have the short draw when it comes to who will perish if only because we have more brainpower to overcome the difficulties even of stubborn large aquatic rodents...

9. Frau
   March 8th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   As often as I have seen badgers and porcupines in the road, I now carry a set of welders gloves in the trunk of my car. If they are dead, no problem. On the rare occasion that they are alive, they have been confused enough that allowed me to shoo them off the road, by giving them a little push to their backside and scooting them off towards safety.

   Poor little fella. :/

10. Andrew G
    March 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    It's funny that some folks commenting here think that the voices were actually live (Foreigner1 and ted). I'm flattered that my dubbing and editing convinced you.

    If you read the video description, you can see that the original video was taken by a brave soul who saved the beaver from being hit by shooing him off the road and keeping cars away. The voices were dubbed on later, comfortably indoors while the beaver presumably safely knawed on trees somewhere in the woods in his/her own habitat.

11. snark
    March 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    This is pretty sad. That's not what beavers do if they're okay. He's obviously disoriented, distressed, possibly sick. In any case, there's clearly something wrong with him--not funny, not cute.

12. Padraig
    March 8th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    > This is pretty sad. That’s not what beavers do
    > if they’re okay. He’s obviously disoriented,
    > distressed, possibly sick. In any case, there’s
    > clearly something wrong with him–not funny, not cute

    Yes, of course there is. He's on the middle of a highway, freaked out by the massive number of incredibly quick animals of disproportionate size zooming past him.

    @Andrew G: thanks for the info, I was wondering about that (not that you'd dubbed it, that was pretty obvious, but the _actual_ story behind the whole thing. I'm glad someone stopped for the poor thing - and saddened by the fact that no one else did.

13. LisaL
    March 8th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    Glad to hear that the beaver was eventually shooed off of the highway. Poor little guy/gal

14. ted
    March 8th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    AndrewG. Wow, you added those inane comments in later. Wow, good for you.

    Still doesn't change the fact that it's pretty stupid and dangerous for anybody to be walking through the middle of traffic on a busy highway. That "brave soul" was risking his/her life and the lives of others driving past, to try and save a rodent. As I said, at least the rodent has an excuse - a tiny brain.

    I would have felt sad for that beaver, if I saw it had been hit, but beavers aren't exactly endangered, and they're not worth risking your life over.

15. Dog Droppings
    March 9th, 2009 at 5:32 am

    "I would have felt sad for that beaver, if I saw it had been hit, but beavers aren’t exactly endangered, and they’re not worth risking your life over."

    Speak for yourself Ted. What do you know about Andrew G. For all you know, his life sucks more than some spaced out beaver. Maybe standing in the middle of the road making fun of some stupid glorified rodent would be the highlight of his life.

    I thought it was very funny and would like to see more cool stuff making fun of dumb animals.

16. Ally
    March 9th, 2009 at 8:06 am

    Why didn't any of the a$$holes on the road slow down at all??? They all just carried on, business as usual. That's what really bothers me.

17. Alex
    March 9th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Does the beaver's flat tail mean that he's been ran over by a car before?

    (Yes, I'm a city boy and without looking at an actual picture of a beaver, I'm not sure if their tails are naturally flat ...)

18. Foreigner1
    March 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    "I would have felt sad for that beaver, if I saw it had been hit, but beavers aren’t exactly endangered, and they’re not worth risking your life over."

    Wow Ted- I'll remember that line of reasoning next time I see a human in deadly trouble...! In fact that makes lots of emergency-services quite obsolete and not worth funding...!

    ....? ...Perhaps I miss something here...

19. ted
    March 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Yes, Alex, beaver tails are flat.

    And yes, Foreigner1, you are missing the fact that a beaver`s life is not equal to a human`s life.

20. Elenca
    March 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Beaver tails /are/ flat and also delicious with lemon and sugar! (Kilaloe Sunrise! SO GOOD!)

21. Blake
    March 10th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    "Wow Ted- I’ll remember that line of reasoning next time I see a human in deadly trouble…! In fact that makes lots of emergency-services quite obsolete and not worth funding…!

    ….? …Perhaps I miss something here…"

    Oh you're missing something all right. a brain. Beavers aren't humans. Their lives are intrinsically less valuable ours. The fact that you seem to be unaware of this fact and need to be told it makes you either A: a PETA member or B: a moron. But I repeat myself.

22. Dog Drippings
    March 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am

    "makes you either A: a PETA member or B: a moron."

    Or a Petaphile, or a Petard.

23. Foreigner1
    March 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    I'm terribly sorry Ted and Blake, but I'm -I guess you would call us a "treehugger"?- that believes that any life has equal value if only because we're all part of this earth and/or this creation. I believe that every lifeform deserves an equal amount of respect. I am convinced that we humans have the responsability to care for the wellbeing of the lives of all the other animals, especially when it is our technology that puts those animals in danger. In my view we humans have that responsability because we have the brains to do so and because we have brought that life-endangering technology in this world in such a way that most of the other animals cannot cope anymore.

    So speaking from that standpoint- I think I have a rather strong point when I doubt it is me who is missing the appropriate intellect, Blake...

24. Blake
    March 11th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    Dearest Foreigner,

    Excuse me, sorry, I just vomited a little in my mouth. No we don't call you treehuggers, we call you blithering imbeciles. If you genuinely hold the insipidly childish, idiotic belief that "every lifeform deserves an equal amount of respect", please do us all an enormous favor the next time you get an infection, and forgo taking the antibiotics prescribed to you so that you remove yourself from the gene pool as quickly as possible. Intelligent humans everywhere will thank you. You wouldn't want to kill those poor innocent bacteria now would you.

25. Foreigner1
    March 11th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    @Blake- Truly intelligent humans realise that they cannot do without the whole ecosystem with all its plants and animals, that not having respect for those animals is ultimately destroying us humans as well, therefore that humans are not all that more worth than plants and animals and that it is us humans who can both destroy and save the world, but that as we speak, we humans are rapidly utterly ruining our planet.
    So I pity you for your utter ignorance in that you cannot think of this, that you are not able to rise above ordinary dirt-throwing and I hope you'll come to sence before you choke in your vomit.

26. Blake
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    Obviously you're unable to even write a cogent, grammatically correct sentence stating your case, let alone stick with your original absurd argument. You loose. goodbye.

27. Foreigner1
    March 12th, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Well- At least I try in a language that is not native to me. You think this is about winning this argument, then I assume you must be a young North-American... What's next- Some bashing up?

    Still- poor beaver....

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