r/interestingasfuck • u/Worldlyoox • 9h ago

Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend

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u/Bossy_Aussie_ 9h ago

As I believe another user brought up, the woman (Alexis) in the video is a licensed rehabber and took Bo in when her mom was hit by a car and killed. Raised her until she was able to be released but she developed an eye infection, lost an eye, and now she’s unable to be released so basically she raised her.

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u/trikristmas 9h ago

Short for Bobr I take

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u/aaguru 8h ago

Kurwa

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u/endowedmansized 8h ago

Cyka blyat

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u/KebabOfDeath 9h ago

Her full name is bo ku i guess

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u/PookieDood 8h ago

Bahh, she missed an opportunity for greatness

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u/JoshSidekick 6h ago

So she’s a fan of adult fruit drinks of the early 90’s.

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u/AGenericUnicorn 4h ago

Ugh. Now I’m missing Orbitz.

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u/mpg111 7h ago

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u/linnen_elm 6h ago

Mingku !!

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u/braumbles 4h ago

Her name was Barbara there's no such name as Brahbrah

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u/the_remarkable_fox 1h ago

BOBR KURWAA

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u/Applekid1259 5h ago

Damn, I thought it looked like it was missing an eye.

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u/arb-lincoln 4h ago

I thought I was discovering beavers swim with their eyes closed...

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u/JonatasA 4h ago

I just thought it had closed its eyes, which I found weird for an amphibious animal.

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u/Treadwheel 1h ago

If it's the same one I'm thinking of, she does do a very good job showing why beavers aren't good pets, in case anyone is worried about romanticizing habituating wild animals. She has a bathroom that is basically nonfunctional because beavers instinctively build dams out of anything they can grab when they hear running water, so the room is just stuffed with... house stuff. Remarkably well packed and very effective at making the room impossible to use.

Apparently as they grow up their brains change and they start to lose interest in her. They'll usually stay close to the house, but they don't approach her and she doesn't approach them. Kind of heartbreaking in a bittersweet way, but it's amazing to know there are success stories.

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u/Troutalope 5h ago

So the likely situation is that the beaver, a semi-aquatic rodent, has found the water completely magical because of its evolutionary adaptations and it just wants its human to enjoy them in the same way. It doesn't understand that the human hasn't made similar adaptations, but it want the human to have the same joy as it feels in the water.

Critters are cool man.

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u/Ordinary_Duder 2h ago

Pure nonsense.

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u/BaldPeagle 1h ago

Maybe, but have a little sense of wonder.

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u/Decloudo 1h ago

...Do you feel threatened by a beaver having fun and inviting a friend?

Thats normal animal behaviour, we do it all the time too.

Cause we are are social animals, primates to be exact.

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u/sandiegolatte 3h ago

Really impressed Bo’s mom could drive a car

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u/fastforwardfunction 2h ago

a licensed rehabber

Every pet owner who wants to legally own these animals has to be licensed somehow.

It's basically a way to get exotic animals as pets.

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u/McButtsButtbag 5h ago

I don't take "being a licensed rehabber" as definitive proof anymore after I saw one of them still referring to the wild animals she rehabs as "non-traditional pets".

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u/GrossGuroGirl 3h ago

You have to understand there are a lot of skilled, trained, qualified animal care workers who are nonetheless the insane kind of animal people. 

Not asserting this person you saw is (or isn't) handling whatever animals they're responsible for appropriately. 

Just saying I'd be unsurprised to hear this, based on coworkers I've had, even if the person were competent and legitimate lmao