Do animals gravitate to you?

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For me it's birds.

For me it's birds.

Oh very yes. I am a an animal magnet. Animals love me and follow me on the street - stray dogs, domestic dogs, cats, giant caterpillars, etc.. I've been like that since I was very young.

Yes, I do this to, and they seem to like it. Also, I sing these songs quietly to myself when I'm happy.

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Most animals hate me. I don't try to hurt them, but they just seem to have a fervent dislike of me.

Socialized domesticated animals will gravitate towards pretty much anyone new.

If field mice and butterflies flock around you when you go outside, that would be something to look into.

YES! I was looking at a bird in a pet shop and it kept bobbing it's head and saying hello and hi to me. It appeared it wanted me to play. I asked one of the clerks if I could handle it becuase at another pet shop they have the friendliest blue an gold macaw but freak out if someone touches it beucase it belongs to the owner or something stupid. The clerk said I could but I might get bit. I held my arm out and it jumped on it. It walked back and forth and cooed. Another clerk walked by and said, "I'm so jelous. He always tries to bite me."

Animals that were supposedly agressive and unfriendly and refused to let their owners touch them would let me pick them up. I remember at the zoo petting zoo, these baby goats followed my neice and I to the other end of the pen even though we did not have food for them. They imeditaly lost intrest in all the human kids who had food and all the human kids are like "WTF?" becuase the goats lost intrest just like that. There are countless examples. I wonder if animals are going to be so trusting of me in the future when they find out I am the one with the needles but I suspect I could think up ways to make vaccines less scary. I always thought jumping on an animal and tying it down or holding it down was tramatic and that they don't actualy fear the needles but fear being held down. Temple Grandin's "Animals in Translation" and "Animals Make Us Human" should be required reading for vet students and anyone learning to care for animals.

I treated my dog as an equal and never had a problem with him.
If I was a dog and Cezar Mullan tried to work with me, he would loose a hand. He seems like nothing more than a big bully. A "balanced" is a scared dog. "Okay, I'll behave. Please don't hurt me."

Yes. Dogs, cats, mice, squirrels. They all like to tag along behind me.

ruveyn

Yes, it seems to be that way.
Same with small children and infants.

Domesticated cats tend to rub up on me when I enter stores, and I had one instance with a catbird upstate, but for the most part animals treat me like any other human.

Always had a cat when we were younger. In my teens I smuggled hermit crabs into my bedroom and kept them in my desk drawers (all decked out with lights, substrate, etc).
Next I smuggled in some Anoles, eventually progressing to real lizards.
Once I moved out on my own, I had to deal with a clause in the rental agreement against animals. Otherwise I would have gotten a cat. Eventually I smuggled in some chinchillas. Then a rat. Then more...
At one point, I had degus, rats, acomys cahirensis and a few chinchillas.
Nowadays, I'm down to chinchillas only. Don't ask how many, because I'll lie to appear sane

EDIT: To answer the post -

Yes. Cats always move to me, dogs usually love me, and I even get along fine with birds - though I'd never get one of my own - and I've been able to handle many rodents (of all sorts) and do health maintenance on them (nails, grooming) when the owners themselves had had problems with bites, etc with even just normal handling. No problems.

I'v had that happen to me quite a few times wtih most animals, except for one dog.

In addition to being followed by dogs, cats, squirrels and mice, when I am walking along the roads, motorists constantly stop and ask of me directions.

ruveyn

to ODD FICTION.......i hope you volunteer at an animal shelter. any shelter. they need you. not many humans good with rats, chins etc. the other humans there would worship you!

Dogs like me and follow. A neighbor's would run along my truck racing me a bit, for a block or two. My wife was always astouned at the affinity shown.

Once a neighbors pit bull was watching me at the property line; I smelled trouble, then she made a charge for me, but I stood my ground looked her in the eye and said loudly while pointing at her: GET BACK OVER THERE!! ! She stopped dead in her tracks and ran off.

A doberman in a similar way, and "Cleo" shut up, and laid back down. I know if you show fear it's all over and running isn't an option .

That pit bull bit the mail man and another neighbor once, and I think I had the advantage here as the dog was out of its element being in my yard.

It happened to me more then once with a neighbors cat.