I feed anything I come across. I helped a tortoise into the trees a few days ago. Second time I’ve seen him. We have frogs lately after it rains. Cute little guys. I love animals and wish I encountered more every day.

In order of what I believe has the most impact to least impact.

Being vegan. Less farmland utilization and better for the environment.

Using an ebike for travel. Environment and less roadkill.

Being mindful of my overall consumption and spending.

Allowing spiders free reign in my house.

There’s a crow I give peanuts to every morning on my way to work.

My wife and have extensive flower beds on our property. My very first job as a teenager was in a nursery/garden center and did a lot of landscaping and landscaping design back then. So we have something flowering through out the entire growing season for the pollinators.

Here is one of the more interesting pollinators we have:

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I feed a specific stray cat a can of wet cat food every day when he comes outside my house, and keep a water container filled for him in the summer.

I try to interact with other stray cats when walking around too.

around 2 million people live here, and the only wild animal i have encountered in the recent years are my gipsy neighbours.

I started working at a wild animal rehab this year. I’ve fed a few hundred squirrels, dozens of song birds, some really cool raptors, and a good handful of mammals.

I consider my time with them positive, but they really don’t want much to do with us. I just released an owl this weekend and it bit me multiple times as I was trying to let it go. That’s the attitude it takes for it to survive, so getting a positive attitude back is typically not an outcome I should, or realistically want to see.

The person being hostile in this thread is going pretty extreme. We shouldn’t be touching or feeding animals directly, but many do need indirect human presence to survive. They evolved with us to an extent, and they take advantage of our food storage and waste and some of the molding of the environment that we do by creating fields and farmland.

Most animal injuries I see are from cars, pets, manmade structures, and cutting down trees animals live in. What people are feeding the birds is likely a very small portion of their diet, as they eat pretty constantly. Keep your bird and squirrel stations clean and provide shelter from predators and you likely aren’t hurting anything in the grand scheme of things. A loose dog or cat is way worse IMO.

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Not much, there arent many wild animals around on my typical day.

I have a spider in the corner of my bathroom that I leave alone.

I watch squirrels in the front yard, they need nothing from me.

The front yard is riddled with moles and dying grass. I live in a condo that is responsible for yard care and they aren’t doing much about the moles. I don’t especially like large, green grass yards so I don’t care if they’re letting the moles destroy it all. Letting them do their thing.

Varies wildly for me but usually whenever the opportunity presents itself, although it mostly ends up being cats. I always have cat food and water outside near my back door for strays. Two days ago I brought a can of wet food for a feral momma and her kittens on the other end of town. (Trying to make friends with mom, but not much luck so far.) Was leaving veggies out for a deer that was living in my backyard this spring until she moved on. Occasionally put stuff out for the birds when I can. I also don’t mow certain sections of my yard and my daughter’s yard much because the bees love the clover that grows in those spots.

Does this count? My wife feeding the Kudu. They get a bucket or so a day of pellets and a bale or two, especially in winter. We have kudu, impala, zebra, etc (even the odd giraffe) passing by most days. And bananas and peanut butter for the bush babies at night.

I was on a walk and saw a beetle on its back. I turned the beetle around so that it could carry on.

I avoid killing spiders? I live in the city, there aren’t many wild animals here. Back when I lived in Marseille, the only ones were dirty rats and I really have close to zero empathy for them, I’m sorry.

“Each day”? Like on average? Trending towards 0, I suppose.

I did help a bug out the window recently, does that count?