[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by blueski

No, if you chase an animal like a moose for more than a couple of minutes, you can do irreparable harm:

https://wildinstincts.wordpress.com/...ture-myopathy/

"Capture myopathy is also known as white muscle disease. When the muscle is used its metabolism changes from using oxygen to using stored energy in the muscle. This leads to a build up of lactic acid which goes into the bloodstream where it changes the pH of the body and affects the heart output. If the heart doesn’t pump correct oxygen to the muscle, the muscle starts to die. Over the next week or so, the product produced by the muscle’s death damages the kidney and affects other organs."
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"It doesn’t take long for capture myopathy to be a factor, either. At Wild Instincts, any attempted capture of an animal needs to be done in less than 2 minutes. This means lots of planning ahead to make sure we aren’t adding to the stress of animal we’re trying to help; we’re not inadvertently causing the future death of an animal we’re trying to save."

So they may have in fact killed this animal or debilitated it to the point that it will not live as long.

Two words:


Garage Cat