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03-24-2013, 05:17 PM
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I just buried a mouse that our local friendly and feral cat killed in our yard. Poor guy. There's a bluebird hopping around. Won't fly away when you walk towards him, just hops around. He tried to fly and couldn't seem to do it. I'm guessing his wings are hurt.
He's not gonna make it through the night. The cat's gonna have his way with this poor bird. Thinking about taking a shovel now and making it quick.
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03-24-2013, 05:50 PM
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03-24-2013, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: CT | | | Could just drop it off at a vet and have them figure it out.
It may or may not be illegal to kill songbirds in your area anyway.
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03-24-2013, 05:53 PM
|  | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | Leave it be. It could be a juvenile not quite ready to fly. Yes, the cat might get it... But maybe not. You never know. I've seen jays go after a cat to protect a fledgling. Mom or Dad jay might be watching over.
Sometime, you just have to let nature take it's course.
Plus, you'll get no comfort if you do it.
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03-24-2013, 05:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan | | | Put it in a box tonight and call the Humane Society tomorrow.
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03-24-2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonicfrog Leave it be. It could be a juvenile not quite ready to fly. Yes, the cat might get it... But maybe not. You never know. I've seen jays go after a cat to protect a fledgling. Mom or Dad jay might be watching over.
Sometime, you just have to let nature take it's course.
Plus, you'll get no comfort if you do it. | It's not a little guy. Fully grown bird. Just can't fly.
I'm just worried I'll get no comfort if I try to sleep and let the cat find and 'play' with it all night. Cats are vicious in a way. |
03-24-2013, 06:06 PM
|  | Registered Loser | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | The Humane Society will not do anything. Go ahead, call them. They will tell you to leave the bird alone. I am fairly certain a vet will not touch it either. Seems to me you have 2 choices. Try to catch the bird and nurse it back to health yourself or kill it quickly and painlessly.
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03-24-2013, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by scubaduba Put it in a box tonight and call the Humane Society tomorrow. | This is similar to what my wife suggested. She thinks the bird would be best off spending the night in your garage.
FWIW, I was gonna recommend the shovel.
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03-24-2013, 06:14 PM
| | | | It's hard for me to imagine the local Humane Society or anybody else doing anything. They're completely overwhelmed with the local feral cat problem, a problem that is mostly caused by bad behavior on humans' parts. They can't possibly afford to take care of every sick bird with a broken wing from completely natural causes. |
03-24-2013, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by SnowCal It's hard for me to imagine the local Humane Society or anybody else doing anything. They're completely overwhelmed with the local feral cat problem, a problem that is mostly caused by bad behavior on humans' parts. They can't possibly afford to take care of every sick bird with a broken wing from completely natural causes. | I guarantee you they won't do anything.
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03-24-2013, 06:17 PM
| | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | Humane society in most cities don't have the resources to take on wild birds. Unless they are endangered, they'll likely just tell you to leave it be.
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03-24-2013, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan | | | The Humane Society will absolutely tell you what is best for the bird. They've helped me nurse more than one bird back to health for release back to the wild.
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03-24-2013, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Portland, Oregon USA | | | Check the Audubon Society website?
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03-25-2013, 03:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | Predators always target the easy prey and the top of the list is the sick and injured. Your wild tweety bird with the broken wing is a goner no matter what you do as it's unlikely that wing could ever heal completely. If a cat doesn't get it then a falcon or hawk will. That's just how nature works.
Consider though, what would result if you caught the bird and killed it yourself. It probably won't suffer much more or less, either way, but the predators still need to eat and they'll just target and kill a healthy bird, if an injured bird isn't available.
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03-25-2013, 04:07 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Central Ca | | | Im not a vet
But I did catch a bird in my house with a salad bowl  
OP, I have nothing useful.
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03-28-2013, 07:04 PM
| | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | So... What happened?
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03-28-2013, 08:39 PM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | Sometimes a parent bird plays injured if the nest is nearby. |
03-28-2013, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SnowCal It's not a little guy. Fully grown bird. Just can't fly.
I'm just worried I'll get no comfort if I try to sleep and let the cat find and 'play' with it all night. Cats are vicious in a way. | usually when they're hungry. cat's gotta eat.
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03-29-2013, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by JimB52 Sometimes a parent bird plays injured if the nest is nearby. | good old killdeer. |
03-29-2013, 07:13 AM
| | | | Roflmao ,, city folk,, yall are precious, feral cats gotta eat too.
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