SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Oh my gawd, are you trying to CONVINCE us that you're a good person?

'Cause, you know, we already get that.

You're so cute.

Yesterday I left the house to go to Bingo and I saw our cat Sammy playing with something and I looked closer and it was a baby bird and it was dead. So I got to my car and had to go back into the house to get something and when I went back I noticed the little bird was alive!!! It was in the little flowerbed next to our porch and it it hopped into the corner and stood there. But I left it

OK, here's the thing, when I looked closer it had a bite through it's little wing and I figured our cat had mauled it too badly for it to survive. Then I was thinking how I would never be able to get it to the nest it came from. One of the trees in our front yard cannot be climed as it has no low branches. So if the bird came from a nest in that tree I'd never be able to get it up there. If it came from the other tree I might be able to find a nest but there are a bunch of nests up there so I'd never know which one it came from.

I thought of calling animal control but then figured they wouldn't even care about a baby bird. Don't they only care about strays and stuff like that or do they do animal rescue? I don't even know. But I decided to leave it because in the natural cycle of life, if our cat was a wild cat it would eat birds and rats and gophers and stuff like that. It's natural for cats to catch birds. It just is.

So I left for the day but I felt horrible for leaving the bird. I had all this justification in my head for why I did so, all of it totally reality based....I'd never get that bird into its nest, it looked too maimed and would die quickly anyway, animal control wouldn't give a crap about a baby bird, and it's the cycle of life. But all of that seemed irrelevant as I drove away with a heavy heart and a guilty concience

So this morning my Sister Natalie told me that my other Sister Alison found a baby bird that our cat had caught. I told her I saw that bird but thought it had no chance to survive because Sammy had bitten through it's wing into it's back. She told me my Sister Alison saw the bird was alive and she took it to a Bird Sanctuary and that they told her it would live!!

Thank you Alison!!!! I still feel like a complete heel, but now I feel so much better because my sister made it right I never knew we had a bird sanctuary nearby. Now I do! Future birdies, I won't leave you to the cat!

What would you have done in this situation? Am I totally evil? At least I felt bad!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

evil doesn't care. you aren't evil because you cared.

i always try to help birds that have fallen. partly because i'm more than a little bit crazy about birds, and partly because.....um, well, no that's it.

and the good news is now you know about the heartiness of baby birds and the proximity of the bird shelter!

XxAxX said:

I thought for sure that it was just hopeless and not even worth doing something about because it was so small and it looked so frail but the lady said it was a strong baby as it tried to hop away from the vet when they were caring for it I do wonder though, how a human teaches a bird to fly That must be one talented Dr. Doolittle lady!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

it's hard to rehabilitate a bird. i worked for the raptor center (volunteered) a few years ago. they had people who worked with the birds daily, flying them on leashes in hallways and outdoors, to teach them how to fly all over again.

but, a baby bird will have a harder time, because birds actually learn a lot from their parents. how and where to find food, predators, etc.

anyway, thank you for caring. birds are the grooviest little creatures

XxAxX said:

I actually love birds

live4lust said:

Old enough to be some orgers dad, that's for sure I'm 37 You'd be surprised at how many younger people you'll find in those dens of sin, I mean places

So did you win at Bingo?

Tell Natalie, thank you.

sag10 said:

I didn't win and it was Alison that did the work I'll tell her you said thanks