Poor little bird!

[smudge]

Has anything awful like this happed to you before?

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This is what i'm referring to:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History-and-Myths/Questio n111581.html

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http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History-and-Myths/Question111581.html

Hope this works!

[kaktus]

Aww poor you Smudge! You feel so bad when things like that happen!

 

I once came waking with my horse where she was stabled, and a small kitten just beginning to explore the world got caught under my horse feet. Neither the horse or I had seen it. And the poor kitten didn't die, it just sat there with a mangled leg. The guy who owned the stable took a shotgun and shot it!

I moved my horse to another stable (I didn't like the shotgun part) and took the last kitten home with me, because I was the third person that had happend to!

[kaktus]

Not my horse feet, I don't have horse feet! I'm referring to the feet of horse!!!

[kaktus]

'the horse

I'm sorry to keep posting, but this is getting ridiclous, if there is any mistakes in this post, it's just too bad! :0)

[CT]

Not quite as tradgic as your stories, but it does involve a baby bird. The family went to my grandparents one time and as we were leaving my dad saw a cat looking like it was stalking something. He then saw that it was a baby bird on the ground nearby. He chased the cat away and went for a closer look at the bird. He seemed to think that it had maybe just left the nest and had just got tired. Making sure the cat had gone, we left the bird on its own. Hopefully it survived this encounter and had a happy life :-)

[RevShirls]

I used to work in a city centre church in Edinburgh. One time I arrived I saw the church officer carrying what looked like a dead squirrel. He had found it inside the church lying on the floor underneath the pulpit. the pulpit was marble and so was the floor. He reckoned it must have fallen and been killed. I was sure I could see it breathing, so we took it into my office. I tried to rub some milk onto its wee mouth to see if it would respond but there was nothing - then I tried some communion wine - and the wee thing suddenly sneezed and opened its eyes. It really wasn't well though and I noticed its wee nose and whiskers were covered with tarmac. The path outside had recently been covered with new tar. I couldn't unclog its wee nose - so I called the RSPCA. They took it away and cleaned it up and then brought it back to release in our church yard again. That wee squirrel and I became pals and it used to jump from the trees onto my shoulder and eat fruit and nuts. It was particularly crazy about eating menthol tunes :)

Also rescued a baby mouse from a mouse trap when I was a student. Didn't want to take it home so I placed it under the door of a police box (tardis type) opposite my flat (there was a gap at the bottom of the door) and it stayed there for a week or so. I often saw it coming and going at nighttimes.

[RevShirls]

Meant to mention a sad story like yours as well, smudge. When I was a student, my landlady's daughter got a kitten. All was lovely and sweet until the day the kitten caught a sparrow and brought it into the house. The wee girl was screaming and my landlady didn't know what to do. The sparrow's front had been ripped open to expose the organs but it was still hopping around obviously distressed. I wasn't confident about wringing the bird's neck but knew that it couldn't survived so I phoned my pal Chris who used to rescue a lot of animals. He told me to make my two fingers (index and middle) into a v-shape and then let the bird's rest in the v and then apply slight and gentle pressure on the bird's neck just by squeezing slightly. It worked well. The wee bird's breathing just got shallower and shallower within a minute and then it died peacefully. It was far less distressing than having to wring it's neck in front of a 3 year old.

[RevShirls]

meant to say - let the bird's neck rest in the v

[smudge]

Ah - thank you for sharing your stories with me - it's nice to know there are still lots of kind caring people on this planet! -x-

[spudqueen]

How dreadful for you smudge. My husband has never got over the time he was cutting the hedge with shears when a snail on the hedge popped it's head right out to see what was going on, and he chopped it in half.

[smudge]

We're such a soft lot on here aren't we? Thank you for your replies. -x-

[smudge]

Our daughter & Granddaughter buried the little bird in the pets 'graveyard' at the bottom of our garden yesterday, along with a little cross.

[mycatis]

When my cat had her kittens the 3rd one was born still inside the sac thing, my silly cat (bless her) started licking the wrong end (the bum) so the kitten couldn't breath & he wasn't moving.  I had to pull the sac off (slimy) and spend a good few minutes rubbing his wee chest gently to help him start breathing. By this point I was in floods of tears and had to try and blow gently up his nose, (after all I didn't want inflate the poor wee thing) Have you ever seen how tiny a new born kittens nose is? Anyway after a very long night I checked on him and he was fine! I still hace him and he is adprable and fine. Just goes to show animals can be tougher than you think

[mycatis]

that was meant to say I still have him and he is adorable by the way sorry

[smudge]

Ah - it's so nice to read success stories - well done mycatis.