At 10/20/09 01:15 PM, SCUD14 wrote:
Bird protection people don't give a shit about pidgeons. I've called before. Take it home instead.
This is too true, and if you took it to a vets they'd just put it down.
It might be in some pain but as long as it can fly that's the main thing, it can still escape from predators and well you always see a load of pigeosn/seagulls with one legs. They can manage just fine with one leg, he might have even had one leg for ages now.
I remember when a pigeon was trapped into the neighbours roofing, not their actual roof but the outer part, well it got trapped in, got boarded up by some builders and it was near my room so a few days after it got boarded in, it finally started trying to get out, and I could hear it flapping madly trying to. It was unbearable. I went round my neighbours house in tears about it, she said she couldn't do anything, which she couldn't - It's 3 floors and no ladder could reach up safely (the builders had to use scaffolding and it was all taken down by then), so this pigeon eventually died in there, alone, starving, frightened. The saddest part of it all though was when the pigeons family came back to the roof before it died, listening to it, you could tell they were waiting and hoping it'd escape. They still come back now sometimes and sit on my window sill.
It's horrible. Nothing has ever made me feel as sad as that did, even if it's 'just' a pigeon.
