Our cat brought in a bird, help

mrcol1000

Put the bird out of its misery and finish what your cat started. How many blackbirds do you think are killed a day by cats and other animals/birds? Instead of prolonging the birds agony.

Paradigm

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Put the bird out of its misery and finish what your cat started. How many blackbirds do you think are killed a day by cats and other animals/birds? Instead of prolonging the birds agony.

Well thats one way of looking at it! Nice to see some helpful posts.

olias

Paradigm wrote: »

Anything is possible! In my experience a severely injured bird dies within hours, they can be pretty fragile. This one however sounds to be ok apart from it's wound... it could just need time to recoup, the shock on it's own could be enough to prevent flying.

Killing it now is denying it a chance, yes it may die anyway but then again......

You are missing my point. By believing you are acting out of kindness, there is a high likelyhood that you are actually doing the opposite. The injuries themselves may be causing the bird unneccessary suffering without treatment (a criminal offence for which you can be prosecuted). Even if you think the bird has got better and flown away, in a weakened or not 100% fit state, you may have (through misguided kindness) doomed it to a long painful death either through it's injuries or by starvation.

If you were to contact the RSPCA with an injured bird, I can guarentee you that 9 times out of ten they will euthanase it

Olias

kevandkeira

Tinasmummy wrote: »

Hi,

It's really good that you have given this bird a chance , thank you:T

I've rescued birds in similar circumstances and whilst it hasn't always gone the way I'd have liked it to, sometimes it does.
I had a rescued pigeon that was with us for two weeks before he flew away.

Just a suggestion, why don't you take your bird to your local vet, as it's a wild animal the vet will look it over free of charge and is obviously the best person to give advice.
Least if the news is bad then you can be sure you did the right thing.

I hope it goes well and good luck

Thankyou for your helpful post, I will give my local vet a ring 2morrow to see if they can check him over.
I just went & checked on the bird & he tried to fly away from me, however he was only using 1 wing. So although the wing looks fine, there is obviously something wrong with it.
I'll update you after the vet checks him over.

kevandkeira

Krystaltips wrote: »

Maybe it likes the special treatment and doesn't fancy flying away lol

It has defiantly had special treatment, the kids were digging up worms for it earlier...tasty.

mrcol1000

Paradigm wrote: »

Well thats one way of looking at it! Nice to see some helpful posts.

No need to be sarky just because I don't agree with you. The bird can't indicate to you its suffering so how do you know that your kindess is just making it worse for the bird? Even if you did make it better how do you know another cat/fox is not going to kill it as soon as you let it go. Or its so weak from its experience and can't feed it self so slowly starves to death?

xJayJayx

i found a pigeon about 6 or 7 weeks ago in our warehouse at work, it had been attacked and had a broken wing, i stupidly rang the rspca and they would of put it down because they are not allowed to release wild birds back into the wild. Luckily though my friend's mum looks after animals (they have about 80 - 90 animals at home including pigeons) and she took it in for me. 6/7 weeks on its fine and can fly again!
I am aware not all cases result like that but i just thought i would share. And good on you for trying to save it.

Paradigm

mrcol1000 wrote: »

No need to be sarky just because I don't agree with you.

Yep, apologies.

mrcol1000 wrote: »

The bird can't indicate to you its suffering so how do you know that your kindess is just making it worse for the bird? Even if you did make it better how do you know another cat/fox is not going to kill it as soon as you let it go.

It can't indicate anything so you kill it?? Sounds to me like it's ok apart from it's wound which will heal. If it's killed by a fox/cat later then fair enough, that could happen to a perfectly healthy Blackbird... why decide it's fate on a snap decision?

Deep_In_Debt

I has an injured pigeon a few years ago that one of my cats attacked. I kept it in a box overnight and there was no improvement so I rang my local wildlife rescue centre who came and collected it. It made a full recovery and a week or so later they released it back into the wild.

Do you have a wildlife rescue centre near you that you could take it to?

Kavanne

When our cat bought birds in we put them in a shoebox hanging out the first floor window (no way for cat to get at it again) with some food + water and just kept it topped up until it flew away. Did this probably 4 or 5 times and they never died on us!