Hi folks,

Tonight, I found a pigeon that had been run over in the road. He was still alive and he couldn't move much.  His little wing was flapping so much and yet cars just drove past, nearly running him over again.  I went over to this poor little fella, folded his wing properly and picked him up (and nearly got run over myself). 

His little heart was beating really fast and yet he just let me hold him.  I think he was in shock.  There was no blood or anything gory like that.  His little eyes were closing like he wanted to sleep.  I really thought he was going to die in my hands.

I kicked on my friends door and she managed to find a box to put him in.  We took him over to the vets which was about 3 miles away and handed him over. 

I know a lot of people hate pigeons and call them vermin and they carry a lot of germs, but for the life of me I couldn't leave that poor little fella in the middle of the road like that.  I really felt relieved when I handed him to the vet to look after.

Have you ever saved an animal or bird that's been run over or injured by a car?

blue

My family has taken in some "Wild Animals" (Birds mainly) but they usually died within a day or so from shock and such. I related the cat incident already. and my family was always a sucker for abandoned pets...

I know pigeons are nasty, but as it says in the Bible. "How you treat your animals is indicitive about how you treat others" Obviously you are a caring individual Blue. Thank you.

I have tried with birds, but with no luck. A baby possum, with no luck. It took me forever to bury it because I wasn't sure if it was doing it's "thing" or not. No one would take him because of wild animal. My friend has made it her job to pick up dead animals, or find owners to lost animals, and etc. That's fine to do the good thing saving a life, or to help someone out, but less than a month ago, what turned out to be me helping drive a car back from Indian Casino turned into too many hours away from husband, anyway, and that's without helping steer 12 goats back to her neighbors house. One had to be put down because car ran into them. Poor thing.    PS Just because I had no luck, doesn't mean your humane act won't. Another friend and his family was successful with a bird.

Blue, the deer got her revenge on the amount of damage to my truck.  They can mess a vehicle up. A friends father had one come crashing thru his side window. It was a buck chasing a doe.  The dad was injured by the antlers, but the deer surprisingly lived.

on holiday, at the beach, I found a kitten, maybe a couple weeks old in one of those stand up sand filled ashtrays; guess someone chucked it
poor little bugger; It's eyes were milked over and scabbed, mouth all cracked and dry as it baked in the sun and was dying
my friends walked right past...i couldn't effing belive it
we were on holiday and i stayed in all weekend nursing it, holding it and feeding it water and milk thru a soaked cloth and after vacation took it home
my roomies bitched saying, no cats; i told them to stuff it
it weighed maybe a pound, wouldnt, move, walk or drink; i just kept at the wet cloth forcing it to drink
after a couple days its eyes finally opened  but all milked over

aaanyway, fast forward a week..little bugger was spry and active, alot of the milk went away and was frisky as sin though proabably major vision loss. Passed it along to a friend who had several cats and could keep it

the whole thing? Amazed how some people could be so effing SOULLESS as to walk right by

I'm a soft touch for animals
A hundred get blown up? Don't blink
Someone kicks a puppy? ShootHIM!..lol

ah, I can be a bastard and short-fused, but a romantic and animal lover