Birds

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My cat hurt a bird and it is still alive. It's leg is broke & its wings  are broke. What will happen to the bird?

[New Forester]

It is in serious pain and will not recover.

 

With luck it will have died by the time you read this.  If not, please kill it as soon as possible.  The quickest and kindest way is to put it on hard flat ground and stamp hard on its head (do not shut your eyes until afterwards, or you will probably miss).  Make sure it does not flutter off when you put it down -- weigh it down with something.

 

I'm sorry if this sounds brutal, but this bird needs you to be brave and end its pain quickly.

 

[Ouisch]

Oh my goodness, please do NOT stomp on the poor bird's head.  Is there a humane society office near you?  (RSPCA, I believe.)  Broken wings and legs do not necessarily mean doomed bird.  Please seek professional advice.

[America (AOL]

I am  not stepping on the birds head and killing it!!!!!!!!!  My mom took it to the vet and does not know what they will do to the bird. they might just let it fly away when it's better. does anone think that will happen? 

[Hayhoe]

I doubt it. They will probably stomp on it's head.

[stoo_pid]

not quite what Hayhoe suggested but if the vet was being vague with his suggested 'treatment', I'm afraid he was just being kind to your mum.  He will also have done the kindest thing for the bird & put it down straight away.  Don't worry, you did the right thing & the bird is no longer in any pain.

[New Forester]

Ouisch -

 

It may not be impossible to keep a wild bird long enough for broken wings and legs to heal.

 

But is that really "humane"?  I don't think so.  Confine a wild bird in a small space, with its greatest enemy leering at it every day from a couple of feet away?  Then probably to die after a few days anyway?  Or never to heal well enough to be released?  I think this is a case where being "kind" is in fact probably very cruel.

 

I suspect that if both a leg and a wing are broken I'd guess there's probably much else wrong with it too.

 

I might try it with cage birds or poultry -- but even then only for an injury which was very straightforward indeed, or where the bird was not in any distress.  For example, I've often stitched up hens ripped open by the fox, and have had them recover fully despite holes in their skin you could put your hand in -- but I'd not put a wild bird through that.

 

[archbishop]

Totally agree with New Forester.

[Rufushound]

Take her to a vet.

[Pythoness]

The vet you took the bird to probably did put it down - birds who have been gotten by cats unfortunately do not usually survive even if they don't have borken limbs - the bacteria found in cat saliva and under their claws gives them a fatal infection, and the vet probably knew this. If he truly thought the bird had a good chance to survive he may have called a wildlife rehabilitator to come get it - and considering that your cat will probably do this more often than not, you should locate the closest wildlife rehabilitator to you and keep the number handy. This way you'll know who to call when the cat brings home injured wildlife.

[Merlin]

You should have let the cat eat it!!! Now you've deprived your mog of a decent meal for no reason and thereby wasted that bird's life. You've interfered with the balance of nature and now the planet is doomed. What your cat did was perfectly natural and now you've upset nature.

Why don't cat food manufacturers do sparrow or mouse flavour?

Don't worry about it. The vet fixed up that bird with splints on its wing and leg. It's convalescing in a deck chair under a sun lamp and will soon be flying happily off to meet its mate and have a nestful of chicks.

[larajobin]

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