Animals
By walkgal
@walkgal (133)
United States
September 9, 2008 9:10pm CST
I recently talked to a lady that occasionally finds birds that have fallen out of their nest. She feeds these birds ..........I'm not sure how. But once they are grown she releases them. She says when she goes in her backyard they remember her and fly all around her or onto her shoulder.
Have any of you raised a wild animal? (As an added note, ....read The Zoolander if you like animal stories as it was great!
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@greenglitterturtle (2750)
• United States
10 Sep 08
hi walkgal...that is great. i would like to do more if i could. once we had a baby bird that i wanted to help. i took it to my mom and she said there was nothing that we could do. we didn't have information available at that time. now there is the internet that you could just look it up. but we didn't have a computer then. i've since learned that you'd need an eye dropper to start out with.
@walkgal (133)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Greenglitterturtle,
Since this lady works long hours I am surprised she is able to do it. She says the baby bird is waiting anxiously when she walks in the door. I would think it would be as difficult as having a new born child. Maybe even more since they are so small they probably need to eat even more often!!!!
@greenglitterturtle (2750)
• United States
10 Sep 08
never thought of that. that would be difficult then doing it around you're work hours.
@sidyboy (284)
• United States
10 Sep 08
When I was a kid, my brother was out hunting and crossed a road- he found a mother opossom and 2 babies. The mother had been hit by a car, and the two babies were still trying to nurse- he brought the babies home. We bottle fed them, and they became extremely attached to me. They'd follow me around the yard, hang on my shirt while I'd walk through the neighborhood- they were sweet ugly little things lol
One day I came home from school and my mother told me that she had taken them to the cemetary and set them free- they were getting bigger and she was afraid that they'd hurt me. I know now that it was for the best, but I was absolutly devastated that my ugly little babies were gone.
@walkgal (133)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Sidyboy,
Yes mothers will do that. Kind of a sad story. I understand. I had a dog named Whiskers, ...a wired haired terrier. This dog could jump. Dad said he had legs like coil springs. Anyways, he would nip the neighborhood boys, when I played basketball with them. He was trying to protect me. He chased the horses next door. But the worse thing he did was kill the neighborhood cats. It started with rats he saw in my garage. Dad praised him for killing the rats. After that, it was anything that moved. He was not the big, but he was fast. He killed the cats by grabbing the backs of their necks and turning his head really quick, thus breaking their necks.
Suddenly he disappeared. Mom gave me all kinds of reasons for what may have happened to him. Forty five years later, ....while visiting my Aunt, she asked me if I remembered that dog. She commented on how mom had gotten rid of it. Wow! I never knew. It was a little late to grieve, ...but I did feel a pang of sorrow and anger. walkgal
