Re: Vet to treat bird injuries needed!!
hi everyone!
thanks so much for your concern about my little pigeon friend Ruffles. I named him/her that because of the way he would fluff and ruffle up the weathers around his neck.. i am sad to report that Ruffles has died. his injuries were much worse that i thought.. let me explain..
i work on the 7th floor of my office building. this floor has an open air atrium/courtyard and all offices are situated around it. a flock of pigeons live in this atrium. people feed them rice and bread crusts. after a while you actually start to recognize individual pigeons.. they are all very different. last monday i noticed that one of the younger ones was slower and more subdued than usual.. i thought nothing of it.. then on tuesday and wednesday he was always just sitting but whenever i came near he would flap his wings and move away.. so i assumed he had sprained a leg or a wing, minor injury (i once caught another pigeon with injured leg and within 2 weeks he had recovered and flown away, i thought Ruffles would be similar case). by thursday he was barely moving and hid among some plant pots. my colleague helped me catch him and put him in a box.. then i called my vet who sadly could not help, then i started this thread and you guys responded..
i brought ruffles home with me and fed him bread, cereal, dried cranberries, almond biscuits and rice but none of those things interested him. he died shortly after.. he had already lost lots of weight and was barely moving, it was too late. only after his death could i properly ascertain the extent of his injuries and i know now that he suffered terribly. his death was a slow and agonizing one. i'm glad he's dead. the bone of his left leg had completely snapped and was protruding out through the skin and flesh of the back part of his upper thigh. the bone stuck out almost one full inch. the thigh itself had swelled to more than twice the size of his other leg.
sad story, crappy ending but at least he's not in pain anymore. i cna't imagine how he got that injury.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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