Rescuing a crow

[snapdragen]

Good for you Trek. I love crows - the beasties are so big here I swear I could put a saddle on one and ride it to work!

[trickytiger]

I take this to mean that you found a new, happier place to work? Happy for you.... and sad for me! Who is going to make me wash towels and hand weights now?

Hey, maybe I should work that extra day and send some $$ to YUWR.

Black Surly bike.... black crow.... one more dark day at old job....
(and the Edgar Allen Poe connection.)

[KnottedYet]

Girl, you are gonna be working your tail off doing patient treatments! No more laundry and cleaning for you!

(you can thank me later... )

[kjay]

Great to hear about what you did, Trek, and I hope for the best for the raven. I rescued a hummingbird once and took her to the Peninsula Humane Society where she rehabbed. I was able to pick her up to release her in the area in which I live. I'll be looking forward to your update.

[Trek420]

Edger Allen The Crow didn't make it.

He made it through the night and when taken to the vet it was found he had a compound fracture of the major bone in his wing, sticking through the skin. She says he would have never flown again. They decided the best thing to do was put him down.

The gal from the rescue agency said the same day they got a baby crow, so circle of life, that sort of thing. And that if I had not come along, and he'd managed to get off the road he would have lingered or perhaps been eaten by a dog or cat.

[teigyr]

oh I am so sad about that but at least you helped him, poor guy. And I am so happy that there are people willing to help, it is people like you (and most people on TE) who help make the world a better place for beasties and others.

[KnottedYet]

Awww... sh#t.

Knot-with-tears-in-her-eyes

[KnottedYet]

I'm still sending $$ to Yggdrasil. More $$ = more critters get help. (even if it's a painless way to die safe and warm instead of getting tortured and eaten by some other animal)

::blows nose and snurfles::
Here's a song for Edgar - "Little Bird" by Annie Lennox (no link, sorry)

[margo49]

You *did* the Right Thing At the Time.
And you shared the story which is the best because we all need Good News (as opposed to the Usual News).
The *result* was never in your hands *anyway*. You did what you could.

[emily_in_nc]

That's so sad...but thank you for being so kind -- you did all you could have done, and more than 99.99% of people would have done.

A fellow bird lover