Keito, the Incompetent competent hunter
Apr. 4th, 2004 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anysiaLet's set the wayback machine to Friday.
Bundle of Fur Keito bags himself a mourning dove (deemed vermin here as it is an introduced species) and brought it in to play. He didn't kill it, just wounded it slightly. Son called me about it, told him to give said bird emergency anti shock treatment (warm sugar water) and I would check the critter out when I got home. I got home, examined the bird, saw it had a scraped left 'elbow', a broken or wrenched leg, and its' tail feathers were missing. Dosed it a few more times with the warm sugar water, and stuck it in the plant basket we have in the lemon tree. We had used this for two other birds, and successfully rehabbed them.
The next morning, said bird was sitting on the rim of the basket, not quite ready to fly away, but doing fine. I weeded my garden which was right next to the lemon tree, checked the bird once again, and went indoors.
I will be damned if Keito didn't go up the tree, grab the bird again, and bring it back in. I got it away from him again, not much worse for wear. Fed it warmed sugar water to prevent shock. It survived overnight. It's currently residing in a tissue lined bucket , with some wild seeded grasses and some millet spray. It's been picking at them already, so I am hopeful of a full recovery. Luckily it's too old to get imprinted, so once it's healed up, it will be let free.
Bundle of Fur Keito bags himself a mourning dove (deemed vermin here as it is an introduced species) and brought it in to play. He didn't kill it, just wounded it slightly. Son called me about it, told him to give said bird emergency anti shock treatment (warm sugar water) and I would check the critter out when I got home. I got home, examined the bird, saw it had a scraped left 'elbow', a broken or wrenched leg, and its' tail feathers were missing. Dosed it a few more times with the warm sugar water, and stuck it in the plant basket we have in the lemon tree. We had used this for two other birds, and successfully rehabbed them.
The next morning, said bird was sitting on the rim of the basket, not quite ready to fly away, but doing fine. I weeded my garden which was right next to the lemon tree, checked the bird once again, and went indoors.
I will be damned if Keito didn't go up the tree, grab the bird again, and bring it back in. I got it away from him again, not much worse for wear. Fed it warmed sugar water to prevent shock. It survived overnight. It's currently residing in a tissue lined bucket , with some wild seeded grasses and some millet spray. It's been picking at them already, so I am hopeful of a full recovery. Luckily it's too old to get imprinted, so once it's healed up, it will be let free.
