Cat just brought in this poor sparrow

[ItsThatBeverleyMacca]

I've got the cat away and put the sparrow in the garden but it's just blinking and not moving...I don't want to leave it to die but I think it's fatally injured, should I just have let the cat at it to put it out of its misery? The bloody cat brought it in just as I was off out to work I feel terrible just leaving it outside...not an AIBU but I want to cry at it's poor little face

[ItsThatBeverleyMacca]

It's flown away!!!! The cat came back out and as I chased him away from the sparrow it took flight!

[lampfromikea]

Perhaps it was just stunned? Or playing dead? Not sure if sparrows do that though.
Our cat once brought in a mouse that he had paralysed. I only realised when he left it and it started dragging itself around the floor. I had to leave him to finish it off. That was pretty grim.

[ItsThatBeverleyMacca]

Oh no, that was my fear! I didn't know what to do with it as if I'd left it in the garden he'd have brought it back in and probably made a huge mess with it in the house! The relief when it flew away...

[Kiroro]

YAY