My dog has chased a pigeon off the garden

[Hiredandsqueak]

It is so fat that it obviously didn't gain enough height to either get onto the fence or off of the garden because it hit the garden fence. I think it's stunned as there are no obvious injuries, it is walking but it's making no attempts to fly. The dog is inside but not interested now anyway as if it doesn't move there is no chase.
I am terrified of birds so there is no way I can get it in a box or anything. What should I do? Leave it and hope it recovers before one of the neighbour's cats finishes it off. Open the back gate and let it out of the garden as it will have more chance of flight off the green at the back of the house and there are bushes and trees where it can take cover. Or something else?

Leave it, it just needs time to recover. Can you keep watch so neighbiurs cat doesnt get it?

Don’t cause it any more stress. Just leave it be and keep dog out of garden until it’s gone.

Years ago my then boyfriend found an injured/unwell pigeon in the street.

He phoned to tell me had taken it in and I advised that he should have left it as it would be stressed inside his flat.

He said he had placed it on the windowsill with the window open so that it has fresh air.

As we were speaking he called out “Oh no!” and dropped the phone.

He came back and said the bird had keeled over and fell out the window and was dead on the pavement below.
😕

Great I will do that I've knocked at the neighbour's door and asked them to keep the cat in for now and will just watch and wait.

Definitely leave it. If you do anything to it shock will set in. In two hours open your gate if it hasn't flown off on it's on.
I'm typing this and watching the world's fattest wood pigeon gorge himself at my bird table. 😁

I opened the gate after a couple of hours because it's a huge pigeon and a tiny garden so it needs to fly pretty much vertically to get out plus there is no shade now on the back and I don't want it dying of heatstroke.
It's not on the floor on the green now and there aren't any feathers so either it flew or it's hidden itself in one of the shrubs so hopefully it's lived to fly another day. If not it will undoubtedly be a fox's supper later.