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Help! Dog got baby robin

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Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 19:15

Posting in aibu for a quick response! We’ve had a robins nest in our garden and I think they fledged today but my dog has just found one and grabbed it. It’s still alive and I’ve locked the dog in the house but it’s lying in the lawn in shock I think. Is there anything I can do to help it? Thank you all!

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Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 19:17

Photo to help

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Soubriquet · 14/06/2022 19:18

Check to see if there is any puncture wounds and then try and put it up high in a safe place if you can.

You could pop it indoors in a box, keep it in a dark and warm place and release tomorrow if you can’t find a safe space.

If it has puncture wounds, there’s no helping it

LemonJuiceFromConcentrate · 14/06/2022 19:18

Is there an RSPB number you could try or web info from them?

I think it probably will be in such shock that it might not survive, sadly. Poor little thing

user1471541711 · 14/06/2022 19:24

Don’t put it in the house. The parents need to be able to see it and feed it or they will abandon it and it will probably starve

rnsaslkih · 14/06/2022 19:25

Leave it - bird can be stunned for a couple of hours

TheNoodlesIncident · 14/06/2022 19:27

I don't think it'll make it from its appearance in your photo, sorry. I always put a large plant pot over our cat's victims so they would be undisturbed in the dark. If they looked like yours does, they always died. We have had a few lucky ones that she (the cat) had a gentle hold of and they looked less distraught and more lively, even if they had lost a few feathers.

Philosophically, this is why robins have a few broods in the breeding season, because the survival rate is not particularly high. It's just nature unfortunately.

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Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 19:40

Thank you all. I think it’s died as it doesn’t seem to be breathing… does that mean it’s dead? My girls have been watching the nest and are devastated. I feel awful.

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AwkwardPaws27 · 14/06/2022 19:45

Take it to a vet or wildlife rescue

lurcherlove · 14/06/2022 19:47

I'm afraid it's 🎶the circle of life🎶 Inevitable if you have dogs. We have two dogs and birds that nest in the eaves. Most of them make it afaik, but sometimes one or two have fallen down and I'm afraid it's usually curtains for them. Sad but inevitable.

OneTC · 14/06/2022 19:47

Philosophically, this is why robins have a few broods in the breeding season, because the survival rate is not particularly high. It's just nature unfortunately.

There's little natural about your domesticated animals eating wildlife

RichardOsmansXraySpecs · 14/06/2022 19:48

Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 19:40

Thank you all. I think it’s died as it doesn’t seem to be breathing… does that mean it’s dead? My girls have been watching the nest and are devastated. I feel awful.

I'd just leave it alone in the bushes in case it is still alive and just in shock.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 14/06/2022 19:49

OneTC · 14/06/2022 19:47

Philosophically, this is why robins have a few broods in the breeding season, because the survival rate is not particularly high. It's just nature unfortunately.

There's little natural about your domesticated animals eating wildlife

Pretty common though.... Which is why they have so many no? Dogs and cats aren't s new thing

Soubriquet · 14/06/2022 19:51

If it isn’t breathing, it’s dead.

My cat broke my heart once. Never hunted before in her life and then all in one day she bought home 3 Robin chicks, mum and dad. All dead

MumofSpud · 14/06/2022 19:55

Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 19:40

Thank you all. I think it’s died as it doesn’t seem to be breathing… does that mean it’s dead? My girls have been watching the nest and are devastated. I feel awful.

Umm (sadly) yes if it is not breathing then yes it is dead
It is no more

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Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 20:09

Thanks all. I know that last question was fairly stupid! I guess I was just hoping for a miracle.

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MumofSpud · 14/06/2022 20:12

Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/06/2022 20:09

Thanks all. I know that last question was fairly stupid! I guess I was just hoping for a miracle.

Sorry - didn't mean to be sarcastic- I would hate my cat/dog to bring in something half dead - it hasn't happened....yet! Actually was talking about it with my DD recently and said if it looked v injured would have to help it on its way(?) but probably couldn't

entropynow · 14/06/2022 20:15

OneTC · 14/06/2022 19:47

Philosophically, this is why robins have a few broods in the breeding season, because the survival rate is not particularly high. It's just nature unfortunately.

There's little natural about your domesticated animals eating wildlife

Nonsense. A dog is still a dog and other predators exist. Are you trying to make the OP feel guilty somehow, if you are you're being ridiculous

thecatsthecats · 14/06/2022 20:28

OneTC · 14/06/2022 19:47

Philosophically, this is why robins have a few broods in the breeding season, because the survival rate is not particularly high. It's just nature unfortunately.

There's little natural about your domesticated animals eating wildlife

Natural accounts for all sorts of circumstances.

Including a naturally evolved species that forms codependent relationships with other species, using their naturally selected intelligence to deliberately create new breeds, and to top it all off, to have members of that species who then go on to consider the process unnatural.

There is nothing under the sun that is unnatural.

Unfair, unpalatable? Sure. But everything occurs within the schema of nature.

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