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Injured pigeon - what the hell do I do

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shoulditbethishard1 · 20/05/2023 19:04

An injured pigeon has landed on my drive, it looks like it might have been hit by a car, it can flap its wings but it’s like it’s back end is stuck to the floor and it can’t get up.

I think it’s days are numbered but I’ve just been back out there, it’s breathing very heavily, I don’t want it to suffer needlessly but I couldn’t put an end to its misery myself.

vets won’t be interested, RSPB won’t be interested.

what would you do?

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oakleaffy · 21/05/2023 01:05

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 00:31

What is the reason for these pictures you keep putting on here?

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It's really silly that this poster ''Almost Heaven'' is putting pics of kid's toys up, and a swimming man.. like something a child of 11 would do.

Is it half term yet?

oakleaffy · 21/05/2023 01:09

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Putting such childish stuff up because you don't agree with what another member thinks or says comes across as juvenile and rather bullying @AlmostHeaven .

InBeautifulKindWays · 21/05/2023 01:34

To be fair, I think there’s people on here being deliberately inflammatory with talk of spades and eating pigeon so they probably deserve it. @oakleaffy

ReleasetheCrackHen · 21/05/2023 05:59

shoulditbethishard1 · 20/05/2023 22:19

Chill out everyone progress has been made!

my lovely brother has come to the rescue, pigeon has been extracted from under the car, it’s now in a box with a towel, air holes and a lid. It’s been put in my garage until tomorrow morning. No ringing of necks has taken place. We really can’t see what’s wrong with it, wings appear to be flapping ok and no obvious sign of injury. If won’t be eaten by a cat or a fox, I’ll take it to the vets first thing in the morning

I’m less chilled tbh because avian flu is currently rampaging through the wild birds in the U.K. and you’ve now had your brother handle an obviously sick bird with a key symptom of avian flu- laboured breathing.

Humans can catch avian flu from sick birds.

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 07:24

InBeautifulKindWays · 21/05/2023 01:34

To be fair, I think there’s people on here being deliberately inflammatory with talk of spades and eating pigeon so they probably deserve it. @oakleaffy

Is killing, cleaning, and eating a pidgeon morally different from eating a chicken that someone else has killed?

GoodChat · 21/05/2023 07:41

shoulditbethishard1 · 20/05/2023 22:19

Chill out everyone progress has been made!

my lovely brother has come to the rescue, pigeon has been extracted from under the car, it’s now in a box with a towel, air holes and a lid. It’s been put in my garage until tomorrow morning. No ringing of necks has taken place. We really can’t see what’s wrong with it, wings appear to be flapping ok and no obvious sign of injury. If won’t be eaten by a cat or a fox, I’ll take it to the vets first thing in the morning

I've got huge plain windows and two pigeons flew into them and injured themselves last summer (before I got deterrents).

The first one couldn't stand and kept falling over. I put it in a box with some water for a few hours and when it looked a little more stable I took it out the box and put it on the lawn. He wobbled around for a few seconds and then flew up on to the shed. I think it must have been concussed and it takes them a while to come around properly.

The second one unfortunately died in the box which was sad but he bled from his mouth so I don't think there's anything that could have been done.

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 08:26

They make lovely pies.

EarringsandLipstick · 21/05/2023 08:41

Is killing, cleaning, and eating a pidgeon morally different from eating a chicken that someone else has killed?

You'd want to have a small appetite & be pretty desperate for food to go 'killing, cleaning, and eating [ONE] pidgeon <sic>'

🙄

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 09:00

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 08:26

They make lovely pies.

I don't know if this is outing, but my mother's maiden name was Pidgeon (with a 'd') and she was called 'Pigeon Pie' at school.

Ginmonkeyagain · 21/05/2023 09:00

I think the course of action depends on the circumstances. I have dispatched a very seriously injured pigeon before - it got on the wrong end of a cat and its throat was almost ripped out, there was no way it would have survived a trip to the vet.

I grew up on a farm so know how to wring a bird's neck quickly and efficiently and have a fairly strong stomach.

it rather shocked my neighbour who witnessed it from their front window though.

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 09:01

EarringsandLipstick · 21/05/2023 08:41

Is killing, cleaning, and eating a pidgeon morally different from eating a chicken that someone else has killed?

You'd want to have a small appetite & be pretty desperate for food to go 'killing, cleaning, and eating [ONE] pidgeon <sic>'

🙄

I have met 'live off the land' types that would do just that.

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 09:07

EarringsandLipstick · 21/05/2023 08:41

Is killing, cleaning, and eating a pidgeon morally different from eating a chicken that someone else has killed?

You'd want to have a small appetite & be pretty desperate for food to go 'killing, cleaning, and eating [ONE] pidgeon <sic>'

🙄

+1 for the 'sic', wholly deserved. My mother was a Pidgeon; the birds that infest my home town are pigeons. BUT the OED does list 'pidgeon' as an alternate spelling for the bird.

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 09:26

oakleaffy · 21/05/2023 01:05

It's really silly that this poster ''Almost Heaven'' is putting pics of kid's toys up, and a swimming man.. like something a child of 11 would do.

Is it half term yet?

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The kid's toys are called 'Trolls' (I had quite a collection when I was 8, so, yes, I get that 'childish' thing). I suspect there is a (barely) veiled accusation there. How I hate those photos with big white text that people put on social media.

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 10:09

Brumbies
They make lovely pies.

I don't know if this is outing, but my mother's maiden name was Pidgeon (with a 'd') and she was called 'Pigeon Pie' at school.

Charlotten

Are you saying pigeon pie is off the menu?

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 10:09

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 10:09

Brumbies
They make lovely pies.

I don't know if this is outing, but my mother's maiden name was Pidgeon (with a 'd') and she was called 'Pigeon Pie' at school.

Charlotten

Are you saying pigeon pie is off the menu?

Note the spelling!

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 11:05

Brumbies · 21/05/2023 10:09

Note the spelling!

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Er, what?

oakleaffy · 21/05/2023 14:27

CharlottenBurger · 21/05/2023 07:24

Is killing, cleaning, and eating a pidgeon morally different from eating a chicken that someone else has killed?

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The thought of eating an injured or sick pigeon isn’t appealing- unless one is a fox or carrion crow-
but I get your point about the killing and cleaning and eating of wood pigeons compared to buying a bird from a supermarket where someone else has done the dispatching.

There was a woman who called a very expensive equine vet out for a humbug snail.

She was very wealthy and quite dottyville.

Her old cottage still bears the name she bestowed on it: “ Snail 🐌 Cottage”

The vet couldn’t do much.

He probably didn’t mind- he was paid a call-out fee and dealing with a humbug snail is easier than dealing with a feisty TB colt.

SallyWD · 21/05/2023 20:09

So what's happened to the pigeon?! I want to know!

Dodie66 · 21/05/2023 23:20

OP says up thread what happened

SallyWD · 22/05/2023 07:37

Dodie66 · 21/05/2023 23:20

OP says up thread what happened

Yes I saw the last post. I just wondered if it had survived or been put to sleep.

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