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My German shorthair altered me to something just inside the woods by the driveway this afternoon. Discovered this guy apparently crippled with a broken wing. My wife, being a nature person decided to call animal rescue....we ended up having it catch it ourselves. Thing is sitting in a dog crate right now seating pickup by an expert.

Believe it to be a juvenile turkey vulture. Stinky bird.

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Bird must have good claws to be able to hang up side down like that...:D..


Ps... Thanks for saving a living thing sir....:thumbsup:
 
I found a racoon in the street in front of my house. It had two broken legs. One could see she just had little ones. I call conservation to come and help the little thing. The officer shows up, He told me he was beating it to death. He said it has rabbies. I kept saying no it has two broken legs and little ones. He takes a shovel and beats it to death. Then he looks at me and said, oh it had two broken legs. I said no Sh#t you dumba##. I will never call anyone to save another animal. This happened just a few years ago.
 
Someone dumped a puppy on my property last night. This happens about 2 or 3 times a year.

If no one wants it then it will go to the pound and be put down. There are not any no kill animal rescues around here.

Last spring someone dumped 5 puppies in the ditch, barely had their eyes open. At least someone took all of them in.

I hate doing that but people keep dumping animals on my property.
 
Zeldman said:
Someone dumped a puppy on my property last night. This happens about 2 or 3 times a year.

If no one wants it then it will go to the pound and be put down. There are not any no kill animal rescues around here.

Last spring someone dumped 5 puppies in the ditch, barely had their eyes open. At least someone took all of them in.

I hate doing that but people keep dumping animals on my property.
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There is a HOT place in hell for people like that....:mad::mad::mad:..

40 years ago I lived in a Mobile home park in Kendall Fla... Went outside to go to work one morning and there is this kitten, still didn't have it's eyes all the way open. Wondering around in my driveway. Poor thing was bumping into my tires, trees, bushes, etc, etc...

I took it in, gave it a bowl of milk,, the darn thing drank it in about 2 minutes.. I didn't have cat food so I opened a can of tuna and fed it to her, put her in a box, went to work thinking I would come home to a dead cat...

The little thing was soooooo happy to see me that afternoon....

Named her Critter... Was the best pet I ever had.. She lived for 22 years...

She had a GREAT life.....:)........:sad:
 
N801BH said:
There is a HOT place in hell for people like that....:mad::mad::mad:..

40 years ago I lived in a Mobile home park in Kendall Fla... Went outside to go to work one morning and there is this kitten, still didn't have it's eyes all the way open. Wondering around in my driveway. Poor thing was bumping into my tires, trees, bushes, etc, etc...

I took it in, gave it a bowl of milk,, the darn thing drank it in about 2 minutes.. I didn't have cat food so I opened a can of tuna and fed it to her, put her in a box, went to work thinking I would come home to a dead cat...

The little thing was soooooo happy to see me that afternoon....

Named her Critter... Was the best pet I ever had.. She lived for 22 years...

She had a GREAT life.....:)........:sad:
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Similar story. Named him Kamir (come here). Likewise, best pet we ever had. Proved that a cat can be trained if you are consistent. Didn't live as long as yours because a couple of pit bulls got loose in the neighborhood and killed him.
 
I wish I could keep all of the animals that get dumped on my property. But there are just too many. Plus with me selling the property and moving this month, I just don't have time to take in a new pet.

Our current kitty was dumped here. She moved onto our back porch and would not leave, even in the rain. I told my wife to not feed her and she will go away.

She has been with us 4 years now, and has become a real lap cat. We left her with the house sitter for the summer when we went to Alaska. When we got back she would not let us out of her sight. She knows something is up with us packing and cleaning and she is probably afraid we will leave again. I tell her to not worry, she is coming with us this time.

I named her Puffin, like the bird since she is black, white and orange.

I have known a few people that made pets out of turkey buzzards. They were tame enough to sit on my shoulder and eat from my hand. Keep count of the fingers though...
 
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I caught sight of a furry thing in the rain gutter while driving home for lunch one hot summer FL day. I pulled over and got out to take a look. It was a very young rabbit that had been hit by a car. it was still quite alive but it was clear that it had a broken back. I loaded the little thing into the car and went to the local vet's office, hoping maybe they could put it out of its misery, but thinking they probably wouldn't accept it. But they did, and I was happy I did a good deed for the day.
 
My family rescued a raven early this spring....fell or was kicked out of the nest.

Nursed with a suringe.....till semi adulthood...

Damn thing won't fly away!!!!

Guess he/she knows when they got a good thing....cage open all day everyday....flys into backyard then back into the cage....

Please send fish and game after me..I live in California and it's illegal to be kind to wild animals
 
I had a pet coon as a 12 yo kid. The power company was clearing a new line, dropped a tree with a coon's nest in it and it killed the mother. I got a baby. It could fit in the palm of my hand. I raised it by feeding it milk with an eye dropper and then, once it grew, with a baby bottle. Once old enough it ate, and loved, dog food. It rode on my shoulder around town on my bike.

One day the conservation agent saw us. He called dad and short time later he came to our house and took my coon. He even made me call it out of a tree so he could take it.

Bastard.

Broke my heart.

I didn't (couldn't) have a pet for a long time after that.
 
This thread had me from smiling to sad to smiling to sad to smiling... You get the point.
 
My sister-in-law has a dog door into her garage (she has two stray dogs that adopted her) and lives out in the middle of nowhere, but is the first house on a dirt road off the main road. Someone pulled into her driveway one night and before she could figure out what was going on they threw two very young kittens through the dog door with such force that one succumbed to the injuries. Now given the type of person my sil is, she took care of the other, but frankly WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE.

The turkey buzzard I'd likely have less compassion with. I managed to get one of those with the wing of the 172 a while back. I might have euthanized it with the 12 gauge.
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
My family rescued a raven early this spring....fell or was kicked out of the nest.

Nursed with a suringe.....till semi adulthood...

Damn thing won't fly away!!!!

Guess he/she knows when they got a good thing....cage open all day everyday....flys into backyard then back into the cage....

Please send fish and game after me..I live in California and it's illegal to be kind to wild animals
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So you have created your own little welfare state and it is a beautiful analogy of what the real one does.
 
Well, the puppy that was dumped on my property is doing fine. We tried to find a home for her but no one was interested.

She is growing into a good looking German Sheppard. We named her Francine, and call her Frankie. She is already very protective of her yard.

And playful. Everything on the ground is a toy to her right now. We got her a tennis ball and she really enjoys running around the yard with it. Another favorite toy is a plastic flower pot. She really gives that thing a workout, even holding it in her mouth and running. Funny part is she holds on the rim with the pot covering her eyes...:lol:, with expected results.

We let her in the house at night and she sleeps in the laundry room. From night one she has not messed in the house. She sleeps on an old, plush towel. Last night it was on top of the washing machine. She sat and kept looking at that towel until I got it and put it on the floor for her.

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Just a quick picture, not very good. That's not even my back yard because we don't have grass.
 
One of my college roommates was tearing down an old house and found a bucket in the attic with a squirrel's nest and two babies in it. Brought the babies home and gave them milk with an eye dropper. Two days later they were not doing well, so took them to the vet school. Turns out that cow milk is not good for very many animals. They gave us powdered dog milk and a second eye dropper.

George ran off when he grew up, but we had to release Harriet several times. We think she was addicted to the salt on Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts we gave her. But it was quite fun to come home and have a squirrel or two run across the furniture, jump onto your leg and climb up to sit on your shoulder!
 
Billy, where are you and the pup located?
 
Henning said:
Did they put the bird down?
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Probably.

My vet, just retired, worked with Operation Wildlife. His specialty was birds of prey. Hawks, owls, falcons, eagles, kestrels and maybe even vultures would show up in his office. A broken wing typically meant one of two things: euthanasia, or removal. Once the wing was removed, it would end up living in a wildlife or educational shelter because it couldn't be released. If the shelters were full, well, ...
 
Matthew said:
Probably.

My vet, just retired, worked with Operation Wildlife. His specialty was birds of prey. Hawks, owls, falcons, eagles, kestrels and maybe even vultures would show up in his office. A broken wing typically meant one of two things: euthanasia, or removal. Once the wing was removed, it would end up living in a wildlife or educational shelter because it couldn't be released. If the shelters were full, well, ...
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That's why I asked, I did the exact same thing a decade ago, and the bird rescue people said that the bones won't mend and usually they will die of the infection. Although it's not without precedent that you see a one winged turkey buzzard hopping around as a pet on a ranch, it is a rare site indeed. Most people don't really care for them as pets, and if someone isn't feeding them, they'll die.
 
Henning said:
Did they put the bird down?
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Nope. It had West Nile virus and was suffering from malnutrition, the wing was actually ok. It's being rehabilitated and they plan to release it back to the wild at some point.
 
cowman said:
Nope. It had West Nile virus and was suffering from malnutrition, the wing was actually ok. It's being rehabilitated and they plan to release it back to the wild at some point.
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Nice, cool it didn't have a broke wing.
 
Our current cat came from a shelter.

I think it had lived in a cage its whole life until we got it, maybe 9 mo - 1 yr. It didn't know how to jump, it couldn't even jump up on a chair without coming up short. It eventually figured it out. One side effect, it never learned how to use its claws. It has never clawed the furniture, the only cat I've ever had that worked that way.
 
Zeldman said:
Gallup, NM. Grass is rare but not impossible here. Just depends how much you want to spend on water...:lol:
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When I was a kid in the 60's we lived just outside Holbrook. My mom was adamant she was going to have grass. Just about every spring the lawn would be covered with sand from windstorms.

One year she got a shop vac and spent hours vacuuming the lawn...not something you see often. :D

Mom loved her green things.
 
3393RP said:
When I was a kid in the 60's we lived just outside Holbrook. My mom was adamant she was going to have grass. Just about every spring the lawn would be covered with sand from windstorms.

One year she got a shop vac and spent hours vacuuming the lawn...not something you see often. :D

Mom loved her green things.
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Just sweep the sand smooth and let the grass keep growing. That's how you build fairways and greens.:yes:
 
Thanks for saving the critters, people. Hard to find folks with a good heart nowadays .... damn cholesterol (bad joke, move on :) ).

We saw an abandoned seal pup in Victoria, BC once. Called animal rescue, poor guys had to schlep him off the waterline, up the hundreds of stairs on the cliff face to the animal ambulance truck. And poor little pup was barking from under the hood they wrapped him in. He was cute and yes, he survived. He can be now seen at the Vancouver Aquarium. :)
 
3393RP said:
When I was a kid in the 60's we lived just outside Holbrook. My mom was adamant she was going to have grass. Just about every spring the lawn would be covered with sand from windstorms.

One year she got a shop vac and spent hours vacuuming the lawn...not something you see often. :D

Mom loved her green things.
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I would love to have some green, plush grass in my yard, even just half the back yard....

Man, I bet Holbrook was just a speck in the desert back then....How big was the shop vac..?? :lol::lol::lol:
 
I just salvaged a young rat from drowning.

I'm guessing he's about 5-6 weeks old. He seems to have spent the day bobbing in a bucket of water left out for the live-stock. When I discovered him about an hour-and-a-half ago, he was at the bottom of the bucket with bubbles leaking from his nose.

I wrapped him in a kitchen towel and put him into a kitchen pot. Depending on the extent of lung damage, he may live to see 7 weeks.
 
No parts broken here, has fully operating stomach. So far I've H-a-H trapped three and have relocated each several miles away. There are still two that come to eat my feral kitties' food in my two shelters(as well as two skunks,one of which is WHITE with small portions of black). Skunks and coons like it under my back deck.

HR
 

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iPhone photo. The raccoons don't upset the dishes; they pick up the pellets, daintily, with their paws; and also get the water bowls dirty because they wash their food and paws. The skunks knock over the dishes; they all drink a lot of water. The fish tank heater in each bowl prevents any freezing.

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