Do I rescue a baby thrush, what do I feed it on ?
29 April 2011, 08:11 PM
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Do I rescue a baby thrush, what do I feed it on ?
Has been sat on the fence for some 10 hours now, won't shift. Parents are trying to motivate it, but the local moggy has now spotted it !
What do I feed it ?
Was going to put an old shirt into a shoe-box, handle it wearing clean gloves, feed it, and then return it to the shed roof first thing AM.
Input requested !
dunx
What do I feed it ?
Was going to put an old shirt into a shoe-box, handle it wearing clean gloves, feed it, and then return it to the shed roof first thing AM.
Input requested !
dunx
29 April 2011, 08:23 PM
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Think the best advice is to let nature take its course, but it's hard watching a defenceless animal suffer. Have you searched the RSPB website or anything?
29 April 2011, 08:34 PM
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Save it before the cat gets it or if you have a pellet gun shoot the cat 
Cats are horrible creatures they are out all day and night only come home to eat and sh%Te
Cats are horrible creatures they are out all day and night only come home to eat and sh%Te
29 April 2011, 08:34 PM
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One hit our back window - had a bloody beak.
Wifey got me to call the vet (!) for advice.
She then put it in her cupped hands and took it out to the front......
As she got to the drive, the bird twitched.
She screamed.
Threw it up in the air.
It landed on the floor.
On it's head.
Funnily enough - wasn't overly animate after that.
Muppet.
But the vet said to let nature take its course.
Wifey got me to call the vet (!) for advice.
She then put it in her cupped hands and took it out to the front......
As she got to the drive, the bird twitched.
She screamed.
Threw it up in the air.
It landed on the floor.
On it's head.
Funnily enough - wasn't overly animate after that.
Muppet.
But the vet said to let nature take its course.
29 April 2011, 08:43 PM
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Parents MAY abandon him/her if you take contact.... I tried the same as your original suggestion but it couldnt fly and I found it dead the following day on the patio floor.... Since then I try not to intravene with nature too much if it can be helped, apart from when I scooped up a dead rabbit off the road last week before the local fox got the same treatment trying to get his supper!!!
29 April 2011, 09:04 PM
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My sister saved a baby magpie years ago that had fallen out of its nest and couldnt fly, 21 years later and nature took its course and the magpie died, this could be the outcome of you saving the thrush!
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29 April 2011, 09:08 PM
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29 April 2011, 09:28 PM
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No f'kin way I'm letting that mangy soddin' cat eat it... 
Just scooped it up, fed it some dog food, it's had a drink, and is in a box in the kitchem.
Just seems exhausted, it's certainly quite large.
Will deposit on the shed roof at dawn.
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Just scooped it up, fed it some dog food, it's had a drink, and is in a box in the kitchem.
Just seems exhausted, it's certainly quite large.
Will deposit on the shed roof at dawn.
dunx
29 April 2011, 09:30 PM
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Well done, it will be back next year and it will shít on your car several times
29 April 2011, 09:31 PM
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If people didn't keep house cats then these cats would be in the wild, not being fed in the house and thus killing more birds to survive. So really, the domestic ownership of cats is helping increase the number of birds in the wild.
29 April 2011, 09:35 PM
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This may be true, but it doesn't prove that bird numbers are down because people keep cats. All you are saying is that this is part of the natural cycle and not based or quoted on some scientific research that bird numbers are reduced because of the domestic ownership of cats.
If people didn't keep house cats then these cats would be in the wild, not being fed in the house and thus killing more birds to survive. So really, the domestic ownership of cats is helping increase the number of birds in the wild.
If people didn't keep house cats then these cats would be in the wild, not being fed in the house and thus killing more birds to survive. So really, the domestic ownership of cats is helping increase the number of birds in the wild.
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I'd keep it safe for longer. If it is exhausted it will need longer to recover I reckon.
29 April 2011, 09:41 PM
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Put it in a box, and put it outside where a cat/fox can't get to it, preferably high up. If the parents were close by they would be feeding it anyway. If you've handled it, they may abandon it anyway. Give it water. You can drip it into its beak.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...alth/faqs.aspx
http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...alth/faqs.aspx
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29 April 2011, 09:42 PM
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Still waiting to see your source Tony
Besides, in these times of austerity the more wildlife that lands in my garden and doesn't take off again saves me a packet in cat food.
Besides, in these times of austerity the more wildlife that lands in my garden and doesn't take off again saves me a packet in cat food.
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