Jay and I were walking back from my
parents house about an hour ago and found
an injured pigeon sort of flapping and
tumbling over on the side of a busy road,
obviously it had been hit by a car
You could tell
which side as its right wing was probably
broken and its right eye looked smashed
into. There was no blood but it was
breathing really heavy. Theres no way I
could leave an injured animal like
that..even if it was "just a bird" (what
my dad was thinking) So I carried it close
to me with one hand and put my other hand
loosely over its head to try keep it dark
to calm it a bit.
Well it fluttered about a bit for the
first 5 minutes until we were at the
bottom of my parents street, so I thought
we could keep it in a box at their house
overnight - then ring the wildlife hotline
in the morning for them to come collect it
or we could take it to them.
Almost at their house, I looked down and
realised it hadnt fluttered in about a
minute and saw it wasnt doing the hard
breathing with its break open anymore...it
had died
We took it to my parents back yard and
layed it in a box on top of some carrier
bags. It didnt move anymore, so I gently
opened its mouth to see if there was any
blood in there and there was. So it must
have been bleeding internally.
It was still quite young because it had
the yellow baby feathers still on it in
patches. Im sad but glad its not suffering
anymore. Obviously I washed my hands
thoroughly over and over, and threw my
clothes straight in the washing machine
because those birds spread nasty
diseases.
On the way back home with jay afterwards,
we had to have the whole "dying and
heaven" discussion. He knows the bird
"died in this country but got made
all-better in the country/place called
heaven, by someone called Jesus who fixes
all the animals and people when they die
here." -I didnt want to say it was a place
in the sky...so I just said it was a
differnt place, then he asked "a different
country?" so I said yeah called heaven. We
talked about it for a while and he was
fine about it all so thats good. I had to
laugh when he asked "does jesus fix it
with a spanner?"
