I'm sad.
I just found a baby duck in my window well and didn't know what to do. Common advice is to leave the little darling alone.
Using my brain however...
We have a dog in our backyard. Mama duck didn't come into our yard, baby must have missed the turn when she left our neighbor's yard.
The window well is 4 1/2 feet deep. Baby duck isn't climbing out on his own.
That makes me sad.
I corralled him into a corner til he scooted into a box, then I carried him over to the last place I saw Mama duck (the neighbor's water feature area) and tipped him out under a plant. I'm sure it's useless and he's hawk food, but I sure felt bad for the little guy.
On a non-related note, the houseboat vacation that I thought was canceled (HURRAY!!! Too many people have ended up going) is NOT canceled. So it'll be 3 boats and 19 people. UGH. I'm way too anti-social for that.
What's your animal rescue story?
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I have a baby duck story....Right after the birth of my first baby, the Hubs and I had a fight and I left baby home with him to drive... Up the highway I went when a momma duck and her million babies were crossing and the cop car in front of us ran over her and babies went everywhere...
I pulled over and called my husband who didnt want to come, but I was almost hysterical (i had just given birth and saw babies' momma die) and he knew he didnt have a choice. He loaded up baby and met me.
The babies were in the median and when we tried to approach them, they all fell down the storm drain. Another cop pulled over and he and the Hubs pulled the drain off and the Hubs crawled down with the cop's light. He pulled them out and passed them to cop to me who put them in my car and i counted them.
Hubs got them all but 1 who just kept running farther down the drain. In the meantime someone called in an abandoned cop car and the news media jumped on it. Hubs and cop were on TV.
We deposited the ducks at the lake they had crossed from with all the other ducks and prayed they made it. However, as we pulled them out, I was 1 duck short and after a search of the car, decided i had miscounted. We drove away and all of a sudden I heard a peep. I flashed my ligths and the Hubs pulled over and found the baby in my dash. We pulled it out and put it with its sibblings...
You never know! Mama may save that little duckling yet.
I'm proud of you for doing your part!
Pearls, your story made my day. I'm just glad you didn't become a cop hater because of the guy who ran them over, btw. :)
That peep! peep! peep! certainly does carry!
Naw - there was nothing he could do and I could imagine how he felt hitting them.
I just couldnt believe she had already made it through the other side of the highway - 3 lanes of traffic with all those babies following right behind!
I have a baby raccoon story. Read my post: http://natnchris1230.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-wonderful-baby-raccoon-in-my.html
I'm over it now, but it was VERY traumatic to me at the time!
Around 25 years ago when my two kids were wee tykes I had the front door open and a little Chickadee flew into the house as I shook out a small rug. The tiny thing got SO mixed up and even tho I tried to shoo it back out the door it finally lighted on to the mantelpiece. As my two sat gaping at us in open-mouthed wonder, I took a dish towel and gently dropped it over the bird so it couldn't see which calmed it down considerably. I gently lifted it in my hands, took it out on the front step, pulled back the towel, and away it flew! My kids are 32 and 30 and they still remember that like it was yesterday.
I rescued a baby squirrel once that got hit by a car and somehow managed to survive. Ended up naming it Rusty and he was my pet for a long, long time. Until he got ran over by another car and died. Tragic....
Kira is my happy rescue story. Someone had beat her nad left her to starve to death as just a 4 month old pup. The humane society found her and 4 days later I came walking thru. Saw her and we connected instantly. She now lives the best life a dog can. :)
I don't usually get a chance to rescue animals; the dogs are too quick. Though I did save a toad from our cistern once. And I don't even really like toads much.
Baby ducks break my heart...
I saved a seagull once. It had been hit by a car and was walking down the side of the road with a broken wing.
Keep in mind, this happened while I was working, so I made my partner at the time pull over. We both put on our gloves, coralled the poor thing into a corner and I scooped it up.
It was none too happy, but it sat on my lap, wrapped in my jacket, as my partner zoomed the police car to the animal rescue shelter.
The gal behind the counter at the shelter gave me a funny look, but she went and got a box and the bird was admitted for treatment.
Perhaps she gave me a funny look as seagulls flock in the thousands on the coast and we call them sh**hawks....but I couldn't let it suffer...
I don't have my share of anything too exciting-especially after tractors story. I have been know to stop and get turtles off of the road though.
Hope your Summer is going well.
You did the right thing with the duckling.
Glad to hear that your vacation is on again--a change of scenery is always nice.
our chocolate lab, Jack. got him from a rescue shelter 1 year ago. love, love, love that dog. he breaks all our rules, stay outside, don't get on furniture, don't sleep in out bed! not only does he sleep in our bed(between us and uses our pillows) he is the ruler of our house. aren't rules made to be broken!
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our chocolate lab, Jack. got him from a rescue shelter 1 year ago. love, love, love that dog. he breaks all our rules, stay outside, don't get on furniture, don't sleep in out bed! not only does he sleep in our bed(between us and uses our pillows) he is the ruler of our house. aren't rules made to be broken!
http://randommusingsfrommypov.com
I rescued a magenpie my tomcat had cornered in the whelping cage: it was a youngster & I'm sure it's the 1 that watches over this place. Unfortunately, Pahn the tomcat was run over in May when someone came to see my lovely foal...(1 for sorrow?!)
I've had to rescue a couple of bats inside the house. The first 1 died, but the second flew away after I stopped the dogs barking madly at it & then scooped it off the wall where it had roosted. I was sworn at for my trouble ~ bats use very colourful language when provoked!
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