wizer
TK addict
There's a small backyard area behind my office building where I also live for about another 2 weeks or less hopefully but that's another story.
Anyway, I let her loose back there to "do her thing" and she immediately scared up a large pigeon that was hiding in the bushes..it had a broken wing and all it could do was hobble around, but it had plenty of life left to it.
So I took a seat on the glider and watched as my 7 month old beagle mix hesitantly approached it...with quick forward thrusts of her muzzle or paws, followed by quick retreats when the bird waved it's wing or stuck its beak out in a feeble but valient attempt to defend itself.
This was Sandy's first experience of this nature, although she has chased cats and squirrels, but this was the first "helpless victim". Within 10 minutes she realized it was no threat, and went from being cautious to picking it up by the neck and shaking the life out of it.
I was so proud of her!
Until...I told a friend I chat with online and she said the bird might have healed its wing and been ok. That makes me feel a bit...well...guilty.
I NEVER knew birds with broken wings could heal. But even so, nature's cruel, and some other animal would have gotten to it anyway!
Right?
Anyway, I let her loose back there to "do her thing" and she immediately scared up a large pigeon that was hiding in the bushes..it had a broken wing and all it could do was hobble around, but it had plenty of life left to it.
So I took a seat on the glider and watched as my 7 month old beagle mix hesitantly approached it...with quick forward thrusts of her muzzle or paws, followed by quick retreats when the bird waved it's wing or stuck its beak out in a feeble but valient attempt to defend itself.
This was Sandy's first experience of this nature, although she has chased cats and squirrels, but this was the first "helpless victim". Within 10 minutes she realized it was no threat, and went from being cautious to picking it up by the neck and shaking the life out of it.
I was so proud of her!
Until...I told a friend I chat with online and she said the bird might have healed its wing and been ok. That makes me feel a bit...well...guilty.
I NEVER knew birds with broken wings could heal. But even so, nature's cruel, and some other animal would have gotten to it anyway!
Right?
