Under bridge netting, HELP with TRAPPED pigeons!

[xxmoxiexx]

DISCALIMER: GRAPHIC POST, MAY UPSET SOME FOLKS

Ok, saw netting under a bridge, the netting hasnt been kept up with, there are at least 2 stuck, and many dead ones.
I took pics, called animal control to have them open it up, never answered or called back. MSPCA wasnt answrring and said they would call back the next business day on a message.
It is incredibly hot today, very humid. One of the two looked very weak, i cannot get up there, there is no way up, it is WAY too high/
there are openings for them to get out, but they cannot fimnd them,. kind of like a lobster trap, they can get in but not out.
Both were very close to an opening, i dropped seed right under the opening and tried to coax them out. They couldnt find the way.
I took pics. One dead bird had gotten himself wedged inbetween two tight pieces of netting, the netting is metal of some kind, and had tried to push himself out a tiny hole and basically killed himself trying to wedge his way out of there.
This is really sad. On top of everything, i have to go to work tonight. Am leaving soon. I dont know what to do, i know people have dealt with this here before, any advice please? I am afraid those two are dead right this minute, and just feel so helpless....

[xxmoxiexx]

here's pics, last 4 pics in album. Really gross and sad..

http://public.fotki.com/xxscribblerx...ons/page2.html

[Charis]

Call the TV stations. Be very calm and give the the location and facts. Offer to meet a news crew there. Call popular radio stations.
Put an ad in the animal section of your local Craig's list.
Call the emergency veterinary clinic closest to the bridge and ask them for suggestions and if they can interviene.
You might do a walk in at the closest fire station.
Don't stop until someone is willing to help. Some one will help.
Call karen and ask her to make calls.

[Reti]

I really can't look at the pics, sorry. Maybe peta could help with this one? You could also send them the pics.
I know many will argue about Peta, but they were of some help in the poisoning situation I had some years ago. It's better than nothing.

Reti

[xxmoxiexx]

Ok, i have to go to work sadly. I will try all those things, i'm gonna post some wuick stuff before i leave..
Oh, its so sad, i could tell they were weak. who is in charge of upkeep of these things?
Charis, you might have an idea where this is. Its UNDER rt 1 north, in chelsea, where rt 16 and webster ave meet. It's a poorer neighborhood, so the cops dont really care about stuff like this, they just dont...

[Charis]

Originally Posted by Reti

I really can't look at the pics, sorry. Maybe peta could help with this one? You could also send them the pics.
I know many will argue about Peta, but they were of some help in the poisoning situation I had some years ago. It's better than nothing.

Reti

I couldn't either, Reti.
Please tell us the exact location of the bridge.

[xxmoxiexx]

i know, i ALMOST put a disclaimer on the post and pics, but didnt, sorry!
Ok, it is where rt 16 and webster ave meet, rt 1 is OVERHEAD. so it is actually on webster ave.
oh, let me get a map of it

see if this works.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...30513&t=h&z=15

[xxmoxiexx]

for some reason when you click on that link it moves it from where i was looking.
if you zoom out, follow the rt 1, aka father adams memorial highway, to where webster ave crosses it. Rt 16, also called revere beach parkway on this map, they all kind of intersect.
I just tried animal control again, not there, and the cops told me to talk to animal control, they couldnt do anything.
Anyone from chelsea would know where rt 16 and webster ave meet. The bridge is for rt 1 going OVER webster ave. I cannot find a better map, sorry guys. I'm going first thing in the morning. What can i do? Anyone know someone with a HUGE ladder here? The problem needs to be fixed, would that be the highway department?
I have PETA's animal cruelty number, gonna call in the morning when i'm there...

[Charis]

Raina,
You need to try Peta now and the other options in post 3. The morning may be too late.
The highway dept has to have an emergency number and so does animal control.

[pdpbison]

Hi "X",



The Bridge, and the underside 'wire netting' is under some jurisdiction of course, whether city, county, railroad, state highway, or other.


Likely cost a fortune to install all that, and, with it being damaged and allowing Birds 'in' who then can not get back out, it is obviously failing to do what it was supposed to do.


This is an 'attractive' nuisance which is causing cruelty and death by trapping and starvation, which is probably a criminal offense, even if by 'accident' occasioned by negligence...and the right Lawyer would be able to frame the arguments for a Civil Suit certainly, to demand it be repaired, if not more than that...or a sypathetic DA or Police higher-up, could assign someone to enact a criminal suit against whoever's jurisdiction this is in to to at least contact them to discuss the matter.


Suitably sized 'holes' of course would permit entry and exit...were one to be able to get up there with some wire cutters or Tin snips or Bolt Cutters or something, to do it with.



Horrid...


Be nice if the Mayor or Police Commissioner or other high-ups were Pigeon people..! a few calls by them, and 'presto', it'd be fixed and fast...AND the trapped Birds released or rescued.


If anyone can get up there, maybe a tray of seeds and some kind of water would buy some time for the ones trapped.


So sorry that is happening...


Good luck..!


Phil
l v

[xxmoxiexx]

I had to go to work last night, i left early to get some sleep to get out there at 5 am to see if i could get up there. No go, there is no way up there.
I thought i could buyt a ladder, but realized i have NO WAY to get it there, my roommates car is a small car. And i would need a HUGE HUGE ladder, i can even guess how high it is, very high.
I am back to take a shower so i can pretty up and go ASK the firemen instead of CALLING! ARL and MSPCA open at 9 am. I am waiting to talk to them. if not, then PETA. I wish there was a way to get a huge extending pole to drop seed into the hole, then that would lead them to the opening, then at least i could get those 2 out.
Wow, i posted on craigslist. got some very nice replies, and some very very vicious ones.
People are dumb sometimes. gotta go, update later...

[AZWhitefeather]

Originally Posted by Reti

I really can't look at the pics, sorry.

Reti

I couldn't either, Reti, & don't mind saying so.
I'm not singling out your thread, Moxie, it's all of them.

Originally Posted by xxmoxiexx

i know, i ALMOST put a disclaimer on the post and pics, but didnt, sorry!

Yes. That is a good idea.
You might want to go back & post a WARNING! notice in your original post.

I hope you're able to get the proper assistance to help these poor birds.
Please keep us posted.

Cindy

[xxmoxiexx]

well, no go. MSPCA said they'd send someone, but didnt know when, and they said to check back tomorrow. The firemen said they couldnt go out to help pigeons because if someone died in a fire while helping pigeons it would be a big to-do.
The city says it is state property, the state says it is city property. Animal control, so surprisinlgy, hasnt called back. I'm not holding my breath, i called 4 times and left messages for something else 4 months back, still havent heard back. The animal control guy hates me, as i've explained in other threads.
Chelsea police wont help. Animal rescue league said thewy have been called out there before, and since there are holes, then "they can get out," and "some will make it, while others wont," and they wont go back out until the netting is fixed, then they WOULD go out to pull all the birds out.
I am going back over, to do what, i dont know. I guess i can call the papers later, but, that doesnt help the ones stuck. I am hoping that they got out. I poured more seed all over under the biggest hole. This is disgusting. I hate some of the emails i've recieved from the craigslist post for help, and i've been flagged and removed, twice.
Oh, animal rescue did say they would ask the officers that have been out there whether they know who originally put up the net. I am waiting for their call in a few hours...

[Charis]

Email the television stations the pictures and location. People are going to be more helpful if they can see the pictures. Do not repond the mean, hateful messages on Craig's list. Only respond to favorable kind messages.
Did you find the email for that woman you met at PETA?
If you keep making calls and emails someone will respond and help. That's the way it works ...you just have to put up with a lot of s..t before you find them. It's the same way you find a rehabber...you just keep calling and every person you call, if they are unable to help, you ask them if they know of someone that can.
Keep working it!

[xxmoxiexx]

well, PETA will pass the message on, dont know what will happen there....