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26th June 2007, 10:10 PM
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Injured pigeon, please help!My cat injured a pigeon today under its wing. The injury doesnt look that bad but the pigeon will not fly. I have it in a large carrier with fresh water and it seems calm and is sleeping. Does anyone know of any pigeon rescues or anywhere I can take him in or near Las Vegas, NV? Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
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#2
26th June 2007, 10:17 PM
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You are in luck, Jessica 25! I believe that Phil just posted that he now has
Clavamox/Augmentin on hand....  Just what the doctor ordered for animalbites. I will pm Phil's phone number to you, just hang on a sec...I think you can still call him tonight. fp
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#3
26th June 2007, 10:28 PM
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Jessica25 just called me on the telephone. She is bringing the Pigeon here right now... So, once I have had a chance to see what's what, I will post some notes about it. Thanks Jessica25 for looking after this Bird. Best wishes..! Phil Las Vegas
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#4
26th June 2007, 11:59 PM
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Hi all...
Getting him re-hydrated...then into some thin chow later tonight, pending meds later tonight once he has something to go on calorie-wise. Pretty thin and dehydrated, likely spent a few days with no chow or water. Standing well, one tiny blip of poop which seemed dry already being from earlier time today in his carrier. Imminent pre-fledgling age...but tiny, perfectly formed, no yellow down remaining, but he is about the size of an adult Morning Dove. Perfect Feathers...interested be fed-watered Baby-Style once we did some gestures, so I just got him into the nuzzle mode and guided his Beak with my finegrs on it, into some tepid electolyte and I let him have a decent drink, with more to soon follow. Looks like numerous small scabs and smallish dried blood sites in and under his Feathers and on his Neck and back. Wings seem untouched... One lucky Squeaker, that the Cat did not do more...but, definitely has quite a few bites and likely small Claw punctures, so, Mr. Clamavox will come visit once we have the rehydration things done and a little thin chow to boot. Jessica25 was sure nice to drive him all the way over here... I am glad we could get started now... Till next, Phil Las Vegas
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27th June 2007, 04:27 AM
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What a great job you all did getting that bird some help, quick thinking and the timing is going to make one speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedy recovery for this youngster.
 Thank you Jessica, fp, and Phil! What great teamwork!
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27th June 2007, 12:30 PM
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OUTSTANDING, Jessica and Phil !!
Sure hope the little one does OK...if anyone can help this one, Phil can! Will look forward to your updates, Phil!! Meanwhile, will add HEALING THOUGHTS along with HUGS & SCRITCHES!!! Shi
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#7
27th June 2007, 10:15 PM
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Hi everyone,
Well, we re-hydrated till I was satisfied, then did some thin chow via "the Tube"...and all went well. Little-one seems easy with things and overall holding herself well considering she'd likely been quite a while with no water and no chow. Getting some tiny poops as of this afternoon... Got her to nuzzle and drink repid electolyte water right off, and since, but she refuses to be guided to eat, and if she knows I have food in mind, she will not even nuzzle! So, she will not eat anything from the Nipple or any other way I have tried. She is in a Cage next to other convelesents, so, she can see them pecking, and I set her up with a nice little Seed Bowl, so, we shall see...and, of course, 'Mr. Tube' will come to visit of and on... And this mind you, even with my best most yummy recipes for formula WITH "SEEDS" in it even, in the Nipple... Well...I felt crestfallen, let me tell you. No one has ever turned up their Beak to my 'cooking' before...so, there's always a first I guess...and, so, that meant...a vist from 'Mr. Tube'... Lol... Anyway, here's a coupla pictures as of this afternoon... Got her going on the clavamox...and 'Neosporin' for the various little injury sites here and there... Best wishes, Phil Las Vegas Last edited by pdpbison; 1st January 2008 at 02:50 AM.
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27th June 2007, 10:22 PM
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Another image from this afternoon...she did some light flying after chow time, meaning a couple feet of decent wing mediated desent onto the bed...then from the Bed to the floor, then under the Bed and so on, trying to get away from me!
I also let her have a little esocial time with another solo squeaker I have here whose parents are present and who might even feed her, I dunno, we shall see if she wants them to as some point, and the two of them seemed like fast pals, so, I will let them have that off and on so they can enjoy eachother's company, and who knows, maybe his ma and pa might just feed her a time or two, too...but I gotta stay close by to keep an eye on that situation of course... Phil Las Vegas Last edited by pdpbison; 8th July 2008 at 04:09 PM.
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28th June 2007, 03:25 AM
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Well, I'll be darned! Didn't take to your feeding protocol, Phil? Yikes! That IS a first!
Hope your idea with a pal and parents will pay off! Will be looking forward to updates on this cliffhanger! BEST OF EVERYTHING and of course, HUGS and SCRITCHES Shi & Squeaks
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28th June 2007, 05:27 PM
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I'm glad to see she is doing better. If there is anything further I can do please let me know. Thats the one thing I dislike about cats is their natural hunting instincts. All of my cats are cats that I have rescued as well. So I basically do what you do but for cats and kittens. I plan on getting some feathers and making a bird like device to attempt to train my cats not to attack despite their instincts. Wish me luck. If I can train a cat to use the toilet as a bathroom I believe I can do this as well.  Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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#12
28th June 2007, 08:22 PM
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Hi Jessica, all... Lol... I know Cats can make a decision not to bother Birds, or not to bother certain Birds. But then too, they can make a new decision, to bother them..! I love Cats dearly, and have made friends with some of the feral ones here. Few feral Cats manage to survive around here...and sometimes I would see none for years on end. I never feed them, but I do like to become friendly when possible. By 'make friends' I mean that after six months of me acting like I am uninterested in looking at them ( a momma and three Kittens...the Momma I have made friends with, the Kittens are still way WAY too shy ) or having anything to do with them, so I can walk by them almost touching them with my ankle as they stalk some Bug or Mouse, one of them ( momma) now will lay in the parking lot at night and I can lay on the asphalt a foot away and we do a nice easy social time thing smelling the breeze and looking at the sky and listening and so on, and the other night she let me rub her head after she got done doing some rolly-polly-cat things on her back. They come into the shop ( The workshop is seperate form the other rooms here ) and hunt Mice and Crickets, and really, while mostly acting like I do not have any interest in them, I have lectured them all quite a few times, saying "Now, I am fine to let you hunt MICE in "my" Territory..but you may NOT hunt any Birds in here even if the Bird is on the ground...okay? Are we clear on that?" So they know I am easy and not a threat...and they are fine to be inches away from me, but overall they do not want to be touched or petted, or even if they DO, they get shy about it...Lol... And...I am not saying they will not give in to temptation if a situation arise, but I will say, that have ( knock on wood) been very 'good' all tolled. One day, by accident, momma got into the Office and Appartment in here, where I have several 'floor Birds' and Babys in floor nests...and I will say, she was in here likely a few hours, and never bothered any of them. You should have seen the LOOKS on everyone's faces though...I came back home and instantly I knew something was up! My heart went Kuh-whump! and I knew somehow a Cat was in here hideing, and it took a while for me to glimpse her, and finally she sort of came out, and I held the door open, and she shot out through it like a Rocket. So, somehow, she kept our 'bargain'...that momma feral Cat. God bless her...! I could not prevent them comeing in to the Shop like they do, since I have the roll up door open afternoons and evenings...so, rather than them just having to be sneaky, at least this way, they do not mind if I see them...and I would rather see them and know they are there, than not. Otherwise, little Pigeon kiddo is doing well, is VERY haughty, which is the real deal here...she is not nervous or afraid of me, she just figures I am impertainent, of no interest, and a little annoying, and NOT interesting as a pro-tem stand-in for mom or dad or aunt or uncle. This IS an age for them when it is pretty hard to win them over...they have already acquired their feelings and modes of semi-independance from their parents, and so someone in my role does not have much basis to have anything much to offer them in their terms usually...some exceptions of course, but usually thats the deal. And even though she was straving, she was not so far gone as to have been in a mood of unqualified acceptance with my attentions, so, she is herself, and that is beautiful. She is really cool with the Water though, and is happy to let me guide her Beak to drink since she still does not know how on her own...is reasonably easy with letting me poke and prod and examine her and so on, and she is very accomidating and co-operative with the tube feeds. A very darling and charming young Pigeon in every way...and very pretty. So, a little time in the convelesent Cage, then she can free roam and free fly in here with the varioue pre-release and resident others...then get TOTALLY WILD...which is what they do reliably...so I will have a real wiggle-worm on my hands if I do wish to hold or examine her any more then...and, ikn her turn, be released... Best wishes..! Phil Las Vegas
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#13
29th June 2007, 06:37 PM
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Good to hear.. Keep me updated on the cats.. If you'll let me I'd like to set some traps and take them in and get them fixed. I will release them back to you afterwards.
Our feral cat situation is getting way out of hand. I've actually spent time training feral cats and it's a task. Let me know if any of them need help in anyway. I'm the cat lady. It's kinda my job. lol.
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29th June 2007, 06:55 PM
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Great job you two, what a cutie he is.
Thank you also for helping out the feral cats. There is a feral colony at my dad's shop that we've been "on top of" for seven years now, trapping and fixing them and rehoming/releasing them back at the shop (and feeding, and bottle-feeding babies!). My cats have all come out of this colony, several are tame, all but Sukey. She was one of four in a litter I caught at three months, and they stayed in my house for a few weeks while they were fixed and got their shots. They were all going to be barn cats at my friend's ranch, but my cat Lukey fell in love with Sukey and vice versa, they were inseparable so Sukey stayed with us. (We named her Sukey since she followed Luke everywhere around, and when I called him she came as well, so we thought we should call her something that rhymes with Lukey lol).She is still shy but lets us come near her, just like Phil says, if we're pretending not to notice her or that it's not a big deal that she's not running away.  My tame cats were trained from tiny kittens not to bother birds, and they still don't though they go outdoors too now. Good luck with the pij and all the kitties. 
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1st July 2007, 02:34 AM
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I will let you know. Here, in this area, this is the only time in 21 years I have seen or known of ( so many as ) four feral Cats at one time...and in this case, it is Momma, and ( what had been her ) four Kittens...youngsters now really, half sized Cats...but I have only seen her and one of the Kittens over the last few weeks, so there may have been some attrition. This is a very tough area for feral Cats to survive. So, really, we could trap them, and maybe see to it they could have better prospects. Momma has become friendly to me, allowing me to lay down next to her on the asphalt late at night and to touch hand to paw...or to rub her head a little... They are beautiful and very nice Cats...each a widely difering color and pattern...all very well mannered in their ways... If I say "I need you to go out now please"...they go back out... If I say "You can stay and hunt Mice if you like, but I have to Work, so never mind me..." they stay and hunt Mice... I like them very much, but they have goofed up my Bird release methods as for useing the Workshop as a last pre-release/self release stage...and preventing me from having the door to the shop eopn for the fliers to enter for their self-relase from there... Phil Las Vegas
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