AlienGirl
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:20 PM
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Stuffing a seagull into your shirt on a busy city sidewalk |
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...makes people look at you funny.
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:21 PM
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1. Are they looking at you or the seagull? |
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:28 PM
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The cab driver was particularly taken aback; he thought I had a *human* baby under my shirt.
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:21 PM
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how did the gull feel about the whole thing
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:25 PM
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5. The gull was moderately annoyed |
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He stabbed me a couple of times with his beak and landed a good bite in a sensitive spot, but really, I have a cockatoo, few beaks scare me...
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:44 PM
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11. I've read your post about about your Cockatoo. |
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Was the gull injured? Why were you carrying it with you?
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:50 PM
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12. The gull was a fledgeling |
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He ran out of the way of a car and just about bonked into a glass door. He was almost, but not quite, able to fly, and had apparently fallen from a nest on top of a building.
Normally it's best to leave a fledgeling bird be; the parents are still watching and they'll be okay. But this was a very busy street with a lot of traffic, so I took him home overnight.
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:55 PM
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14. I see. That was very nice of you. |
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I can understand why you would intercede in this particular rescue. Were you able to feed him?
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:56 PM
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15. Yep, he ate quite a bit |
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He's old enough to eat without being fed, but it took a little doing to show him that it was food.
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:05 PM
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16. I see in post # 13 that all went very well. |
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My Blue & Gold Macaw hadn't learned to eat or drink water when I brought her home. Those first weeks were quite challenging.
I believe that there really isn't anything which compares with the way a feather-head can touch your heart with warm and fuzzy feelings.
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:16 PM
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19. Wow, unweaned birds can be tough |
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I raised a two-day-old sparrow to release last year, my first baby since I left the wildlife center in '95 (when I started having human babies). I'd forgotten how tiring it gets keeping baby birds full!
Sometimes I think I'd love to hand-raise baby parrots for a respectable breeder for a living. Other times I think I'd have to be daft to do so.
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:29 PM
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21. I'm too soft hearted to raise baby birds and then say good-bye! |
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I had the brilliant idea of breeding Golden Retrievers to donate to Paws with a Cause only I didn't know ... you have to have both adult dogs ex-rayed first. I can understand about wanting to have the healthiest dogs possible for the training program. However ... there I was with 12 puppies in my living room ... in January.
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Sat Aug-13-05 03:20 PM
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27. Been there, done that. There's nothing like clutches of fledglings... |
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Sat Aug-13-05 03:10 PM
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24. What a caring person you are. |
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I love happy stories like this (well not happy that he fell but happy that you came along).
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:22 PM
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:31 PM
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8. He was in my *shirt*, not my stomach! |
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I didn't have a towel or a jacket or anything else to put him in--just my shirt. So I held him in my shirt, against my chest, until I got to AuntJen's where there were boxes.
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Sat Aug-13-05 03:13 PM
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25. I know. I was just kidding. And I think you're awesome to care for him. |
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:22 PM
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from experience?
And did the seagull look at you funny, too?
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:27 PM
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6. The seagull looked at me really funny |
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Then he looked at me with his mouth as wide as it could go and made his intentions clear by fluffing and chirping.
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:35 PM
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9. Let me know how you and your new friend get along ... |
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I was walking to the library earlier today, and a black mink (live, not in fur coat form) skittered in front of me. The local cats and dogs were freaking out -- hissing, barking, etc.
The mink was probably somebody's pet, but there's no way I was going to snatch it up and stuff it in my shirt. Those darned things scratch like the dickens!
Trivia note -- Timothy Bottoms (most recently known for playing George W. Bush on Comedy Central) was going to audition for "The Paper Chase" many years ago, when he stopped to rescue a gull -- which promptly crapped all over him. He got the part anyway. The gull story is one reason why I like the guy, regardless of what he has to do onscreen to make a living. (Also, his family in Santa Barbara are longtime Dems.)
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:54 PM
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I need to start carrying a towel for emergencies like that. I already carry a box in the car.
The gull spent the night in our tub, eating moistened whole-grain bread with Avian Superfood and splashing happily in a few inches of water.
This morning, I put him out into our apartment complex's yard, which is *huge* and has a pond and ducks. People feed the ducks, geese, crows, and a few neighborhood gulls here, so he has plenty of role models for finding food.
Best of all, he worked up to an actual takeoff, and flew!
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Sat Aug-13-05 03:13 PM
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26. that's great news about the gull |
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Edited on Sat Aug-13-05 03:27 PM by Lisa
It sounds like you've found "waterfowl paradise" for him.
By the way, I feel I should point out (as others have on earlier occasions, alas) that being cosseted by me -- let alone stuffed into my shirt -- is something that any creature in its right mind would be glad to escape!
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Fri Aug-12-05 10:39 PM
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:05 PM
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17. That's one of the most irrestible subject lines |
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I've seen in a long time.
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:14 PM
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18. That skunk I tried to hide didn't work out well..:( |
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The taxi driver said he was gonna be happy to go back to driving a garbage truck the next week.
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:19 PM
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I'm glad the fluffy guy got the spa treatment and made out ok!
:rofl: at your subject line!
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Fri Aug-12-05 11:40 PM
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Sat Aug-13-05 03:19 AM
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23. That's why I love you.. |
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always willing to stop and save an animal. :loveya:
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