What would you do if you saw a animal suffering?

[DarkLegacy]

Earlier when i was coming back from my early morning walk, i saw a pigeon with two cats nearby that was clearly struggling to fly. Everytime it tried to take off it fell back down to the ground.

In the end i decided to leave it, but what would you do.

I would leave it

I would put it out of it's misery

I would try and get it to a vet

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Would it matter what animal it was

[Smashingdoozy]

I've saved a many birds in the past. One time it was raining really hard, there was a bird in a gutter wobbling all over the show. Clearly had flown into a window and was stunned. I grabbed it and tucked it under my jacket to keep it warm and dry, walked the rest of the way home popped the little guy into a box with some towels on the bottom and covered it up so it's nice and dark. Popped him into a quiet room away from the cats. Even gave it a couple earth worms. Took about an hour to perk up and be more alert. Once the rain stopped and he had dried off and been fed lots we let him go.

In other times If I've been too far from home or on my way to something where you cannot bring a damn bird I've popped them into a shady bush somewhere hidden away to recover from whatever they are going through. Or at least die with some dignity.

[love_conquers_lust]

That’s interesting. I lifted a drowning infant bird from a pool who’d glided into it from a nearby birdhouse. It shit in my hand out of exhaustion and I placed it at the base of the birdhouse.

[provokeesmokee]

In that situation, the bird is done. It's also not an endangered bird. If it were an endangered bird, I'd be more willing to step in.

But also, if those were street cats, it could be their only meal for the day. Not that I condone letting cats live outdoors (bad for the environment and ecology where the cat will disrupt it).

Two hungry cats? I've got scars enough dealing with one very tame hungry cat. I'm not risking my fingers for a pigeon.

I'll feel guilty tho. But it'll pass.

[ShadowYamihiro]

Tbh it depends on my mood, sometimes i just ignore that stuff cuz its the way of life but sometimes i get sad and i step in. I have bunch of cats and a dog, when i see my cats toying with a mouse outside of the house i always intervene cuz it may be life but i do some control over it. I won't lie and say i'm a good guy who steps in every single time cuz i don't. Sometimes you get tired of life and you don't care, sometime because you are tired of how life is treating you that you step in and help

[blackgaletiger]

the human in me wants to help but it also makes me think logically. Its natures course. For certain animals that is their method of survival and obtaining food. You can't win by help one at the cost of another.

[DubiousIntentions]

What if it was a coyote trying to eat your cat/dog?

[blackgaletiger]

I heard this one before and there is a video surfacing online of a man punching a coyote to protect his dogs. I dont have pets for this very reason. Because you can't always protect them. Cats are a different story as a lot of then still have their primal instincts. But we have bred dogs to the point where they dont have those same instincts as coyotes and wolves. Now if you you consider your pet as family which a lot do it differs on your scenario. But at the same time you can't be mad at the coyote for doing what it lives to do

[ScisorsAndRaisins]

@DubiousIntentions

You're welcome

[Apple1996]

It depends on the animal. Birds carry a lot of diseases so i wouldn't risk touching one just because I have kids and don't wanna get them sick. A few times I've taken turtles out of the road so they wouldn't die. Also moved a snake so no one would get hurt.

[DubiousIntentions]

I might take it to a safe place away from the cats. I have seen a mouse that a cat played with. It was uninjured but apparently physically drained of energy from being tossed around. I put one in a box and later on when I went to check on it, it was it's old self and I released it and it scampered off. So there is that, or you can stomp on the bird to get it out of it's misery and throw it as a treat to the cats. J/K

So kitties! You want to play rough, eh? Just wait until I get my talons on your ass!

[HelpfulWoman]

depending on injuries etc, vet or put it out of its suffering

[DubiousIntentions]

I think a vet would charge $65 to euthanize an animal. But some people would be too timid to put a suffering animal out of it's misery.

[DarkLegacy]

@DubiousIntentions But if it is just a wild animal how could they charge you for bringing it in. that does not happen in the UK

[Kori1236]

Circle of life in that case. Pigeons aren’t exactly an endangered species. I have in many cases moved snakes and turtles off the road. Moved little baby birds out of harms way and somewhere higher.

[LiamJHayden]

It depends on how. Mortally wounded and suffering? I am likely to put it out of its misery, or call Animal Control to do so. An abandoned kitten or puppy that is suffering because it's starving and cold? Rescue time.

[artgorgeous]

I would leave it. Why woud i intrude in the nature's business?

[ScisorsAndRaisins]

Depending on the location, and if I had a gun, I would do the right thing.

[Dargil]

Rescue it of it looks like it can be saved. Shoot it if it can't.

[love_conquers_lust]

Depends on the animal. Just had a chicken pass recently. When ours stop laying, we allow them to die of old age.

[goaded]

I would try to get it away from the cats.