Baby animals you've saved.

[EcstaticObsessive]

I'm starting on this thread, because I found a baby thrush yesterday after school, on my walk home, and have been taking care of him/her since. Right now I've got him/her in a large box in my room, with and old jacket and shirt. There's a hot water bottle tucked under the shirt, and a lamp bent over the box to make sure s/he stays warm. I'm feeding him/her a mixture of hard-boiled egg yolk, with water and some sugar. S/he seems to be doing fine, gapes for me when I offer to feed him/her, can walk and flutter around a bit.

Anyways, while I wait for the woman from the bird rescue center to come pick him/her up, I've started this thread to share all our animal saving stories. Share 'em, Escapist!

(Also, if anyone can tell me how to include a picture in a comment, I'll love you and post a pic of him/her)

 

[latiasracer]

Ageeeeesss Ago a small bird flew strait into our window, It was Hammering it down with rain - and being 10 i ran outside still in my PJ's and built it a shelter out of plantpots, rocks, sticks ect XD It Survived in the end!

Sorry, it was a long time ago got now pics...

 

[Mojo]

I'm starting on this thread, because I found a baby thrush yesterday after school, on my walk home, and have been taking care of him/her since. Right now I've got him/her in a large box in my room, with and old jacket and shirt. There's a hot water bottle tucked under the shirt, and a lamp bent over the box to make sure s/he stays warm. I'm feeding him/her a mixture of hard-boiled egg yolk, with water and some sugar. S/he seems to be doing fine, gapes for me when I offer to feed him/her, can walk and flutter around a bit.

Anyways, while I wait for the woman from the bird rescue center to come pick him/her up, I've started this thread to share all our animal saving stories. Share 'em, Escapist!

(Also, if anyone can tell me how to include a picture in a comment, I'll love you and post a pic of him/her)

upload the image to a picture site like photobucket.com or imageshack.us (facebook and steam work too I think)
and put this in your post [img)www.site.com[/img) then replace the ")" with a "]".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode -- look it up there if my description was bad.

OT:
My uncle (who is a hunter) saved a baby boar that had no mother. (no, he didnt shoot her)
We raised it untill it got too old and gave it to a national park where it now lives.
(I must have pics, somewhere....)

 

[Trio]

I grabbed a puppy out of a street in my city. The puppy's owner was very nice about it.

 

[EcstaticObsessive]

I grabbed a puppy out of a street in my city. The puppy's owner was very nice about it.

As they should have been, you were only doing a noble deed.

upload the image to a picture site like photobucket.com or imageshack.us (facebook and steam work too I think)
and put this in your post [img)www.site.com[/img) (replace the ")" with a "]".

Oh my goodness, let's have babies.

If this works, that's him/her.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

My cousins and I found a stray kitten in Wisconsin. We made sure it found a home.

 

[WolfThomas]

Not a baby animal but I picked up a turtle on the road once and put him back in a creek. I wore gloves that I keep in my first aid box because I've heard turtles can be covered in Salmonella.

Just a couple of days ago I also saw a dog standing outside a house with an open gate, I chased him back in and shut the gate. I hope that was his house...

 

[shedra]

Baby Opossums. One of them died, but the other... five? were alright. A turkey vulture might have eaten the other ones if there is supposed to be more than five. D:

 

[Genericjim101]

I lived with a vegetarian, animal lover who aspired to work in animal care.... I've had to save every ill/endangered animal I came across or be hated forever. This ranges from climbing 15ft up a tree with a basket to get a cat ( I hate unstable heights), housing a baby rabbit, a cat, never killing any insects or arachnids, trying to catch a lamb to get it back in its field and many more XD

 

[Uncreative]

Heh, my family has a long standing tradition of going to ridiculous levels for random animals.

My grand parents owned a restaurant when I was little, and my parents ended up cleaning up the kittens that would get abandoned in the back for one reason or another. Gave most of them away, but one little mutant ended up wheezing her way along side us for fifteen years.

Lots of clumsy birds. Sneaky and stray dogs. A half frozen possum. At least a few mice.

Bunches of road bound turtles. What's with turtles and roads? I don't know...

Oh, and the squirrels. Sooo many squirrels...
My personal favorite was the baby squirrlet we found on the patio right after a hurricane. Looked remarkably like a thrice puked hair-ball, but we kept him going so well the Finally-ReOpened Animal Shelter didn't believe our story.

Right now we're talking my Grandmother through raising the kitten she found on her front step.

Literally.

Whee!

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

a widdle kitty and a baby bird. Both caught in the rain (though on separate occasions)

 

[Chris Chamberlain]

Early one morning, I took a smoke break & saw a tiny white ball of fluff being attacked by crows; it turned out to be a baby screech owl. I took him in for a day because I didn't want the crows to come after him again. Around mid-afternoon, one of my friends informed me that saving this adorable creature was a felony, & so in the early evening I returned him to a tree near where his mother was teaching the other owlets to fly; she accepted him back, too, which is apparently very rare. I called him Pennerly.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I rescued a group of tadpoles once from a tiny little puddle in a drainage ditch. It was the height of summer, and the water was going to evaporate long before they would be able to make the transformation into frogs. I kept them in a fishbowl for about a week, then set them free in the back yard when they finished the change.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

An Iguana. Some how, an iguana got loose in suburban Missouri, and we kept it. We gave it to a science teacher after a while.

Oh, and a baby Garter Snake. That as well.

 

[omicron1]

Hoo boy, this is going to be a long post.

First, the eggs. So many delicious eggs. Poached, fried, boiled, deviled... eggs on toast, eggs with muffins, eggs in hollandaise sauce. Eggs with salt and pepper, eggs without. Soft-boiled eggs in little dainty cups. Egg drop soup! I've depopulated entire cities' worth of chickens, all by myself. And I would do it again, in a heartbeat. But that's not all.

I have devoured, with nary a backwards glance, many a pound of tender lamb meat - on its own, in delicious gyros, and with various side dishes. I have eaten many small squid and shrimp, sampled caviar, and ...

wait, you said saved, not savORed? Darn. My mistake... hmm... saved. I think I saved a bird once...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm starting on this thread, because I found a baby thrush yesterday after school, on my walk home, and have been taking care of him/her since. Right now I've got him/her in a large box in my room, with and old jacket and shirt. There's a hot water bottle tucked under the shirt, and a lamp bent over the box to make sure s/he stays warm. I'm feeding him/her a mixture of hard-boiled egg yolk, with water and some sugar. S/he seems to be doing fine, gapes for me when I offer to feed him/her, can walk and flutter around a bit.

Anyways, while I wait for the woman from the bird rescue center to come pick him/her up, I've started this thread to share all our animal saving stories. Share 'em, Escapist!

(Also, if anyone can tell me how to include a picture in a comment, I'll love you and post a pic of him/her)

I googled 'Thrush' to see what it was, assuming it was a bird but unsure, and I have to say DON'T GOOGLE THRUSH!!! Especially if you have safe-search off. My GOD that wasn't the worst thing I've seen but it was pretty bad. Mouth disease or something...guh...

Anyway, it wasn't a baby but there was a turtle walking along the side of the road while I was walking to work one day. I picked it up and walked it over to a little watery area, a stream I think. It was a couple of years ago. It pissed when I picked it up and if I wasn't pressed for time I might have just kept the little guy. It was an adorable turtle and I saved it from the street.

 

[REDACTEDREDACTED]

I come across a plethora of animals during my workday. So far I've caught (by hand) a dozen or so small birds, three pigeons, a rabbit, a rat, and many others - with photographic proof, and turned them loose afterwards.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Baby seagulls actually.

One had somehow trapped itself in some rocks and the other was entangled in discarded fishing line. Naturally i disposed of the line in a more appropriate manner afterwards, and to this very day i'm digusted by people who throw out hazards like that in nature.

 

[Silent Anima]

A kitteh! Saved it's life and now it runs around my house. =D