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Well that was a bummer.
TW animal death, mice
There was a mouse on the footpath in a really bad way. I scooped it into the empty paper bag I had avoiding touching it and carried it home. Was thinking to put it in a box with some water. Ended up leaving it in the bag because any moving really agitated it.
It wasn’t drinking from the plastic lid so I tried to give it water from an old syringe but that just made it more panicked. (I know you shouldn’t try to give wildlife water directly like that, you’re advised not to, I just thought at that point helping it drink something maybe outweighed the risks.)
I left it alone and the next time I checked it had passed. It’s buried now - in a far corner where nothing edible will go. Unsure if heat, rat poison or disease (no visible injuries) but I made sure to avoid direct touching and washed my hands.
Only a mouse but yeah :(
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Melbcat was also sick on the bed while I was briefly out. I’m still trying to get her to give me a urine sample for the vet
You gave it care and a quiet cool place in it's last moments. That matters, I think.
yes, this is nice
That's incredibly kind of you to try and help it. Even if it may not have worked, I'm sure it still noticed that you didn't immediately kill it as a predator would've
Related tangent but really more of a "me" thing
When I used to live out in a small country town, they'd shoot the birds that got too close to the grain silos and fields. Every now and again there's be a gunshot ring out across the town and a few times a bird with a bullet wound landed and died in our backyard. I actually thought this was fairly normal, but asking other people also from grain towns in western Vic, everybody thought I was either mad or they had to have just been using a starter pistol or something to spook the birds. The few that landed in our yard were always covered in blood
It was somewhat traumatic as a young child to be playing out in the yard and a dead bird to fall out of the sky and land right in front of you
old age perhaps