Piano Found at top of Ben Nevis ( 3 days old )

[Sark79]

Rabbits withy Myxi-whatsit, what a terrible thing to see.

I saw a baby Rabbit on a Fairway of a golf course one day, I thought it was asleep, or dead. I went up to it, & it was in ghastly shape, myxi big time, blind, & apparently in terrible pain. I wanted to put it out of it's misery, & decided to thwack it with my driver. (Golf club). But I could not bring myself to do it, I just could not. I should have though. Mind you, I'd have missed.

The rabbit population does get top heavy sometimes, but I'm sure Nature has a way of dealing with it. If you ever saw a Rabbit with Myxi, you'd just know, that's not Nature's way.

This is a sad thing. But it is difficult to know what to do about it.  It would be nice if we could click our fingers, but sadly that is nature.  It takes alot to put something out of its misery. When I was about 13 and walking home from work one day there was a bird that was injured. Like you I couldn't help it.  I flagged down a passing car and asked the guy driving it to help me. At first he thought I was a carjacker. But he did it for me.  Its terrible being a coward 

[RED-DOG]

All the members of the crow family are really intelegent, you should see them opening discarded burger boxes at my local Mcdonalds. The Jackdaws are the best, they sit on the roofs of cars at the drive through squawking "Hold the mayo, hold the mayo"

[Colchester Kev]

Intelligent? They don't even know that they should STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK at the road. I swear mine was commiting suicide because he saw me coming so ran out into the road... stupid if you ask me!

OMG of course squirrels know to stop look and listen ... you youngsters have never heard of Tufty the squirrel ??  he was a legend in the road safety learning in schools when i was younger.

[Dewi_cool]

I was also a member of the Tufty Club,

[Poppet7]

Who? 

[Colchester Kev]

tut ... kids of today 




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[tikay]

When we were kids, we had goldfish, & one of them fell ill, got that balance problem, where they seem to go on their side.

We were told it was contagious, we had to remove him fom the pond (well, tin bath) & put it to sleep, so Dad told me to sort it. I put him on the floor, & got  a paving slab ready to drop on him. But I just could not do it.

Eventually, I flushed him down the toilet, a far more cruel way for him to die, as it happens.

Some wild cats took to living in our garden, my Dad fed them, within months we had 30 or 40. He could not bring himself to "control" them. One day the next door neighbour killed the lot of them by catching them, putting them in a sack, & dumping them in the canal. What an arse.

[ifm]

I was also a member of the Tufty Club,

Wasn't tufty on The Word??

[Colchester Kev]

lol no .. that was mufti ... IT scared me !!

[Poppet7]

tut ... kids of today 

lol

[The_nun]

Tufty

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[ifm]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/369327.stm

[Poppet7]

When we were kids, we had goldfish, & one of them fell ill, got that balance problem, where they seem to go on their side.

We were told it was contagious, we had to remove him fom the pond (well, tin bath) & put it to sleep, so Dad told me to sort it. I put him on the floor, & got  a paving slab ready to drop on him. But I just could not do it.

Eventually, I flushed him down the toilet, a far more cruel way for him to die, as it happens.

Some wild cats took to living in our garden, my Dad fed them, within months we had 30 or 40. He could not bring himself to "control" them. One day the next door neighbour killed the lot of them by catching them, putting them in a sack, & dumping them in the canal. What an arse.

I agree... F*&^ing Tw?t

[Sark79]

All the members of the crow family are really intelegent, you should see them opening discarded burger boxes at my local Mcdonalds. The Jackdaws are the best, they sit on the roofs of cars at the drive through squawking "Hold the mayo, hold the mayo"

lol Red

Yea you are right. For the last few summers, there have been  injured rooks coming to my Garden. I always feed them because they are unable to fly properly.  One thing I have noticed about these particular rooks is the same behaviour patterns and appearance.  Rather than being average rook size they are slightly bigger and they have failing eyesight. It is sad to see, but there is very little you can do to help them. I built a shelter at the bottom of the garden and give them food. To go with their failing eyesight, after a few weeks of being mainly grounded their senses become less sensitive to the point where they don't really notice people walking up. I am not an expert, but I have noticed that all these birds have a skin condition that caused the feathers to become lose.  I contacted a bird sanctuary, but they said they get thousands of calls a week and couldn't help me out. I understood their position and just made sure the birds had as easy a life as I could make for them.  They were both called Joe. I had Joe 1 in 2004. Joe 2 in 2005. Hopefully there will be no Joe 3 in 2006. I think they say to each other  " go down the road to that house....there is a mug there that feeds us " 

[RED-DOG]

At the moment I have a starling that can't fly staying in my garden, he doesn't need feeding at this time of year, but I do have to fend the local cats off.

I hope he gets better before winter, Africa is a bloody long walk.