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Comment author: wedrifid 19 January 2012 01:21:21AM 1 point [-]

I take it you're not a wildlife rehabilitator and don't know anyone who is?

If you must know my cynicism was given to me from my veterinarian sister who spends a surprising amount of her time killing wildlife that well intentioned but naive individuals have brought in to her or to wildlife nuts. At times she even has to bite her tongue and not tell them that if they had left the poor creature alone it probably would have lived but now that they caught it it is going to die!

Because that's not the standard response to injured animals...

Injured animals like sparrows? I beg to differ. (I'm sorry, they don't get sent 'to the farm' or 'go to sparrow heaven' either!)

Comment author: [deleted] 19 January 2012 06:51:54AM -2 points [-]

At times she even has to bite her tongue and not tell them that if they had left the poor creature alone it probably would have lived but now that they caught it it is going to die!

Sure. And she's a veterinarian, not a wildlife rehabilitator (person whose job it is to, oddly enough, rehabilitate injured wildlife for re-release).

Injured animals like sparrows?

In the bit that's a response to, you were talking about coyotes and raccoons, not sparrows.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 January 2012 12:54:18PM -1 points [-]

In the bit that's a response to, you were talking about coyotes and raccoons, not sparrows.

Not actually true.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2012 04:09:02AM -1 points [-]

Someone said:

If it was a larger animal like a coyote or raccoon, then calling the animal people would make sense, but not for little birds.

You said:

They'll probably just euthanize it anyway. But yes, it can make you feel good if you don't know or think about what'll end up happening.

I said:

I take it you're not a wildlife rehabilitator and don't know anyone who is? Because that's not the standard response to injured animals...

So yes, actually true.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 January 2012 05:23:56AM 0 points [-]

So yes, actually true.

No it isn't. The context is ambiguous. Not that it matters either way since I do maintain a substantial disagreement regarding the most common outcome for larger-than-sparrow-but-still-not-important creatures that token do-gooders try to intervene to rescue.

It would not seem controversial to suggest that neither of us are likely to learn anything from this conversation so I'm going to leave it at that.

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