[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Hummingbird Rescue - Kinda Long but Amazing
- From: "Liane Fossland" <lfossland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cnnpmm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cnnpmm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "showgsd-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx(List)>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:31:40 -0700
This is a wonderful story, Paulette. I am just as crazy with critters, not
necessarily dogs.
Two years ago I attached a little old basket to a tree branch in my back
yard. It seemed that the doves that nested there made some bad choices
regarding their nests and lost some babies this way. They are the worst
nestmakers. I was hoping they would use this basket. Nothing happened for 2
years and then finally this Spring a pair of doves checked it out, decided
this was what they wanted and laid their eggs into the basket and sat on
them which seemed forever. Then I saw some activity and knew the babies had
hatched. Eventually you could see their little heads emerging from the
wings of the parent. They just grow so fast, parents took turns sitting on
them I looked at them yesterday without the parents sitting in the nest
and spreadding their wings. I knew the time has come. Then, today, they
were gone and I feel so down, just like losing one one my own.
Isn't that weird? After all they were just doves!! Will they ever be back?
Lee
Liane Fossland
Home of Ch. Donar,CD, Loni,CD, Auburn, Kara Mia and Windy
www.steppenwindgsd.com
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> To: Charles Nemargut - SAS <charles.nemargut@xxxxxxx>; Showgsd-L
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> Date: 5/19/2006 2:17:49 PM
> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Hummingbird Rescue - Kinda Long but Amazing
>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I know a lot of you are critter lovers, so I'd thought I'd share my
> Hummingbird rescue experience.
> .
> Yesterday evening, a tiny Ruby-Throated Hummingbird flew inside our
> screened-in porch and couldn't get back out. I was able to catch the
> little fellow after he flew into a beam and was stunned. I took him
> outside and laid him on the deck rail. He appeared to be dead.
> Wasn't breathing, eyes closed.
>
> I stroked his back and he finally drew one shuddering breath. This
> went on for a while. Stroke, breathe. Stroke, breathe. Then I
> remembered that Hummingbirds require an enormous amount of energy and
> must eat all the time just to be able to fly. I figured this little
> guy's energy stores had to be totally depleted by his desperate
> efforts to escape the porch, so I filled a syringe with Hummingbird
> "nectar" and commenced feeding the bird.
>
> First I placed a drop on the end of his beak. No reaction. Then I
> tapped his beak a couple times and his tiny tongue shot out. (I never
> saw a Hummingbird's tongue before. It looked like a tiny white
> thread.) I stroked his throat and he swallowed. After the bird
> swallowed about 10 more drops, his breath rate increased dramatically.
>
> Once the tiny guy appeared to be swallowing better, I stuck his beak
> into the end of the syringe and he really began sucking up the juice.
> After about 15 minutes of feeding the bird this way, his breathing
> became very rapid and he opened his eyes! I fed him for another 15
> minutes or so. He actually started raising his beak for me to stick
> it into the syringe. Finally, after ruffling his feathers a bit, the
> little "Hummer" suddenly buzzed off into the sunset! This really made
> my day!
>
> To make this dog related, a couple years ago, my GSD Jessie brought me
> a "gift." She came up to me and laid a live Hummingbird in my hands.
> Jessie was always rescuing birds from the "Jaws of Death" AKA
> "Scooter" the cat, but how she caught this tiny thing and carried it
> without causing injury, is a mystery to me. But then again, Jessie
> had a pet Toad that she toted around for about 3 years until my
> husband accidentally ran over it with his SUV.
>
> Paulette McGuirt
>
>
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