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13 Jun 2011, 10:05 am

I saw something sad yesterday; an injured seagull in the road. I wanted to stop and kill it but my wife wouldn't let me.

Reminds me of when I was working as a security guard at the waterfront, there was an injured seagull with a broken wing and probably other things too because it couldn't stand. It was just in a heap lying there just moving its head. I found a large piece of wood and did it in as much as it hurt me to do that, I felt it was best for the bird.

Oh, animal rescue won't take in seagulls or pigeons. Owls and eagles are fine...


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13 Jun 2011, 1:12 pm

That sucks.

I remember the first time I saw an animal die. It was a turtle in the middle of the road. The dumb bastard was trying to cross with oncoming traffic.I was with my family in our van (I was 10), and we were waiting to exit a parking lot, with the turtle in the road a little to our left. The moment we saw it, my sister started screaming blood murder for my mom to get out and save it, but there was traffic going 60 miles an hour 100 yards away, so she couldn't. We just watched, and some of the cars tried to avoid it. Then finally a car came and smacked it with it's front tire. The turtle exploded with a traumatizing "pop". I see flattened and bloody animals with a tire mark over them on a daily bases and could not care less, but that was just horrifying. I flinched trying to figure out what just happened while my mom groaned and my sister screamed and then sobbed. I cried in my hands on the way home and couldn't sleep at all that night because I kept seeing the thing exploding. :?


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13 Jun 2011, 2:53 pm

Poor thing. It definitely would have been the best thing to do to put it out of it's misery. Seagulls always get too much hassle from people. I would hate to have seen it suffer.

There have been a few times I've had to kill birds to put them out of their misery when my cats have gotten hold of them. It's always a horrible thing to have to do, but it'd always be worse to let them slowly die alone in agony.


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