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-YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MISSING OUT ON A FORUM POST
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(mods if you wanna remove this thread, I have no problems about it.)
SERIOUSLY I SAID TURN BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the title says, I witnessed a recent death of an animal.
Not a human or anything. It was a pigeon.
Thing is, my grandpa attracts alotta pigeons because he leaves water for them.
Theres this heatwave thats been hitting our city. And naturally there was a drought.
A flock of pigeons joined me where I work. And they refuse to eat bread because they are eating well.
My grandpa buys bird seeds and what not.
The whole story (now you turn back if you don't want to hear about dead or sick animals)
An amateur not trained civilian field autopsy
-YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MISSING OUT ON A FORUM POST
-NOW'S YOUR TIME TO TURN BACK AND READ NONE OF THIS
(mods if you wanna remove this thread, I have no problems about it.)
SERIOUSLY I SAID TURN BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the title says, I witnessed a recent death of an animal.
Not a human or anything. It was a pigeon.
Thing is, my grandpa attracts alotta pigeons because he leaves water for them.
Theres this heatwave thats been hitting our city. And naturally there was a drought.
A flock of pigeons joined me where I work. And they refuse to eat bread because they are eating well.
My grandpa buys bird seeds and what not.
The whole story (now you turn back if you don't want to hear about dead or sick animals)
I continued his routine and fed the pigeons. Also added water to bowls laying in shade.
Today at work though, while I was refiling the bowls, I saw a pretty sick looking pigeon.
It had yellow muck over it's eyes, which was wet but with a hard texture.
I observed the pigeon and it appeared not to notice me until I walked straight infront of it's field of view.
Scared at first, it tried to sidestep and avoid me. Clearly in fight or flight.
I decided not to pick it up, and tried a more indirect method of gaining it's trust.
So I went back to the bar area, got a bowl of water, and gave it to the pigeon to drink hopefully.
I also gave it crumpled bread, but the pigeon displayed NO desire to eat what so ever.
Observing it further, it appeared to focus it's good eye on me.
The pigeon was backing itself into a corner, near a crevice.
I didn't want it to go into the crevice and escape from me. So I just left it be and went to the bar.
I did some sports hall work, got some heavy synthetic fabric drapes rolled up so oxygen can come into the sports center.
Returned no less than 10 to 15 minutes later.
The pigeon appeared to stand in the bowl of water, cooling it's feet.
But the bread remained untouched on the dry concrete.
I approached it once again, gauging how close I can get without the pigeon trying to leave the cool water.
Once I was close enough, I reached out to grab it with a small towel.
It escaped me, because in truth I never HELD a pigeon before, and I was trying to be gentle.
It tried to run, but I swiftly grabbed it. Once I realized how actually LIGHT a pigeon is, I grabbed a firm grasp, but left alot of room for the pigeon to safely breathe.
I wasn't rough, I even dropped it.
But the pigeon tried to soften the fall with it's wings.
Once it was on the floor, I grabbed it again. This time holding it with one hand, making sure the wings aren't in an awkward position, and making sure not to bend ligaments or break bones.
I took a sharp knife. It's a regular butter knife, but fashioned into a sharp shiv.
Usually it's used for BBQ cook outs, but now I was using it as a medical instrument to try and get that yellow gunk out of it's eyes.
I was very careful with it, and didn't cut nor stab it ONCE.
I had a sponge as well, which I doused in sink water and proceeded to brush the yellow gunk. Making it less durable and more mushy.
I used the knife to gently scrape the gunk out of the birds eye. And I did so without incident. Taking bird head movement into account.
Some times I had to take a more HANDS ON approach and actually take out a loose feather that was hanging out of it's head.
I didn't yank the feather hard, I merely just pulled on it until the bird yanked it's head opposite of my pulling.
But in the end, the bird wasn't hurt. It was VERY frightened, but now without GUNK nor any injuries from me.
I returned it where it came from. It was clearly awake and looking at me..... well, looking trough me.
As it was looking at me, I approached to observe it while it sat.
One wing was lower than the other, revealing the birds back.
It had a pretty nasty injury, but I didn't take a long look at it.
I went back to the bar, and googled symptoms which I observed during my contact with the bird.
1. Crusty gunk around eyes
2. Slow movement, delayed reactions
3. Shambling movement
4.Partial blindness of the eye.
The symptoms narrowed down the possible illness into 2 most likely diseases:
I removed the crust and made sure to clean the bird around it's eyes. I cleaned small amounts of blood from the pulled feather. And it didn't appear to bleed anymore.
After 1 hour, I returned to the place where I left the bird.
I saw it, but it was laying on the ground. It usually stood.
The wings were laid flat on the concrete bellow, motionless.
A bloody gash was visible on the birds back. It wasn't trickling with blood.
I did not touch it, because I didn't have a towel with me.
I observed the body for 2 more minutes, no motion.
The bird was dead.
1:20PM, (GMT+2), 8/18/2022
I was very disappointed, sad even.
I had to do a double take just to make sure it wasn't sleeping in an awkward position.
Clapped loudly two times, whistled harshly with intent to wake it up.
No response.
I couldn't look at it any longer. I left the bird where it laid, and returned back to the bar.
Today at work though, while I was refiling the bowls, I saw a pretty sick looking pigeon.
It had yellow muck over it's eyes, which was wet but with a hard texture.
I observed the pigeon and it appeared not to notice me until I walked straight infront of it's field of view.
Scared at first, it tried to sidestep and avoid me. Clearly in fight or flight.
I decided not to pick it up, and tried a more indirect method of gaining it's trust.
So I went back to the bar area, got a bowl of water, and gave it to the pigeon to drink hopefully.
I also gave it crumpled bread, but the pigeon displayed NO desire to eat what so ever.
Observing it further, it appeared to focus it's good eye on me.
The pigeon was backing itself into a corner, near a crevice.
I didn't want it to go into the crevice and escape from me. So I just left it be and went to the bar.
I did some sports hall work, got some heavy synthetic fabric drapes rolled up so oxygen can come into the sports center.
Returned no less than 10 to 15 minutes later.
The pigeon appeared to stand in the bowl of water, cooling it's feet.
But the bread remained untouched on the dry concrete.
I approached it once again, gauging how close I can get without the pigeon trying to leave the cool water.
Once I was close enough, I reached out to grab it with a small towel.
It escaped me, because in truth I never HELD a pigeon before, and I was trying to be gentle.
It tried to run, but I swiftly grabbed it. Once I realized how actually LIGHT a pigeon is, I grabbed a firm grasp, but left alot of room for the pigeon to safely breathe.
I wasn't rough, I even dropped it.
But the pigeon tried to soften the fall with it's wings.
Once it was on the floor, I grabbed it again. This time holding it with one hand, making sure the wings aren't in an awkward position, and making sure not to bend ligaments or break bones.
I took a sharp knife. It's a regular butter knife, but fashioned into a sharp shiv.
Usually it's used for BBQ cook outs, but now I was using it as a medical instrument to try and get that yellow gunk out of it's eyes.
I was very careful with it, and didn't cut nor stab it ONCE.
I had a sponge as well, which I doused in sink water and proceeded to brush the yellow gunk. Making it less durable and more mushy.
I used the knife to gently scrape the gunk out of the birds eye. And I did so without incident. Taking bird head movement into account.
Some times I had to take a more HANDS ON approach and actually take out a loose feather that was hanging out of it's head.
I didn't yank the feather hard, I merely just pulled on it until the bird yanked it's head opposite of my pulling.
But in the end, the bird wasn't hurt. It was VERY frightened, but now without GUNK nor any injuries from me.
I returned it where it came from. It was clearly awake and looking at me..... well, looking trough me.
As it was looking at me, I approached to observe it while it sat.
One wing was lower than the other, revealing the birds back.
It had a pretty nasty injury, but I didn't take a long look at it.
I went back to the bar, and googled symptoms which I observed during my contact with the bird.
1. Crusty gunk around eyes
2. Slow movement, delayed reactions
3. Shambling movement
4.Partial blindness of the eye.
The symptoms narrowed down the possible illness into 2 most likely diseases:
- Bird pox
- avian conjunctivitis
I removed the crust and made sure to clean the bird around it's eyes. I cleaned small amounts of blood from the pulled feather. And it didn't appear to bleed anymore.
After 1 hour, I returned to the place where I left the bird.
I saw it, but it was laying on the ground. It usually stood.
The wings were laid flat on the concrete bellow, motionless.
A bloody gash was visible on the birds back. It wasn't trickling with blood.
I did not touch it, because I didn't have a towel with me.
I observed the body for 2 more minutes, no motion.
The bird was dead.
1:20PM, (GMT+2), 8/18/2022
I was very disappointed, sad even.
I had to do a double take just to make sure it wasn't sleeping in an awkward position.
Clapped loudly two times, whistled harshly with intent to wake it up.
No response.
I couldn't look at it any longer. I left the bird where it laid, and returned back to the bar.
An amateur not trained civilian field autopsy
Forensic autopsy:
Date: 8/18/2022
Time: 15:42
Exact time of death:
From 12:20 to 13:20
Cadaver identity: animal
Cause of death:
Heart attack or bled out
Performed by: [REDACTED] (untrained civilian)
External examination:
Age: N/A (suspected anywhere between 8 months to 2 years due to the state of the feet pre-death)
Race: Avian/Pigeon
Weight: 240-300g
Color: Grey and white feathers mostly, skin color unknown
Teeth: none
Beak:
The integrity of the beak is solid when touched, but the integrity is lower due to age/disease.
*Left wing:
A few plucked feathers, but overall it was intact without visible injuries
Right wing:
Same overall condition as the other wing.
Body front:
No visible injuries on the bird's belly nor sides
Body back:
Backside had a red visible gash with blood on it
No blood on neck or hind quarters
Leg's:
Both legs appeared healthy and with no known abnormalities
Face description:
Slightly decayed beak, both eyes enveloped in yellow crust
Eyes: black
*pre death, the left wings position was awkward and visibly disjointed. Most likely broken or torn in ligament.
Internal autopsy: N/A
Date: 8/18/2022
Time: 15:42
Exact time of death:
From 12:20 to 13:20
Cadaver identity: animal
Cause of death:
Heart attack or bled out
Performed by: [REDACTED] (untrained civilian)
External examination:
Age: N/A (suspected anywhere between 8 months to 2 years due to the state of the feet pre-death)
Race: Avian/Pigeon
Weight: 240-300g
Color: Grey and white feathers mostly, skin color unknown
Teeth: none
Beak:
The integrity of the beak is solid when touched, but the integrity is lower due to age/disease.
*Left wing:
A few plucked feathers, but overall it was intact without visible injuries
Right wing:
Same overall condition as the other wing.
Body front:
No visible injuries on the bird's belly nor sides
Body back:
Backside had a red visible gash with blood on it
No blood on neck or hind quarters
Leg's:
Both legs appeared healthy and with no known abnormalities
Face description:
Slightly decayed beak, both eyes enveloped in yellow crust
Eyes: black
*pre death, the left wings position was awkward and visibly disjointed. Most likely broken or torn in ligament.
Internal autopsy: N/A