Today, I found a bird that had fallen from its nest, so I made a new nest for it in a shoebox and put it as close to the old one as possible. When I checked back on it later, all I found was a chewed-up corpse. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today I bought a new cage, along with some toys, for my bird. I came home to find my bird had escaped its old cage. FML
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
Today, I discovered the source of the vile stench in my room. My daughter had "saved" a bird from our cat and put it in a box under my bed, hoping to nurse it back to health. She forgot about it, leaving the corpse rotting in there for who knows how long. FML
Today, I found the eggshells from the nest belonging to the little bird that lives outside my house. They were covered in blood and it was quite obvious that they had been eaten. While I was looking at them, the mother bird came over and attacked me. FML
Today, I was caring for a bird that had flown into my window. I thought the poor thing wouldn't make it, when it shit in my hand, flew into my neck, then around my living room for ages before I could manage to get it out of the window. FML
Today, I found a tiny, featherless baby bird. I knew it was impossible, but I tried to keep it alive through the day. Before I could get it to the wildlife center, it died, and when I got all choked up over it, my mom started laughing at me and saying how "weak" I was. FML
Today, I found my missing shoe. It hit me as it fell out the tree in our front yard. FML
Today, I saved a bird from being run over as it lay in the middle of the road. Thinking it had a broken wing or something, I started carrying it home, intending to take it to the vet later. It crapped in my hand and flew away. FML
Today, I put my good shoes out the window and on the roof to dry out because they were sopping wet. When I went to check them later on, they were still wet. And soaked in bird poop. FML
Today, I came home to find that my sweet kitten had gotten out and dragged a bird inside, where he ripped it to shreds. I found the bird's head in my underwear drawer. FML
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Pleonasm 36
You basically served it up on a platter.
JasonUMN 15
Nature has a weird way of governing the world.
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Comments (41)
CaffieneKing 17
Your intentions were so sweet OP, but now you see why birds like to be high up.
arre2006 19
gotta let nature run its course, or else this happens. someone needs to go watch lion king and freshen up on the circle of life
martin8337 36
Lion King? How about the truth telling king? Science fiction for you.
warsun 27
Because lion king is more popular and more people saw that depressing...........scene
arre2006 19
@martin: understanding > you
cryssycakesx3 23
it was, albeit bad, word play. lying/lion king. #55 took it a little further by defending that scene against "the truth telling king"
MissDQ 12
Been there OP. When we used to live on acreage I found a wee duckling while cleaning the paddocks and took it in. It stayed inside for a few days until I could put together a pen outside. Despite the fact that it was duckling proof I came out to find it gone but let it go pretty quickly as it was a bit older now. Next day I was playing with my dog in the fenced yard and found some horrid, bloody mess. Didn't take too long to put two and two together. Of all the directions the stupid thing could have run, it ran into the only place it shouldn't have.
liketenpandas 6
simple reason as to why animals get hurt like this, your house is all they know, not the water. you trained it just enough in the short time you had it to teach it that the house was safe and not the water. it's a real shame but still true :/ not saying what you did was bad either, you just let it go too early
martin8337 36
You made a coffin for the bird.
SnowFangedBeauty 19
When being a good human being goes wrong....nature is ******* scary
cassieperiodbee 14
I had the same thing happen to me, Im sorry :(
SDee1234 11
I've done that before just to end up trying to stop the Momma bird from killing it. The lesson for next time take the bird inside and look up a bird rescue or wildlife rescue even places like where I live Ut Vet Hospital will take baby birds. It's not that hard to take care of them(well depending on the type of bird) if you wanna try your hand at that. You can find recipes for baby bird food other then using worms just by looking it up. I ended up saving 2 baby blue birds that way. Good luck next time and don't worry about what happened it wasn't your fault.
NerdGirl321 27
How is this karma?
SilverSet 16
Never try to put a baby bird back in the nest. Birds won't accept the baby if it senses something wrong. Next time OP take the bird inside and call animal control, they will take the bird or they will give you a number to call for an animal sanctuary and they will take the bird.
2074red2074 6
Birds will renest if they sense something wrong, but they won't kill their hatchlings. The problem was that it needed to be put back in its actual nest.
wvcheesehead 13
Well at least you did not find out it was a potato and not a bird.