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
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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, my brother and I found a little bird that couldn't fly. While trying to convince my mom that it couldn't fly so we could keep it, I lightly tossed it in the air and it landed a few feet in front of me. Then my cat grabbed it and ate it. 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 witnessed the beautiful sight of a tiny baby bird struggling to take flight from its nest. "You can do it," I muttered, which I guess my asswipe of a cat heard as "Quick, go kill that bird and scar me for life, please." FML
Today, I found out that my mother is extremely emotional when it comes to animal deaths when a bird flew into the window and died, and she insisted we have a funeral. 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, after months of trying to persuade her to give it to a wildlife rescue, I reported my stepmother to the authorities for illegally keeping an endangered bird in the kitchen. When they took it, she screamed that I had no right to do that, as she considered it hers since she found it. FML
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
Today, my mom was criticizing how I can't handle taking care of any living thing because I'm too irresponsible. We had a huge argument so I went back to my apartment, only to find that my fish had died. I forgot I had a fish. FML
Today, I watched a cat pounce on a small bird and rip it to shreds, feather by feather. It wouldn't have been any worse than mildly disturbing, had I not just spent the last 4 weeks nursing the bird back to health from a broken wing. FML
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Volcan_fml 22
Your mom sounds like a bitch.
Bekll 31
Your mother is heartless. I would have cried too.
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jes7er91 1
Natures a bitch so suck it up princess and move on.
sibeso 17
Oh my god. This is what passes on fml while my tragic life gets ignored?
Major_Whupass 3
I choose just to put it out of it's misery.
brokenheartemo 7
At least the baby bird's last moments were filled with the kindness you gave it :D your mum should be proud that you show compassion towards defenseless creatures and cry for their loss of life
kristophen 3
All you guys are mad at the persons mom, but she's right
skyeyez9 25
I found a tiny deer mouse on the sidewalk that was maybe 9 days old, its eyes still closed. Everybody told me it would die but I ignored them. For the first month I had to wake up every two hrs to feed her kitten formula thru n eye dropper. I kept her cage warm with a heating pad wrapped in a towel set on low, till her eyes opened. Almost 4yrs later, she is still alive and runs on her exercise wheel every night. 4 is pretty old for a mouse. She is very tame now and lets you hold her and sits in my shirt pocket.
TheMathMajor 26
That is the sweetest thing :) good for you
FMLTuna 6
You seem like a very caring person OP. Real feeings can't be manufactured so you should embrace your sensitivity and kindness and count yourself lucky to have such character.
rjc490 29
So many people on here are compassionate for animals but when they see a fellow human being they just look the other way and couldn't give two *****...I'm not saying all of the people on here, but most of them
laden_swallow09 35
Call me cold, callous, and unsympathetic, but baby animals die through no fault of anyone. It's Nature and it happens. Yes, I shed a tear when my sheltie died, but I never got choked up even when I watched him listlessly limp around the house, losing his hair, and upchucking his dinner. Yeah, your mom's a bitch, but at the same time, we can't save everybody.
kool_girl_123 9
:( poor widdle birdy