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Rehab no longer needed
- To: "Carolina Birds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Rehab no longer needed
- From: "Alex Netherton" <danetherton@email.msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 21:30:12 -0400
- Reply-to: "Alex Netherton" <danetherton@msn.com>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Sorry folks. A short time ago, the Catbird died while my wife Suzanne was
holding it and trying to give it comfort. Thanks to all the people who were
willing to give help.
I do not know if birds derive comfort from a human, and if dying alone is
preferable to them to dying whilst being held by loving hands, but the bird
flapped a short while and expired. I like to think the spirit was taking
wing.
I do know that Suzanne was already attatched to the bird, and it was very
difficult for her, but I feel the need to help when one of Nature's
creatures is in pain, and so does she.
Thanks all.
Please watch your cats (my "boys" are indoors only).
Alex Netherton
The Appalachian Naturalist
Asheville, NC
http://www.appalachian-naturalist.com