[ SECRET POST #5217 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5217 ⌋

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Animal death tw

[(Anonymous)]

It was fine (I had to work Saturday but eh) until sunset today, when I realized the parent of the baby black phoebes outside my back door hadn't come back.

The birds are still at the mostly naked eyes closed stage, and while it was warm today, it cooled off and got super windy after dark. I don't know if the babies are still alive. I called the local wildlife rescue and they have a kind of heated brooder box drop off set up when they're closed, but I take public transit and it would take me hours to get there and I'd probably be stranded overnight.

I have an infrared chicken brooder panel I could put the babies under overnight, but I'd have to run an extension cord into my bathroom since the outlets don't work and it's the only place I can keep my cat from eating them. But also I don't want to touch them and find out they're dead. I may end up calling in to work tomorrow because either I'll be taking baby birds to the rescue place and be late, or burying them and be crying buckets all day.

I also feel guilty because while my cat is indoors only, I've been feeding a pair of outside cats that I know are a threat to wildlife, but I think maybe their owner died, because the house where they used to live never went up for sale, but has new owners who redid the landscaping and got a dog they leave outside all day. I hope the cats didn't eat the mother bird.

Re: Animal death tw

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Idk if I should warn separately for this but, uh, sort of looks like suicide tw? But it's not, I'm fine, I think the baby birds are too.



So I couldn't quite reach the nest standing on a chair and I need daylight to move the ladder. So after waking up and checking on the birds--still no parents, but now they cheep whenever I open the door--every half hour or so, at 2 am I cut a scrap of cashmere from an old sweater and put it over the nest in the hopes that would help hold heat in while not suffocating them, and laid it over the nest. Lots of peeping.

Then I got a pile of books, the brooder panel, and some rope, plugged in the panel, checked that the cord was long enough to plug in and still reach, and tied it, totally ignoring safety instructions, facing up under the nest. It only gets about as hot as a mother hen and it's actually not close enough to the nest for that, but I hope it helps. There wasn't enough clearance to rig it over the nest; it'll have to do.

As I was standing, in my pjs, on a chair and pile of books, tying rope and cords over beams in the carport, my brain went "you know what this looks like, right?"

Then a car went by. Really hoping they didn't see me, but I guess if someone called 911 I could apologize profusely for the confusion and ask for help putting the baby birds in a box.

I'm going to bed and getting up super early to take down the heater and tiny blanket in case the parents come back. I definitely need to call into work. And then I'll either be wrangling a box of birds on a bus and trolley, or burying birds in my yard, and either way, I'll be sleeping for awhile afterwards. So tired...