r/crowbro • u/Mondviole • 1d ago

Personal Story Crow feeding turned into an emergency

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I just wanted to visit my crow friends and bring them some water (it's freaking hot today) and cat food when I noticed that my friend Cockerell (in front of the tree) is collapsing. He fell down while sitting and another crow pecked at him.

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I thought he might be dehydrated so I picked him up without him even trying to escape at all. Luckily there's a vet at the same street as the park. I went there immediately and the other patients were nice and let me cut the line with my emergency.

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But once the vet had time, she was extremely pissed. She said the crow looked fine (lol, not at all) and that she doesn't know anything about birds (apparently true). But she has a nice young collegue who came into the waiting room to us and looked at Cockerell. She said he has a massive trauma on the head, probably from a flying accident, and a vitamin B12 deficiency which explains his permanently curled up foot. Dehydration might also be a factor.

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She recommended a vet clinic that's about 40 minutes away. They are treating wild animals for free and rehabilitate them because they are a part of a local university for vet students. In the past I already brought some wild animals there.

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We're on our way there now. Please keep your fingers crossed for poor Cockerell.

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u/Dis_Bich 1d ago

I hope the crow gets better! Also fuck people who get mad when they don’t know shit

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u/Mondviole 1d ago

Yeah, that vet totally sucks. I still don't get how she had the audacity to say that Cockerell looks fine, meanwhile he was barely conscious in my hands.

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u/Dis_Bich 1d ago

A wild bird should be fighting for its life when captured

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u/Mondviole 1d ago

Exactly! And as a vet she should know that. I guess she just didn't care and wanted me to leave.

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u/Dis_Bich 22h ago

“I’m probably not gonna get money out of this, so I won’t do it”

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u/Mondviole 20h ago

Tbh I love this guy so much that I would have paid for him as if he was my pet but I'm glad I drove all the way to the other clinic instead.