Quote Originally Posted by buzz View Post

I feel for you, my wife brought home a broken-winged dove once. Told me she stopped traffic to pick him up (he'd been clipped by a car). We put the dove in the orange tree well in our backyard to "recuperate". The bird was gone within an hour... my guess is the neighbor's cat got it but I assured little wifey that the bird had recovered fully and flown away to make baby doves.
There was a crow that got hit by a car a few blocks from our house. It was just kind of laying on it's back on the side of the road, trying to flap, but it was cut open pretty good and wasn't going to make it. I went up and snapped it's neck, to put him out of his misery. Those fuckers are tough. It's not like breaking the neck of say, a dove or duck, that thing was still moving, quite disappointed with my decision to put him out of his misery. Finally, a tug and a jerk got him. By that time, other crows had noticed him. I put him in a bag to dispose of him properly, but kept an eye on those crows above me, too.