(no subject)
Jul. 9th, 2008 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuWhy do these horrible accidents keep happening to me? I'm so frustrated and horrified. I have NEVER had this many accidents.
So I had the three robins I raised from babies. All three were doing amazing, completely healthy, fat, self-feeding, happy as can be. I went in to change their food and water, and while I was trying to put the food bowl in their cage one of the robins flew up (without me realizing--it was on the side of the cage that has the towel) and flew under the hinged door. I tried to close the hinged door, but realized pretty quickly (because of the resistance) that there was a bird under there.
The bird was under there for...ten seconds, maybe? I figured it would be fine, as it's not like I put much force at all into attempting to close the door. Well, I take the bird out and it starts gasping and flailing and it dies within two minutes. Perfectly healthy young adult robin. Dead that fast.
I feel terrible.
But all I can do is move on, right? All I can do is learn from yet another mistake that costed a happy, healthy life. I can sit here and regret it and wish I had known and hadn't tried to close the door and mourn for the poor bird who was alive only ten minutes ago--but what will that do? Nothing. It'll do nothing. It'll accomplish nothing, it won't change the bird's fate, it won't make the suffering less. It was just an accident. There is nothing I can do that can change what happened now. I save more birds than I harm, and every rehabber has these sorts of accidents.
All I can do is keep going. I will talk to another rehabber about this incident over the phone, that ten or fifteen minutes will be my mourning and my regret, and I will keep going as I did before it happened. That is the only thing I can do, because being in misery over this accident won't change anything. So I might as well just smile and continue--but not forget.
I'm going to try to have a good day regardless.
So I had the three robins I raised from babies. All three were doing amazing, completely healthy, fat, self-feeding, happy as can be. I went in to change their food and water, and while I was trying to put the food bowl in their cage one of the robins flew up (without me realizing--it was on the side of the cage that has the towel) and flew under the hinged door. I tried to close the hinged door, but realized pretty quickly (because of the resistance) that there was a bird under there.
The bird was under there for...ten seconds, maybe? I figured it would be fine, as it's not like I put much force at all into attempting to close the door. Well, I take the bird out and it starts gasping and flailing and it dies within two minutes. Perfectly healthy young adult robin. Dead that fast.
I feel terrible.
But all I can do is move on, right? All I can do is learn from yet another mistake that costed a happy, healthy life. I can sit here and regret it and wish I had known and hadn't tried to close the door and mourn for the poor bird who was alive only ten minutes ago--but what will that do? Nothing. It'll do nothing. It'll accomplish nothing, it won't change the bird's fate, it won't make the suffering less. It was just an accident. There is nothing I can do that can change what happened now. I save more birds than I harm, and every rehabber has these sorts of accidents.
All I can do is keep going. I will talk to another rehabber about this incident over the phone, that ten or fifteen minutes will be my mourning and my regret, and I will keep going as I did before it happened. That is the only thing I can do, because being in misery over this accident won't change anything. So I might as well just smile and continue--but not forget.
I'm going to try to have a good day regardless.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 08:24 pm (UTC)But you're right - it was just an accident, a freak occurrence, and there's not much you can do now.
no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 11:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, it was an accident, but it still just sucks :(
no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 01:03 pm (UTC)