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Anonymous
My mom was in town visiting me, and apparently two days ago while I was at work, she was walking her stupid dog and he attempted to eat this thing so she took it inside and put it in a closet to protect it from my cat and then went to bed before I got home and left before I woke up yesterday and didn't tell me about it. I got a call from her yesterday afternoon while I was at work when she remembered about it.

It is a bird.

It was sitting in a closet for the better part of a day.

Anyway, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it; it has no apparent injuries, broken bones, open wounds, that kind of stuff. It seems to be able to move both its wings but not... evenly or in any coordinated fashion. I'm hoping that this's just because it is too young to fly right or something (but old enough to live without its mother (I realize these times do not normally overlap)).

I've put him under a wicker table with a box with a towel to sit in, more box to create shade, and some birdseed and water, where it can gain or regain some strength without being an easy target for the local cats. I guess I plan to keep it there until it can fly or until I get tired of keeping it there.

Anyone have any advice on how to keep an adolescent mourning dove who can't fly alive? Additional difficulty: I am usually out of the house 14+ hours a day.
>> Anonymous
Take it to a rescue asap.
>> Anonymous
Take a small pot with cool water and heat until boiling.
Throw in bird.
Cook for 15 minutes.
Eat with rice.
>> Anonymous
>>303416

I don't eat poultry. I prefer mammal.
>> Anonymous
>>303378

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>> Anonymous
It's just a stupid Mourning Dove, they're basically ultra-unintelligent versions of pigeons. It'll be dead from shock no matter what you do, the goddamned things die by the millions for sitting in the road and not moving when cars pass. Wastes of organic matter.
>> Anonymous
>>303378
I agree with this, but is it eating the birdseed? If not, it'll probably die especially thanks to sitting in a closet with no food (most birds around this time of year are needing an almost constant large intake of food). If so, it'll probably be okay.
>> Anonymous
>>303437

This is pretty much why I haven't done>>303378. That and I am not available to be a dove-chauffeur during the hours that a rescue would be open.

>>303438

He was locked in the closet with some amount of birdseed my mom left him, and it is believed that some of that birdseed was eaten. In any case, there was some digestion going on. Unfortunately, there is no one who knows both how much seed was put in and how much remained. I'll check on the bird seed I left him tonight when I get home, which'll be long after the sun's gone down.
>> Anonymous
Many birds watch over their youngsters for a couple of weeks while they are still too young to fly but large enough to scavenge for themselves.

My cat tried to hunt a magpie chick once, in our garden. Luckily I saw it and managed to hold my cat back.
If you want to release it to the wild, let it regain strength and then take it back to the place where your mother found it. If you notice 2 birds flying around in the nearby trees, it's probably the bird's parents, however, since you've taken care of it for a while now, they might not recognize it.

Feed it and bring it to a wildlife center. If you have none near you, ask for a permission to adopt the animal :D, or see if it can survive on its own.
>> Anonymous
Feeding: try and dig up some worms or larva idk. maybe it will eat different sorts of grain etc.