02 March 2012

Day 4 - Little Hope the laughing dove chick

01-03-2012

Tiny Hope survived the night.  I worked out a method of feeding by cutting a tiny slit into a tissue and put its beak through it.   It does not only serve as a bib but as soon as the beak goes through the tissue, she opens her beak and the feeding can begin.  There is a long road ahead and I am not sure how we will be releasing her to the outside world, or if we ever will be able to.
We saw a laughing dove with his one wing broken or dislocated and the other without feathers.  Miraculously he can still fly, so I decided not to catch him.  I shall just make feeding easier.   Was it the Hope’s mommy trying to defend her chick from being attacked by the much bigger Red-eyed dove?   Nature can be so very cruel.   We, humans are striving above this cruelty, most of us, but we still kill animals for sport and food.

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