the rescue report: Pearl

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I was alerted on Thursday 12/1 by SFACC volunteers that there was an injured baby king named Pearl in need of rescue and I picked her (?) up that evening.

The poor thing, only about 5 weeks old, had a dislocated knee (either from rough handling at the live poultry market or from when she was being caught to save her from a bad death out in the world as a stray) and I took her to Wildwood Vet Hospital in Portola for treatment on Friday 12/2.

Later that afternoon, Hayward Animal Shelter volunteer Susan (seen here with Gypsy), transported another baby king in need of rescue from Hayward to my home in SF.

I named him (?) Carmine. He is a very serious baby king. He and Pearl have become fast friends and are keeping each other company.

Here Nurse/Dove Lily encourages them to eat their breakfast.

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1/18/12 UPDATE

Pearl has been making great progress just from time spent wearing a soft tape hobble. She's done so well that we're no longer expecting that she'll require corrective surgery.

And very surprisingly to me, despite all that Pearl has gone through at the hands of well-intended but still scary and sometimes pain-making humans, she is very interested in people! Much more so than most of the aviary pigeons. Each bird is incredibly unique.