Prince
Yesterday, after spending the day with five other volunteers building a much needed aviary at the Petaluma home of a MickaCoo foster volunteer, I went to the Marin Humane Society to pick up Quinn, a flightless king in need of rescue.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5GX038ufvUFZbVFSmihyphenhyphenwUJgtE7IdWTHzdwlmN4i9y6Yj4hIJzkoz7wBpZiz6xTI9iAskZeZJRGE7OFvSUv7WUrZ43-U5dxGJSAJ3APCbD_qrzlvUw-SauyjmUPXke90cVWEYA/s320/DSCF8904.JPG)
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I arrived an hour late and so was there when a very weak and sick baby king arrived. He had been found at Fisherman's Wharf in SF and the Good Samaritans that rescued him drove him all the way to Novato.
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The poor bird, only about 5 weeks old, was very weak, emaciated and had labored breathing. His mouth was full of canker plaques (trichomoniasis) and his vent was caked with diarrhea.
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He was cold and MHS sent us home with a nice, big, microwave-warmed pillow. I had canker meds in the car and gave them to the baby I named Prince before we even left the parking lot.
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Once home, I showed Prince the other king pigeons in the hopes of lifting his spirits and easing his mind and then syringe fed him a light meal of watery juvenile formula with Pedialite before tucking him in on a heating pad.
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His breathing worsened and he died around midnight. I'm really sad what all this poor baby had to go through.
I sent out this email this morning to some of the animal welfare experts in SF:
Hello-
A baby king pigeon that was rescued at Fisherman's Wharf yesterday died in my care last night. It had a bad case of trichomoniasis and probably died from respiratory failure. It likely had other issues as well including coccidia and possibly salmonella, to name a couple.
Does anybody care that these birds sold for meat are so often so sick?
This baby, that I named Prince, is not at all unusual. Lots of these babies come in sick.
I have this bird's body refrigerated. Would anybody be interested in performing a necropsy?
I've not yet received a response.
Releasing domestic birds and animals is cruel, not kind. They do not have the ability to survive in the parks and streets. They suffer and die.
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