I am always surprised when human beings show no compassion for animals. When I see humans who appear to have no feeling for animals I always ask myself - do they not believe that animals feel the same as we do? It is hard not to reach the conclusion that most people don't believe that animals feel the same things as humans do. Why don't humans accept that all animals are connected? After all we all come from the same common ancestor. We share the same genes. Its not Rocket Science to conclude we all have the same feelings. I picked this magpie up from the side of the road. Our grandchildren gave her the name of Charlie. This was before we knew she was a girl but Charlie can be a girls name. She had come out of the nest prematurely. She was standing alone and had that waiting to die look about her. Her left leg was twisted back underneath where her claws normally were and she was walking on the stump at her ankle. She made no attempt to evade me when I picked her up. It must have been cramped in the nest and her left foot got twisted underneath her. I brought her home and Jenny suggested I make her a moon boot to straighten out her ankle. This made her stand with her claws out flat rather than standing on the stump of her leg. We took the moon boot off after a few days and although her left foot was not strong she did stand on her foot with her toes and claws out flat. She has continued to improve and she can now clasp with her left claw. She is improving as she is grows. She had doubled in size. She has integrated slightly with a family of magpies who live close by to the point where they treat her with indifference rather than hostility. She fly's off and sleeps in a tree every night. She likes flying and sometimes seems to show off when she zooms around the house. She follows Alexander around talking to him like he's her brother which of course he is. She talks more to him than to me - I'm just her parent. But she does allow me to pick her up. She bites anyone else who tries with her beak. She is constantly curious about everything that is on the ground. Yesterday she pecked into a spiders web on the bottom of our bedroom window and pulled out a full sized Red Back. She picks up insects very daintily in her beak. She seems to inspect them and then discard them if she is not sure. She did this with the Red Back. Not all insects are for eating.
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