So this afternoon I'm on my way home after a drs appointment. Am passing through a school zone and going past see a rainbow lorikeet sitting on the side of the road. I knew it didn't look good so I pull over then do a U turn. Spot the little thing hobbling across the busy road, he makes it amazingly! So I pull up and park preparing to get out and what do I see? An a***hole makes a beeline for the lorikeet who is on the white line on the side of the road!!!!! I am gasping in horror as the car drives over the lorikeet's tail. I still don't know how the bird was not squashed as the car driver certainly tried to run over it!

So now the bird has no tail feathers. I get out and go towards it but it moves out of my reach so I go back and grab a material piece to try to throw over it. Darned thing is a slippery sucker! and goes through the fence and out of my reach.

Meanwhile, a lady on the other side of the road asks whats going on and in between not quite sobs - I tell her. She crosses with her 2 kids and examine the situation together. She tries to phone the 1800 ANIMAL but it's on fax so she can't get through.

Then her youngest child - about 7/8yo - volunteers to get into the school yard after the bird. Well and good but then the kid is terrified of the bird! and tries to throw the cloth on the bird from a distance of 6 feet.

I go back to the car and get the carry cage I always carry and grabbed my jacked from the front seat, it's a type of suede so is a bit heavier than the cloth. By now the older child - about 10yo - is in the school yard too so I hand over the cage and jacket. They manage to get the jacket over the bird and with direction wrap it around the top of the bird so it didn't take off again. Because they are so afraid of the bird I suggest they scoop everything off the ground, they try to shove everything into the little opening of the cage and I quickly yelp not to (their kindness would kill it) and to hand everything to me.

I commend them and tell them they should be very proud of themselves helping save a wild animal especially when they have never touched a bird before. They seemed quite chuffed at the praise as their mum did too. It's so gratifying that despite their fear they put the needs of the little one before their fear.

So I get in my car and fear the worst as it's all quiet in the jumble of cloth. I gently start opening the jacket and cloth and here is the lorikeet curled up and clutching the cloth peering at me. It's alive!!!

I drive to the vet I used to take my pet lorikeet to as fast as legally allowed. Give the bundle to the girl at the desk and answer a few questions and she takes it into a room to put into a cage. She comes out and says she thinks it's going to be okay for now as it was climbing up the bars of the cage.

The vet will examine it and if it's okay will give to a carer until the feathers grow back and can be released back where I found it.

 

It happened around 4pm but I was still shaking with so much anger over what the driver did that I wasn't calm enough until now to relay it.

 

I hope he makes it, I am going to phone the vet tomorrow to see if he made it through the night.

Great save Karen

i love a happy out come

good effort

Well done !!!! What a horrible person to deliberately try to run an animal over!!!

Good on you! Some people defy belief.

Oh man... one thing that makes me so so so so so angry and upset is deliberate animal cruelty.

 

What a wonderful thing you did though, and great that you could praise the kids and help them learn what a pleasure it is to help animals

Well done- was it wild or maybe an escaped pet? Either way a very lucky bird

OMG! People like that make me sick!!!

 

Great Save Karen! I really hope he recovers fully

You did a good job. That's awful what that person did.

Pie: the bird was a wild one.

I phoned the vets twice yesterday - first time was too early for the vet was snowed with work. Called again 3.30pm and the birdie was going home with a carer. It was reported that he's been eating and has bright eyes and active.

So great news! :emoticon112:

that's great!!!!

how horrible, to deliberately run over a wild animal. i hope he makes a full recovery.

Well done! I'm happy that he made it, and yes what a !@$%$3^ person.

Good on you for rescuing that bird, good karma will come to you! Some people just make you sick dont they? Cant even understand it.