A client just wrote to me, upset for months over an incident with an injured baby bird. It had fallen out of its next, and she took it home to care for it, hoping to return it to the nest when it recovered. Such rescue is always an act of love. She was feeding it and put it down for a moment, but that moment esalated like fast forward when her dog suddenly leaped, grabbed the bird, and killed it. For months, the woman has been blaming herself, assuming responsibility for the bird's death. She came to me for some clarity. I didn't have to stretch to empathize wit her. I have been in that position a number of times. For years, I was actively involved in Muscovy duck rescue, retrieving scared, injured, abused and victimized ducks from lakes, parking lots, streets.Once I took in an almost newborn duckling -- tiny and still yellow -- who had been abandoned and seemed to have a broken leg. I called the president of the rescue gr...
Enlightenment from Our Animal Companions by Lisa Shaw, Animal Intuitive, R.M.