What would you have done?
Discussion
We were in Cromer yesterday (seemingly with half of Norfolk). We bought some fish and chips, as you do at the seaside, and sat on a park bench to eat them. We noticed that on the grass was a seagull. It was moving its head but otherwise lying still. If was obviously hurt badly. When we went to leave we got a bit closer and it looked like it had been hit by a car and its wing was broken, amongst other injuries. Clearly it couldn’t fly off and most likely was lying there waiting to die.
We debated what to do.
We didn’t think that the RSPCA or RSPB would send out people for a fatally injured seagull (which are not pets nor protected or rare).
Leaving it would probably doom it to a slow death or perhaps dinner for one of the local cats. On that basis we thought the humane thing to do would be to put it out of its misery. However there were a couple of mums with their kids in the park and we were worried of being accused of animal cruelty (plus I was a bit wimpy about having to do it as my wife and daughter would have expected me to do the deed).
In the end we just left it to its fate.
What would you have done?
We debated what to do.
We didn’t think that the RSPCA or RSPB would send out people for a fatally injured seagull (which are not pets nor protected or rare).
Leaving it would probably doom it to a slow death or perhaps dinner for one of the local cats. On that basis we thought the humane thing to do would be to put it out of its misery. However there were a couple of mums with their kids in the park and we were worried of being accused of animal cruelty (plus I was a bit wimpy about having to do it as my wife and daughter would have expected me to do the deed).
In the end we just left it to its fate.
What would you have done?
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