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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katy Penland" data-source="post: 593695" data-attributes="member: 1268">Yep, that's what snakes do.  They have to survive, too, and birds are part of their prey.        Thank you for talking to a veterinarian for advice on how to care for a wild bird chick.  Did your vet also advise you to take this bird to a rehabber once you'd given it some food and put it in a warm, safe place?        "Some of us out here"?  Since when isn't Texas part of the US?  Whether you yourself choose to honor the federal protections that are in place is up to you, but your love for animals doesn't give you -- or any of us animal lovers -- special dispensation.      Most people who have eggs, chicks and fledglings are completely at sea as to what to do with them -- don't even know what species they are.  This is why our first advice is to call a local professional and then to let them know that they cannot keep a federally protected species without the proper licenses.  This is, after all, for the birds' protection, not ours.  I wonder how many hundreds if not thousands of chicks and fledglings suffer days- or weeks-long, painful deaths each year because soft-hearted people feed them the wrong things or feed them improperly?       I don't know what running a meth lab has to do with anything.  As for God, didn't he say "Render unto Caesar..."?  That would be our federal government, in modern parlance.      The best advice is to call a local vet or rehabber -- which is what we urge our members to do -- not get hand-feeding instructions off an internet site, even one as good as BirdForum.</blockquote>

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