danielledianne
New member
Hello,
We were watching excitedly as a mother and father robin were taking care of a nest of 4 eggs which she built on our exterior light fixture by our front door. The babies hatched on this past Friday ( 4 days ago ), and we saw the mom with the little worms to feed them in her mouth. VERY UNFORTUNATELY our cat got out and attacked the nest on Sunday evening. He had one of the babies in his mouth which he dropped when I shook him. The nest and the three other babies had fallen 6 feet to the rock garden. We fortified the bottom of the nest with a paper sack because it no longer had a bottom, we replaced the 4 babies into the nest (assuming the one that was in the mouth of my cat was dead but not sure). The other three babies were breathing. The mother has been sitting on that nest for almost 2 days now, and she is not making any effort to collect food. They must be dead, right? My question is how long will the mother sit on the nest if her babies are dead? And would it be more humane for me to take the nest down and dispose of the dead babies and the nest so that the mother can move on? Thank you for any advice!
We were watching excitedly as a mother and father robin were taking care of a nest of 4 eggs which she built on our exterior light fixture by our front door. The babies hatched on this past Friday ( 4 days ago ), and we saw the mom with the little worms to feed them in her mouth. VERY UNFORTUNATELY our cat got out and attacked the nest on Sunday evening. He had one of the babies in his mouth which he dropped when I shook him. The nest and the three other babies had fallen 6 feet to the rock garden. We fortified the bottom of the nest with a paper sack because it no longer had a bottom, we replaced the 4 babies into the nest (assuming the one that was in the mouth of my cat was dead but not sure). The other three babies were breathing. The mother has been sitting on that nest for almost 2 days now, and she is not making any effort to collect food. They must be dead, right? My question is how long will the mother sit on the nest if her babies are dead? And would it be more humane for me to take the nest down and dispose of the dead babies and the nest so that the mother can move on? Thank you for any advice!