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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnockerNorton" data-source="post: 1283184" data-attributes="member: 66452">it's got concussion (eyes, odd movements characteristic), and has either flown into something or been hit by traffic. Keep it overnight in a dark warm (not hot) place, with water available in a dish. Within 24-48 hrs it will have either recovered or not. If it has, let it go. If not, the damage is likely to be permanant. I suspect the latter, due it moving oddly (showing it's coming out of concussion by moving, but has brain/balance damage due to it being odd). That gives you 2 options - either keep it for 2 days to see if it improves, or euthanase it now. If it has not improved at all after 2 days you'll have to kill it anyway to stop it suffering any more. Although an inability to feed/drink may sort that out for you. If it has improved a bit, enough to feed/drink, but is still not back to normal, keep it for another week. If it hasn't imrpoved any more, you have to kill it. If it has improved a bit more, give it another week. That is then as long as you can leave it, so it will either be fit for release, or not. If not, you know what you have to do.Do not take this on lightly, as you may well become attached after a few days of tending it and then have to kill it, which can be very hard.ChrisKten - re RSPCA, the poster is clearly in the USA.</blockquote>