White-winged chough

[den]

I've just been handed a white-winged chough ('chuff') with a broken leg and bleeding from the anus.

In Watership Down the rabbits have the Black Rabbit who comes to take them away. In Dubbo the animals have me.

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[ka-crow.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I've said this before, but when my cat had to be euthanased this year, it was a ray of comfort within the hurt to know that the vet and her assistants doing it cared about Zorro and eased him out of his pain gently, rather than, say, picking him up by his tail and swinging him against a wall, or whatever. I think everybody who knows you knows that you would save every animal and restore them to perfect health were it possible. The fact that sometimes it's not doesn't mean you don't have the kindest of intentions toward every beast, be it this little corvid or a giant killer wombat or whatever, given into your care.