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God Story, about a nice human and a miracle hawk.
Yesterday a man called my practice frantic about a hawk who had just flown into the grill on the front of his car while he was driving on the interstate, down I-65 I believe. Hawks and falcons love to hunt those areas of medians and sides of the interstates as they are relatively devoid of trees (obstructions) and thus a relatively easy pllace for a meal of a mouse or other small prey.
This was what this hawk (Cooper’s) was dong when he miscalculated and struck the car. The man was frantic, somehow he got my name as the local bird freak and called wondering what it would cost to have the bird seen and returned to a state of health. He was obviously feeling guilty for having hit the hawk although it was truly not his fault, this happens all the time.
I told my staff to get the guy off the phone, and get the bird to me before he died of shock or worse, I could not believe he was not severely injured by broken bones and other such injuries. He asked again about the money, and if you know me at all, you know I then blew up and asked him to shut up about the money, I would cover the costs and get the bird to a proper rehab center, IF I could save him. Well the gentleman got over my rudeness and in about 20 minutes I was told the car with hawk in tow was in the parking lot. I walked out with a towel in hand,(my favorite bird catching tool, and extricated the hawk from the grill of the car. To my disbelief there was no bleeding the bird was simply scared darn near featherless and stuck, rather tightly between the plastic bars of the grille, I saw the UPS man pull up, his name is Shawn and I called him over to help me, he manipulated the plastic apart so I could get the bird out,
I treated the bird for shock with 3 injections and placed him in an incubator with heat and oxygen first rule of medicine, DO NO HARM!. After I was convinced the bird was no longer in shock I performed a routine rather detailed physical exam. I only found a little scrape on the birds left elbow. I performed radiographs and found no broken bones or injuries whatsoever. I treated this little guy for parasites and put him back in the incubator, He was fine!! Unbelievable. I called my friends the Hardy Lake Raptor Rehab Center in Indiana and they came and got him and plan to release him back to the wild soon!
So all I know is that a compassionate Good Samaritan, and a compassionate UPS employee saved a bird’s life who had been in a fight with a 1,500 lb automobile.
That is why I call this a GOD story.
Sam Vaughn
Yesterday a man called my practice frantic about a hawk who had just flown into the grill on the front of his car while he was driving on the interstate, down I-65 I believe. Hawks and falcons love to hunt those areas of medians and sides of the interstates as they are relatively devoid of trees (obstructions) and thus a relatively easy pllace for a meal of a mouse or other small prey.
This was what this hawk (Cooper’s) was dong when he miscalculated and struck the car. The man was frantic, somehow he got my name as the local bird freak and called wondering what it would cost to have the bird seen and returned to a state of health. He was obviously feeling guilty for having hit the hawk although it was truly not his fault, this happens all the time.
I told my staff to get the guy off the phone, and get the bird to me before he died of shock or worse, I could not believe he was not severely injured by broken bones and other such injuries. He asked again about the money, and if you know me at all, you know I then blew up and asked him to shut up about the money, I would cover the costs and get the bird to a proper rehab center, IF I could save him. Well the gentleman got over my rudeness and in about 20 minutes I was told the car with hawk in tow was in the parking lot. I walked out with a towel in hand,(my favorite bird catching tool, and extricated the hawk from the grill of the car. To my disbelief there was no bleeding the bird was simply scared darn near featherless and stuck, rather tightly between the plastic bars of the grille, I saw the UPS man pull up, his name is Shawn and I called him over to help me, he manipulated the plastic apart so I could get the bird out,
I treated the bird for shock with 3 injections and placed him in an incubator with heat and oxygen first rule of medicine, DO NO HARM!. After I was convinced the bird was no longer in shock I performed a routine rather detailed physical exam. I only found a little scrape on the birds left elbow. I performed radiographs and found no broken bones or injuries whatsoever. I treated this little guy for parasites and put him back in the incubator, He was fine!! Unbelievable. I called my friends the Hardy Lake Raptor Rehab Center in Indiana and they came and got him and plan to release him back to the wild soon!
So all I know is that a compassionate Good Samaritan, and a compassionate UPS employee saved a bird’s life who had been in a fight with a 1,500 lb automobile.
That is why I call this a GOD story.
Sam Vaughn
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