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[Anonymous032819]

No one said that Nature was supposed to be all kind and kum-bi-yah.

Only the strongest and fittest survive to pass on the genes to the next generation.

That's the way Nature has been, and that's the way Nature will be.

You can't have the "cute and cuddly" without having the " ugly".

It's an eat or be eaten world.

Wild animals are just that, wild, and are not pets, and we do them a huge disservice when we start treating and seeing wild animals as pets.

I'm not saying that you were trying to turn the chick in to a pet, but just commenting in  general.

Even wild animal rehabilaters know that not all animals that they help will survive.

They try their best, give the animal all the treatment that they can, but sometimes even after that, the animal doesn't survive.

Does it s*u*c*k?

Sure it does, but they know that going in.

Ever watch the show "Northwoods Law" on Animal Planet?

I like to watch it.

In one episode, a game warden got a call regarding an injured bobcat, that had porcupine quills stuck in its mouth.

The warden captured the cat and transported it to a rehab facility.

When it came time to remove the quills, they had to sedate it, both for the cat's safety, as well as the safety of those in the exam room.

When it came time to release the bobcat back in to the wild, it came out of the crate stumbling, screaming, and made a bee-line for the warden.

He had no choice but to shoot and kill the animal, because it was rabid, it just hadn't displayed any symptoms until then.

And a necropsy, which is the animal version of an autopsy, confirmed that the bobcat was indeed infected with rabies, and the only way to test for rabies is to take brain tissue and examine it under a microscope.

Did the warden enjoy that the cat had to be put down, especially after all that time, energy and work had gone in to helping it?

Of course not.

Point being, even after an animal is helped, it's no guarantee that it will survive.

That's just the way Nature is.

It isn't pretty.

It just is.