Kudos to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for slapping eleven year old Skylar Capo of Fredericksburg, Virgina with a $535 fine and possible jail time for rescuing a woodpecker from a cat! I only just stumbled across this particular news item, but I can’t tell you how relieved I am to know that the federal government is using my tax money so wisely and so well. The woodpecker is a protected species, and it is a violation of the federal Migratory Bird Act to “take, possess, or transport” a protected species. Being ignorant of the law because you’re eleven years old, or being so soft-hearted you don’t want to see a cat eat a protected species, those things are no excuse. In any right-thinking society, that child should just have been summarily executed.
Que cette petite fille se rassure, le fait de vouloir sauver un petit oiseau d’un prédateur démontre qu’elle a un grand cœur !!!!
Par contre, la personne qui travaille pour l’organisme « Fish and Wildlife Service » doit avoir honte lorsqu’elle se regarde dans un miroir…….
Anita
In today’s world we often miss that children treat animals respectfully and responsibly.An 11-year-old child has a soft heart (wonderful) and rescuing a woodpecker from a cat.Of these children, there should be more.Okay U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has “only” done its work for the protection of migratory birds.In some animal welfare organizations are unfortunately overzealous employee.They act first and then ask about the background.( but many do a very good job for animal welfare)It is sad and crazy that the child is his heart followed and rescued a bird and now probably crying and needs to be afraid to be punished.I sometimes wonder in what kind of world we actually live……..
Manuela
Kudos indeed – sounds like something the german Government would do ,too.
Just like they had that bear killed a few years back- the first and only one in Germany since ,god only knows ,how long…..and the government had given out orders to shot him on sight.And, of course, someone shot him(he was called Bruno).But ist was never said,who actually did shot him,since most of the germans did not want Bruno to die.Captured and maybe released a bit further away from People yes,but not killed for no other reason then just beeing there…….
Very well written.Kudos for your irony as well!
Andrea
JP agreed that boy had a big heart! Kudos to him.
Tena French Halifax NS Canada
Hui, thank God, first, I was really shocked; “… summarily executed” … Hääää? Ok, non-native speaker; I needed a few moments to understand the irony
Regarding Bruno: Hmm, that probably happened during my studies in Tulsa, but I remember it as a really sad, sad story …
Apart from that: Happy New Year, everybody!
Kerstin, Siegen, Germany with her motto (literally translated
): Life is not a final rehearsal!
Oh my goodness, after the second reading I understand the irony of the whole blog … Shame on me … Kerstin
They would have locked me up by eleven– I fostered many robins and bluejays fallen from nests, kept snakes and turtles and toads (as well as pet pigeons and other things not allowed in suburbs today).
Pity the modern child. Will adults like us even exist in the future? (Though having said that our kid was raised running wild in the woods, and tries to raise his child that way).
Anita, I will try to write later in French, but it is an effort when I am tired.
Steve Bodio
Good to know more taxes are being taken out of my paycheck to go after 11-year-old heathens such as this young lady. They may as well go after the parents for child abuse. How dare they instill a sense of stewardship into their child!
My favorite part of the story is the USFWS tried to save face only after there was an outcry, and they used the standard governmental agency response of it was a “misunderstanding” then canceled the citation.
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction these days.
Dawn
Il y a quelques années, lorsque mes enfants vivaient encore chez moi, je me suis aperçue qu’il y avait des œufs dans un de mes pots de fleurs.
Quelques jours après, des oisillons sont apparus et ouvraient leur petit bec……. Mais l’un d’entre eux n’allait pas très bien et essayait de ramper pour se jeter dans le vide…… comme je n’avais pas envie qu’il se fracasse le crâne par terre, ma fille et moi nous avons tendu une serviette en-dessous du nid et lorsqu’il est tombé, nous avons réussi à le sauver une première fois. Mais le lendemain le petit oiseau était par terre……. Mort……
Comme il faisait chaud, nous avons mis quelques gouttes d’eau dans le bec des autres petits oisillons et au bout de 2 ou 3 semaines, on les a vus s’envoler……c’était magnifique
Anita
Can I ask Kerstin something out of the topic?
@ Kerstin Du hast geschrieben “Kerstin,Siegen,Germany”. Wohnst Du in Siegen?Das wäre ein lustiger Zufall. Ich wohne nachts in Drolshagen und tagsüber am Pferdestall in Friesenhagen-Wildenburg.Dann wären wir ja fast “Nachbarn”
And in the English language.So,JP must not read in his dusty German-English dictionary from the bookshelf
@ Kerstin You wrote “Kerstin, Siegen, Germany.” Do you live in Siegen? That would be a funny coincidence. I live in Drolshagen at night and during the day at stables in Friesenhagen-Wildenburg.
Then we are almost “neighbors”
Manuela
Hi Manuela, due to business, I travel around a lot, but yes, mainly I live in Siegen and tadaddaaaaa – I went to elementary school in Drolshagen
Wow, that is really funny … For eveyone else: Drolsjagen is really a small, small village (100km/62mi away from Cologne
Thank you and sorry for using this forum for a private conversation
The worst case of something like this I ever heard of was many years ago, somwhere in the Midwest of the U. S., an old farmer accidently ran over a little(doe) whitetail deer fawn with his hay mower. He took it in and nursed it back to health, and bottle-raided it, since being severly wounded, it couldn’t go back to the wild immediately. It recoverd and grew up, and had free run of his farm–he never confined it. No doubt it would have eventually gone back to the wild in it’s own good time. Bucks are more dangerous as they grow older and go into the rut, but a doe should have been fine. Wildlife Agents got wind of this, and came to confiscate the now nearly grown deer. There was a heated confrontation between the farmer and the agents. The old man tried to stop them, and there was a struggle–the old farmer dropped DEAD with a heart attack. Did those agents have the decency to cease and desist at that point? Heck no, they went ahead and darted the deer to transport it somewhere else, overdosed it, and killed the deer too! Yeah, you gotta love the LAW. I have raised numerous orphan critters, all quite illegally, but I just kept it VERY quiet. My Gray Squirrel Adjidaumo, and my twin Raccoons Wreckit and Racket were some of my favorite illegal wild pets I bottle-raised, and they had great lives(which they otherwise would not have had), and greatly enriched my own. Funny how you can easily get a liscence to KILL these critters, but it’s quite difficult-to-impossible to get one to care for them!….L.B.
This the Federal Government at work.
Ronald Regan once said that the eight most terrifying words were “I am from the government and I am here to help.