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Rescue/Rehab for Pigeons, Doves, Starlings, Sparrows, and any non-protected birds needing assistance.

10/07/2025

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10/07/2025

This world is big enough for all of us, including pigeons. Share love, not hate. 🕊️

09/07/2025

TW!!! Contains graphic injury photos but I promise the story has a happy ending!!

I want to share the story of Onyx. His journey truly highlights the strength, healing ability and willpower of pigeons. Onyx’s story is a shining example that as bad as a situation can look, it doesn’t mean “Too far gone” especially in the right hands.

On June 5th, Onyx was found huddled next to his deceased sibling at an apartment complex. He had the most catastrophic scalping wound we have ever seen. Many people walked right past him, ignoring him and writing him off as too far gone. Then his Angels found him and couldn’t bear to leave him, so they scooped him up and brought him to me.

The entire top of his skull was exposed down to his eyes. There was no tissue to stitch together, everything was necrotic. To most, it would have looked like all was lost. But little Onyx looked up at me with vibrant eyes and smiled a big pidgie smile, then immediately started exploring my fingers and squeaking for food! Little man looked me dead in the eye and said “Yeah yeah, most of my head is missing, blah blah catastrophic blah, whatever, WHEN’S LUNCH!!!???”

So we got to work. First, of course lunch (not something I normally do but he wasn’t in shock and it was a good excuse to load him up with pain meds and smooth over the antibiotic injections). I went through several canisters of saline wound cleaner, removed debris and necrotic tissue, slathered his wound in Manuka and promised him I would do everything in my power to see him through, he just smiled back at me and squeaked for more food 😅.

He was kept on a heavy regiment of antibiotics, Manuka salve and pain medication. By June 11th the tissue around the wound was showing signs it would be able to heal and regrow. By June 16th nearly the entire skull was covered by fresh, pink tissue and healed skin. By June 23rd, only a tiny scab remained and by June 28th, his head was completely healed!! Only time will tell if he will ever have feathers regrow on his head but bald or fluffy, we love him the same!! Never write off a pigeon as too far gone, just get them help because you never know what they are ready to live for and capable of healing from. ❤️‍🩹

07/07/2025

I’ve been trying to find words all day but there are just no words to be found. Our hearts ache for our Kerrville neighbors. As a mother, I cannot even imagine. There are many resources we can use to help. Feel free to post others in the comments.

07/07/2025

Every pet we find matters and will be remembered. Deceased pets from the flood will be retrieved and cremated if we are not able to find their owners. They will not be left behind.

Donate:
Kerrvillepetsalive.com
VENMO@kerrvillepetsalive

05/07/2025

I’m sorry you’ve been through so much in your young life Liberty, I promise you will be safe here with me ❤️‍🩹

05/07/2025

Meet the Gemini kids! Gem and Mini🩷🩵
On Monday evening as I was loading up Celeste the Owl for the relay race to Lubbock, I received an emergency message about a destroyed nest that had held a newborn dove and a damaged egg. I advised they bring me both and threw together a travel incubator so I could triage them and take them along on the ride to Seminole for monitoring. The newborn baby Gem was in good shape but the egg was damaged and the membrane bleeding. I gave the egg a warm pouch with humidity in the incubator and checked them both every 20 minutes along the way. When we reached Seminole and passed Celeste off to the next relay racer bound for Lubbock, I could see the egg was struggling so I intervened and helped exhausted baby Mini out with no time to spare, while we sat in a Dollar General parking lot 😮‍💨. I had to work so fast and carefully around the shell and membrane damage that I didn’t even stop to take photos till she was safely out. The first few days with itty bitty newborn doves are always touch and go but these two little champions are thriving!!

05/07/2025

“I know I’m not supposed to, but I did anyways”.
This is something I hear so often from finders who had the best of intentions and who only wanted to help, I know their hearts were pure and that makes it all the more devastating when it takes the ultimate toll. So many of those birds do not make it through their first 48 hours in care despite everything I try to help them survive. 😞. One drop is all it takes to suffocate a bird if it goes down the windpipe. A portion of a drop can cause aspiration pneumonia, and the antibiotics I desperately administer sometimes come too late. Even given perfectly but at the wrong temperature can shock a distressed bird into a death spiral. Please please please do not administer water or other liquids directly into the mouth of a found bird. I can save a dehydrated bird a thousand times more often than I can bring a suffocated, shocked or pneumonia riddled bird back from the brink.

04/07/2025

Please remember that tonight will be utterly terrifying for our animal population, wildlife and pets alike. Smoke is deadly to little bird respiratory systems, loud booms can scare parents away from their nests and babies. Stress related deaths skyrocket. Human “fun” can cause great harm. Please be aware of your surroundings while shooting off fireworks. Keep an eye out for animals in need. Secure your pets.
And be patient with your local rehabbers, rescues, animal control and shelter employees. We will all be slammed the next few days 😔

01/07/2025

This evening, I met up with South Plains transporters and traded a great horned owl for a pigeon (Which was a very good trade in my opinion!) 🥰. This beautiful soul had no one else. She had been turned down for help locally and even though we don’t do raptors, I couldn’t bear the idea of her suffering in an oilfield, alone and injured because noone else would help. So Cassey sent her Dad out to the field to find her but she wasn’t where she had originally been spotted. He searched and searched, and we were about to give up hope when he spotted her in some brush. He brought her to me, I got her settled into a comfy kennel and picked up my phone to text my friend Sarah, the director of South Plains. Just as I was typing, my phone pinged and it was her, sending photos of a domestic pigeon named Albert, that had come into their care, at the exact same time. Perfect timing for sure! We coordinated a trade relay and ran for it.
I called this beautiful owl Celeste because the entire universe danced in her eyes. Please send her so many healing thoughts. She has an injured wing and eye but she is in the absolute best possible hands with SPWRC!!. Good luck beautiful, may strength and healing surround you! And Welcome little Albert, to Hopes Wings 💖

29/06/2025

I stayed up way too late sitting out on the patio and watching the storm. Worth it for these though 💜⚡️😴

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