Cat caught a bird....

Moving it back and forth like that is a sure fire way to kill it. Make up your mind and stick to it, injured young animals don't take kindly to being stressed. Also stop giving it bread, it won't be good for it. Not really sure what you can give it apart from proper bird feed/mashed up worms etc that it's parents would normally feed it.
 
PianoBasher said:
EDIT: To the sickos saying give it back to the cat to kill, :mad:
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Hardly sick is it?

If I saw a cat killing a bird, i'd let it. Intervening will prolong the suffering.

If you can keep it alive, then all is good - do so!

But it's extremely difficult to keep wild young animals alive, in the case of birds anyway, so instead of prolonging suffering, i'd say give it to the cat for a quick(er) death. Circle of life and all that
 
PianoBasher said:
Cats tend to toy with and torture their prey. It would be better to just smack a brick over it's head, so yes, it is sick. OP has already intervened so giving it back would be nasty. :)
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I see where you're coming from, but if it were me, i'd choose a slightly humiliating, but overall quicker death than one where I slowly stopped living via starvation or similar :(
 
bit of googling said it can have some mush up cat food soaked in water (wild bird centre website) as bread is no good for it (which was established from some above posts) so it's not gonna starve to death!
 
Try popping it in an ice cream tub with some dry grass and hang it from a branch, the parents sometimes come back and use that as the nest. Depends how far it was brought though.
 
Dreadi said:
Indeed she would have before eating it. Not the first time she has brought in a bird, dead or alive.
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Cats hardly ever eat the things they kill in my experience. They play with them when they're alive because it's a fun game, then get bored when they stop moving and leave them by doors/your feet etc because they want you to praise them for being clever.

Baby birds are PITA though because if they can't fly you can't do much with them, unless you can find the nest it came from, or know somewhere that can do something with it.
 
Even if you put it back in it's nest, it is highly likely that the Mother would abandon it anyway since it has been away and it would still starve to death.
 
I took care of a couple of small birds years ago and they did very well and eventually flew away.

For feeding, you want to use an eye dropper and feed the bird loose oatmeal several times a day.
 
fyi this bird won't have fallen out of its nest as blackbirds leave their nest before they can fly which is it should have been left outside for its parents to find, stick it back outside as early as you can tomorrow and they should find it and carry on caring for it

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