Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

-Carl Rogers

Mandy came down from feeding the birds and the skunk on the deck very upset. DooDoo the Pigeon, who has lived with us for the past four years, had freed himself and escaped. 

I spent an hour then searching for him, and then went to bed. In the middle of the night, I got a horrid thought, "What if he had fallen into the goldfish pond under the deck and drowned?" so I got up and grabbed a flashlight.  I searched for him in my yard, the neighbor's yard, and the alley.

No DooDoo.

I just went out again, looking for him, and could not find either him or a telltale pile of feathers indicating someone ate him...so, I believe our friend has healed enough to spread his wings and fly away!

He had been getting around much better in the past year, flapping/hopping up and down the steps.

It is always a bittersweet moment when a wild animal you have nurtured is free again to face the perils of the world. But it is also wonderful.

Fly free, little buddy.  Stop in for some seeds sometime.

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• #10 Comment from cste609371 
  4/14/05 1:31 PM | Permalink

  Great bogg~love the flower pictures
  
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• #9 Comment from sassydee50 
  4/11/05 12:58 AM | Permalink

  Kas~TY so much for all the comments in my journals. I appreciate every one of them and am happy to get to know more about you. Keep up the good work with homeschooling and mothering! ~Sassy
• #8 Comment from karensull12 
  4/10/05 7:47 PM | Permalink

  Oh, I hope he's ok.....
• #7 Comment from hestiahomeschoolEntry Author 
  4/10/05 11:55 AM | Permalink

  We had often let him walk around on the deck with the wild pigeons who came to eat from the feeder.  He was never able to get off the deck before---he had to fly.  The backyard is completely fenced in with a six foot high privacy fence--too hard to get over if you can't fly.  I think he is okay.  He was born free, and if he can fly he needs to be free.
• #6 Comment from rgossett4195 
  4/10/05 11:08 AM | Permalink

  It is always sad when that happens...but as you said DooDoo is doing what he was born to do...fly!  I am like you if I am in the middle of sleep I will wake straight up and take care of whatever is on my mind.  or else I will dream about it all night.  rose~