Hey, I just have one post in this thread now. Awesome.

Every time I click on one of these megathreads to see theres only 2 or 3 pages, I just have a moment of "what the actual ****"

midgets

dwarfs

Today feels surreal. We had something special with that thread. I understand why it had to be done and I'm not complaining, I'm just whining like a little bitch.

Eh, you guys can choose to abandon this if you feel the need. Doesn't matter to me.

The only thing I'll say in argument for continuing to use this is that I can keep moving posts over from this to the archive from time to time, so the archive will keep growing even if this one stays fairly small (I'd probably keep it under 5k posts).

I put the link back to the other thread in the OP again, though. It's tough for people to find without that.

Army boots

Anybody alive?

ROFL

I love activities.

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Came home from work yesterday... and I saw a hawk lying motionless on my driveway.

Walked up to him, and it turns out he was breathing fine, looking right at me. But seemingly paralyzed.

I picked it up with a shovel, and walked it to a nearby grassy field. I was going to lay it out on the field, where it could either recover, get eaten, or otherwise just die naturally.

After laying it out in the field, I called the conservation department to see if they'd be interested in come picking it up.

In classic conservation department form, they were like "yeah we think we can save it, but we just closed."

So I'm like... so is that all I can do?

They're like "well do you think you can preserve it for the evening?"

I have no idea. What do I need to do?

They said "retrieve the hawk. Place it in a cardboard box and cover its talons with a blanket. If it's still alive in the morning, bring it to the zoo and we'll take it from there."

So, I did:

He (she?) did survive this morning. I took it to the zoo hospital first thing in the morning.

Welp, I have been notified by the zoo hospital that the hawk has indeed been euthanized.

Severe trauma, along with secondary shock, did him in. The fact that he was dehydrated probably didn't help.

I believe it was hit by a car, and just flittered and fluttered until it landed at my home. I found it at 4pm. In that time, I retrieved a shovel from my neighbors, called animal control, conferred with my wife, and walked it out to a field. By the time I was smart enough to call the conservation department, it was almost 5, and it was closing up shop. I would have to care for it at my home for a night.

Which is all fine, but they told me after they euthanized it that it was dehydrated, which I bet would have prohibited its chances at recovery, had they been able to work it through its physical trauma (which, by the way, who knows, maybe they couldn't have). Still, had I been smarter, and called conservation sooner, maybe it wouldn't have been as dehydrated -- or dehydrated at all, I don't know how long it takes a hawk to get dehydrated.