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Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 19, 2010, 13:20 ---Sometimes it is the quality of life or death that one needs to be grateful for.
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Yes, that is so very true. Thank you for your reflections and this reminder, TPC. :)
bcbird:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 19, 2010, 13:20 ---
Sometimes it is the quality of life or death that one needs to be grateful for.
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That statement is comforting, and provides food for thought of many other situations, and not only in the animal world. Thank you, Tracy.
eagle63_1999:
Ty for posting your thoughts Tracy. I have refrained from saying anything because I didn't know what to say. It is sad all around. But your words brought me comfort.
The Peregrine Chick:
Pneumonia might have been the chick's cause of death, but there could have been other problems (not discernable on the necropsy) that made him susceptible to pneumonia in the first place. Goslings and ducklings get abandonned when the parents realize there is a problem - they look and act fine and you are sure they must just have gotten lost/separated, next thing you know they (literally) drop dead.
On the upside (not that there really is one) but Phoenix died in an environment he understood without the stress of being handled and examined by humans. If he had been older and the pneumonia not so aggressive, he might have done more damage before dying. Sometimes it is the quality of life or death that one needs to be grateful for.
Kinderchick:
Still very sad, every time I think about Phoenix. :'( She must have been extremely ill. I wonder how a fungal pneumonia develops in eagles? :-\
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