Living After Midnight

Paintcat brought me in a bird last night. I was getting ready to make breakfast and found it trapped in one of the glue traps I have out for insects in my kitchen.

I got it free carefully with some very gentle tugging and a Qtip dipped in cooking oil.
Cooking oil is generally the safest way to get most animals free of a glue trap. It causes the glue to stop being sticky. I had to be easier on the oil though with a bird than the snake I did before. You can wipe a snake clean easily after, but feathers will get horribly gunked up.

After trying to get some help getting it to care, I walked it to the vet myself this afternoon, and now it's in their hands.

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