A caring family, wife, husband and kid lived in an apartment complex.
The RWA took notice of pigeon population, they got a vendor to remove the pigeons and net up the alleys.
All the adult pigeons flew off while a baby Pigeon was just removed and placed down on the ground by the vendor.
There were many cats and the little kid felt, oh this pigeon is vulnerable, let's protect it.
The parents told the kid, we aren't trained to do this, what the vendor did was probably the best. We don't know how to raise an infant pigeon and it's late in the evening.
But the kid was pointing at the sneaky cats around the pigeon who the parents chased away for that instance.
But the kid was adamant to protect the baby Pigeon and ensure its continued safety.
The parents took the pigeon to a nearby bird store but he refused to take it in, he even gave some advice to feed the baby Pigeon mashed grains for the night and take it to some bird rescue.
The parents brought back the pigeon and fed it mashed grains.
Next morning they went to a so called bird rescuer, who said the pigeon had diarrhea owing to grains she ate and tough to survive but asked to leave it in the bushes.
The kid again got worried and expressed the concern of it getting attacked in the bushes by bigger animals.
The rescuer advised to put it on a huge tree.
Doubting the efficacy of the advice, but giving in to the authority, the pigeon was kept on the tree and the family turned around.
In a few seconds, they heard a little thud.
The baby Pigeon fell down.
The family picked up the pigeon and rushed to the rescuer.
The rescuer said, it can still recover and asked them to standby while he gets back from the business he is attending.
In the meanwhile, the pigeon started to gasp for breath.
People around did whatever they could to comfort the pigeon, but in vain.
The baby Pigeon died, and in the hope of a miraculous recovery the family awaited the rescuer.
By the time the rescuer was back, the pigeon was cold and stiff.
He said, look, i understand your concern for the pigeon but who asked you to protect it?
It could have probably survived had you not taken it in.
Or it could have been eaten by a cat.
Either way would have been better than this slow and meaningless death.
The family returned home with a heavy heart as they found adult pigeons flying around in circles trying to find the baby they left behind last evening.
The family spent time quietly for the rest of the day each of them trying to take their own moral from the same story.
