Rescued a barn swallow, don’t know what to do with it. Please help.
Thanks for the advice, but I’m afraid she just died…
My daughter and I found this barn swallow that wasn’t moving and that was in a dangerous area (with lots of neighbourhood cats), so we took it home and put it in one of our vacant (clean) rat cages. We bought some cat food, mashed it up and tried to feed it to him, but he won’t eat. The only local vet is a regular vet that knows nothing about exotic animals and there are no avian vets anywhere near here. Can anybody help us and give us advice on how to proceed with this little buddy? I would love to see him fly out of here in the near future, but at this point, I’m not even sure he’ll survive… We named him Pete, which was probably a mistake, because it’s a clear sign that we are way too attached already…