Bay Area birds found with jagged beer cans around their necks

[Kadie]

Bay Area birds found with jagged beer cans around their necks

By Joshua Melvin
Posted: 11/05/2010 06:44:51 AM PDT
Updated: 11/05/2010 12:38:14 PM PDT




Someone has slipped sliced-open beer cans around the necks of at least three gulls in the Bay Area, and now an animal rescue group is trying to find the birds and the person or people responsible.

"It's sick. What's the next level of this kind of abuse?" said Rebecca Dmytryk of Monterey County-based WildRescue.

Dmytryk said she first heard about the birds after getting some disturbing photos at the end of September that showed a gull with half a Budweiser can stuck around its neck like a collar. She has confirmed sightings at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, a beach in Half Moon Bay and other undisclosed locations in the Bay Area.

Recent publicity has generated more tips. She and her husband hope to find two of the birds today and help them.

Dmytryk said the can collars put the birds' lives at risk. The gulls won't be able to properly feed as long as they are in place, nor will they be able to fully groom their feathers. Unclean feathers will lose their waterproof qualities and leave the birds vulnerable to the elements. The cans could also get stuck on something, trapping the gulls.

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[cynatnite]

1. OMG...I hope they catch whoever did this awful thing. n/t

[virgogal]

2. God almighty !

[jillan]

3. This makes me ill. Dammit. My heart aches seeing that picture.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Oh god, this is sick on so many levels. I hope they catch the

bastard who did this.

[Jamastiene]

5. This is an example of why we need stricter animal cruelty laws in this country.

OMG, un-fucking-believable, the cruelty.

[Odin2005]

6. What kind of asshole who do this?

:grr:

[Terra Alta]

9. drunken assholes.

Still no excuse for their behavior, though. No excuse is good enough for animal cruelty.

[northernlights]

7. how sickening....

I hope they're able to find and help them. And I hope they find the thugs that did this and punish them accordingly. Although frankly nothing is likely to be strong enough to satisfy me. I'd like to deal with the scum myself. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Terra Alta]

8. This is just plain cruel and sick.

The monsters who did this should be punished in the severest way possible... I can't stand to see defenseless animals abused. :grr:

[Angry Dragon]

10. This is a symptom of the disease this country suffers from

[11 Bravo]

11. Some seriously fucked up people live on this planet.

[Canuckistanian]

12. WTF?

People did that deliberately?