Trekhprudny Lane

Late last week I picked up an apparently drunken pigeon from a snowy yard near the school. Couldn't fly, separate from any flock, and soaked -- clearly in crisis. The symptoms all pointed to PMV-1: droopy neck, green stool, somersaulting. The bird is recuperating now in our shower stall, eating like gangbusters, but because of the viral attack on its nervous system, still looking a bit tipsy. 

About the disease: http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/showthread.php?t=12250

There is so much to learn! I have a collection of tiny, gorgeous Russian candy wrappers and I think, to make anything of them, I must learn gouache. I'm thinking too about doing a chemistry course by correspondence, to test my stamina for vet school once the girls are both a little older. I don't want a clinic or a conventional practice, I just want to know what to do when these little broken ones show up, as they'll certainly continue to do. And it would be nice to offer free services. And perhaps have some credibility before city councils. We'll see.