Don't Shoot Me!

[Paradise3]

Right first of all I'm having to use a different website for my pictures as photobucket.com is having some work done. Secondly don't shoot me for this.
About 2 weeks a go I found a butterfly on the balcony and it had landed in a bowl of water so I gently got it out without touching it's wings as I know you shouldn't touch them, I got it a small butterfly house thingy majig that I've had for years. It has mesh round the sides with a material bottom and a plastic zip up lid. I got an apple and cut a slice out of it and put that in the butterfly house for it. It immediately crawled(sort of) over to the apple and started drinking with it's proboscis. It got apple, orange and some nectar as I put a flowering plant in with it. I kept it alive hoping for it to be able to fly again soon, so basically I was just healing it, and it was getting better at flying and getting further each day, I would get it out gently, again without touching it's wings, and let it stretch it's wings with flying exercises. Then I woke up about 4 days ago and it had lost nearly all of one of it's wings, I found the wing in the bottom of the butterfly house. I kept it alive but it couldn't fly so I thought of ending it's misery but my mum said "Well if you can look after it, which you've proved you can, you can keep it." So I did and it lived until today but I think that it just couldn't live without 2 wings.
Now the reason I said don't shoot me is because I've been told off by multiple people on here not to touch the wildlife but I would have rather tried saving it than let the cat eat it! I have some pictures, one of it's slightly damaged wing before it lost it. Notice how it is slightly crumpled from the water.

 

[fluttermoth]

Awww...bless you for trying to help!

I think when people say, "don't touch the wildlife" they mean baby birds and deer fawns and things, where usually the mother is not far away and will come back and look after them once the blundering, noisy great humans have gone away! I don't think it's supposed to apply to things like butterflies in water bowls!

My nickname is 'angel' which is short for 'angel of all small creatures' that I got at school 'cos I was always stopping and picking up worms and beetles and butterfilies and snails and getting them out of the road and off the pavements. I still do it

 

[Paradise3]

Awww...bless you for trying to help!

I think when people say, "don't touch the wildlife" they mean baby birds and deer fawns and things, where usually the mother is not far away and will come back and look after them once the blundering, noisy great humans have gone away! I don't think it's supposed to apply to things like butterflies in water bowls!

My nickname is 'angel' which is short for 'angel of all small creatures' that I got at school 'cos I was always stopping and picking up worms and beetles and butterfilies and snails and getting them out of the road and off the pavements. I still do it

See the thing is, I got told off for helping a baby sparrow that had fallen from it's nest a week earlier than it should have. The only other thing that would have happened to that baby bird is that it would have been eaten by a cat or stood on by a kid and I couldn't watch that. Our front balcony get's littered with baby birds that get shoved out of there nests before they even have feathers sometimes and they're all dead because the kids step on them or cats attack them. They nest in the edge of the roofs on my block of maisonettes.
The butterfly did survive an extra 2 weeks with my help so I'm glad for that. I help small creatures as well. Can you see the rumpled wing?

 

[Neomeris]

Its good other people care about all animals, even bugs. Too many people just say 'they don't have nerve endings, so...' about bugs, snails, and worms, but those creatures are another creatures children.

 

[coldcazzie]

My nickname is 'angel' which is short for 'angel of all small creatures' that I got at school 'cos I was always stopping and picking up worms and beetles and butterfilies and snails and getting them out of the road and off the pavements. I still do it

I do that! And I've got the kids doing it too. Especially early spring when all the snails come out of hibernation and swarm all over the place. Not so much here but at our old house we walked to school along 2 very long roads and used to count how many snails we moved during each morning trip

 

[markandhisfish]

i do it as well at work im always rescuing insects etc and relocating them to the nearest bush before they get concreted in .

 

[blappy]

Awww...bless you for trying to help!

I think when people say, "don't touch the wildlife" they mean baby birds and deer fawns and things, where usually the mother is not far away and will come back and look after them once the blundering, noisy great humans have gone away! I don't think it's supposed to apply to things like butterflies in water bowls!

My nickname is 'angel' which is short for 'angel of all small creatures' that I got at school 'cos I was always stopping and picking up worms and beetles and butterfilies and snails and getting them out of the road and off the pavements. I still do it

Aw you're very benevolent like the original poster :3

I remember I did that at my college. the rude dowdy women had the nerve to report me. they said it was immature. Uh what... that's not immature. That's just my spiritual beliefs and they were being intolerant. Which is expected of such people.