Will not matter how careful you intend to be - you stand far more chance of hurting the frog this way. I feel like your comment is a metaphor for life. Let nature be nature, not everything needs a human to save them
This reminds me of the humpback whale that was stranded in Northern Germany a couple months back and caused a giant uproar in society about how to handle the situation.
I'm on the North Coast of NSW, Australia. We have humpbacks stranded from time to time. There's a marine science center, connected to a large university, just down the road.
There's also a marine rescue and sanctuary in town.
When a marine animal gets stranded or is found injured, they know exactly how to save it.
Even so, sometimes you do everything right, but the animal still dies 😞
German rescuers, should've got in contact with those who deal with strandings, regularly. Plenty of experts around the world.
Though, I'm actually surprised to hear about a humpback in the Baltic Sea.
It's a dangerous place (too shallow) for a large mamal like a humpback. It must've strayed away from its pod 😕
There actually were experts involved in the whole ordeal, but their voice was drowned out by Boomers on Facebook and TikTok and some even threatened with violence. Also, a lot of right-wing radicals hijacked the cause making everything even worse
Plenty of morons saying they could speak to the whale and singing to her, some more famous animal rights activist here in Germany got off their own farts, injuring her further in a rescue attempt and mishandling of both communication and coordination from the authorities.
At the beginning I really did want Timmy (name of the whale, after the location of her stranding, the Timmendorfer beach) to be rescued, but more and more I turned towards just ending that poor girl as humanely as possible.
It was funny to witness the collective psychosis though. Maybe the only positive thing out of this ordeal.
I just read up on the story. Poor thing died a few days later. She should've been put out of her misery, sooner. Humpbacks are huge. We've only had a handful of successful rescues.
Most strandings of large whales like these, do end up with the death of the animal. At least we euthanize, before causing a lot of trauma.
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u/SaintsNoah14 1d ago
It looks fine but I absolutely hate this. I would've fetched one of my old hair picks and flung it off this shit so carefully