Much agreed, Shambles. There is nothing worse than humans imposing morality on wild things (and a cock-eyed morality at that!) It is very easy to blame a creature we have imported in our aquisition of wetlands, grasslands, wooded areas..etc.   We drive out natural predators, disturb countless cycles, and then pretend to act disgusted when an animal tries to 'make a living' doing what genetics and thousands of years of evolution have modeled it to do. You like birds? Don't have cats. You don't want to feed the coyotes (or freeway, depending where you live)? Don't have cats. We certainly aren't doing them any favours, a glance in at any humane society shelter will tell you that. Another group of living beings we have chosen to make disposable.

Now, my favourite rescue of all time?

The university does all sorts of pro-bono work, just to give students experience they might not get otherwise. I walk into the exotics ward one day to find everyone herding a gigantic white goose into a corner. She'd been attacked by dogs and needed to be stitched up, but as it was, she was 'nobody's goose'. She pecked us all black and blue before we could get her sedated, but stiching her up was a snap. Recovery was the real treat, however, because I didn't want her to lose muscle tone sitting in a cage all day, seeing as she'd just have to go back out into the wild upon release....so.....we commandeered the equine recovery pool and went swimming!   Funny thing was that EVERY day at 2pm, if I wasn't there? She would let herself out of the ward (hiding behind a door until someone came in) and wander the halls of the hospital, honking as loud as could be, until I took her swimming. Extremely embarassing to be in with a client, hear this mad ---honk-honk-HONK!--- and have to tell the client "Please excuse me, I'm being paged..." then get caught out in the hallway tyring to reason with a goose "Only a few more minutes and we'll go, okay?"   Thankfully she recovered and got a home with one of the women who worked on the ward. I still cringe every time I hear geese....