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Originally Posted by swingbrig
Hi all
Just an update about the swans. Sorry to butt into your forum last night but it was a moment of desperation and sadness as you can imagine
The RSPCA did turn up in the end - I think they had to come from Halifax. As was suggested on here, the rspca did believe that they were poisoned and they removed some bread from inside their mouths/ necks. They took the swans away. The pictures that I posted did not really reflect how awful the swans were. They could not raise their necks. The little one which was born within the last two weeks (there was only one young this year) seemed fine.
The nest this year was made close to the swing bridge opposite canal side to express gifts. That empty nest is a very sad sight
Just as an aside, there have been some cats poisoned in Church lately - according to local gossip
Regards
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Thank you for the update...it is really kind of you to let us know how things went.
You were not butting in.....you were looking for advice.
I am sure that I speak for all those who post to this thread, when I say that I hope the swans will be looked after .....and hopefully will recover.
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Originally Posted by davemac
Glad things sort of got sorted, the problem , if it is poisoning, it could have been a lot worse if a child had got hold of whatever it was that was contaminated. Kids always put "stuff" in their mouth as an automatic motion. Also if cats have also been poisoned then it looks like it is covering a wider area than the canal.
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How terrible - I hope it isn't a serial poisoner and is just an isolated case. Whatever it turns out to be I hope they catch whoever did something so evil and cruel to such beautiful creatures.
As Dave points out if someone gave them deliberately contaminated bread it would have been easy for a child to have put it in their mouth with worse consequences, there are a great number of folk who walk their dogs along there and we all know how good they are at sniffing out some tasty morsel...