{"id":82679,"date":"2018-11-05T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82679"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:37:34","slug":"gyrfalcon-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82679","title":{"rendered":"USAF Gyrfalcon Recovering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t do that again!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An Air Force falcon\u00a0injured at West Point during a prank<\/a>\u00a0Saturday before the\u00a0annual rivalry football game<\/a>\u00a0between the service academies is back home and\u00a0showing signs of improvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/11\/05\/air-force-academys-falcon-mascot-improving-after-injury-at-west-point\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The 22-year-old bird named Aurora “was able to fly around in her pen” on Sunday, said Air Force Academy spokesperson Lt. Col. Tracy A. Bunko.<\/p>\n

Sam Dollar, Air Force’s falconry team adviser, told The New York Times on Sunday that two West Point cadets took the birds, threw sweaters over them and stuffed them into dog crates. Dollar said the cadets turned over the birds Saturday morning, with Aurora’s wings bloodied \u2014 likely from thrashing inside the crate.<\/p>\n

“I think they had them for a couple hours and then they realized it was a bad mistake,” Dollar told the newspaper. “When Aurora started thrashing around in the crate, they decided that wasn’t a good thing.”<\/p>\n

Aurora is the Air Force Academy’s official and oldest mascot. On the school’s falconry page, the bird is described as a white phase gyrfalcon, which is a “falcon species that is extremely rare in the wild and whose beauty will take your breath away.”<\/p>\n

As this is a rare native bird, protected by federal law, unless you have a federal license for handling birds like this, your ass is absolute grass if you even touch one. This is a beautiful and rare bird, and like those rare birds that come to my feeding station, deserves more respect.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Gyrfalcon\/overview<\/a><\/p>\n

These two smart assed idiots need to have their punk asses hammered flat.<\/p>\n

I have absolutely zero patience with people like this. I spent too much time working for a veterinarian, because I thought I wanted to be a vet, to tolerate this heinous crap. Whether it is animals of any kind, or children, or significant others, there is zero excuse for abuse of any kind.<\/p>\n

My view of people who pull these pranks, thinking that they are harmless when they are not ever harmless<\/em>, is that they should have to spend some time taking care of wounded or injured critters, whether they are Air Force avian mascots or wounded vets in a hospital with some body parts missing. A little time emptying bed pans and wiping someone else\u2019s butt might teach them some humility and make them into \u2018give a shits\u2019 \u2013 or not.<\/p>\n

An arrogant ass never makes a good leader, as we\u2019ve seen in someone who used to post frequently on TAH, while looking down his nose at the rest of us. \u00a0George Custer was one of those ‘look at me’ types. He graduated at the bottom of his academy class, and he met his match when he took on Sitting Bull, who was a better tactician.<\/p>\n

I do not predict a good future for these two unless they learn to be somewhat humble. That’s the reason I posted the grackle glaring at the camera instead of the AP photo of the gyrfalcon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An Air Force falcon\u00a0injured at West Point during a prank\u00a0Saturday … USAF Gyrfalcon Recovering<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}