u/Suboptimal_Meatbot

Came home from doing laundry to find a crow thrashing around my backyard with an injured wing and my favorite neighborhood cat ready to pick a fight it wasn't going to win easily. I managed to prevent the cat from getting to it, but the crow holed up in a bush and even with the help of a friend we just couldn't scare it out to grab it and get it to a care center, and it turns out it's actually very hard to find any sort of animal control help in NYC that doesn't cost more than I can afford to spend.

I really wanted to help this crow, but I feel like I can only leave it to the world's devices, and I fear the cat is going to get hurt too before it's all over.

UPDATE: I appreciate the words here. Even knowing what's been said before I posted, it is comforting to hear it said all the same. The crow is still alive, still in the yard, and still to wily to be caught. I've left out food and water and made a little sheltered tower which so far it hasn't used. Nothing much left to do but keep monitoring it, and maybe an opportunity will arise to catch it and bring it to a care center.

I'm pretty new to paganism and in an effort to start internalizing the Wheel of the Year and bring a little more festivity to life, I've started doing more home decorating for the seasons and find myself with a question about the Sabbats: Do they begin a season or end it?

It seems like they are the start of them: i.e. Litha being Midsummer and therefore starting the back half of summer, but having been raised in the Christian/secular practices of major holidays, my natural inclination is to view holidays as the end of a season, especially in relation to how one decorates, the best example being having Christmas decorations up all through December, but feeling like Yule decorations should be up all through January instead.

I know it's probably a trivial discrepancy, but all the same I'm curious to hear people's opinions and practices.