Yes many shed tears some cry still but what could we do?
If that whale died at sea we would not even know, if the dead one washed up on the south coast is its mum who cried for her?
To even think of imprisoning the poor thing, feeding it and saving it for a life in captivity is truly cruel.
No training to eat krill, no trip south no whale skills to live are we interfering with nature?
Surely once it became clear we could not reunite it with mum, or another pod surely we waited too long to end its pain?

There was a chance to TRY and do something, we didn't.

We failed, and we are hypocrites. We gave the pro-whalers a platter of propaganda to use against us.

We've got babies from dead mothers of varying species here....they're all doing fine. Takes time and effort....oh, and yeah, money.

Animals are creatures of instinct. If you mother them COMPLETELY they'll get to a point of not being able to be rehabilitated into the wild, but distance yourself to a point and instinct kicks in. Every time.

Whales are social animals, don't underestimate their ability to reintegrate into another pod.

Dear Belly,

I believe that they did everything they
possibly could, consulting all sorts of
experts in the hope of saving the baby
whale. They even flew out specialists
from Marine World.

However, it was not to be. And from what
I could gather, it was put down as
humanely as possible, as soon as they
were told that the whale could not be
saved.

We all felt remorse at the death of this
beautiful creature, but I don't think
that anyone can be blamed for its demise.
Everything was done that could possibly
be done.

Foxy

Sorry but you were misinformed. They did nothing. A Dr even flew in from the US. The silly @ said they didnt even know what milk to give a baby whale? Huh! its on the net!
Its a VERY simly formular that can be made up within minutes from your local supermarket.

Other baby whales have been saved on it in US At least they had a go! We just took back and watched it die.
There were people they who wanted to go out to it and try to feed it. People with experience. They were stopped WHY ?
I will tell you why- because the NSW Government didnt want to pay the bill to keep it alive and transport it if it survived.

They physically stopped several from trying to feed it. These people were stunned and some were crying. To be so close but stopped and made to watch it suffer must have been hard.

Its SHAMEFUL.

Whats happended to the give it a go Aussie spirit.

We could have at least let these people who have do ne it before feed it and TRY.
iT WAS EITHER GOING TO SUCK OR IT WASNT. Its not rocket Science. Shame on this Government.

They couldnt organise a raffle and blocked others who knew what they were doing.

They couldnt organise a raffle and blocked others who knew what they were doing.
PALE,
That's standard procedure in Australia & in left vs right politics as well.

Dear PALE&IF,

Thank you for setting me straight.

I guess we were all misinformed.

How tragic that this animal died,
when it could have been saved.