A few summers ago my dad found baby ducks in our window well. It's lucky he found them before we let our beagle out, otherwise they'd have been a goner. The beagle caught a baby rabbit before and then got sick because of it and we had baby rabbit parts in our living room.
To get the ducks out he used a vacuum tube and grabbed them and lifted them out. One little guy got grabbed the wrong way and his neck snapped though. =[
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No amount of planning will ever replace dumb luck.