Let me know what you all think about this..........

one of those wild gray doves, the ones you can fit in the palm of your hand, had a human hair wrapped tightly around 3 of it's front toes on its left leg (they call it toes on birds with the claws at the end of it), and I was able to get the hair off.

If I didn't, it would have been like other birds who get tangled, it's toes would have suffocated and fallen off and would be left with a stump at the end of it with only it's back toe attached.

This bird already had a stump on it's other leg, so if I didn't take the hair off, it would have ended up with both legs with stumps.