He said , " What ! ? Is this some sort of euphemism for something ? " I assured him that , no , I did indeed have a crow ... of indeterminate age ... in my car . He said to bring it home , and we could see what its condition was . We brought it into the bathroom at Tortuga - on - Venice , safe from the cats , and inspected it .

Answer the following question: What may have happened before this situation ?
They had found an injured crow on the ground .