Do some people take their pets too seriously?

[Equus Leather]

Have a read of this and see if you can get through the entire story without laughing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6960334.stm

 

[Enfys]

Cackling you mean! I wonder what the Vet thought?

 

[Gonetofrance]

"But sometimes she tries to scratch herself with her missing leg and falls over."

ROTFPML......

 

[Hullabaloo]

We have a guy at work a bit like that. Spent a lot (not that much obviously) on vets bills for one of his chickens. He kept it in the house overnight to look after it. Gave her a big fuss in the morning before he went to work but didn't notice it was dead. His partner was really unimpressed when he found it and had to bury it standing up because it had rigor mortis.

 

[rema]

KFC springs to mind.

 

[Donkeymad]

Madness

 

[wizoz]

What a complete and utter fruit cake

I bet they're vegetarian's too, nutters!!!

 

[lilym]

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Cackling you mean! I wonder what the Vet thought?

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"well that's the downpayment sorted for the new bmw"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[keeperscottage]

Hnag on there, Wizoz, my daughter's a hunting veggie who used to beat on pheasant shoots when she was younger! Reckoned pheasants had a better life than some poor chicken in a battery farm......and I haven't eaten beef, lamb or venison for well over 20 years but I'm a staunch hunt supporter, so please don't take the p*** out of veggies! Now, I have an "almost" veggie friend who (a) rescued a donkey foal from the "salami factory" (as she called it) in Holland several years ago and brought it back to the UK on a ferry loaded with TBs! AND.....she spent a small fortune on her gander whose leg was mauled a couple of years ago by a fox......it now walks with a limp........

 

[Hedgewitch13]

Well said - I'm a veggie too (oops slight lie - a pescatarian actually) but not the bleeding heart type! And not a nutter either.......

 

[jumpthemoon]

Haha! That is a bit OTT....says she who took a chicken to the vets when it had a cold

The vet thought it was a cat named 'chicken' - his face was a picture when I pulled the chicken out of the cat box!

 

[kerilli]

oh gosh, one of my chickens was sneezing for ages... i just ignored it till it got better. oops. i probably should have taken it to the vet as you did.

 

[booboo]

Just wanted to mention something about the game rearing industry as there has been a mention of pheasant.

I too though game meat would be the most humane source of meat thinking the animals lived wild and there was no issue of intensive farming methods etc.

However my eyes were really opened when I attended a presentation via an animal network group that I sit on at the Welsh Assembly (though work connections).

This website sums up what was discussed...

http://www.league.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=1586

The adobe link on this page goes into more detail and shows that sadly many of the game birds are factory farmed too, just to be bought up by estates so they can ensure their expensive corporate shooting days have plenty of game.

Just food for thought, if you'll excuse the pun.