Re: poorly chook


"Christina Websell" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "w.g.s.hamm" <fenlandfowlREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Debbie Gates" <d.gates@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> to nuele and jill, poor vet huh? all that poo to look at! I will do
that
> >> although she is much better today, she must know we are talking about
> >> her!
> > I
> >> got some poultry spice and mixed a little in with the food ....... she
> >> was
> >> first into the house to get some. I sit in with them for about 30
minutes
> > a
> >> day now and they are really developing their own characters. one loves
to
> > be
> >> stroked and fussed ..... she comes and crouches at my feet and they
love
> > to
> >> peck my rings, shoes, trousers and look at my eyes worryingly too! I
made
> >> them a dust bath today and they had just as much fun with the soil I
dug
> > out
> >> as the sand I put in.
> >> ok ok I am hooked they are brill, what does it matter if the neighbours
> >> think I am mad talking to a dozen noisy birds?
> >>
> >> and yea thanks for that w.g.s.
> >> I just want to give her a chance ........ I hope YOU are never under
the
> >> weather ....... you could also be despatched prematurely!
> >>
> >>
> > you need to lighten up. I never said kill the bird, I merely pointed out
> > your legal and moral obligations. I hope none of your bird ever becomes
> > seriously and terminally sick because no doubt you would not be able to
> > put
> > her out of her misery.
> > Thank goodness you don't have a cockerel because I have no doubt you
would
> > be the sort to place adverts in papers for pet cockerels free to good
> > homes,
> > not for the pot. Then go to the supermarket and buy a nice battery
reared
> > chicken to eat while all the cockerels you bred and couldn't find homes
> > for,
> > peck each others eyes out because you don't believe in culling.
> >
> >
>
> Oh, for goodness sake, Molly. Sometimes I wonder if you have any
> sensitivity towards humans at all.

I have hardly any I must admit . I was rather annoyed at the response I
got. My initial post was not intended to be hurtful .However I get a bit
exasperated when people allow chickens to be sick and possibly suffer for
ages, weeks on end, allowing them to die slowly instead of getting treatment
or doing the humane thing. I do tend to be rather blunt when I point things
out that don't seem to occur to them but it is not malicious. I speak like
this in real life too. Luckily friends and family know my motives,
understand that it really bothers me to imagine suffering and know that I
rarely say things out of spite.
I *was* narked that the OP responded by offering praise and thanks for help
and advice and castigated me for my post.
Perhaps I really ought not to post to,or read any animal related newsgroups
as I have a tendency to point out to owners their obligations regards the
welfare of their animals, when it should already be obvious to them but
doesn't seem to be :-(


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