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| Thread ID: 148478 | 2020-01-20 05:15:00 | Animal Care - or not as it were.... | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
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| 1466128 | 2020-01-20 05:15:00 | A chicken appeared in the back yard. Sickest looking chook I have seen, virtually no feathers at all and it was hungry. It went in the shed eventually so my brother got a cat cage, my husband went in and I held door shut and he caught it. Right, I ring SPCA. So in Auckland you do this and if after hours they get you to take it down to After Hours vet, if it's not in immediate danger. If it is the SPCA ambulance comes out. So then they go and fetch it from vet or get vet to attend to it or whatever, I know, I have done this there. Although not with a chicken. I ring Napier SPCA. They say oh we're shut at 3pm. (Really?!) They say oh no we can't deal with it, you look after it till tomorrow. What about vet I say, oh ring carevets they say. We don't deal with the vets (like auckland) So I do. Care vets say oh we don't deal with farm animals ring Vet Services in Taradale. I do. They say oh SPCA probably wouldn't come get it, and we'd be stuck with it. You tend to it they say. I say it has mites or something, no feathers etc. They say oh well then we don't want it here. I say you are a vet!!! No get lost they say. Well in not so many words...,. but more or less. So finally I ring council and animal control guy comes and fetches it. I'm shocked - And carevets are my local vets...not impressed, but even less impressed with the farm vets and the SPCA. Especially the farm vets though. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1466129 | 2020-01-20 06:10:00 | The people you are talking to are there to make money unless you wish to give them some they have no interest. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1466130 | 2020-01-20 07:12:00 | Poor chicken. probably escaped from a battery farm, the cages make them be so bored they peck out their own feathers or if it is at the bottom of the pecking order and with other hens they often peck all the feathers off the bottom order, if they are all in confined spaces. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1466131 | 2020-01-20 18:50:00 | I don't know, no farm close by here...we had chickens once, I got them from one of those places, they weren't that awful looking, a bit scruffy but this thing looked plucked. No feathers anywhere at all except a small spot on it's tummy. I suspect mites. No-one even has chooks round this street, so where it came from. The other horrible thought was someone was going to eat it? Normally you kill them, then pluck them.... Not pluck first. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1466132 | 2020-01-30 09:40:00 | Hi Piroska . Slightly different scenario. We have a cat who ranks higher in family importance than me. Next door rental property had a black cat which was reasonably friendly with ours.. Saw dump bins outside and :where are the renters?" Black Cat was still there. Daughter and her boyfriend went over and fed and watered it for about 3 days . Rang SPCA -had to follow up -no joy. Then then got SPCA to approach Renters Landlord who gave (reluctantly) Renters contact details who were informed by SPCA they committed an offence by abandoning the cat. Got some "rubbishy excuse -cat had disappeared. Came back and collected cat but unfortunately we suspect they then dumped cat elsewhere. Some people should not be allowed pets. |
Neil F (14248) | ||
| 1466133 | 2020-01-30 19:11:00 | No many people shouldn't. At least this one got rescued. There are so many here, not abandoned, just not fed. Then there is her next door, not the MM house, the other side. She has a mastiff, he's OK now I have trained him. BUt then she got the pitbull puppy. Hes young, he's excitable, he barks when someone comes home etc. She turns up, screams and swears at him, hits him. She said to me I'm tempted to take him to the SPCA. I said why and she said oh he eats all the food and digs holes. Right. At the moment he's not a biter, I wonder how long it will take with her carrying on like that. If I catch her bashing him, I'll ring the SPCA but I haven't yet, (only heard it) Why get the dog in the first place? The mastiff is never walked. My mum said to her dad (who owns the place) why not walk him? And he said dog walks all day long (round the back yard) Right....sigh. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1466134 | 2020-01-31 09:09:00 | Why get dog in first place? I fully with you. Same property next door -different renters - very small back deck. Suddenly a dog appeared up and down deck all day looking in window -obviously wanting attention. The Renter wife was pregnant . After many days of this my wife "why not bring dog over to our much bigger back yard fully fenced. If you want we can take it for walks". "Nono we ae just minding it for a friend". Next early evening that woman is knocking on door in a panic -"dog missing". After being given the dog's name ,wife and daughter hopped in car and drove around immediate streets calling out its name. A person who had the dog on their property heard them calling saw their car and immediately followed them home and said "I think I have that dog -it just turned up'. Wife and daughter followed her back to her house called out dogs name and it gleefully leapt into car. They took it back to relieved Renter neighbour -next day dog gone -presumably friends collected it again. We are all animal lovers and get very frustrated at people who disrespect animals |
Neil F (14248) | ||
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