Comments on: Pay attention to your pets! http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2006/03/10/pay-attention-to-your-pets/ Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: anonymus http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2006/03/10/pay-attention-to-your-pets/comment-page-1/#comment-143 anonymus Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:48:04 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2006/03/10/pay-attention-to-your-pets/#comment-143 Dear Gary…I have tried to reach you on your e-mail with no luck(I am not the most literate computer wiz!) but I wanted to tell you what happened at work & get your opinion.
I work at the Danville Safeway(hence the “anonymus)…we had a little bird visit us in the store and he decided he liked it and didn’t want to leave. We left the doors open trying to herd him outside with no luck.( Now I understand the health issues involved here) he made himself at home for probably a good week or so…helping himself to bags of birdseed etc. and he had a bowl of water available to drink from and occasionally splash around to freshen up in. He seemed to be somewhat “human oriented” meaning that he was very curious as to what we were all doing, watching us all and visiting us very close, not afraid to make sure I was ringing up the customer correctly and helping us to keep the floor clean(floral).
Anyway…Monday nite Safeway brought in an exterminator…with a pellet gun!!! You guessed it. They proceeded to shoot the little guy twice…however they gave up and just left him injured…blood all over the kiosk…said he would go somewhere dark and die…well he lived most of the next day…he landed on a wood beam and his wing was hanging down…he jumped down to sit in the water for awhile and then disappeared…never to be seen again.
Is this the proper and humane way to solve this problem? I can’t believe a hired exterminator would leave an injured animal!!! I get sick to my stomach and tears come to my eyes every time I think of that little guy!! He was friend to many and was named Mr. Bojangles.

]]> By: Pat in Antioch http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2006/03/10/pay-attention-to-your-pets/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Pat in Antioch Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:46:32 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2006/03/10/pay-attention-to-your-pets/#comment-142 Hi Gary,
Nikki is one lucky little bird! This was a lesson I learned years ago with my cat Max. Unfortunately, his was not a happy ending. I’ve never quite forgiven myself, and, in my heart of hearts, I’ll always feel I let him down by going to work that morning not realizing how sick he was. The lesson was an invaluable one though; it has not & WILL NOT ever happen again!
Now make us all feel better & go stick a finger into Nikki’s cage to make sure she’s still her feisty old self!! :-)

Pat in Antioch

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