A chicken in a petstore...who'da thunk it?

[SpottedCrow]

My store was having a costume contest on Saturday the 3rd. It was mostly dogs and cats, but someone brought in their pet chicken Snowball. It was a good sized brown bird with dark colourings dressed up in Saint Patty's Day things. It had a shamrock collar and more shamrocky and green collar/bracelets around it's legs. I guess it was cute as heck...too bad I missed it...
One of the girls that was there said that the girl that was carrying it was hugging it and kissing it and she seemed very disturbed that she was kissing the chicken...
Good Goddess, how many of us have kissed our chickens?...(just got another brainstorm)
I'm glad that the chicken was brought in!
Too bad they didn't know the person, but Gemini and LAHoppersandHens are local to me...and another lady that I've met at the store...heheheh...
Too bad noone thought to take pictures.

 

[silkieluvr]

That sounds soo cute, too bad about the no pics

 

[Stormhorse23]

I took Big Mama to petco...

 

[SpottedCrow]

I used to take Slifer and Obelisk alot!

I've never taken Penny...but I will.

Since you have to have your animals on a leash, I had a leash for Slifer and I have one for Obelisk...I put them in a shopping cart lined with newspaper and go around the store with them.

One time people were lining up to pat them...but I found out that some lady complained that they shouldn't have been allowed into a PET store and that she was gonna sue if she got parrot fever...

The manager who answered the phone was a great guy who's been moved to a different store since, but he told her that they were my PETS and that they were most certainly welcome to come in and that chickens are psittacines, so they CAN'T give anyone parrot fever...And he basically told her that she wasn't allowed in the store anymore if she was going to try and dictate what animals SHE thought weren't proper pets.

The "old" parrots at my Petco loved to see MY birds...they sort of hold a conversation with squawks, biks and hoos...

 

[Chellester]

I actually bought my first pair of silkie chickens at a petstore when I was a kid. Go figure!

 

[IrkanInvader89]

How cute! I wish we had costume contests around here for pets. The closest thing we have is a day at the church where your pets can be "blessed". I don't go to church, but I always wanted to stop in on one of those days to see what animals people would bring!

 

[SpottedCrow]

A couple of years ago, someone brought a snake to one of the Blessing of the Animals...

 

[Moonwalker]

What's wrong with blessing a snake?

Sheesh, in NYC every year they have a "Blessing of the BICYCLES"

I always wondered how they pick the priests that do the animal blessings
"ok, anyone here have any objections to touching a rat? Snake? 6ft iguana?"
Although I know the priests don't actually touch them....

 

[patandchickens]

Can I ask a dumb question - how do you put a leash on a chicken? (So that it'll stay, I mean). I have more than once read about people doing this but am baffled. Explanation or pix?

Thanks,

Pat

 

[Smitty's Farm]

I've been wondering the same thing. My daughter has been wanting to bring one of more social chickens to petco, but I have nightmares of it flying away and getting chomped on by a dog. I know I can't hold on to it and put the dog food bags in the cart.

I think maybe the leash goes on their ankle...but don't know. I've heard of people using them on their chickens, but never seen it. Anyone have pics for us.