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

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.

 

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...

 

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