College pranks or animal cruelty?

[Slywoody]

Buy them books, send them to school. What do they do? Eat the covers off.

 

[seismic wonder2]

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Bought my own books, paid my own money for school....What did I do? I went to freekin class and learned things....................I'm just sayin'.

 

[canada-goose]

That's just sad and sick. The poor birds, I hope they'll be all right.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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[HLAC]

Playing devil's advocate.

Did they actually hurt the chickens? I mean, I doubt there's enough paint on those birds to do them any harm at all. As far as the respiratory problems, they could have had that when the idiot kids got 'em. (I mean look at all the sick birds on this site.) They haven't eaten in a week? How could you possible know that? If they're skinny it could be that they're wormy or just didn't get enough food from whoever owned them before.

It was a stupid prank and not at all thoughtful toward the welfare of the birds.. but I'm not sure it really qualifies as animal cruelty.

 

[usschicago1]

I didnt find anything Funny about that article at all. I am so sick of people like that

 

[horsejody]

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The birds have respiratory trouble, probably from breathing spray paint. One had paint on her face and beak. They were also dumped at the school with no food, etc. Some of them were inside and some outside. You can't just abandon an animal with no food or water like that.


From the article:

It appeared they had not eaten in nearly a week and two have a respiratory problem, she said. It's not possible to safely remove the paint, she added, so it will stay until the birds molt their feathers and "hopefully none of it will flake off into their mouth."

"It's toxic to them," she said


Casey Brown, a volunteer who said she brought the chickens to the farm after being called to campus, said the bird painted in pink was loose on Saturday inside the University Center, the school's student center. Another one painted silver was found on a racquetball court. She said others were found on Sunday in the vicinity of fraternity houses near the corner of Forbes and Morewood avenues.

Carnegie Mellon said one of the hens was in the University Center but gave no specifics and would not say if fraternity involvement is suspected.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Phew! It was CARNEGIE-MELON! I was afraid it was Central Michigan ... at least I know my cousin wasn't involved!