health concerns - bird flu

[SpottedCrow]

My cousin came over and my DS told her kids about my chickens and she was like don't touch them! You'll get sick!
un So the kids did anyways and the last I saw of her was her pouring Purell all over them and telling the kids that they'd be getting baths as soon as they got home...PLEASE!!!!

My Goddess, Wolfpacker, that was hysterical!!!

When I took Slifer and Obelisk into the petstore I worked for a change of scenery, they sat in the carriage on newspaper and I pushed them around the store. Lots of people came over and patted them and asked questions about them. But one dipstick, called the manager and told her that I had no right to bring "those things" into a petstore where she could get Psittacosis from them...
Let's see, they had been given baths the previous day.
They were on leashes and never left the shopping cart.
Psittacosis is Parrot Fever, and they're not parrots...
What a nutjob!
The manager that took the call was a great guy and he said that since they were pets, that they had every right to come into a pet store. She swore at him and after saying that she was gonna sue the store if she caught anything from the diseased things, she hung up!

There was a girl from the local shelter there and she even said that it was a great thing for me to bring them around. It shows people that chickens can be pets and that they're just not a food.

 

[DuckLady]

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Exactly. Be informed and be aware of what is going on in your community from reliable sources. And don't give in to the panic.
My husband's oldest friend called yesterday going on how his neighbor feed the "Canadian" {shudder} Geese and he is going to catch bird flu from breathing in poop fumes. After trying to share what I learned with him, despite his interrupting me and telling me I didn't know squat, I finally got mad and told him to go in a closet and tie a plastic bag over his head and to not breathe and he will likely stay safe and flu free.

 

[speckledhen]

I finally got mad and told him to go in a closet and tie a plastic bag over his head and to not breathe and he will likely stay safe and flu free.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

This reminds me of all the hype and fear over the year 2000 and how our entire society was going to shut down.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

The bird flu "epidemic" is a distraction. It is some absurd concoction made up by the government and then played over and over again in the news. Unfortunately, most Americans are too ignorant or lazy to do the research themselves.

 

[erinm]

He needs to be educated because he is ignorant but... alas, It does not sound like your{in his own mind} local hero does not want to know the truth and is not open to education. I learned everything I could before I got my birds so that I could relieve my Mom and my { crazy} sister, and give them the facts. ErinM