Omg!! Such Stupid People One Meets!!

[elmo]

Quote:
Oh, hilarious! If someone invents a pet that doesn't poop, they'll make millions. I'm not holding my breath, though.

Your story reminds me of our former next door neighbors. Not pet people. They had a dog that they kept in the backyard and never spent any time with. The poor thing used to sneak under the fence and come over to visit us for companionship. They got rid of it after about a year.

Then friends of theirs gave them a duckling at Easter. The duck lived in their backyard by itself and they never spent any time with it. They fed it bread crusts and table scraps. The poor thing was so lonely that it tried to flock with the dogs living on the other side of their fenced yard. But the thing that finally did it for me was one day they had a picnic with their Little League group and I watched some kids chasing the duck with a plastic baseball bat tried to hit it, and the adults did nothing. I went over, knocked on their door, and asked them if they'd like my help to rehome their duck. They agreed, so I took the duck to a local bird rehabilitation organization. The poor duck had never had water to swim in and at first didn't know what to do when offered a lake to swim in with other water fowl. After a little while, though, instinct kicked in and the duck started to preen its feathers from its oil gland. I teared up at that.

Then these neighbors got a purebred golden lab puppy. That lasted about a week when they couldn't "train" the puppy to behave the way they wanted it to behave.

Another time, a nest of bluejays hatched out in the bushes right next to their fence. My daughter and I watched the whole process, watched the parents feeding the hatchlings, etc. It was marvelous! The neighbor husband was doing yard work and I mentioned the nest, thinking he wouldn't want to inadvertently knock it down. The next day, I noticed the nest had been knocked down. The #%%%A! did it on purpose.

Some people.

 

[goldeneggtees]

awww, we were all kids once. Anyway, it wasn't their fault.

Clearly, this was a parenting issue. My kids have begged me many times for additional pets, but unless I know they can care for them physically and financially, I won't budge, no matter how many tears they cry.

Quote:

 

[Knittycat]

Quote:
LOL, no it was an e-mail sent around my circle of friends a few years ago. I have a lot of friends who like to forward "funny" stuff. I tend to hang on to the ones that really tickle my funny bone.

 

[dianneS]

I've run into people like that at TSC. Good for you for speaking up! I'm so sick of parents indulging their children with any type of pet or animal, at the poor animal's expense.

I recently over heard a mother and daughter talking about getting one chick at TSC. I kept thinking "do you not see the sign? Minimum of 6 birds?" Then they asked an employee if they were girls or boys, he said they were pullets and told them this means "girl". Then I hear them continue to discuss "what if its a rooster? Then we'll have to chop its head off?" If they can't even pay attention long enough to see a sign that says minimum six birds or hear the guy tell them, "they're all girls" How long can they pay attention to the poor animal and give it proper care?!!

You're right, people are STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!

 

[suzeqf]

some people have no clue, My local co-op is almost as bad they have their chicks and ducks right as you come in the front door and it's been very breezy and one of the "girls" actually told my neice not to touch the chicks because they bite but she could touch the ducks and this is the same girl that told me that all the straight run chicks would lay eggs and i said even the roosters and she said yes and then i said roosters don't lay eggs their boys and she just say Oh ok, I hate it when people only get animals and have no clue how to raise them that's how i've gotten 3 of my 5 dogs Ellie our boxer she was well taken care of but needed more attention than her owner could give her and she was starting to be destructive so she came to live with us when she was 9 months old and then Chi came to live with us because he had been bounced around from home to home since he was a puppy and he belonged to one of the guys i work with he told me he needed a other dogs to play with but come to find out his daughter was being a little rough on him and he said he wasn't completely house broken but he was housebroken he just needed to be fixed because he was marking now he's my little prince and then their my ole girl who just showed up at work one day she's prob 8 and someone just dropped her. I wish they would require people who've never owned an animals before to take classes and pass a test and have a home inspection done before they can own an animals

 

[wannabchick]

I think it was awesome..u gave her your number and tried to educate her..maybe just maybe she is here..reading and building a backyard coop for them

Xooxxo

 

[f8thnjc]

Quote:
Wow, I thought this but didn't have the nerve to say it. Kudos!

I did months of researching on the web and here on BYC before I got my first set of chicks. I have asked plenty of questions along the way. We are not chicken know-it-alls and have no way of learning other than to ask. It is the ones who don't want to learn that are stupid and ignorant.

Comments like the one above are what make people shy away from asking questions, for fear of being stupid, and that makes YOU the ignorant one!

 

[f8thnjc]

Quote:
Thanks for this post. For some reason some people like to think they have the right to tell you that you are incompetent and have no right in doing certain things. You won't change most peoples minds. They still think they are some form of authority. I am glad that someone, or many people were there for you to help you stand up and be responsible. If everyone said what most people on here are saying, you probably wouldn't have had the courage to change. Good for you. We should all keep that in mind when we feel frustrated and start to rail on them.

 

[wsdareme]

Back in the days of the Gold Rush, so many people were leaving out of Skagway, Alaska for the gold fields in the Yukon that were unprepared (and thus were dying or having to be rescued) that they put a requirement in place for the amount of supplies and equipment they had to take with them or they would not be allowed to go. This copious collection of supplies and equipment is now on display at the museum in Skagway.

I propose that all feed stores have a display that shows all the equipment needed to keep and sustain chicks. Have it set up as a working model, prices on every piece, and a large-print list of what is needed in order to keep chicks healthy and happy. And a timeline that shows how you need to make adjustments in their environment (larger brooder, perhaps), lower temperatures, info on when you can give 'treats' (and what is safe to feed). Offer a package price that is discounted from buying individual items.

I know, I know. Wishfull thinking. But if stores would adopt this as a policy, there would be a lot fewer chicks die this time of year.

 

[chickened]

I find this kind of funny but I was reading in another BYC thread and they were bashing TSC workers that knew nothing about chickens. Sorry I just found that funny.