When our 20 year old daughter came home from a pet store with a baby duckling and chick she almost had to find a new home herself...but I quickly became attached. The pet store said we had a white pekin duck and a white leghorn hen. They were about a week old. They immediately became a part of our family and took pride in caring for them as if they were infant humans. As they grew they developed their own unique personalities and really started to know us. We taught Henry the duck to swim in the bathtub. Ralphie, our hen was never far from Henry. By about eight weeks Ralphie let out a cockcdoodle doo and we knew our hen was a rooster. We soon learned about the noise ordinance in this city. We talked with the neighbors and began a search for their new home.
Today we drove our beautiful pet duck Henry and our handsome pet Ralph the rooster to their new home an hour and ten minutes away...and I am heartbroken. These birds were as sweet as my three cats and dog. I didn't know ducks and roosters like to cuddle with humans. I have 1200 or more pictures and videos to remember the brief time they shared their lives with us and am grateful that they have the perfect home, but I miss them and I know they miss us.
Please tell me how can a pet store sell animals when the city they are selling them in has an ordinance against them? I plan to go to the store manager and give him a piece of my mind... But I also want to report him for selling animals that can't be raised here.
I am an adult that became emotionally attached to these animals....something I never thought I, as a city girl, could ever do. If someone buys a chick (possibly a rooster) and/or a duck as a pet for a young child from this store only to have code enforcement ring their doorbell to tell the parents they are in violation of a city code....how do those parents explain to their child that they have to get rid of their precious pet?
I am looking for feedback on how I should go about dealing with this pet store please.
Thanks, Brokenhearted
Today we drove our beautiful pet duck Henry and our handsome pet Ralph the rooster to their new home an hour and ten minutes away...and I am heartbroken. These birds were as sweet as my three cats and dog. I didn't know ducks and roosters like to cuddle with humans. I have 1200 or more pictures and videos to remember the brief time they shared their lives with us and am grateful that they have the perfect home, but I miss them and I know they miss us.
Please tell me how can a pet store sell animals when the city they are selling them in has an ordinance against them? I plan to go to the store manager and give him a piece of my mind... But I also want to report him for selling animals that can't be raised here.
I am an adult that became emotionally attached to these animals....something I never thought I, as a city girl, could ever do. If someone buys a chick (possibly a rooster) and/or a duck as a pet for a young child from this store only to have code enforcement ring their doorbell to tell the parents they are in violation of a city code....how do those parents explain to their child that they have to get rid of their precious pet?
I am looking for feedback on how I should go about dealing with this pet store please.
Thanks, Brokenhearted