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[microchick]

Police officer once told me that any dog will deter a bandit, even a little ankle biter. Although a big dog is more intimidating, small ones are noisemakers and alert neighbors to trouble.

Beware of the dog signs are good. Leaves them guessing.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Police officer once told me that any dog will deter a bandit, even a little ankle biter. Although a big dog is more intimidating, small ones are noisemakers and alert neighbors to trouble.

Beware of the dog signs are good. Leaves them guessing.

We have 4 of those posted do not want some idiot breaking in getting bit by one of them having that idiot sue us for the dog bite

 

[Bunnylady]

Rotten about the break-in, glad the thief got so little for their pains.

very impressive! !!

Did the store agree to sell some?

also, did they EVER start watering your husband's poinsettias at the co-op?

Thanks for all the complements, folks.

Yes, Alaskan, the store took them (on consignment). He said he'd have liked to have had them earlier (like, around Thanksgiving) to have more time for them to sell, but the idea of asking just didn't occur to me. Oh, well, I reckon there's always next year, right? And, as usual, ideas keep evolving - leave the ball out, stuff the whole thing with polyfill, and it becomes a plushy, which isn't necessarily seasonal . . . .

Dunno whether the Points ever got watered, but from what Critter was describing, I don't know that it would have mattered. They sounded like they were so far gone, even if they got watered, they would be so damaged as to be unsightly and unsaleable.

 

[Alaskan]

Rotten about the break-in, glad the thief got so little for their pains.



Thanks for all the complements, folks.

Yes, Alaskan, the store took them (on consignment). He said he'd have liked to have had them earlier (like, around Thanksgiving) to have more time for them to sell, but the idea of asking just didn't occur to me. Oh, well, I reckon there's always next year, right? And, as usual, ideas keep evolving - leave the ball out, stuff the whole thing with polyfill, and it becomes a plushy, which isn't necessarily seasonal . . . .

Dunno whether the Points ever got watered, but from what Critter was describing, I don't know that it would have mattered. They sounded like they were so far gone, even if they got watered, they would be so damaged as to be unsightly and unsaleable.

so sad about the plants!!

flushing hard earned potential money down the drain, I find very upsetting!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am still saying It is finally the Solstice wooohoooooooo

 

[chickadoodles]

Chicki so sad about your friends home.

Bunnylady how wonderful you got your chicks into the store for sale!
I have no idea why some stores do not take care of their plants after they order them.
Walmart used to do that and then expect the nursery to give them a credit on the plants that did not sale.

 

[drumstick diva]

Home Depot is like that too. I pointed out to the manager that the African violets were all limp and the soil hard as rocks (I used to hybridize them). He gave me some song and dance that a woman came daily and cared for them. Ha- not a chance!.

When he walked off I put several plants in a shopping cart, pushed them to a water fountain near the restoom, and got them watered. Then pushed them back to their display area and set them up there.

As soon as I walked out of the store, the manager was right there watching me. Obviously he felt I was a thief. Thieves wouldn't take half dead plants. He must have been very upset to see I didn't have anything with me. Jerk.

He probably ended up at TSC where he didn't feed or water baby chicks. He would have been a natural at that.

 

[microchick]

I encountered that at TSC also, @drumstick diva.

I won't even go in there during chick days to this day. I went in on a Sunday morning with DH two years ago and there were maybe 25 chicks in one tub. Crap filled water. They were all huddled in a corner, cuddled up to dead chicks.

DH and I went up to the check out where there were three guys lounging around. The whole trip to the front of the store, DH was trying to keep up with me and nervously asking me what I was going to do and telling me to calm down.

I told the men they had chicks back there that were in sore need of attention and they needed to get them clean water and get the dead chicks out of the tub.

One guy rubbed his head and said 'yeah, I gotta get back there and take care of that' It was almost noon and the store had been open for hours. I had my mouth open but before I could spew out all the venom I was planning to unleash on them, DH took my arm and got me out of the store.

Outside he thanked me. For what? I asked. Not throttling that idiot? No, he replied. For not buying all those poor sick little chicks.

I have to admit. The though had crossed my mind....

I'll pick up chicks at Orscheln's who always have their chick area clean and the birds well tended (Although I have been known to scrape chips out of water holders when nobody is looking) But I will never ever EVER buy a TSC chick or duckling.

 

[chickadoodles]

Diva I know they are terrible!

Micro I have heard and seen some of that. But our TSC in Selma has a really great lady that does the ordering and mostly takes care of the chicks or gets someone to.
I have only seen one dead on arrival a couple of times when they are taking them out of the shipping box. I have sent a lot of people that used to buy birds from me to that TSC to get chicks. So many that the store kept getting chicks long after they usually did.
I was very surprised to still see them in the store not long ago.

 

[microchick]

@chickadoodles thank God there are some stores that have compassion and treat the chicks right. I still fume every time I think about those poor babies huddled up to their dead companions for comfort. I regret that I didn't call the regional office and report what we saw. If there was any consolation the last few times we have been in the local TSC I haven't seen any of those men.

The local Orscheln's also has a young woman that is knowledgeable about the birds they sell and in the care they require. When I bought my two little BBR girls from them we stood and talked 'chickens' for as long as I could.