Simply unbelievable: Christmas decorations on birds

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#243910 8-Jan-2019 16:14

One of the tenets of my life has long been that if something is physically possible, someone somewhere at some time will do it, however ridiculous, harmful, absurd, evil or just plain pointless. Usually, weird stuff has some kind of sexual connotation but this one is just plain weird.

Apparently someone has been going around putting Christmas decorations on birds! It sounds kind of funny in a loopy sort of way, but it is stressing out the birds and actually killing them, so it's not really that funny, more like a bizarre kind of torture. The SPCA has rung the alarm on this and is begging the perpetrator to please stop.

I don't know if this is some kind of insanity. Maybe the person doing it doesn't realise the harm it is causing. It might seem funny, or an innocuous joke, like dressing up in a clown outfit. Maybe it is an unusually imaginative kid who has graduated from pulling the legs off spiders. Who knows? To me it is simply unbelievable.

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#2156523 8-Jan-2019 16:51

"It has reported incidents involving about 30 non-native birds such as sparrows since 2015"

This has been going on for several years. Whoever is doing this either didn't get previous criticism or doesn't care.

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#2156587 8-Jan-2019 17:25

Sad, yes. Unbelievable, unfortunately Not.
Cruelty to animals like this demonstrates some sort of psychological problem IMHO. Maybe hanging 50kg of decorations off the offender and making them try to survive might get the message across.

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#2156671 8-Jan-2019 19:42

I see on TVNZ News that the culprits appear to have been identified.

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#2156700 8-Jan-2019 21:50

What sort of decoration?

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#2156734 9-Jan-2019 07:42

What sort of society do we live in where people can't just add a bit of tinsel and colour to spruce up an otherwise ugly-as-all-getout bird, without someone stepping up to complain about it?

These people are just giving a bit of sparkle, pizzazz and razzle dazzle to an otherwise mouldy, and probably smelly, old avian.

Bravo, I say.

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#2156735 9-Jan-2019 07:48

I give the person credit for being able to capture 30 odd birds alive then dress them up then release them, that's a bit of effort but spent in a nonconstructive way.

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#2156736 9-Jan-2019 07:53

muppet:
What sort of society do we live in where people can't just add a bit of tinsel and colour to spruce up an otherwise ugly-as-all-getout bird, without someone stepping up to complain about it?

These people are just giving a bit of sparkle, pizzazz and razzle dazzle to an otherwise mouldy, and probably smelly, old avian.

Bravo, I say.

Says the guy with a pink chook as an avatar. Maybe you’re responsible - anyone who would dye a chook might spangle a sparrow or bauble a blackbird. 😃

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#2156800 9-Jan-2019 09:49

eracode:

Says the guy with a pink chook as an avatar. Maybe you’re responsible - anyone who would dye a chook might spangle a sparrow or bauble a blackbird. 😃

My wife and I used to have a pet Lovebird and oneday my wife decided that we should dye him with some red food colouring. It didn't really work that well, but he had a bit of a tint to him which pretty much faded out after a week or so.

Anyway fast forward to about 3 weeks later and he's at the vet for some sort of routine bird thing. The vet's looking at him and suddenly goes very quiet and goes to get a microscope, starts inspecting him really closely. We got really worried something was wrong until my wife suddenly piped up "Oh yea, we thought we might dye him to see how it looked" and the Vet just gave us the most startled look ever and said "OK, well that would explain what I'm seeing here, probably not the best thing to do to a bird" and then went about his examination.

Ooopsie.

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#2160813 14-Jan-2019 11:27

I've got a photo somewhere of a pink goat I took in an Indian village after some festival or other!