okay Mods if this needs to be moved then please do so not really sure where it was suppose to go as it is about budgies but is also part rant.

 

Today has been a really bad bird day. I found out I was out of Calcium that you add to the water for the birds so I thought I would pop out at lunch and go to the pet store that I drive past near work. I get there and am blinded by the bright light but it looked really clean. I go down to look at the birds as no one is manning the front desk and I hear the shop assistant tell this girl that any bird can be tamed it really is a very quick process... she then gets this little green girl out of the cage (using a glove might I add) and clip one of her wings before standing her on the top of a cage and saying "See all tame."

 

The young women decides that she is going to take the little green girl and the poor bird gets shoved in a box and taken to the front where the shop assistant goes around a grabs stuff from the shelves. I was pleased to see that she did get her a nice long cage but the **** she started putting in it worried me. For one "Breeding-Aid" this was going to be an only bird??? I really started to feel sick and I wanted to say something but worried about looking like an idiot. When the sales assistant rang up the total at just over $1000 I finally decided that I had to do something. I stepped in and told the lady that 1) the bird was not tame it just had it's wings clipped and not very well might I add. 2) I was pretty sure it was not a baby and that if it was in fact an older bird to get it tame will be a VERY hard job. 3) She did not need half the **** that was in the cage in fact she could get the same set up without the **** for about $100 is she shopped around. (The cage they gave her was the flight/breeding wire cages that a few of us have)

 

At this point they owner comes out and the sales assistant is asking me to leave. The poor girl looks so stressed and you could see that she really was having second thoughts about getting the bird.

 

The Manger is this very slick looking guy who has this poor huge red bird on his shoulder at which point the bird keels over and falls to the ground with a sick *thud* the poor guy is still alive but the young lady fled and I got shoved out the door.

 

Add to that I ended up getting a lost bird but the story of how it got to me is not good and makes me feel sick, really this was one of the most… argh I am so mad, I am still very worked up about this poor bird! Poor MB got my ranting phone call at about 6pm today.

 

I get home to find the house in an uproar, my sister was trying to help and moved Storms cage into a room to change it away from the dogs and she got out and fell behind the book shelf, we could hear her moving but the only want to get to her was to take all the book off the shelf and move the entire thing....

 

Then to top it off I go to change the water in the aviary and I thought oh aren’t they being nice coming and saying hi and nope all my little babies came over and pooped on me! Brand new top to. Then the vacuum blew up while I was cleaning under the breeding/winter cages and poor guys got grabbed and taken out of the room wrapped in my jumper as when I say the vacuum cleaner blew up it literally blew up and there was flumes and smoke and a small fire, it was quicker to latterly reach into the cages and grab the birds then attempt to move the cages… something they are all very unhappy with me about now. My luck held a little and the carpet survived but I have had to move the cages as the smell in the study worries me so they are all out in the other room right now expressing their annoyance about being moved.

 

I am now officially out of cages so going to have to try and buy another one tomorrow as I can't keep the found bird in the little cage for to long but I do need to Quarantine her....

 

See it is just not my day, someone remind me why I have birds again....And now my camera has run out of batteries...

 

I think I am going to go to bed now

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What a day. I'd like to hear about the lost budgie if you feel like ranting even more. Good on you for saying something to this lady at the pet store. Grrrrrrr to them!!!!!!!!!! You so did the right thing, even if they did boot you out.

 

Oh... and why do you love budgies??? You know why xoxo

Don't worry AV, given what she has been through she is probably better off in the small cage for a few days. I might be able to russle up a spare cage over the weekend for you to borrow unti she is out of quarantine if you like

Thanks guys....Masie I might take you up on the rant about the like hen that I got today. At the moment I want to see if I can find an owner before I tell everyone the details cause if I was her owner I would like to know first, however from what I can gather she would have been lost around a month ago so i will give it a week and see where I get.

 

MB I am so going to have to bake you a budgie shaped cake! (and yes I can do them, not very well but I can do them)

OMG what a day!!! ((((HUGS))))

Well done for speaking up in the pet shop!

I hope everything goes well with Storm and your new budgie.

 

(((Hugs))) I hope you have a MUCH better day tomorrow

 

Liv

Oh wow AV what a horrendous day. Good on you for standing up for that poor lady. You need to get some chocolate, a snuggly blanket and a cuppa and curl up in front of the telly.

What happened to the red bird??? I'm sorry I'm a bit confused. But do tell us about your little lost bird when you feel like it.

The red bird was lying on it back making funny noises when I got pushed out of the store so I don't know I am thinking it was on it way out and I know they will not do anything about it!

eeek not good

How horrible!

I've been in the Pets Paradise at Redbank Plaza in Ipswich and have to say the cages are very clean and the birds alway have fresh water and plenty of seed.

I have never seen fresh veggies in the cages though.

1 thing that always annoys me with these places is they all seem to think nothing of butchering the poor birds' wings!

Hey AV pm me thedetails of the store, I might check it out

Oh Av, Good on ya for saying something, I personally would not have left without a fight too ...

When things go wrong it's always in 3's

Hope today is better for you

i am sorry to hear that you had such a horrible day,that is so awful about the petshop. i hope you can find the hens owner.

Pet shopped looked closed when i whipped past it tonight. Going to have to check out what is going on tomorrow