Mother and Chick
I never knew I'd be this enamored with an animal (kids excluded of course), I'm just so not animal friendly. But yesterday at the clinic, when these kids came in manhandling an innocent chick, I had to do something.At first, I tried to teach them that the chick was a living creature and not a tennis ball so it won't bounce when you drop it on the floor. But nothing registered with them, I guess they were just plain cruel or imbeciles. So I shamed them into giving me the chick (saying something along the lines of "Tsk-tsk-tsk you're sure not getting anything from Santa this Christmas") when I saw that they were about to dump it into the trashcan because they thought it was dead.
Kids can be so cruel at times. It just about broke my heart to see them toss the chick around like it was just a piece of rag. I so wanted to kick their tiny butts into pet-lovers' heaven, where animal abusers like themselves will be the ones tossed about by vengeful abused chicks.
Anyway, it was a tough afternoon as the chickie had to be fed with a medicine dropper and placed under a lamp. But it managed to pull through. As of press time, it still walks with a limp (I think its right leg is broken, but I'm still crossing my fingers that it's just a sprain and will heal in due time) but is now pecking away like crazy at the starter feed scattered across its box, so there's reason to rejoice. However, I haven't seen it drink from its water bowl, so I won't put away the medicine dropper just yet.
Somehow, after everything that transpired, I really don't feel like eating Chickenjoy anymore.
6 comments:
Jill, you should have kicked those kids. It's different if mabigat lang yung hands nila. But when they start hurting little defenseless animals, you know those kids are going to grow up selfish and mean.
hey! i was never a cruel pet owner (i've had several chicks, quails, white mice, hamsters, rabbits, river turtles, green turtles, dog and cats). hay, don't their parents know anything? you just don't give kids just any pet.
Aw, Jill, that's so sad. For the chick, I mean, but hey, the nice thing about animals is that they don't have hang ups about disabilities.:D I had a hen that lost one leg but it didn't mind at all. I hope the chick's leg is okay, but those kids are so lucky it was you who saw them manhandling the chick. The only thing is, if those kids don't get it now that only cowards hurt animals without a reason, they'll never get it in the future.
dych and macel: we are calling her Ceecee for now, that's short for Chicky-chick :)
I had to put her/him in a bigger box because she/he could already jump out of the other one.
no more chickenjoy?
that chick's gonna turn you into a vegetarian! staaaay awaaaaay!
repeat after me.
meat is good. meat is good. MEAT IS GOOD!
sira ulong mg bata 'yun ah. tsk, tsk, tsk.:(
ang cute pa man din ng chick.
this entry reminds me of ping medina's entry about the little kittens he and his brother found. naiiyak tuloy ako ulit.:(
where were the parents, what where they doing, didn't they care?!!!!
do you know that most serial killers start out by harming animals...
iba na talaga mga bata ngayon.
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