This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

4 Replies to “This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society”

1. I wonder what that chicken lady would say in a situation like this.

2. Last night, in advance of civic elections, one voter button-holed a city council candidate to ask his position on a deer cull. We have tons of deer in town. They’ve become eating lawn ornaments and are often involved/cause vehicle accidents. Not to mention that they’re attracting cougars that have been seen around schools.
   The lady voter was dead set against a cull – “why do you have to kill them”, “they were here first”, “we’re occupying their habitat” yada, yada. Never mind that we’ve created a smorgasbord of tasty gardens or that they know there’s no predators around (until that cougar finds one) and some people, despite by-laws, actually feed them and put out salt blocks.
   Sure, better they die of broken legs or ribs after being hit. Everyone imagines they lie down under the gently blowing boughs of a tree, go to sleep and just never wake up. The reality is death by predator, vehicle, disease or starvation.

3. This is a bit of a coincidence.
   The CBC Windsor page has a story up about chickens being dropped off at a Value Village outlet.
   That works for me, if you don’t want them, maybe someone else does. Though it would pose some problems for the staff if they were not prepared. It is a slippery slope.
   First comes the chicken, maybe eggs (or vice versa), and then puppies,kittens, the bratty one that won’t eat her vegetables, etc.
   Don’t worry though, the Windsor Essex County Humane Society assures us that; ” Generally, when people are coming to adopting them from a humane society, they pay an adoption fee and there is also an adoption counselling process,”
   Does that mean that some people are given a pass when adopting chickens ?
   Why ?
   What is this “adoption counselling process” ?
   It would probably be best not to show up wearing a bib with a pocketful of cutlery. But, we are talking chickens, they live to be eaten.
   They are nature’s perfect food.
   Eggs for breakfast, the rest for lunch and dinner. Their wings(that they rarely use) are great with beer.
   As an added bonus, every religion puts them on the menu. There are not any sacred chickens roaming the third world, not for long anyways. Chickens are food. Basically they are nothing more than noisy tomatoes that defecate.
   If the animal rights activists have a problem with eating chicken, I suggest that they name them ” Ezra ” before they chop their heads off and toss them into the oven. They will sleep better.
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/box-of-live-chickens-dropped-off-at-windsor-value-village-1.2799031

4. Darn, forgot to add this;
   The last line of the article, ” Interview requests sent to Windsor police and Value Village weren’t immediately returned.”
   CBC’s version of ‘Woodward and Bernstein’ actually phoned the police hoping for an interview on this gut-wrenching story.
   A billion dollars a year doesn’t get you much these days.