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Old March 11th 13, 06:20 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
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Default Tweed - OT chickens



Christina Websell wrote:
"MaryL" wrote in message
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I thought of you when I heard a local news report last night. We have a
lot of people in this area who keep a few backyard chickens, and the report
talked about a woman who has a small business as a "chicken sitter." So,
just as I use a pet sitter when I go on vacation (or once when I was in the
hospital), people who have chickens and can't be home use her to take care
of their chickens. She feeds them, puts them in at night, gathers eggs,
etc. I thought this might interest you.

MaryL


Hi, Mary

I've replied to this twice but for some some reason it hasn't appeared
either time. So here goes again:

Thank you for sending this, it was very interesting. We don't seem to have
the same pet-sitting culture here as you do in the USA. Pet sitters do
exist but are few and far between.

I wouldn't mind being a chicken-sitter, but I'd be reluctant unless they
were very nearby (like next door) because of the terrible daytime fox
problem we have. I'd hate it if my clients got home to find all their
chickens were ex-chickens.

In the last few weeks a fox has entered a house and eaten the finger off a
month old baby. Add this to a couple of years ago another fox went into a
house and did some severe facial damage to baby twins. There is now a call
for a cull of foxes in London.
Once upon a time, before some of the nature programmes on the telly that
encourage people to feed them, foxes were afraid of humans and only roamed
around during the night - which is how it should be IMO.
Tweed


We have problems in the American Southwest with people feeding (or
making garbage accessible to) bears. That has resulted in a number of
bear attacks in suburban areas where humans are more and more invading
the bears' territory. There are organizations that try to relocate the
offending animals, rather than destroying them, but bears aren't stupid.
(Once they've found an easy source of food, they tend to return, and
they can travel fairly long distances.)