save me...
we had a little emergency in the kitchen. flour bugs emergency that required a throwing away all flour/dry snacks/any dry cooking material to the nearby condo dumpster where my parents live and i used to live.
to my surprise while i was out throwing all the stuff, guess what i found. the least likely place to get me a new pet. a parakeet. still alive in her cage under a cardboard box. inside the dumpster and it's 25 degrees Fahrenheit outside without the wind chill. i heard wings flapping inside the box and as i moved it, the sound became more apparent and after moving the box away, a birdcage half way covered with towel was what i saw with a bird inside it.
i dont even know what to say. i've heard worse news than an abandon parakeet in a dumpster. i've heard babies abandoned in a dumpster. so, im not gonna be a peta spokesman on how cruel we human can be.
well, i hesitated at first. should i take her home? or just leave her there. i saw the main window was opened, but i guess the bird was just too cold or afraid or confused or whatever to even attempt to go outside the cage.
i just don't have the heart to leave her there, knowing that she would eventually be trapped inside her cage and died slowly of the coldness or got crushed by the dumpster truck the next morning. so, i took her home. don't know what to do with her yet. but, i think ophelia will be just fine from now on. yes, i named her ophelia which means 'help'. well, i think shes a female, by the beige to brownish color of her beak.
my gf doesn't know about her yet. we'll see whats her reactions gonna be.
the coolest thing about this was when i was driving home with her in my warm van, i started whistling and she answered right away, as if to say 'thank you for saving me..'
maybe its just my imagination.
to my surprise while i was out throwing all the stuff, guess what i found. the least likely place to get me a new pet. a parakeet. still alive in her cage under a cardboard box. inside the dumpster and it's 25 degrees Fahrenheit outside without the wind chill. i heard wings flapping inside the box and as i moved it, the sound became more apparent and after moving the box away, a birdcage half way covered with towel was what i saw with a bird inside it.
i dont even know what to say. i've heard worse news than an abandon parakeet in a dumpster. i've heard babies abandoned in a dumpster. so, im not gonna be a peta spokesman on how cruel we human can be.
well, i hesitated at first. should i take her home? or just leave her there. i saw the main window was opened, but i guess the bird was just too cold or afraid or confused or whatever to even attempt to go outside the cage.
i just don't have the heart to leave her there, knowing that she would eventually be trapped inside her cage and died slowly of the coldness or got crushed by the dumpster truck the next morning. so, i took her home. don't know what to do with her yet. but, i think ophelia will be just fine from now on. yes, i named her ophelia which means 'help'. well, i think shes a female, by the beige to brownish color of her beak.
my gf doesn't know about her yet. we'll see whats her reactions gonna be.
the coolest thing about this was when i was driving home with her in my warm van, i started whistling and she answered right away, as if to say 'thank you for saving me..'
maybe its just my imagination.
posted by BETO at 12:10 AM
1 Comments:
aaaww... that's sweet.
i personally don't like'em birds as much, especially with all the avian flu virus floating around here.
she (assuming you're correct) looks pretty though.
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