A "stray", a first for me

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Malcolm Ness — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:00:42 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"] 'Supervet' who would have given it a prosthesis![/quote]

Now you are just being silly. He would never, ever have GIVEN it a prosthesis, he might well have sold him one though ............

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:22:02 GMT

[quote user="Nicola Lawlor"]The finder was worried he had lost a leg[/quote]Should have told him to take it to 'Supervet' who would have given it a prosthesis!

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Nicola Lawlor — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:19:41 GMT

Wow, I wonder how it got there!

My best unusual patient was presented in a shoebox and named Eric by the finder. Cautiously and carefully I opened the box uncertain what to expect, to find a male stag beetle in there!! The finder was worried he had lost a leg. I politely suggested she take him immediately and release him in a nice shady wooded area.

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Wren — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:42:28 GMT

And I've microchipped a couple and done export paperwork for a couple more. None of which arrived under their own steam via the North Sea

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:39:43 GMT

[quote user="Wren"] I must have told you about my penguin[/quote] Well I did see a (real) penguin with septic arthritis, not so much a stray as hatched and hand reared from a rescued egg.

If you want to know more you will have to read all about it in my book.

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Utlendigur — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:59:20 GMT

We also had a call about a stray "penguin" on the prom - also a guillemot - but given that there is a zoo a couple of miles away that do have penguins, we didn't dare dismiss it completely.

Don't forget Steve the sturgeon earlier this year aswell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-26504109

Bet Martin's glad it was only a goldfish in the puddle

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Wren — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:52:01 GMT

I must have told you about my penguin? Called at 6.30am whilst working in a Yorkshire coastal town. Some bloke had found a poorly penguin on the beach. I explained to him about penguins living in the southern hemisphere. He replied that it was stormy and so had probably been blown off course. I thought 'what, like 10000 miles off course?'.

Curiosity got the better of me and I went out to see the stray penguin. It was a guillemot.

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:58:35 GMT

I can beat that! I was minding my own business at home during a rainstorm when I was suddenly aware of something orange splashing in a puddle on our patio. I braved the rain to investigate and found it be a goldfish. As this was not an apocalyptic flood of biblical proportions I assumed it hadn't swum there from someone's pond and my cats were all indoors having the good sense not to go outside in the rain so they were innocent of raiding said pond. So it must have got there either from being sucked by a vortex and deposited on the yellow brick road or was lunch that a heron had dropped. Any road up, it was one lucky goldfish and lived for many happy years thereafter swimming round in an aquarium in our kitchen

Re: A "stray", a first for me

Bob Russell — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:11:17 GMT

Someones lunch?

My wife is Thai and has been known to go crabbing. This results in the rather ghastly sight of jars of the little bu**ers in the fridge.

Re: A "stray", a first for me

David Shepherd — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:50:33 GMT

Did the RSPCA pay up?