Funny conversation with a "city slicker"...

[michickenwrangler]

We just had a piece on the local news last night about a cat that was stuck in a tree for seven straight days.

Apparently a neighbor had tried calling everyone he could think of, to get the cat out of the tree. He said that he called the fire department, animal control, the SPCA, the police and PETA!

I cracked up! He called PETA about a cat in a tree!! That's as bad as my husband's cousin who called 911 because she had a bear in her yard!

Seriously though, what is PETA going to do? Send Pamela Anderson to stand at the base of the tree in nothing but a sign that reads "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" ??? I mean really, what good has PETA ever done?

Needless to say, PETA did not come to the aid of the cat in the tree.

They just paid the Octo-mom to put a sign in her yard that says "Don't let your pet become Octo-mom! Spay or Neuter!"

Now she won't have to face foreclosure.

 

[dianneS]

Uh, okay this is a new addition to the list of wierd things people assume about animals.

A client of mine said when he heard my roosters crowing "they must be hungry!"

I said "who?" He said, "the roosters are crowing, so they must be really hungry."

Uh, okay?? Roosters crow when they are hungry?? That's news to me.

Where do these people come up with this stuff?

 

[looptloop]

Reformed city girl chiming in... I wouldn't claim to know anything about horses, but I do know what a mare is. \LMAO!

 

[Scout]

Oh, here's some for y'all, true stories:

One person informed me that they don't eat eggs because they're actually baby chicks, and that's killing an innocent animal (right after that she took another bite if steak... I was quite amused at that whole conversation.)


Know someone that doesn't drink milk because, "It's made out of cow's blood."


Someone else calls calf fries cow balls... Time for a lesson on cows and bulls (or I guess steers after all that lol.)


A friend of a friend gets meat from a store where no animals were hurt. Smart, huh?

 

[hobbyfarmrookie]

For all the crazies that do not understand chickens are a composed of roosters and hens AND that cows are female, bulls are male and both are bovine: someone either here or BYC has a great signature line. That says cow is a sex, chicken is a species.

Did all the people sleep through science classes; when I was in school we learned about some of the more common species in biology.

I would like to ask some of these; where babies come from.

 

[Bunnylady]

I would like to ask some of these; where babies come from.

Didn't your grandmother ever tell you? The stork brings 'em!

 

[michickenwrangler]

I would like to ask some of these; where babies come from.

Didn't your grandmother ever tell you? The stork brings 'em!

No, they grow them in the cabbage patch

 

[Horsiezz]

Yes...we live in the city...and people are baffled about the chickens. When we give our neighbors eggs they are scared to eat them...and they think you need a rooster for them to lay an egg...and when they saw the blue eggs and the lil bantam eggs...man they freaked! Pretty funny watcing their reactions ...but sometimes annoying. And they NEVER knew there were different kinds of chickens...and my teacher said(this made me want to go off on him!) he asked "Well do you eat them..??" And I said..."Umm no...we just use the eggs...but we proabbly have to butcher some...but I REALLY am going to try to stop my stepdad from doing it." and he looked at me like I was crazy...and said. "Well thats what they are made for! Chickens are just mindless birds! They have no personalities. They are just here to eat,reproduce,and poop every where..then be eaten! When I was a boy...we had chickens and I loved to chop there heads off an watch them flop around. "

 

[dianneS]

Yes...we live in the city...and people are baffled about the chickens. When we give our neighbors eggs they are scared to eat them...and they think you need a rooster for them to lay an egg...and when they saw the blue eggs and the lil bantam eggs...man they freaked! Pretty funny watcing their reactions ...but sometimes annoying. And they NEVER knew there were different kinds of chickens...and my teacher said(this made me want to go off on him!) he asked "Well do you eat them..??" And I said..."Umm no...we just use the eggs...but we proabbly have to butcher some...but I REALLY am going to try to stop my stepdad from doing it." and he looked at me like I was crazy...and said. "Well thats what they are made for! Chickens are just mindless birds! They have no personalities. They are just here to eat,reproduce,and poop every where..then be eaten! When I was a boy...we had chickens and I loved to chop there heads off an watch them flop around. "

I get that too!! I have people on one end that have no idea where eggs come from and then others (sometimes the same people) expecting me to just eat the birds for meat because that is "what they were made for!" its infuriating!! Anyone who loved to chop the heads off of anything, especially as a boy, is a twisted individual as far as I'm concerned.

I also get a lot of people that don't know that there are various different breeds of chickens. They think, "chicken" is a breed!

I often wonder how many city folk actually eat the eggs that I give them and how many of them just throw the eggs away because they are "scared" to eat them!!?? I have had some folks ask me if I have to "do anything" to my eggs (like pasturize them or something) to make them edible like store bought eggs! I bet those people just threw the eggs that I gave them, into the trash!

 

[Iwantgoats]

so funny, but so true. We were telling our neighbor about our baby chicks. We got Black Australorps. Our neighbor was so surprised at seeing a black chick with whit markings. "Oh," she said, "I though all chicks were yellow." People just don't know that there are almost as many chicken breeds dog breeds.
And then there are those people that think eggs just magically appear on supermarket shelves