Injured Shag Saved By Family
Must have been a good shag then.
What I like about this story is that the family spent $2,000 to save the bird by flying it in a helicopter. If it is good enough for Michelle Boag to fly back in one to grab her passport on Waiheke Island I say it is good enough to do it for a shag. Thank God they stepped in else Gareth Morgan would have said he was going to save it, walked past and waited til its health was dire and only funded its funeral.
he injured pied shag was about to die in Sandy Bay, Port Charles, before it was rescued by the Davis family who paid $2000 to fly it to Green Bay's NZ Bird Rescue Trust.
Narelle and Gavin Davis' children, Ellie, 7, and Trent, 11, spotted the bird in front of their Sandy Bay bach three weeks ago.
''It was waddling up the road like a duck.
''He was just really really skinny and small,'' Narelle Davis says.
Lucky Whaleoil didn't see it. If it looked like a duck he would have run it over.
The story gets even better, the family had to save it from a pussy who wanted to have the shag.
'The biggest reason for making that decision was because I saw a cat that had been lurking around under our deck where the shag was and I could only guard him so much,'' she says.
''It was going to be a matter of time before the cat got him and we'd actually fallen in love with him.''
The Davis children have learned the most valuable of lessons.
Daddy's a big softie and if he spends $2,000 on a shag that looks like a duck and had to be saved from pussy they won't have any trouble getting what they want out of him in the future.
posted by Cactus Kate at 5:26 AM
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And to think I lopped the heads off my chickens Friday night because they were too old to lay (didn't enjoy it mind you). The law of the wild still exists despite some stupid people pretending it doesn't.
I think WINZ needs to publish family trees for these types. How many children did Grandma have to how many random rooters in NZ and Aus and where are they all now. Also coperation with the IRD to publish total tax paid to date less Benefits paid (lots of red ink here.......)beside each name.
Welfarism is our biggest single problem and will (has?) run us broke.
Wrong location for my comment - sorry, duh!
Well I like this bloke and his family. Mind you, and carnivore I am, I like animals.
Boss, you're up the wrong tree mate. They used their own money, so it's their business what the do with it. No Nanny State issues here, just some pleasant people for once. Nice change from all the atrocities that do result from welfarism.
to be honest, some people work really hard and I think what they did is cool - there is enough negative stuff in life and this is a nice positive action.............
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