is this statement for real

i have just read a statement from the general manager rpra and i just cannot believe it. he is saying a fancier took a stray pigeon to the vet to be put to sleep and was quoted £81 but was able to get it down to £26 this was a lady fancier what i don't unerstand is how does she dispose of her own birds or does she take them all to the vet bhw page 3

piss take like all vets

i read another one where a none fancier asked for £100 reward for a pigeon she found lol ide have said please dont touch that bird its infected with pox highly dangerouse to humans

lol £81 quid a time would cost a fortune. if your a fancier i do not know why it would be taken to a vets when she must get rid of her own or could have found another fancier to do it.

the truth of the matter is tho that if a fancier gets a pigeon reported and doesnt want it back there are two choices he can make, either he asks the finder if he/she wants to keep it, or if they dont want to he might ask them to dispose of it ie kill it........now as this might be a none fancier they will have no idea of how to kill a pigeon so all they can do is take it to a vet to get it humanely destroyed, OR alternatively the finder could be a pigeon man who, like myself cannot or will not kill a healthy bird so what are they to do ??? take it to the vet of course.......

i think too many fanciers when faced with reclaiming a lost pigeon tend to want nothing to do with paying for it back or collecting it themselves, they automatically assume the finder will keep it and releive them of their duty as the birds owner.

if the owner of a lost bird who asks the finder to kill it for him knew he could be charged for the vet to destroy it, ill bet he would soon get his act togeather and get the bird home.........

david i take your point and agree with what you you are saying but what i trying to point out why did she get involved and it does say she was a lady fancier did she think that other fanciers took there pigeons to the vet we could now see members of the public finding a exhausted pigeon not getting involved when most of them now would i also know i sometimes talk a load of rubbish especially when it comes to pigeons and vets

hi rainbow, i wasnt dissagreeing with you....just poiting out that it is rpra ruling that when the owner of a lost racer asks for the bird to be destroyed by the finder, the finder is within his/her rights to take it to a vet to be humanely destroyed and the owner is liable for paying for it.........

also, like i said, personally i wouldnt kill anyones pigeon for them as i dont do it to my own.....

tbh its there pigeon they should get it picked up end of

we lost our dog a few years ago, we were offered a cremation where they returned the remains to us, I looked at the prices and they wanted £32 to cremate a GOLDFISH, unreal

these people will cash in on anything paul, if they see a need they will exploit it.

Well We have a small holding which on times is more like a ZOO, so we have a lot to do with vets as you can imagine, just recently a youngster came home from training with the worst broken leg I have ever seen, hanging from a thread toatally smashed in half.
I had 2 choices kill it, but it was off my best and had really tried hard to come home in this state, or take it to the vet as this one was beyond me..so I took it and explained the bird had no future with amputation and was worth nothing, however being such good loyal customers I had 50 quid in my pocket for an operation to fix it, he laughed at first then I said go on have a challenge, he took the bird explaining it might die under anasthetic anyway, he did it and charged me 48 quid. I took the bandage off the other day and it is perfect. So now the bird will breed and fly again.
So some vets are fair and not always after what they can get, you have to explain simple things about birds to them as they always go by the book, he wanted to give it ani inflamatry drugs pain killers and antibiotic for infection, when I explained pigeons feel little pain rarely have infections from rips and cuts he did listen but not at first... but mostly they are a rip off when it comes to charges.