Posted on 06/24/2021 10:53:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A diamond is forever but what happens if you throw a parrot into the mix?
On Tuesday (June 22), Frosty, a pet parrot in Bangkok, Thailand, raided its owner's jewellery box and appeared to be enamoured of what it had found inside.
A diamond necklace caught the bird's eye and that spelt trouble — Frosty decided to gobble the sparkly jewels up for breakfast.
By lunchtime, the eight-month-old sun parakeet looked weak and had lost its appetite.
Noticing something was off, the bird's owner quickly brought it to the nearby Animal Space Hospital for an X-ray.
Chances are she (and the vets) did not expect to see tiny bead-like objects in the bird's belly. Frosty then had to be swooped away for surgery.
The operation took over two hours and vets recovered 21 diamonds, each around 0.2 carats, that the bird pecked from the woman's necklace.
Dr Kuntita Paveenasakorn from the hospital told Sanook: "This kind of bird is attracted to things that glitter.
"We see this kind of situation a lot but this case was strange because the parrot ate lots of valuable diamonds."
The diamonds, with their sharp edges, gave the bird stomach aches and would have wounded its organs if the owner did not take it to the vets, he added.
According to Thairath, Frosty is recovering well in hospital and is expected to be discharged by the end of the month.
If your pet bird ate a foreign object, take it to a nearby vet and observe for the following symptoms: abnormal faeces, loss of appetite, lethargy.
The glitter of diamonds is hard to resist, we totally get it.
It might be a good time to check your jewellery box and see if your own pet decided to pull a similar stunt.
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
Looks like parrot’s back on the menu, boys!
Did it survive?!
Bangkok is a most interesting city.
But I found the air awful.
And the temples fascinating.
My daughter found herself in possession of a Macaw. We kept it for one year.
The only positive from my end of the experience is a I did not go to a mental institution, although I came close.
BEAT ME TO IT!....................
Those are some s#!tty diamonds.....................
lol
Polly wanna C-Section?....................
I am amazed that no one has brought up Churchills parrot, the one which swore at Nazis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3410893.stm
Do you have a good recipe for "Parrot Fricassee?"
Regards,
No $#!%!
Totally love that song.
>>Do you have a good recipe for “Parrot Fricassee?”<<
No, but I do have a pretty good Hassenpfeffer recipe. Just substitute “parrot” for “wabbit.”
(note: until I spellchecked this, I did not think “Hassenpfeffer” was a real thing LOL)
Polly wanta laxative?
>>Did it survive?!<<
I don’t know how well a parrot would deal with all that rich food.
Boudreau bought a his wife Clotile a parrot.
When he got it home and gave it to her, the parrot started using some of the most fowl language Boudreau had ever heard.
Nothing they tried worked.
So out of frustration Boudreau told the parrot, “Every time you use bad language, I’m going to stick you in this freezer.”
And he put the bird in the freezer.
After a minute, Boudreau got the parrot out, and asked, “Now are you going to use bad language?”
The parrot answered, “No Sir!”.
Boudreau said “Good.”
The parrot asked, “Just out of curiosity, what did that chicken in there do?”
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