Fly the Friendly Skies

[Sir Slash]

What a 'Bird-Brained' idea.    I'm wondering here who had the smaller brain between the two.

[BanzaiCat]

I wonder what seeded the idea in her mind in the first place.

[Staggerwing]

A peacock...as a "therapy pet"...

That woman is nuts. Especially because the airline explained it to her thick skull three times.

Peacocks (in my experience) are not nice animals. They're very, VERY aggressive when it comes to food, and just generally aren't nice to have around. (My kids' school had several when they were younger, as well as some other animals. They learned quick to give the peacocks a wide berth.) On a plane, these things would have been disgusting and could have violated any number of health codes. God, people are just getting stupider and stupider. :(

Believe it or not, when I was a kid my parents had a sort of small farm-slash-menagerie that included a couple of goats (sorry Star, they've all passed away now), sheep (see previous), rabbits (and, eventually lots and lots of rabbits) chickens, ducks, geese, Guinea Fowl, and... Peacocks. Those last were the loudest MFs in the whole miserable bunch. They kept breaking out of the compound and flying (yeah, they effing fly) into the trees along the neighbors property and freaking them out. The males don't just do that 'Glorious Plumage' display when they are trying to score on some Peahen, they also do it to get their warface on because they don't like you very much.

[BanzaiCat]

I'd forgotten about that. Their school covered a lot of property and it backed up against a subdivision that had a lot of trees.

The peacock they had, they named Liberace, and he deserved every syllable of that name. He was a pretentious asswad and not friendly at all with the kids, but he didn't attack anyone (unlike some of their goats, of which one would head butt you if you got too close to him). I heard him once or twice and yeah he was a loud bastard, too.

[Gusington]

Liberace?? 

[BanzaiCat]

Yep. I remember asking my son what it's name was (my son was 5) and when he said that, it greatly amused me, especially because he obviously wouldn't understand it.

[JasonPratt]

"Therapy pet" -- this might explain what Sir Anthony Hopkins was doing with that peacock while subbing in for Alexa...

[mirth]

Helluva year for United

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/business/united-dead-dog.html

[mirth]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/united-airlines-dog-japan-kansas-mistake