Seattle Man Shacks Up With 110 Birds

SEATTLE, WA — After receiving complaints from neighbors, Seattle Animal Shelter staffers found 110 parakeets Tuesday in a cage in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment.

“You could hear the noise from the street,” animal control officer Neil Deruyter said.

The birds were being kept in unsanitary conditions and were surrendered by their owner, an unidentified man in his 50s who had been collecting them for about five years.

The owner told the officers he previously tried to give the small birds to another shelter, but said he had been told only five would be kept and the rest would be euthanized.

The birds were given away to qualified adopters, the Seattle Animal Shelter said.

Deruyter said he could hear the chirps when he parked outside the apartment. Still, from the sounds, he figured there were about 50 parakeets.

“I was stunned to see there were 110,” he said. “There was a lot of feces and debris in the cage and a good layer of dust on everything.”

No animal cruelty charges were expected to be filed against the owner because of his cooperation, Seattle Animal Shelter executive Director Don Jordan said.

JOKESTARTERS:

• The authority’s first clue that something weird was going on was that the entire floor of the man’s apartment was covered in newsprint.
• In England men often “shack up with a bird” but 110? What is this guy, some kind of bestiality-lovin’ Mormon religious guy with many wives??

SOURCE:

• abc11TV