No Tongues!
This photo by Sergei Grits, Associated Press showed up on the Star Tribune's Photo of the Day. It's of Belarusian Leonid Kulakov feeding house sparrows with seeds from his tongue in Minsk, Belarus, Friday.
All I can say is: NO no no no NO no no! NO! Wrong! No! Get some hot water, get some iodine! Why not just lick a pigeon for crying out loud. It's doing stupid crap like this that leads to bird flu.
I love birds, freakishly so, but that's crossing a line. Ew.
posted by birdchick at 6:53 PM
5 Comments:
Reminds me of a line from "Cats and Dogs":
" YOu can love your pets, just don't LOOOVE your pets. Repeat after me...Us. Them. Us. Them."
In the case of a pigeon, disease transmission could easily go both ways, because pigeons have a great many mouth and nasal secretions. With a healthy-looking sparrow, the greater likelihood is transmitting a human disease to the sparrow. Our mouth-secretions are rather pigeon-like. Germy. So yes, YUCK--but more for the poor bird.
I have a friend who likes to hold mealworms between his teeth to feed to chickadees. It's a horrible habit. I don't care if HE gets sick--that's his own stupidity and it isn't very probable at all--but it IS likely he could transmit something yucky to the poor chickadees.
Just goes to show you, people are nuts!
(I'm imagining Roseanne Rosannadanna saying that!)
Freaky!
I'm with Laura, to heck with the stupid humans, I care more about the unsuspecting birds. Veronica B
Sure, to heck with the stupid humans. Yet, a paper with high readership should think twice before publishing things like this one. Who knows how many kids will try this. Was there a "do not do this at home" sign next to the picture?
Angie
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