RSPCA Inspector Interviewed ~
I
heard, on the radio, earlier this week, a RSPCA (Royal Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Inspector being interviewed by the BBC
journalist Peter Allen on his programme 'Drive', on Radio 5 live.
They discussed the types of call out experienced by RSPCA inspectors.
Two of these are quite amusing:
** The Parakeet ~
An
inspector was summoned to a home where a parakeet had escaped and
alighted on the roof of the house. The inspector was asked if he needed a
ladder so that he could climb up to rescue the stranded bird. Alan,
the inspector, retorted that he would simply whistle to the bird and
hold out his finger. The parakeet promptly flew down and landed on his
finger and was recaptured. The owner was absolutely amazed at this
brilliance and knowledge of parakeets.
Alan
later confided to friends that it was a pure fluke and he hadn’t
known that it would work and anyway he was afraid of heights.
** The Bull ~
A
bull in a field caught his head in between the bars of a feeder. The
RSPCA inspector and the Fire Brigade were called to the farm to free
the animal. Six hefty firemen and the inspector wrestled with the
beast and eventually pulled its head from between the bars.
The bull was, by now, very angry and turned snorting at the men and began to attack them!
