Thursday, September 9, 2010
Drunk Again
The day before we are scheduled to leave for the airport to begin our journey to the Bahamas, I decide to put some sliced apples into Inky's food dish for her to pick at. Inky is a beautiful blue Hyacinth Macaw. Hyacinths are on the Cites I list of endangered animals which means I have to get all kinds of Federal permission to take her out of the country and not harm her in any way. So, anyways, the apples sit in her dish all day and on into the night. The next morning I notice Inky isn't feeling well. Oh, great, I'll have to postpone the trip because of a sick bird. Inky has a horrible expression on her face and without warning, she starts to vomit. Then, she begins to moan in a somewhat familiar way. I happen to be standing over her food dish when I smell the fermenting apples and figure out that by eating them after their "use by" date, she has gotten stinking drunk and has a colossal hangover. Drunk or not, we press on.
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