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ANIMAL NEGLECT AT TULIP GARDEN CENTRE Letter by Jayne Mcauliffe
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I was at the Tulip Garden Centre, situated on Rifle re-house both of them into a bigger aviary in which they Range Road in Haddon, on Saturday 10 October can happily fly around. Such poor conditions for such and found a bird cage with two dead budgies at the l i v e l y little creatures – I just get angry bottom of the cage and one live budgie. whenever I think about it. I took the cage and found the When I spoke to centre manager Hans the centre again and informed him on Monday 12 that I was taking October the the cage receptionist and the said one staff surviving member was on budgie, compassionate and he leave and the insisted other staff members that I pay were overworked and for the forgot about the birds. bird and Strange, then, that when leave my I approached Hans he was leaning on a cellphone counter casually chatting to another female number in staff member – seemed like he had time on case I did his hands to do some sort of an inspection, or to not bring the help his ‘overworked’ staff out. cage back! I’m not I don’t think it’s any kind of an excuse in any case, complaining about the as their food bowls did not even have empty seeds in money at all – I really don’t care them. Those birds had not eaten for many days. How about that. If he had asked me for R1 000 I would have long does it take for a little bird – no, three little birds – to given it to him. It just showed his greed and absolute die of starvation? selfishness. He couldn’t explain how or why the birds had died, but EDITOR’S RESPONSE: it was obviously due to starvation and neglect, as there Dear Jayne, after reading your letter I contacted Hans was no food or water in the cage. When I was taking the Serfontein of Tulip Garden Centre to get comment. bird out of the cage at home, I discovered there was yet He said that it was unfortunate that you had to come another dead budgie underneath the newspaper! That across the dead budgies and that he had no words to describe what had happened. poor budgie did not stop eating for about 30 minutes. When I went back to deliver his cage – which smelt “Two staff members were in charge of the birds; the one absolutely awful – the “manager”, whom I found out later was on leave while the other rejected his duty of looking was actually the owner – just shrugged and said he had after the budgies. Disciplinary action will be taken no excuse for the neglect, except to say that the staff against the staff member who was not doing their job,” responsible had not done their job, and the birds were said Serfontein. “We love animals so this is very disheartening. We have forgotten about. Who knows for how long those poor creatures had not halted the sale of birds at the centre for now until we eaten, and people were walking up and down for days have employed someone to look after them properly,” and just ignoring their cries. I have since discovered he added. that somewhere on the premises are some kittens, so I have alerted the SPCA and Animal Anti-Cruelty League. I will never again patronise this nursery, and I hope that Hans never gets another animal Letter by Neville Peters to care for in his life. He is despicable. Dear Candace, in response to the letter ‘Filthy areas’, that The surviving bird I put in a much cleaner featured in last week’s tame TIMES, I agree wholeheartedly with cage with my own budgie, and he is now your reply. very happy and as soon as he is settled I’ll Our citizens are of the idea that they are entitled to mess wherever
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After months of waiting in anticipation, I finally saw my favourite music group in the flesh – Swedish electronic band Little Dragon touched down in South Africa over the past weekend, performing in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively. Saturday 17 October was a true feast for the ears and eyes as Yukimi, Erik, Fredrik and Håkan rocked Jozi with their dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow sounds as they like to call it. Although fighting off frenzied fans around me while trying to stay right up front by the stage was quite annoying, I loved every second of Little Dragon’s performance. Sounding just as they do on their records, Little Dragon is infectious in every way. Feeling slightly down at this stage because it’s all over now, at least I have their fifth album to look forward to in the near future. We love you Little Dragon!
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they want and the services will just have to clean up after them instead of cultivating a culture of cleanliness and tidiness in their daily lives and not leaving it to the services to do it for them – as is the case with the dumping issue along Kliprivier Drive going into Booysens. This has been done on numerous occasions, yet the refuse is still dumped as soon as the services leave the area. What does the ward councillor have to say about this? I rest my case.
EDITOR’S RESPONSE:
Hi Neville, Kliprivier Drive has long been a hotspot for dumping and littering. I have passed your letter on to the councillor.
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