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RSPCA Inspector Interviewed

I heard, on the
radio, earlier this week, a RSPCA 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 proved to be amusing:

The Parakeet

An inspector was summoned to a home where a parakeet had escaped and alighted on the roof of the house. Parakeet RSPCA JokeThe 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.

With nowhere to go they leapt into the feeder and using
it like a ‘
Turtle’
as in the middle-age storming of castles, they crabbed their way to the edge of the field and made their escape with the bull repeatedly attacking.