Couple quits smoking for parrot's health

[Urbanangel]

Reuters
London, August 5

A British couple booked themselves into a clinic to quit smoking after the vet said it was the only way to save their beloved sick parrot.

Kevin Barclay and Sharon Wood gave up a 50-cigarette-a-day habit to save their Amazon orange-winged parrot J.J., said the vet, Glen Cousquer of the South Beech Veterinary Surgery in Essex, southeastern England.

"One of the key things that we need to get right with parrots generally is air quality," he said.

"This particular bird presented with very severe respiratory problems. The owners were instructed to do everything they could to improve the bird's environment."

"I think I must have shaken the owners up quite badly, because the next time I saw them they actually had booked themselves into one of these anti-smoking clinics and were determined to stop. They've gone five weeks," he said.

J.J., he said, "is doing really well. It is certainly going to improve his life expectancy."

It may help the owners, too.

[Editor]

Good to hear that a pet was able to induce the sensitivity towards life, not only of the pet, but also their own.

[Mellisa]

Wonderful, i must say...three cheers for the couple and the parrot too

[garcons]

I feel this is a very rare case, and not many people can quit smoking coz of a pet. In the west, people are attached to their pets, but not all round the world.

[dsha9]

ya some people love their pet than their own children, i see many smoking in the face of their infants. I thinks its pretty shitty. these poeple left their smoke because of their pet, they didn't think that what it did to the other people before.

Stupid!