So last night I head out to the van to make a quick milk run, just up to the corner convenience store. I figure it will only take 10 minutes and then I'll be able to make dinner. I open the driver's side door, and...
There's a chicken sitting there, between the two front seats.
After a few startled moments of staring at each other, I lift the chicken out of the van and send it home to roost in the coop... which I firmly close and lock behind her. Then I head back inside to retrieve Clorox wipes and a whisk broom, so I can clean up the mess she left. It takes a little bit of thinking, but I finally manage to conclude that the chicken has been in the van for over 24 hours... surviving on old french fries, apparently. Katydid must have accidentally trapped her inside when she went out to find a bag of batteries that had been left in the back.
At this point, even though it is clear that the hen was using Pip's car seat as a roost, I am just grateful that I decided to go out and get milk. Otherwise, we might not have discovered the chicken until Saturday morning before swimming lessons. I don't think old french fries would have kept her alive that long in the absence of water. What we might have found then... I shudder to think.
But I'm wondering... do things like this happen to other people, or is it just me???
Too funny! Except for that clean up part :-) No, I have no chickens in my van. Maybe I need to sprinkle a few more french fries. Maybe Georgian chickens don't like goldfish crackers. Dogs do. If we leave the van door open and don' watch carefully our pooch plants herself within and hides in the back, hoping, just hoping we will go out for milk - or donuts - and relieve her monotony. Perhaps your chickens were bored at home. Have you considered installing cable in their coop?
Posted by: Marjorie | February 10, 2010 at 08:00 AM
OK, now that is really funny! But the question is, did you take a picture of the chicken in the van?
Posted by: DebbieQ | February 10, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Not just you. Just before Christmas I found a chook(Aust for chicken) in the car, we estimated it had been in there for close to 20 hrs. The concern was the very high temperatures the chook would have experienced in the car as we were in the mid 30s (Celsius) at the time. We picked it up and hurried it over to the water for which it was very grateful.
Posted by: Erin | February 10, 2010 at 02:08 PM
Ok, LOL, glad to hear it's not just me these weird things happen to!
Debbie, I did not actually take a picture. I thought about it... but it was dark ;-)
Posted by: Angel | February 10, 2010 at 06:02 PM