The idea that chickens aren't 'real' pets.

IanExMachina

I keep chickens as pets.

It irritates me when people seem to dismiss the idea that they can be pets, they assume that they are only for food.

Honestly I'd love to find all the people who say this and invite them to a delicious banquet serving Roast dog, cat chops, puréed hamster peruvian style guinea pigs and goldfish fingers/giblets.

Or something.

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Fish fingers?

Vorpy

don't you mean Goldfish Oeur'DURRves?

IanExMachina

To represent those that have pet fish and hold the view. More likely goldfish fingers. 

^ Or that.

ninjaclown

My relatives overseas love keeping chickens as pets. Still doesn't prevent their inevitable fate, though.

Gelzo

Chickens are neat. I don't really like the notion that we can't be friendly to animals we eat, or that it's wrong to eat something just because it's cute.

IanExMachina

^ Nuhuh.

Mine are egg layers, so they are useless for meat eating.

As not all chickens are meat birds.

Also I never said it was wrong to eat them (I eat free range chicken after all) and I'd happily eat free range dog/cat etc.

Vorpy

Because they aren't normal to have as pets since they don't sell chicken feed at Petco (weird as hell).

Bob

Yeah, this idea is pretty stupid.

"Roast dog, cat chops, puréed hamster peruvian style guinea pigs and goldfish fingers/giblets."

...I really, really want to say how much I would like something like that, but I don't want to sound stereotypical...

Fuck it, that sounds delicious.

Sammy

Some chickens are really docile, too. I knew a girl who liked to dress her rooster in a baby bonnet and give him rides in a wheelbarrow.

"...I really, really want to say how much I would like something like that, but I don't want to sound stereotypical..."

Wait, what?

IanExMachina

^^

I honestly would eat all of the above, as long as they were raised free range.

^ Yeah they can be really tame, and adorable.

Vorpy

Dogs taste good.

Bob

^^^Aww...

Also, the stereotypical comment was in response to the whole "LOL, CHINESE PPL EAT CATS AND DOGS!" thing.

Lets face it, if someone actually ate a cat or a dog that was prepared just the right way, they wouldn't mind going back for seconds, Chinese or not.

^Case in point.

Sammy

"Also, the stereotypical comment was in response to the whole "LOL, CHINESE PPL EAT CATS AND DOGS!" thing."

Oh, okay, I didn't know you were Chinese

Not gonna lie, when I came back home and saw my sister's new guinea pigs, I immediately pictured fried pig-on-a-stick. I can probably buy it somewhere too.

InsanityAddict

I love my pets, but I still want to try cat as food instead of just cat food.

IanExMachina

It is a shame about the not eating cats and dogs, as there was a newspaper article over here mentioning a growing group in china pushing to stop them being used for food. Not sure about the veracity.

Also:

Bob

Not going to lie, I've always thought having a chicken as a pet would be awesome.

^^Ditto.

Vorpy

Domesticated Chickens could be good I guess. Chickens have a bad habit of shitting on everything.

Bob

So do dogs. And babies.

Then again, it's probably easier to housebreak a dog.

How easy are chickens to housebreak?

IanExMachina

^^ & ^

Haha yeah no chance house breaking them. If you were an idiot you can buy little chicken nappies so they could come in the house (Only sold in USA for some reason..).

Also yeah, all you need is to have a garden/outdoors area for them to live on. If garden, taker a trowel and just move the shit to a compost heap, as chicken mature is great fertiliser.

Gelzo

I always thought the family dog had some delicious looking hind legs.

There's... there's no way to make that not sound wrong, huh?

Bob

Allow me to answer that question with another question.

HAHAHA!

...Wait, that's not a question at all, is it?

Still, HAHAHA!

IanExMachina

^^ Yo dawg I heard you like dogs..

glennmagusharvey

Chickens aren't considered "real" pets since you can get little chickens for way too cheap.  Ten cents apiece is the going price, I hear.

IanExMachina

^ I see what you have done here.

Also chicks going 'cheep' well I never.

Tnu1138

Actually that sounded REALLY delectable. It bugs me that
just because a society keeps certain animals as pets traditionally then eating
those animals would be sordid

Schitzo

There actually are feral chickens in my neighborhood. We have one particular flock we keep in our backyard to kill off pesky insects.

IanExMachina

Hehe feral chickens makes me imagine them as vicious streetwise chickens, and that is silly.

Bob

^And for some reason that comment makes me imagine the typically "urban, streetwise" characters you see in fiction, only as rabid wolves.

IanExMachina

"Hey it's MC Wolfie, lay it to me Wolfie"

*Gets ripped to shreds by a rabid wolf wearing a blood covered gold chain (with $ on it) and backwards baseball cap*

Bob

Quick, someone give me Adult Swim's number!