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September 20, 2007
Cockatiels are people too!
Bird beats senior in vote at Halifax nursing home
Residents of a Halifax nursing home voted over-
whelmingly Thursday to keep Vicky, their pet cockatiel, exactly where she is.
Betty Duruty stares down her cockatiel nemesis, Vicky, at her nursing home earlier this week. Ms. Duruty says the bird's noisy squawking gives her migraines. The senior's fellow residents voted on Thursday that the bird stays.
Betty Duruty, the 73-year-old whose fourth-floor room sits adjacent to the bird’s cage, had complained Vicky’s squawking gives her migraines, prompting a meeting of residents to decide the fowl’s fate.
Posted by sue at September 20, 2007 09:28 AM