Why not make the store get the care it needs? Call the local animal control or ASPCA and tell them about it. Or also start documenting everything on video or photos. Get a cell phone and start snapping away and if they ask what you are doing, tell them you want to show your friend the bird or tell them you are interested in it and want to have a picture.
Also make a big deal about it in the store and tell the manager it needs to be taken to the vet.
As an animal lover I realize you are trying to help, but you would be doing more good by making a scene in the store and point out why the bird is sick and documenting everything and then posting it on a website.
You cannot save them all and if you buy that one, what about the next? and the next? and the next? It think you understand where I am going with this and the suffering has to stop somewhere and if that is the bird that stops it, you will feel much better than buying it and then them just replacing it the next week with another to suffer.  |