CW nominates this couple for a cruise,
immediately.
A warm-hearted Austrian couple, And
Bertl and Irmi Reiterer, have abstained from
taking a holiday for 17 years, due to their
adopted pigeon.
Named Susi, the pigeon was discovered by And
17 years ago on the side of the road with a
broken wing after having been hit by a car.
“We gave her some food and had her
treated by a vet and put her in the garage
downstairs,” Mr Bertl said.
“It was clear that because of her injuries
she would never fly again and at Christmas
when I accidentally left the door open she
came inside and then hopped into the oven
which had just been used and was still
warm – and refused to come out.
“We gave her a bit to eat in the oven. The
next morning when she was still there we
gave her some water, and she sort of just
remained,” he added.
The couple seem to structure their lives
around Susi, including simple things such as
not turning the dishwasher on until she has
gotten out of the oven in the morning, as it
wakes her up.
They downplayed suggestions that if food
became scarce they could just turn the
oven up for a tasty pigeon pie.
