When Eve the chicken got cancer, her owner didn't warm up the oven and prepare her for dinner. Instead, they spent £1,400 on radiation therapy to cure her!
The couple, who are self-employed accountants, took her to the vets who told them that Eve had developed the disease in her remaining leg and the Denneys faced the heartbreaking prospect of having her put down.
So they decided to save her life - by paying for surgery to remove the growth, followed by a course of radiotherapy, at a total cost of £1,400.
Mrs Denney, 43, said: "Eve is a pet to us. It doesn't matter if she has four legs, two, or, in this case, one. She jumps around the garden and responds to her name just like a cat or dog.
"If we hadn't done anything, she would have had maybe two or three months to live and one of our options was to put her to sleep. But after a lot of soul-searching we decided to do what we could for her.
I'm actually surprised at how cheap it was. Many people have a set limit for how much they are willing to pay to heal a pet. (Mine is limited to 1k for instance)
This shouldn't be such a huge stretch for people. I bonded with a dog, that woman bonded with a chicken. Others bond with rats, cats or fish.
I'm with Doj on this - the more interesting question here is weather or not a cancerous chicken is edible or not.
Mmmmm, chicken. What was the question again?
DOJ has a good question though.
Seriously, eating a cooked tumor is not going to do anything to you. Think about it, any dead animal cells you eat do not replicate inside your body.
Death effectively cures cancer.
I recognise that this is a pretty unsophisticated argument.
But it is still bang on accurate.
They are idiots.
Oh wait...