having fed chicken burger
Participating at a rupavahini programme, popular tele-actress Maheshi Madhushanka told about how a mynah she kept as a pet during the time she was in Oman suddenly died.
She said that this tragedy occurred when she tried to feed the bird with chicken. This is how she narrated her story:
"During the time our whole family was living in Saint Paul area in Oman, a mynah was fallen by the side of the road in a fatal condition. It was my father who said that he had seen a mynah fallen by the roadside in such a manner.
I and my mother and all of us went there and then brought it home. It was I who brought up the mynah. I kept it by giving various types of food ... there isn't any suitable thing to give there ... so I gave things like fruits. When time passed by, it became so tame that it would open the door of the cage when it hears the sound of the bell.
So ... because of the love I had for this bird, I fed it with chicken and that was the result of this destruction. Only chicken .... just chicken. The story that I gave chicken burger is lies. But in the end the bird died. The reason was the food. It was that its tummy got bloated after having eaten chicken bones ... and died. Later we performed its final rites in a church.