A Queen Creek, Arizona, couple hired Sacred Dove Release to dye doves for their gender reveal, a first for owner Monica Flores, who typically supplies birds for weddings and funerals. The bright blue birds, indicating a boy, were released and spotted by residents near the Salt River, who contacted Crystal White of Crystal’s Critter Haven. White collected the birds but noted the dye made them vulnerable to predators and potentially harmful to their sensitive respiratory systems. Flores stated she used nontoxic food coloring and would never endanger the birds, which are now healthy. White maintains that dyeing birds is always risky. Following social media backlash, Flores said she will not dye birds again.
In other news, fraternal twin brothers Taiwo and Kehinde Oguntoye from Nigeria married identical twin sisters Taiwo and Kehinde Adediran in a joint ceremony in Ibadan. The couples met at the University of Ibadan about a decade ago. Meanwhile, a man in China’s Zhejiang province was sentenced to prison after electricity usage revealed he was breeding over 300 pythons in his apartment. Investigators found 436 pythons valued at more than 30 million yuan, which were transferred to a local zoo. Additionally, California woman Lisa Catalano, who previously spent nearly $7,000 on billboards to find a partner, announced she has found love through a dating app after receiving about 4,000 applications.
Source: cityweekly.net.
