00:00A 56-year-old guy in England is in the news today
00:10because of his two-year-old pet turkey named Trouble
00:14that follows him everywhere.
00:18Well...
00:19He saved her life as a chick two years ago,
00:23and she imprinted on him.
00:25Oh, yeah.
00:25So now he takes her everywhere he goes, even the dentist.
00:33Here's him telling a bit of his story here.
00:39That's my mom.
00:41My name's Dave.
00:43This is T2, Trouble Version 2,
00:47who imprinted on me as a chick.
00:51I didn't take a lot of persuading to keep her, to be honest, though.
00:56Stop it.
00:57And she's just become a really big part of my life.
00:59Apart from work, she goes everywhere with me.
01:01She rides around in the car, goes shopping,
01:04so she waits in the car for me
01:05and enjoys getting out of the car and eating scotch egg.
01:11Much to the amusement of a lot of people.
01:13And she's brilliant at breaking down barriers.
01:15You speak to people you would never speak to before.
01:17Most people were just absolutely amazed.
01:20I've heard a lot of people say,
01:21I don't think I could ever eat turkey.
01:22I've got a few turkeys.
01:24I keep them just for their eggs.
01:26And normally I try and keep a couple of eggs in the car
01:29so that I can give them to people to try.
01:31Mum was sitting on 12 eggs and the first two hatched.
01:34And unfortunately the chicks got wet, got cold.
01:37It must have happened in very early hours of the morning.
01:40They perished, so I set up a brooder with a heat lamp.
01:44She was the first one out.
01:45I don't like this.
01:46All the other chicks survived.
01:47What do you not like about this?
01:49He's really stroking that turkey, if you know what I mean.
01:51No, Chuck, come on.
01:53He's just comforting.
01:54Lisa, are you not picking up anything weird here?
01:56Well, it's just turkeys.
01:57It's just an odd choice to have as a companion.
02:01I feel like he's cozy.
02:03It's a little bit off.
02:05Something's wrong with him.
02:07You guys are ridiculous.
02:08Definitely single for sure.
02:09Oh, he's a million percent single.
02:12He carries around eggs to give to people so they can try them.
02:16Try a turkey egg.
02:17Try a turkey egg.
02:19Who wants to try a turkey egg?
02:23These are hard of a poor man.
02:24It's just he saved the turkey's life and now it loves him.
02:27I know, but he really neck strokes that turkey like it's going out of style.
02:31Stop it.
02:31I don't enjoy it.
02:32The other ten, all the ten chicks alive, all the other nine went back under the mum,
02:38but this one kept coming back out to me and without a lot of persuading,
02:41I sort of kept her and then put her back in the brooder and started taking her home
02:46and the adventure started there.
02:49Brilliant entertainment.
02:50Sometimes in a week, she'll peck your ankle.
02:52Stop it.
02:53She's got her routines, the things she likes.
02:56She's clever enough to know when to get out of the car and when not to get out of the car,
02:59like at different places we go.
03:01She recognises where we are.
03:03I think if people could realise how intelligent animals are,
03:09you know, not just turkeys, but her definitely,
03:11but maybe we could treat them a little bit better with more respect sometimes
03:15and not just look at them as a dinner.
03:18I know I still eat meat, but it has changed my opinion of things.
03:24The brilliant thing is the joy she brings to people, you know,
03:27that do see her, you know, from children that have never seen an animal.
03:31I love the bit that she can just make people smile,
03:34and I think that's, you know, the most special thing about it.
03:37It is unfortunate that the neck does resemble scrotum.
03:41It sure does.
03:42It looks like he's stroking it.
03:45He really knows how to play with a ball sack.
03:48That guy can touch my sack.
03:49A dog would be good for some people, and a cat would be good for other people.
03:52I do think that the bones you can get with different animals,
03:58if you treat them well and whatever it is, fantastic.
04:02So, yeah, certainly underrated as an animal that you can, you know, bond with.
04:09I mean, I've never seen a turkey like this.
04:14Never.
04:14Sitting in his shopping cart while he's shopping?
04:17I've never seen them like that.
04:19Because they usually have turkey family that they're with.
04:22Exactly.
04:22Hanging out with and walking around all the time.
04:25But the turkey poop is the worst.
04:27Like, smell-wise?
04:28The whole thing.
04:29I don't know.
04:30It's been on my patio before.
04:31Yeah, see, I haven't really dealt with it.
04:32Oh, yeah.
04:33Yeah, it's pretty gross.
04:34So, how much is it different from, like, what the goose poop situation is?
04:39It's totally different.
04:39Oh, it's totally different, huh?
04:42What's it like?
04:43I've had turkeys around the house, but I don't know that I've ever encountered a turkey turkey.
04:46Let's hook it up here, I guess.
04:47Is it like more of a liquid?
04:50Yeah.
04:50Ooh.
04:52Turkey poop, everything you've wanted to know.
04:55Because goose poop, I feel like, can be dealt with.
04:58Oh.
04:59Unless the turkey that was around my house had just bad diarrhea or something.
05:02Yeah, you might add.
05:03Maybe that's a problem.
05:04More like mucus.
05:05Yeah, there you go.
05:05That's it.
05:06There it is.
05:07Mucus poop?
05:08Disgusting.
05:08Yep.
05:09Jesus, God.
05:10Oh, God.
05:11It smells really bad.
05:12It's just, it's the worst.
05:13Wow.
05:14That's, uh, you're not selling it.
05:17No, they're not meant to be pets.
05:19No.
05:19No, they're not.
05:20Because I feel like this guy's house is...
05:22Maybe the turkey sits on the toilet like this one.
05:24I think that's Photoshop, Dave.
05:27Just hopeful.
05:28Yeah.
05:28Maybe he strained it.
05:30Who knows?
05:30But you are creeped out by him, John.
05:32I am.
05:33I'm incredibly creepy.
05:34He was gently caressing the scrotum's thumb on the neck.
05:37Just for too much.
05:39Yeah.
05:39Too long.
05:41His thumb strokes.
05:44Don't enjoy him.
05:45Look at that face.
05:45I don't enjoy him.
05:46There's no mention of a partner.
05:48Oh, there's no, no.
05:49Lisa was a thousand percent partner.
05:52Oh, man.
05:53That's what, it was a nice story.
05:55You had to make it weird, though.
05:56I don't know if I was the one.
05:58I think he was the one.
06:01He's like, oh, I'm rising turkey.
06:03Touching him on his head.
06:06Playing with his neck.
06:07Oh, man.
06:10It is disturbing how he does it.
06:11I like it.
06:12It really is.
06:12At one point, he grabbed it.
06:15Gave it a full neck jerk.
06:18Yeah.
06:20Oh, and he kisses it, too.
06:22Oh, boy.
06:23That's not the first thing he's had.
06:25Is he rubbing it too much?
06:26Because why is it so much pinker than the rest of the turkey's neck?
06:30I mean, that might be a good point.
06:32He does love playing with that skin.
06:33He does.
06:34He has to stop.
06:35Okay.
06:35I don't like it.
06:36I wasn't looking at that part, I guess, first time around.
06:40Now I am.
06:40He likes to pinch the foreskin.
06:42Okay.
06:43All right.
06:43Now I'm grossed out.
06:45Thanks a lot.
06:46Ruin everything.
06:46Ruin everything.
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