Woman, 22, who drunkenly carried seagull home ‘bleached her whole house’ after discovering it had bird flu
A woman was forced to ‘bleach her whole house’ after discovering that a seagull she drunkenly carried home from a night out had bird flu.
Erin Punton, 22, from Northumberland, has no idea why, but she picked up the bird ‘without even a thought’ from outside a Wetherspoons pub.
She carried the seagull home and was baffled to find it flying around her living room the next morning.
But things took another turn when she dropped off the animal at the vets – and they told her it had bird flu.
Ms Punton said: ‘I saw the bird outside Wetherspoons and managed to pick him up without even a thought.
Erin Punton, 22, from Northumberland, has no idea why, but she picked up the bird ‘without even a thought’ from outside a Wetherspoons pub
‘I don’t even know what made me pick him up.
‘I put him in my sitting room with a blanket.
‘When I woke up in the morning, I’d forgotten and he was just floating around the sitting room.
‘I dropped him off at the vets the next day in a box and was told he had bird flu.’
The 22-year-old was shocked to hear this news, and said she ‘felt sick’ afterwards.
She carried the seagull home and was baffled to find it flying around her living room the next morning
‘I felt sick and bleached my whole house,’ she said.
Ms Punton had filmed herself drunkenly dancing with the seagull the night before.
She was singing Valerie by The Zutons with the animal tucked under her arm.
In the clip, she said: ‘He’s a beauty.
‘He actually wants to stop in my room and everything but I’ve got nowhere for him.’
