Youngster’s six pretty peacock pets
Every morning and evening young Tino makes sure to feed his peacocks.
A young boy from Rangeview has made some very peculiar friends. For the past three months he has been feeding six peacocks who come to visit him every day.
The seven-year-old Tino Muranda, a Monument Primary learner told the News that the three male and three female peacocks showed up in their yard about three months ago.
The peacocks live in an open veld behind their complex and sleep in a tree. Sometimes they spend more time in the Murandas’ yard and sleep on the roof.
Every morning before Tino leaves for school he puts out fresh food and water. When he returns from school in the afternoons he gives them more food and water.
When the News visited Tino, three of the peacocks were in the back yard while Tino was feeding them.
He said if he forgot to feed them or they get hungry they come closer to the house and knock on the door to call him.
When asked if they had names, the young boy laughed and said that he hadn’t thought about giving them names yet but that he could distinguish between them because they differ slightly from each other.
The peacocks are Tino’s only pets and even though one would think the young boy might want to become a vet when he grows up he said no, he wants to be a human doctor and even dressed up as one for a recent career day at his school.
The peacocks visit only the Marunda family and Tino said he would continue to look after his new friends for as long as they kept coming back.
