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What would you do if you found peacock in your kitchen?!?

A peacock has become tame enough to enter a family home after becoming accustomed to living in the garden and eating bird seed. The peacock, who sleeps in a tree and spends the day in the family's garden in South Normanton, Derbyshire, has begun exploring the kitchen when the back door is left open. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7721058/Peacock-moves-into-family-home.html

Public Comments

1. I'd get it back outside where it belongs and then give it a treat.
2. Male = Keep it as a pet. Female = Eat it. A friend of mine already has a male Peacock living in his garden.
3. Not a lot. Shoo it out gently. Then continue to feed it outside. We used to have peacocks until some bloody thirsty hunters went mad one day and shot everything in sight, including out peacocks. However, being the local landowners, the police were warning my dad to calm down. Given that my dad was a wealthy businessman living on the banks of the river - it doesn't take much to imagine how some people's rights are compromised to the wishes of the landed, or influential few..
4. I'd get somebody to take a photo of me casually standing next to it, and post it as my profile picture on facebook. Then sit back and wonder where the heck it came from
5. Awwww. They're lovely birds. My old school had two of them, A peacock and a Peahen and they used to come inside and strut around the science corridors when everyone was in lessons. It was quite odd when you were going to the toilet and one would just causally walk past you.
6. Ban exotic pets, evolution will only lead to humans becoming prey faster.
7. How sweet. I would love to have one in my kitchen. It could come and go whenever it wanted.
8. make a quill with the feather and use ink instead of type to pen my thoughts and peacock pie for dinner
9. I would take it outside and keep it as a pet :D
10. Lay a trail of birdseed so it will eat the seeds on its way out of the door.
11. If you've ever heard a peacock screeching close up, you'll know these are the last sort of visitors you'd want strolling around your kitchen - like paid -up members of The Ramblers Association (headed up by that big-toothed columnist, Janet Street-Porter). But since peacocks are reportedly edible - I'd probably reach for a cleaver... and then ask my local butcher what to do with the remains. ; ))
12. I'm buying a peacock when I win the lottery and buy a big house. We've already come up with the name "cocky" for him.
13. They are such beautiful shy birds I would feel privileged that it felt it could trust me enough to come into my home.
14. I saw this on T.V a few days ago and I think it's adorable. I want one!!
15. They are extremely noisy, so I'd get rid of it by any means possible.
16. Ooh I saw this picture in the paper a few days ago. Didn't the couple who's home it goes in look proud?. As proud as the peacock in fact.
17. I thought it was unlucky to have peacock feathers in your house...i'm not sure if it applies when they are still on the bird though!...that is kind of cute but I would shoo it out. We used to have a robin that would walk in through the front door and then make out it had flown in by accident if you spotted it...the thing was it was in the house most days...no accident! :-)
18. bit noisy when its mating time.but nice though.
19. It would wind up in the oven !
20. I'd be delighted if a peacock wandered into my kitchen. It wouldn't be able to stay, however, because they're not toilet-trained.
21. lure it out with peacock friendly treats