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A danger to all women

Sarah-Jane Davidson, 39, Dundee

Carrying in the cage, I placed it gently on the hallway table as my son’s and daughter’s faces lit up.

‘This is Peggy and Polly,’ I grinned, stroking the fluffy heads of the green and grey parakeets.

‘Hello, hello,’ both birds chirped as Elise, then 4, and Saul, 1, giggled.

It was summer 2008, and a relative had recently died, leaving the birds homeless.

I took them in, knowing the kids would love them.

Their humming and whistling in the hallway became a welcome distraction from the chaos at home.

Because life with their dad

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