Sassy's new found friend

[bajoiner]

I have had many a visitor since getting Sassy, but this one took the cake. Sassy and I were out in the yard she was playing and I was drinking coffee sitting on the swing telling her to leave the cardinals alone and let them eat, when all of a sudden I hear this menacing growl, hair standing up and I immediately got up to see what she saw and coming into our yard was a full grown Emu (I tried to load picture but it would not load). At first I thought it was an ostrich. I grabbed Sassy, who was going to go and investigate it, and took her in the house. I woke my husband up and said "you need to get up and get the ostrich out of the yard before it hurts Sassy". Of course his reaction was "WHAT?". He got on up and then informed me it was an Emu not an ostrich. I mean the back of this bird stood the height of my 5' fence, then there was the long neck. Well after it blew at us a couple times it decided we were not going to mess with it and it settled down. It was so thirsty, I got a bowl of water and my husband sat it down for it. There was still a fence between it and us. It laid down after taking a drink. I went and let Sassy out and she ran up to the fence (where my husband was standing) and she barked well this Emu was not a bit scared of her, it fluffed out it's feathers on its neck and came right to the fence and you have never seen a dog back up faster than Sassy did Then the Emu stayed for most of the day and kept pacing back and forth on the fence, when it had its back to her Sassy would run after it but when it turned she was back to my husband. Well because of her hurt leg I went and got her and put her in the house.

We (I) called everywhere trying to get someone to come and remove this huge bird, I called the local sherrif's office, animal control, a couple vets trying to find the owner, to no avail. Then my husband walks out to get our mail and a lady drives up in a van and asks if he has seen an Emu, well low and behold this lady walks over to the Emu (which comes over to her right away) she puts a rope on it's neck and walked it out like a dog on a leash. But the part that really took the cake, she walked this Emu to her van and opened the back and that huge bird folded up it's legs and got in the back of her van and off they went. I was simply amazed. Sassy has gone looking for it a couple of times today wondering where it went I suppose.

If I can figure out how to upload the picture I will, I will upload it to my pictures on this site. I could not believe it.

Barbara

[ZdogZ]

I bet that was a sight to see! How funny! I hope you can get the picture to upload.

[disraeli]

Ha ha...that's a pretty funny story. I would be shocked if I woke up and found an emu in my yard.

[red headed stranger]

Your story made my day. It was easy to picture everything even the emu getting into the van. Sassy's friends will not believe it when she tells them about the BIG bird in her yard.

[bajoiner]

I got the picture to upload of Sassy's emu friend on my gallery. I still laugh when i think of watching that super tall bird fold up and get in the van. If I had not seen it I would not have believed it.

Barbara

[Michael Romanos]

An Emu! What next indeed.

Taylor met three Alpacas last Saturday at a country school fair where he was part of an agility demonstration. Taylor and the Alpacas displayed a respect for each other and one of the Alpacas actually bent his/her long neck down to have a better look at such a small furry dog.
My previous Corgi, Hadlee spent several days on a farm which featured a dozen Alpacas. And he had no problem with them. Hadlee was more the sheep chaser/herder. Taylor did meet circus monkeys and an elephant and he wanted to get a very close look at Jumbo and Jumbo obliged by closing in on Taylor - as did the monkeys.

[Dillydoodle]

How COOL! I love Emu!! Neat birds... We have a funny little farm about 10 miles away that has an eclectic mix of animals, the guy has 2 llamas, a few geese, a few emus, a couple goats, couple peacocks a few little sheep and some other miscellaneous animals. I would love to see Dillon's reaction to an emu... what excitement! Saw the photo, very funny, poor emu was trying to blend in! cute

[Clogs]

That is a great story and brings back a memory of when we were staying at a campground that had an animal park attached. We didn't think they'd allow us to stay with the Clog, but they did. On the first morning, she and I went for a walk around the animal park. There was a large male ostrich there and he didn't like me at all - raced to the fence andstood up tall and tried to scare me away. But....he just lurved Rosie - got right down on his haunches and lifted his wings up, which is apparently what they do when they meet a woman-ostrich they are interested in! Each time we went past, he would rush at me to send me away, then "display" to Rosie.

Wonder what the pups would have looked like.....

[Michael Romanos]

They talk about Corgis with feathery features. Now we know why.

[tandemgal]

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