Posts tagged rescue
Hero Pig Rescues Baby Goat
This sweet pig jumps in to help a goat whose foot was stuck underwater.
Rescued Crow Walks Kids To School
The Renaud family discovered poor injured Walter (a baby crow) and nursed him back to health. Since crows don’t forget how you treat them, Walter’s been hanging out around the house, and walking the kids to school - even though he’s free to come and go as he pleases. “One day I wasn’t feeling that great and I was on the couch, and he flew in through the back door and he came and he sat on the couch. And he snuggled under my arm and we were watching TV together, so that really made our bond stronger.” 11 year old Livia said. So there it is - help a crow and you get a best friend for life!
Lost Parrot Provides His Name And Address To Rescuers And Goes Home!
Yosuke was a lost parrot that was picked up by the police in Tokyo. Though he didn’t say anything to the cops, when they transferred him to the care of a local vet clinic he sang like a bird - by providing them with his full name and address! “I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura,” said Yosuke. The staff checked out the contact information he provided and found that it was indeed his home!
Elk saves drowning marmot from his drinking trough!
Keepers at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho, were worried when they noticed Shooter, a four-year-old elk, acting strangely at his water trough. They watched as he tried to dip his hooves in, before attempting to dunk his whole head in the water. Then they were amazed as 10ft tall Shooter lifted his head from the trough clutching a tiny marmot - a kind of large squirrel - between his jaws! He spent quite a bit of time planning how to grab it. Way to go Shooter!
Please click photo for full article (just ignore the part where they suggest Shooter’s actions might be just because he didn’t like having something in his way, ok? Obviously we all know that Shooter’s a hero - that’s clearly why he did it!)
Housefly surgery!
We recently saw our cat paying an unusual amount of attention to the underside of our radiator. We investigated, and discovered a fly that had become entangled in cobwebs and was about to be killed by a spider! It was buzzing & spinning frantically in tight circles. We managed to get it away from the spider before it got envenomated (Which is stealing the spider’s dinner, we know, we know! The cycle of life sucks, and we know everyone’s got to eat, but we just couldn’t sit there and listen to the terrified death throes of the fly.)
So now we’ve got a fly that’s half cocooned in webbing - it’s wing is stuck to it’s back and it’s back legs are all bundled together. Awful. We can’t leave it like that, but how to get it free without doing even more damage?
So we pulled out the tweezers and got to work. It took three stressful procedures to get it all done, but when the last bit got dislodged the fly’s wings popped into their proper positions in a very glorious ‘I’m all better now’ sort of way, it was finally free of that darned piece of cobwebbing that we’d been holding it in place with, it flew around quite vigorously, and then settled down for a big bath and some of the sugar water we kept it supplied with. Then we set the fly off into a warm, sunny, autumn afternoon!!!
What’s interesting is that the fly became much calmer the instant we got it away from the spider, and throughout the whole ordeal it figured out that we were helping it, because it would progressively let us get closer and closer without trying to evade us - despite our scary tweezers! Many times when it had the opportunity to get away it simply wouldn’t - but rather would take part in helping us help it, like yanking the leg we would be working on to help pry it loose. It was pretty much a symphony of housefly human cooperation - and we’re quite thrilled that it all worked out!
This is not the first time we’ve saved flies from certain doom, and you’d be amazed at the differing personalities they’ve each got - as evidenced by their different reactions to being offered a dish with bit of sugar water-soaked paper towel! Though at first, of course, they worry that you’re a threat, but if you move slowly and calmly they start to get used to the idea that you’re not so much a threat as a source of sweet sweet sugar. Here’s a bit of a history that we’ve enjoyed with a variety of flies that have had the good fortune to get stuck in our our flyswatter-free household:
-Buzzy #1: Learned to land on our outstretched finger because there was honey to be found there!
-Buzzy #2: Wouldn’t land on us, but would visit dish held out.
-Buzzy #3: Wouldn’t come to the dish, but if we brought the dish to him, he’d climb on and have some.
-Buzzy #4 & #5: Both flew away and wanted nothing doing with us or our sugar.
-Buzzy #6: Didn’t run or fly away, but avoided the water/sugar paper towel - unless nudged with a corner of paper towel at which point he’d realize it was wet and sugary and climbed right on. This happened multiple times - he didn’t seem afraid of us, but couldn’t seem to learn that the dish was a source of food and water unless directly shown.
So flies are all different, just like people.
:)
Lion Cub Rescued By Mother!
A steep cliff, a terrified lion cub, a pride of frantic lions trying to save the cub, and finally momma damns it all, climbs down the cliff, and gets her baby out of this horrible situation. The photos are just stunning - take a look - it’ll make your day!
http://huff.to/n4P5QH (see the full photo montage at this link!)
How Zoo Animals Reacted To The Earthquake:
Alarm calls were sounded, safe spots were sought out, babies were gathered up, all in advance of the quake. Awesome!
These guys had a feeling for this whale - and they made it COUNT! They did what had to be done to save Valentina - and she said a huge thank you - humpback whale style!
Sissy, a blind quarter horse, is helped & guided by her friends - five goats and five sheep who understand her condition and never leave her side.
“They round her up at feeding time and then move aside to make sure she gets to the hay, they show her where the water is and stand between her and the fence to let her know the fence is there.” (Michelle Feldstein via Reuters)
