Re: My day with the bear...amazing animal story...

[Guest guest]

What an amazing story, Missy!! I would have been

scared to death! Thank you so much for the laugh!

On the same path of weird animal stories, last night

my girlfriend was walking her dog, Aurora, in the back

yard (Aurora is very sick) and she yells up to me,

" Charity, you have to come down here and see this " .

So, I ran down to see what the commotion was about,

thinking that Aurora was having problems or doing

something amazing again.

I got outside and there is a Dove just sitting in our

yard looking at us. We were able to get really close

to it without it flying away or scaring it...so we

started thinking that it might be a tame dove. It

seemed that the dove had no fear of people (or dogs

for that matter) so Tim came out and picked it up, all

it did was try to hop away a little bit but it was

happy to be held and snuggled up to him. The dove

didn't bite, struggle, nothing... We put it in a cat

carrier because we were worried that it might get

eaten by all of the coyotes and foxes in the area (we

have seen many as we are on the very edge of town).

The bird is absolutely content to be in the carrier so

we decided to go to PetSmart and get it a cage and

some food.

It's a Mourning Dove and the bird lady there thinks

that it must have been someone's pet. So, now we have

a bird in the house and the cats are absolutely

transfixed. They just finally got over being

fascinated by the fish we got a few months ago!

Has anyone ever kept a Dove before? Any advice on

keeping a bird would be appreciated, just write me off

list at ember_thunderwolf@...

Thanks!!

Charity

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