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A Story About Snoopy the Rescued Crow
By Diane Blakney
Here's a true story:
Many years ago someone brought a baby crow to my sister who was an animal rescuer. She nursed the baby until he was ready for release, but he refused to fly away. So for 24 years "Snoopy" lived with my sister and her family.
During this time, Snoopy learned to say a few "words" and people walking by the house would say "hello" and Snoopy would say "hello" to them. For his safety my sister built him a very large cage for him to sit on the porch in the summer.
When Snoopy wanted his favorite treats, spaghetti and cheese doodles, he would lay on the bottom of his cage with his feet in the air and scream "HELP"!
One beautiful summer day, a police car was passing my sister's house when the two officers heard what sounded like a woman screaming for HELP. They jumped out of their car and raced to the house with guns drawn. Imagine my sisters surprise as she walked out the door to give Snoopy his treats and found two policemen staring at the bottom of Snoopy's cage as he screamed HELP, HELP, HELP.


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That is too cute! Now, those are the stories I love to read!


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VANCOUVER -- A civilian member of the Vancouver police has a new take on the term "bird brains" after a duck pestered him until he helped rescue its eight ducklings trapped in a storm sewer.
Ray Petersen was walking directly under the Granville Bridge on Wednesday when the duck grabbed him by the pant leg.
Then it waddled around him, quacking.
"I thought it was a bit goofy, so I shoved it away," Mr. Petersen said yesterday.
But the duck, likely a mallard, wouldn't give up. Making sure it still had Mr. Petersen's eye, it waddled up the road about 20 metres and lay on a storm-sewer grate. Mr. Petersen watched and thought nothing of it. "But when I started walking again, she did the same thing. She ran around and grabbed me again."
So when it waddled off to the sewer grate a second time, Mr. Petersen followed.
"I went up to where the duck was lying and saw eight little babies in the water below. They had fallen down between the grates."
Mr. Petersen phoned police Sergeant Randy Kellens, who brought in two constables. "When they came down, the duck ran around them as well, quacking," Mr. Petersen said. "Then she lay down on the grate."
While Sgt. Kellens looked into the grate, the duck sat on the curb and watched. The two constables marshalled a tow truck that lifted the grate out, allowing the ducklings to be picked up, one by one, with a vegetable strainer.
"While we were doing this, the mother duck just lay there and watched," Mr. Petersen said.
Once they were safe, however, she marched down to False Creek, where they jumped in.


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How touching! I love seeing a mama duck with her ducklings. There is a law on IL that you have to stop if you see them crossing the road.


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Thanks for these uplifting anecdotes Brandy!!!!


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those are awesome stories!!! that first one is sooo funny.. that would be something to walk by the house and hear someone screaming for help to find out its just a bird wanting its treats!! lol
that is awesome that the duck knew what to do to save her babies.. even if it meant going to a human!!!


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Hehehe, thanks for the smile Brandy.


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np,,i had no idea crows could talk tho