just gathering my thoughts....& wondering if u still stop by.....
Cosmic Forces at Work!
This little story is for the non-believers :::cough ...KAT:::....who insist there are no 'forces, spirits, guides, magical messages' bombarding us daily.
Last Sunday morning.....as Chicken & Bubba ( my two macaws) greeted the day with thier usual 5 -10 minute rowdy sunrise cheer (read: screaming like theres no tomarrow)......
A young female Canadian Goose puts on the breaks just over my house .....and skids to a safe landing in my neighbors pool!
Of course, because I am the crazy animal lady of the neighborhood.....Linda walked over for some ? Goose Guidance? RIGHT!......
Based on my past experience of breeding & raising love birds I could tell it was a young female, raised by humans who evidently have her inventoried due to the H986 band on her left leg.
Wyatt (named after Wyatt Erp), Linda & Daves Boston Terrier brought his favorite ball over and dropped it at her feet…..it was rather cute……well …until the goose hissed at him. Being the pansy ass spoiled mommas boy that he is….he promptly ran behind Linda for protection.
We called around to the AZ fish & Game first because the Canadian Goose is a protected bird with a local chapter here which documents flight patterns and populations. They recommended we take the hose to her….and she would just fly away …….YEAH right! She'd probably land in some yard as a snack for family dog.
She was very tame and seemed to attach herself to Dave, following him around the yard as he cleaned up from Linda’s b-day party thrown the night before. Whenever Dave would go into the house or walked too far away from her ….she would panic.
Wyatt seemed to want to mother her. When he wasn’t dropping the ball at her feet, he stood guard over her ……positioning himself in between her and any human contact. After we fed her & set out some fresh water….we poured another round of Bloody Mary’s & decided she needed a name. The topic of who was known to hang with Wyatt Earp came up, and the only one we could remember was Maddy something or other.
She was now …..Maddy the Goose.
Here is where the wonders of the cosmos come into play……..I went home to get Korys pet carrier to transport Maddy, while Linda took the phone book out.
There it was !!! ……under animal rescue……Maddy’s Birds Rescue. NO SHIT! Oh…it gets better …….The woman who ran this rescue said she thought the goose was turned around and separated from the group in the storm the night before. When Chicken and Bubba gave their sunrise greeting, Maddy must have started flying towards the noise and landed in Linda’s pool. The rescue had geese and would be happy to take her.
On Monday, I talked to Dave to find out how it went. He said there were tears shed after getting Maddy all settled in with her new family.
When Linda turned to walk back to her car, Maddy started running after her…..
I dare anyone to tell me there wasn’t someone or something watching over!
Last Sunday morning.....as Chicken & Bubba ( my two macaws) greeted the day with thier usual 5 -10 minute rowdy sunrise cheer (read: screaming like theres no tomarrow)......
A young female Canadian Goose puts on the breaks just over my house .....and skids to a safe landing in my neighbors pool!
Of course, because I am the crazy animal lady of the neighborhood.....Linda walked over for some ? Goose Guidance? RIGHT!......
Based on my past experience of breeding & raising love birds I could tell it was a young female, raised by humans who evidently have her inventoried due to the H986 band on her left leg.
Wyatt (named after Wyatt Erp), Linda & Daves Boston Terrier brought his favorite ball over and dropped it at her feet…..it was rather cute……well …until the goose hissed at him. Being the pansy ass spoiled mommas boy that he is….he promptly ran behind Linda for protection.
We called around to the AZ fish & Game first because the Canadian Goose is a protected bird with a local chapter here which documents flight patterns and populations. They recommended we take the hose to her….and she would just fly away …….YEAH right! She'd probably land in some yard as a snack for family dog.
She was very tame and seemed to attach herself to Dave, following him around the yard as he cleaned up from Linda’s b-day party thrown the night before. Whenever Dave would go into the house or walked too far away from her ….she would panic.
Wyatt seemed to want to mother her. When he wasn’t dropping the ball at her feet, he stood guard over her ……positioning himself in between her and any human contact. After we fed her & set out some fresh water….we poured another round of Bloody Mary’s & decided she needed a name. The topic of who was known to hang with Wyatt Earp came up, and the only one we could remember was Maddy something or other.
She was now …..Maddy the Goose.
Here is where the wonders of the cosmos come into play……..I went home to get Korys pet carrier to transport Maddy, while Linda took the phone book out.
There it was !!! ……under animal rescue……Maddy’s Birds Rescue. NO SHIT! Oh…it gets better …….The woman who ran this rescue said she thought the goose was turned around and separated from the group in the storm the night before. When Chicken and Bubba gave their sunrise greeting, Maddy must have started flying towards the noise and landed in Linda’s pool. The rescue had geese and would be happy to take her.
On Monday, I talked to Dave to find out how it went. He said there were tears shed after getting Maddy all settled in with her new family.
When Linda turned to walk back to her car, Maddy started running after her…..
I dare anyone to tell me there wasn’t someone or something watching over!
6 Comments:
That's awesome!!!
right ?!?!
very cool story. Maddy was Wyatt Erp's first wife. Sadly, she killed herself with an overdose of laudenum (sp?) and Wyatt went on to remarry. I'm sure your Maddy will be just fine though, the original was just pissed because Wyatt didn't pay enough attention to her....
ok..I'm going back to my own blog now that I've bummed you all out with my story of woe and exceptional geekiness.
Stacie
hm...coincidence?!?!?! Glad it's a happy ending though.
But I thought wife 1 died of typhus or something sudden where he then burned his house and went on a binge, "wife" 2 (Mattie) was never truly his wife(common law only), and yes, she did get high all the time on Opium (I thought) and was jealous because he really was into Josie, who after the gunfights and glamour, he settled down with in Alaska? I think. Just thought I'd get in on the history fun.
I love those kinds of stories
People up here would just shoot the goose and eat it for dinner.
Thousands of birds are killed up here during hunting season (oct-jan?? I think)The sad thing is that these birds supposedly mate for life and when one gets shot it's pair will come back around for them and get shot too. very sad.((my X hunted them religiously)
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