Do you see her? 🔎
Published on April 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Girly was missing. The affectionate pup wasn’t in any of her usual spots. After checking behind the couch and by the window, Girly’s mom, Breanne W., couldn’t figure out where the large brown dog could be hiding.
Breanne heard her baby begin to cry and realized she’d have to pivot — the Girly hunt would continue after her baby’s feeding.
Facing a pile of children’s playthings, Breanne noticed that among the unblinking plastic eyes of the toys, there was another all-too-familiar set of eyes.
“I nearly screamed,” Breanne said.
Girly rarely spent time in the baby’s room, yet there she was. Tucked between the crib and a stuffed giraffe, Girly blended in almost perfectly.
“I physically almost jumped out of the rocking chair,” Breanne said. “It reminded me of the scene in ‘ET’ where he’s hiding among all the stuffies in the closet.”
Breanne’s shock soon turned to glee as she began chuckling at her dog’s successful camouflage.
“Once I realized it was her, I couldn’t stop laughing,” Breanne said. “I yelled for my husband to come up, and even he didn’t see her until she adjusted herself.”
It wasn’t necessarily a surprise that the rescue pup wanted to be near her baby brother — the two are best of friends.
“She loves the baby,” Breanne said. “We often joke that it’s her baby! She sleeps beside his crib if she hears him stir or make noise at night, [she] tries to clean him up if he spit[s] up, and if he’s having a nap she will be right beside him. It’s so sweet to see how much she loves him.”
Though she clearly has a knack for physically disappearing, Girly’s love for her family is something she’ll never hide. Back out in the open, Girly had no idea she’d almost given her mom a heart attack — she was just thrilled to have all her favorite people in one room.
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Rescuers Floored To Find A Huge Coastal Animal Very Far From Home
They couldn’t believe it 😮
As an animal services officer, Troy Lombas is used to rescuing cats and dogs, not wild animals. So when Fresno Humane Animal Services got a call from California Highway Patrol about a pelican with a broken wing, Lombas was surprised.
On his drive over to pick up the bird, Lombas began to doubt whether the person who reported the pelican had been mistaken.
“Honestly, what was going through my head was, like, ‘Is this really a pelican?’” Lombas told The Dodo. “I was thinking maybe it was some type of smaller bird that was just mistaken for a pelican.”
But when Lombas arrived and saw the bird, there was no longer any doubt in his mind that he was dealing with a pelican.
“My first thought was, ‘That’s a really big bird,’” Lombas said.
Neither Lombas nor the Highway Patrol officer had ever rescued a pelican before, but they created a plan on the spot. They positioned their vehicles to block the pelican from running into incoming traffic.
As they attempted to catch the pelican, he kept trying to escape, but was having trouble because of his broken wing. Before long, the two officers were able to get the bird into a dog crate Lombas had brought with him.
It turns out that the rescue was unusual for more than one reason. While pelicans are typically found near the ocean, Lombas found the bird close to Coalinga, California, which is over 70 miles from the coast.
“Pelicans are usually beach lovers, so finding one so far from the ocean was like spotting a fish out of water,” Fresno Humane Animal Services wrote on Facebook.
No one is certain about why the pelican ended up so far inland, but Lombas suspects that perhaps the bird had been trying to hunt fish in the aqueduct that runs along the I-5.
As soon as Lombas arrived at the Fresno Humane Animal Services facility, he and the rest of the staff tried their best to make the pelican as comfortable as possible.
“In the office, we played a little bit of ocean sounds and stuff on our phones to kind of calm him,” Lombas said.
After a night at the facility, the pelican was transferred into the care of a foster at Critter Creek Wildlife Station, where he’ll heal and recover until he’s ready to be released.
Thanks to Lombas’ willingness to do an animal rescue that was out of his comfort zone, the injured pelican will get a second chance.
If you’d like to support other animals like this pelican, you can make a donation to Fresno Humane Animal Services here and to Critter Creek Wildlife Station here.
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