Smart GOOSE!!!!
When her baby was in trouble, a mother stopped at nothing to get help and went straight to the police for assistance. That’s a pretty run-of-the-mill story until you find out that mother in question was a goose.
An Ohio police officer was sitting in his cruiser when he heard a tapping at the door. He opened it to find a determined goose adamantly demanding attention. “It kept pecking and pecking and normally they don’t come near us. Then it walked away and then it stopped and looked back so I followed it and it led me right over to the baby that was tangled up in all that string,” Officer Givens told Cincinnati news outlet WKRC.
Givens found a gosling tangled in a balloon string (ironically, it was a Mother’s Day balloon that had trapped the bird). The officer and his partner, Specialist Cecilia Charron called the local SPCA, but when no animal rescue specialist was available, they took matters into their own hands. “Specialist Charron came and untangled it. It took her awhile because it was all wrapped up,” Givens said, noting that: “The mother goose didn’t bother her.” Soon enough the gosling was free and he and his clever mother swam away.
Givens recorded the incident on his cellphone, to show that while firefighters may rescue kittens stuck in trees, police have the goose rescue market cornered. No word on whether any Mother Goose poems will be written in honor of the heroic goose.
http://time.com/4326346/mother-goose-calls-the-cops-to-help-save-her-gosling/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter
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Kinda makes my day, MADem. 
Or whether local schoolchildren will be playing Duck, Duck, Goose in honor of the heroic goose. 
A motto with mixed messages. 
I noticed that a lot on many threads here. 
Thank you MADem. Sweet.
Mama knows.
R&K
Fortunately, many DUers do realize this.
Honk honk honk, honk. Honk honk honk: honk honk!
Honk honk.
Who would knock on the door in the middle of the night, looking for cat food. I used to store cat food in the entry way. I started locking the door so he couldn't get in and eat it all.
I used to read mysteries in the middle of the night on my couch. Then I would hear, "Knock, knock, knock." Scared the daylights out of me, and I would look out the peephole but there was no one there.
The next day: muddy raccoon prints on the screen door. I have three French doors on the front of my house, so I'm sure he saw me, lying on my couch, reading my book.
Made me laugh.
Plus when I switched from a regular bird feeder to a Yankee Clipper (gently throws the squirrel off the feeder), a squirrel came over and jumped on my window box while I was sitting at the computer. He gave me a good scolding, and that wasn't the only one. Took him a week to get over that.
I think it's really interesting that he knew I was on the computer and he knew enough to climb up on the window box to give me hell.
Cher
If they're being ignored; they have me trained. 
They've even adapted to seeing our Lab inside, and she them. She knows they're off limits.
Raccoon climbs down from 10th floor apartment building to escape animal control
Thanks for the thread, MADem.
