Hungry eagle inadvertently swoops toy poodle away to better life

[Kadie]

Hungry eagle inadvertently swoops toy poodle away to better life
By Gerry Bellett, Postmedia News May 18, 2011


She's a vagabond toy poodle, named May by SPCA staff because earlier this month she fell out of the sky and landed in the grounds of Sechelt's Shorncliffe Nursing Home.

How she came to be flying over the nursing home is explained by the deep talon marks in her back and sides, showing she was probably the unwilling passenger of a hungry eagle that had picked her up but eventually found her 18 pounds too much to hold on to.

May, her ribs broken, her body lacerated, was found by nursing staff May 2 and delivered to the Sunshine Coast SPCA.

The fall injured her, says BC SPCA official Lorie Chortyk, but the whole unnerving ordeal likely saved her life.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Hungry+eagle+inadvertently+swoops+poodle+away+better+life/4793134/story.html#ixzz1MlDpOt4X

[Sedona]

1. Raptured!

or unraptured?

[Ikonoklast]

2. Raptored.

Or, un-raptored, I suppose.

[Greybnk48]

6. Good one!!

[Sedona]

7. de-raptored?

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[Renew Deal]

17. lol

:yourock:

[glinda]

18. funny!

[kentauros]

16. Rapturing disrupted.

All eyes were rapt on the scene of the falling dog, her former life ruptured.

:hi:

[LiberalLoner]

3. The poor little thing. Glad they rescued her and healed her. n/t

[Enrique]

4. poor eagle

still hungry. :-(

[Occulus]

5. .

:spank:

[akbacchus_BC]

14. Fuck the eagle, salmons are widespread in BC!

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. So are poodles.

[Rincewind]

19. Poodles,

they're not just for breakfast anymore.

[Omaha Steve]

8. Love an animal story happy ending!

Marta and I will kick in for her new teeth so she can eat etc. The info is at the end of the story at the link.

K&R!

[htuttle]

9. "I must go now, my planet needs me."

[Jumping John]

10. Little white dogs and white chickens are easier to see by Eagles and Hawks, ya know. n/t

[KT2000]

11. This scares me

Lots of eagles where I live and am always worried about them taking my cat - she's only 7 pounds. Would keep her in but she would go nuts. So I will go nuts instead.

[Withywindle]

22. Keep her in. She'll get used to it.

The lives of indoor/outdoor cats on the whole are so much shorter than those of only indoor cats. There are so many hazards out there: not just eagles but also hawks, coyotes, stray dogs, other cats carrying diseases, raccoons, foxes, poison put out for rats, traffic, sadistic humans who like to kill, thieves who know there's a lucrative market in "no questions asked" animals for experiments....

How is that worth the risk? Never mind the damage that cats, who are natural hunters and obligate carnivores, do to native bird species.

[tblue37]

23. We have hawks around here that will snatch a cat if they see one, so I keep my cats indoors--

except for my 18 1/2-year-old Lila. I often sit outside with her so she can lie on the porch in the sun and cook her old, achy bones.

We also have foxes and coyotes who sometimes steal people's small pets if they leave them outside.

[akbacchus_BC]

12. This is so close to home for me and my daughters, Our Pom has been

missing for 2 weeks now. Glad she was found and am donating to getting her teeth fixed!

[akbacchus_BC]

13. According to the news here in BC, the cutie was saved as the Eagle

could not hang on to her anymore. Poor thing, she cannot be a stray as poodles are not in shelters here. Most likely, she was from a puppy mill! Am glad she was saved and I donated to get her teeth fixed.

The things humans do to pets is unbelievable!

[flvegan]

20. Bless the caring hands of that rescue.

[Raine]

21. aw poor little thing but it sounds like she's

going to end up with a happy life. :-)

[xchrom]

24. Good girl, May. Nt

[Arugula Latte]

25. ****Update: They got the donations and she's in dental surgery today!****

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Poodle+dropped+from+dental+work/4807947/story.html

[Kadie]

26. Wonderful news!

Thank you so much for posting the update.

:hi:

[Bryn]

27. What a great news!!!

:)

[brooklynite]

28. Here in NYC...

...they used to bring a trained falcon to fly around Bryant Park and scare away (or eat) the rats. Worked great until someone brought in a chihuahua...

[Shagbark Hickory]

29. Birds suck.

Between them shitting all over my car and patio furniture and woodpeckers destroying everything outside, all the damn noise they make chirping til 3 in the morning in the spring and now these mean fucking birds stealing poodles, I just can't take it anymore. I hate birds! They suck!