Howllo Fellow Hound and wild story lovers! It all started very innocently Sunday morning as Julian and I were eating breakfast and listening to the news. A story came across on the Today Show of a 6′ Emu running loose in St. Tammany Parish near New Orleans. It caught our attention of course!
We ate our Cinnamon rolls and listened intently. As I was cleaning up, Julian said he wanted to check out more details on the story. I told him to Google, “Emu on losse”. So, off he went, back to my office.
A few moments later he hollered, “Aunt Kit Kat, Aunt Kit Kat come quick – you are not going to like this!”
I ran to my office thinking that chocolate milk was spilled into my key board. Just as I entered my office Julian started reading……
“The emu, a flightless but fast-running bird that is native to Australia, was first spotted as it chased White’s basset hound early Thursday afternoon. White said he charged at the bird with a tree branch in each hand, eventually drawing its attention when he threw one branch at it.”
I had to laugh. The article goes on to state……
“White said the emu then charged at him, backing off only after he swung the second branch. For a few hours, it paced along a fence on White’s property as St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies and animal control employees worked to corral or tranquilize it.
“It’s a danger to the neighborhood,” said White, who said he worried the bird might try to attack his grandchildren when they come to visit or go after his basset hound again.
White and animal control officials said the emu was likely raised on one of the farms that sprung up in the area in the 1990s, when emu meat and oil was considered a valuable commodity. When the fad died out toward the end of the decade, many farms, including one next to White’s home, released their birds into the wild, he said.
As deputies wrapped up their search, White seemed to take the incident with good humor.”
Just as Julian and I did. We hope the Emu is OK. It was no fault of the large fowl to run amok. People are so hap hazard. The poor Emu.
Can you imagine a 6′ Emu chasing your basset hound? OMG! Can life get any stranger? I guess not in New Orleans!!!!
I guess it is best that there are no pictures. Your imagination is probably better! LOL
More later….Love, Cat, Chaps Emma and Julian.
P.S. Cinnamon rolls, Emus and a basset hound – who would have thunk it?????