Continuing.....

Elise also loved to play, I would take a sock and hang it in front of her and she(?) would grab it and I would spin her around. If we were barefoot she would chase our toes trying to get them.... always made my wife scream like she was being chased by a mouse.

The previous owner had clipped her wings which sounds like reasonable thing in retrospect, but after awhile we decided not to continue. There were issues as the new flight feathers started coming in though so it took a long time. In the beginning she would drop like a rock if she tried to fly, eventually her glide path begin to increase.

I mistakenly took her outside one morning believing that if she did try to fly it would only be a few feet. She got startled at just the wrong moment when a strong breeze came by and took off. She immediately lofted to about 20 feet and was making a big circle around the house and was trying to get back to me. She had almost completed the 360 when a large crow started chasing her, she was close enough that I could see her look down at me with fear, as though she would yell out what do I do now? I watched in terror as she then flew a straight line farther and farther away even after the crow stopped chasing her. I began to run after her like a maniac, but there were too many fences in the way in our neighborhood. I spent the remainder of the day searching and asking everyone but to no avail.


More later......Honey dews