Officer James Givens
has served with the Cincinnati Police Department for over 26 years, but has
never quite experienced anything like this before.
He was sitting in his patrol car in a parking
lot when he got an unexpected visitor.
A goose came up to his car and started
pecking on the side of it.
He threw food out for her, thinking that's
what she wanted, but she didn't take it.
She continued to peck and quack, then walked
away, stopped, and looked back at Officer Givens.
Then she came back to his car and pecked at
it again.
She made it very obvious that she wanted
Officer Givens to follow her, so he finally got out of his car and did just
that.
The goose led him 100 yard away to a grassy
area near a creek.
Sitting there was one of her babies, tangled
up in a balloon string.
The baby was kicking its feet, desperate for
help.
Being wary of helping
the baby on his own, and worried that the goose might attack him, Givens called
for help from the SPCA, but no wildlife rescuers were available at the moment.
Luckily, Given's
colleague, Officer Cecilia Charron, came to help. She began to untangle the
baby, and the mother goose just stood there and watched, quacking.
She didn't become
aggressive, and just let Officer Charron do what she had to do to set the baby
free.
It
was like the mother goose knew they were helping.
Once Charron
untangled the baby, she put it down and it ran right to her mom, and they went
right to swimming in the creek.
Charron teared up and
said it was the highlight of her 24 years on the force.
"It seems like
something made up. It was just incredible," Givens said.
"I honestly
don't know why I decided to follow her, but I did. It makes me wonder – do they
know to turn to humans when they need help?"
We may never know the
answer to this question, but what we do know is that Officer Givens was in the
right place at the right time to help these geese!
Life is precious.
A great story with a
good ending.
The nicest place to be
is in someone's thoughts,
the
safest place to be is in someone's prayers,
and
the very best place to be is ........
in
the hands of God.
=
