WATCH: Distressed mother goose calls police to save her baby
Two policemen from Cincinnati, United States, attended an emergency call–from a mother goose.
On Monday, the clever mother goose pecked on the door of the Cincinnati police cruiser and pleaded the cops to untangle the balloon string tied around the baby gosling’s body.
“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,” Sargeant James Givens elaborated in an interview with local media. The mother goose’s motherly instinct might have urged her to approach the cops.
Givens and specialist Cecilia Charron phoned their colleagues for backup, but since no one was available to lend a hand, they decided to remove the wrangle by themselves.
While the frantic mother goose was honking, Charron cut the balloon’s strings and liberated the baby bird. The video’s epilogue showed the young gosling running towards its family of geese and the mother goose followed.
For the whole time, the police officers thought that animals such as geese were scared of humans because of their capability to attack animals, according to Huffington Post.
The rare and touching incident was recorded on video and uploaded on video-sharing site YouTube, flocking nearly 350,000 views. Both officers reaped a flock of salutes from the police department and social media users. Gianna Francesca Catolico
