It's a chicken, it's a chicken, two ladies on scooters cried as my Mum and I walked up along the path in Kiwanis Park. Sure enough, there it was, an unidentifiable baby chick, just hangin' out. Not one to leave an animal in distress, we looked around to see if there were any others and when there were no relatives in sight, made the executive decision to carry him home. He was incredibly wiggly and affectionate. Tweeted up a storm if he couldn't be near you, crawling up the sleeve of my cousins housecoat as she lay with him in the grass.After a few phone calls to animal control and vet emerg, we were referred to the lovely Brian Salt at Salthaven in Mount Bridges (www.salthaven.org), who graciously accepted this little orphan into the warmth of his incubation room, along with a host of other baby ducks, geese, owls, and hawks, who he was in the process of rescuing, raising, and releasing back into the wild.
Good deeds are hard to come by in this fast-paced world, but Brian is picking up the slack by cleaning up the messes that our modern society leaves behind. If you are an animal lover, or even if you're not, visit the website and thank this lovely man with a donation from their wish list or your pocket book. He gets no government funding, he does this work out of the goodness of his heart - and for that I, and the unidentifiable baby chick, are eternally grateful.
P.S. He turned out to be a wild turkey chick.
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