from Dana Rocco at the New Rochelle Humane Society:
Do you believe in fate?
In June of this year Gloria lost her beloved parrot, Elvis, in Larchmont. Today a very thin and very tired parrot arrived at the shelter, found in Dobbs Ferry.
Months ago we had taken a lost bird report from Gloria, one sighting then nothing. Until…. within an hour of the parrot’s arrival, Gloria arrived at the shelter on totally unrelated business. Conversation with staff lead to talk of her beloved parrot she had never found. Staff remarked that we had just taken in a parrot, but from Dobbs Ferry area.
Could it be? Upon seeing her old friend, Gloria dissolved into years. A leg band confirmed that this was Gloria’s parrot, Elvis.
I lost a beloved parakeet which flew away in a snow storm. 7 months later he was found several miles away. He had pecked at a window to be let in and the house belonged to my babysitter!!