--Chad Love

You have to love concerned citizens who always look out for kittens stuck in trees, little old ladies crossing the street and swans stuck in pond ice. Swans stuck in pond ice?

From this story on www.heraldsun.com:

British wildlife rescuers who were called out almost 30 times over four days to help free a swan from a frozen pond in southern England urged the public to stop contacting them - because the bird is simply resting. The East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service received 27 reports of a "frozen swan" sitting for hours in the icy Pells Pond in Lewes and were obliged to visit the bird each time the alarm was raised. The charity's founder, Trevor Weeks, thanked onlookers for their concern but said that the bird is actually keeping warm, The Brighton Argus reported.

"Every time we have attended, the swan has not been stuck," he said. Most calls reported that the swan had a leg stuck in the ice, when it was actually tucked under its feathers to keep warm. In over 25 years of undertaking wildlife rescue work, I have never come across a swan properly stuck in ice. It very rarely happens," he added. 

Now I'm no swan, (literally or figuratively) but don't you think a swan, or pretty much any animal, would be smart enough to realize if it were truly becoming a SwanPop? Have any of you ever seen a bird stuck in the ice? I mean in person (or swanson, duckson, whatever...) and not 27th-person heresay? The only animal I can think of dumb or clueless enough to possibly let themselves get trapped in a block of ice would be...us?

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from A Wild Beast at... wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

I had to help a labrador retriever that fell through ice last year in Arkansas, but she was not really stuck into ice.

This is just another sad example of what happens that an ultra-civilized, ultra-urbanized society that completely loses touch with nature.

Please, read my blog at http://awildbeastatheart.blogspot.com

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from vasportsman wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

When I was young my brother and I caught a bullfrog and had him in a bucket with water outside when overnight a cold front moved through and froze him solid. Sucker survived and escaped the next day as I remember.

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from Mibasshunter wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

People are too city smart to know what animal is like while it is resting. That is funny and horrible at the same time.

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from davycrockettfv wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

This reminds of when a woman called 911 (my wife, a dispatcher, answered the call) very concerned because she had just moved to AZ from NY and had heard about coyotes, but had never actually heard one. She thought someone should check on them because they "sound like they're hurt".

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from A Wild Beast at... wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

I had to help a labrador retriever that fell through ice last year in Arkansas, but she was not really stuck into ice.

This is just another sad example of what happens that an ultra-civilized, ultra-urbanized society that completely loses touch with nature.

Please, read my blog at http://awildbeastatheart.blogspot.com

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from vasportsman wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

When I was young my brother and I caught a bullfrog and had him in a bucket with water outside when overnight a cold front moved through and froze him solid. Sucker survived and escaped the next day as I remember.

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from Mibasshunter wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

People are too city smart to know what animal is like while it is resting. That is funny and horrible at the same time.

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from davycrockettfv wrote 14 weeks 3 days ago

This reminds of when a woman called 911 (my wife, a dispatcher, answered the call) very concerned because she had just moved to AZ from NY and had heard about coyotes, but had never actually heard one. She thought someone should check on them because they "sound like they're hurt".

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