Animal Adventures in Real Estate

Howdy! Skoo here – your tiny neighborhood medical alert Yorkie! I may be tiny, but I am mighty! I tour around Bryan-College Station, traveling with Raylene and Heather on their real estate adventures. Most people don’t even know I’m around. I’m a spoiled princess and always tell the truth! Welcome to my blog on life in the Brazos Valley…

Skoo Says: I’m not kidding when I say Raylene is a big animal lover, gigantic really. Her Broker at Century 21 Beal and Heather can attest to how she is always running into unique animal situations.

It all started about 12 years ago… I was on a final walk-through on a home in the country. The Buyer noticed that the chickens were still in the backyard coup and didn’t want them. The Seller was long gone, so to complete the sale I said “cluck it” and took them home. Truth be told, at the time I lived in a subdivision. One day after work I came home to find two of those chickens “nesting” on the top of my roof.  After that, they had to go, but I found a great country home for them.

Since then, there have been a plethora of creatures cross my path: from squirrels, turtles, and rabbits hit by cars, to abandoned puppies, kittens, half-starved dogs, goats, wild birds, abandoned fish in fish tanks, etc, and I do my best to help each time the need arises.  I have even assisted a chicken with a broken leg and a sickly mole. I have the wildlife vet on speed dial! Sadly, the mole didn’t make it, but I do have a pretty good track record otherwise ;D

Recently, I helped a Buzzard. Yep. A Buzzard.

When I arrived home from work, it became apparent that a buzzard had broken his wing (probably from being hit by a car) and had decided to call my backyard his new home.

I already had, at that time, approximately 12 ducks calling my backyard home (a story for another day).  As I have no medical training to repair a wing, and as his beak could easily have removed one of my fingers or one of my kiddo’s hands, it was obvious my backyard was not a good place for him to stay. Thus, I called on my friends at the City of College Station’s Animal Control Division. Within 20 minutes, an officer was on hand to help relocate my new feathered friend. For those of you who don’t know, Animal Control will take injured animals to be evaluated by a veterinary rehabilitation specialist. If the animal is in a condition that can be helped, the animal will be rehabbed! One thing you may not know about buzzards, (I did not know this before this particular adventure) when they get upset, they throw up. And if you think it is yucky and smelly to see your food for a second time, imagine the results this bird can produce as we all know what they just got finished eating. BLAH. To put an end to this long story, I would like to thank the officer who came out and helped me de-buzzard my yard and I would like to thank my husband for helping him do it. I wish the buzzard a smooth recovery and a happy life at his new location.

Scoo says – Be Kind and Carrion…