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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums12 miles away, lost parakeet is found thanks to 'power of Facebook'
http://www.omaha.com/article/20140409/NEWS/140408288/1707#12-miles-away-lost-parakeet-is-found-thanks-to-power-of-facebook
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014 AT 12:19 PM / UPDATED AT 12:27 PM
By Joe Dutton / World-Herald News Service
Through the power of social media, a Scottsbluff parakeet has returned home after surviving a week in frigid temperatures.
On March 29, Christa Pelster posted a few pictures and a message on Facebook stating that her beloved parakeet, Flip, had escaped. Pelster said her daughter went outside to pick up her scooter, leaving the door open and the bird flew out the open door.
The bird began to fly north toward Scottsbluff High School. Pelster tried to follow it that evening, but to no avail. She posted on a Scottsbluff garage sale Facebook site for people to keep their eyes open and keep looking up.
My neighbors were even looking around. People I didn't even know started to look, too, she said.
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12 miles away, lost parakeet is found thanks to 'power of Facebook' (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2014
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)1. Yay!
I love birds! Parakeets are the best.
angel823
(409 posts)2. crazy!
but very sweet.
Angel in Texas
raccoon
(31,089 posts)3. My parakeet flew away in the early '80's. Never got him back--glad these people did. nt