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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		Officials Lasso Maine Emu Who Flew The Coop
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:01:21
	Publish Date:		2018-06-01 12:54:56
	Description:		A 19-year-old emu known as “The Bird” who bolted from his animal sanctuary home in Lisbon two days ago is back where he belongs. Janet Tuttle of the Rockin’ T Equine Sanctuary and Rescue says he was discovered behind her neighbor’s house Friday afternoon, but not before he’d led friends and neighbors on a chase that went back and forth across a river and through the woods. “He had people all through the woods — my granddaughter, my daughter, all the neighbors, firemen and the animal control officer. But I told my husband, I said, ‘They’re not gonna get him because you can’t chase him. You can’t outrun him. He’s smart,’” Tuttle says. She says the 100-pound, ostrichlike bird can run about 30 mph. Tuttle says the only way they were able to capture The Bird is by sneaking up on him, momentarily distracting him and throwing a lasso over his head. “We finally got a rope on him. We put a sheet on his head and he dropped to the ground, ‘cause that’s what he does, and we brought him back down
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