'This was probably the easiest catch I've ever had,' said the animal control officer who was called to the scene.
PRINCETON, New Jersey -- An animal control officer was called out to rescue a parrot in Princeton, New Jersey.It all started when a concerned citizen named Tim Lynch spotted what appeared to be a parrot in a wooded area on Wednesday.He snapped a photo and sent it to his nephew, a sergeant, in the Princeton Police Department.
Concerned, especially because of the poor weather, the sergeant urgently dispatched Animal Control Officer Jim Ferry to rescue the parrot."The two of us were walking back there not wanting to scare away it so it flies away, and as we get closer I'm thinking 'oh my gosh, this poor thing is dead,'" Lynch said."We're about two feet away, he's about to throw the net over it, and he goes 'it's fake.
"We have a saying in Animal Control that a sick or injured animal is very easy to catch, and this was probably the easiest catch I've ever had," Ferry said.He brought it back Princeton police department in a cage.