CINCINNATI, May 11 (UPI) — A mother goose knocked on the door of a Cincinnati police cruiser in her search for help for a gosling tangled in a Mother’s Day balloon string.
Cincinnati police Sgt. James Givens said he initially thought the goose was hungry Monday when she came pecking at the door of his cruiser.
“It kept pecking and pecking and normally they don’t come near us. Then it walked away and then it stopped and looked back so I followed it and it led me right over to the baby that was tangled up in all that string,” Givens told WKRC-TV.
Givens said no one was available from the local SPCA, so he and Specialist Cecilia Charron set about helping the gosling, which was caught in the string of a Mother’s Day balloon among some litter near a creek.
“Well [Charron] has a couple of kids of her own and I guess that motherly instinct must’ve kicked in because it was like they communicated. The mother goose didn’t bother her,” Givens said. “So Specialist Charron came and untangled it. It took her a while because it was all wrapped up.”
Givens captured video of the rescue and posted it to Facebook.