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March 2001 – Page 15

Pet Raven
by Ray M.

I am retired and live in Japan. Last year I fed many ravens all year, but it seemed strange that when I stepped out through the door no raven could be seen in the sky, on the telephone lines or other houses.

Last October, the vet at the animal clinic at the navy base called me by phone as I had left my number in case they had received a sick or injured bird. I went to the base and picked up the raven they said could not fly. I brought it home and put it in the large cage that I had built. This raven, which I named Kochan, would not eat meat from my hand; I had to put it on the floor of the cage. Every day I would sit inside the cage on a chair trying to be friends with him. I had his perch fixed so I could rest my bare arm there so he could sit on it as a perch and I would talk to him. Through November he would not sit on my arm, and this was the 31st. At the end of the month he was well. The next day, my wife Yukiko (Yuki)  and I were having our morning coffee and I told her that I was going to turn Kochan loose. We went outside and I said to Kochan, "It's time I turn you loose." He jumped on my arm and rubbed his head on my face and neck. I held the meat in my mouth and he gently took it out without biting or pecking me and then spread his wings only half way and trembled, as if he knew that we were going to release him. It seemed like he was saying, "Please don't turn me loose." Of course, I didn't.

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