{"id":2723,"date":"2012-08-17T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2012-08-17T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:57:33","slug":"pepino-the-dalmation-pelican-a-story-of-his-rescue-and-return-to-the-wilds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/pepino-the-dalmation-pelican-a-story-of-his-rescue-and-return-to-the-wilds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepino the Dalmation Pelican (A story of his rescue and return to the wilds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! I&#8217;ve lost my bearings<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure where to go<br \/>\nI think that I&#8217;ve reached Urmia<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sort of in the flow<br \/>\nBut now I&#8217;m in a garden<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t a safe place<br \/>\nthe people here are aggressive<br \/>\nraised voices, and his face<br \/>\nis bloated, very puffy eyes<br \/>\nIt just does not feel good<br \/>\nI think he wants to sell<br \/>\nme in the market<br \/>\nso I should<\/p>\n<p>get out of here, and quickly<br \/>\nthe neighbour seems to be<br \/>\na kinder looking gentle man<br \/>\nas far as I can see<br \/>\nand his face is smooth<br \/>\nand clear to me<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a vegan I believe<br \/>\nHe does not see me as some food<br \/>\nbut a friend, so to achieve<br \/>\na haven in his arms<br \/>\nwould be the thing, I need to go<br \/>\nFor I need to get some primaries<br \/>\nin a month or so, they&#8217;ll grow<br \/>\nso I need to be looked after<br \/>\nget some nice fresh fish<br \/>\nand this man took me to his friend<br \/>\nand he gave me a dish<br \/>\ndogs and cats were all around<br \/>\nhe looked after strays<br \/>\nbut agreed that I could stay<br \/>\naround<br \/>\nfor just about 10 days<br \/>\nand so he nursed me gently<br \/>\nfed me every day<br \/>\nlooked after me just like a friend<br \/>\nand Lone Wolf, I heard him say<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d take me off to Kaani Borazon<br \/>\na place where Boars<br \/>\nran about, a fine wetland<br \/>\nwith gentle sloping shores<br \/>\nsome really lovely tasty fish<br \/>\nthe Perch, the Carp and Rudd<br \/>\nEels and the odd Catfish<br \/>\nand small fry in the mud<\/p>\n<p>He went away and left me<br \/>\nbut I knew this place was wild<br \/>\nmy instinct once again kicked in<br \/>\nI mean I&#8217;m not a child<br \/>\nI have the basic knowledge<br \/>\nand Yes, I can get by<br \/>\nand Wait now for my primaries to<br \/>\ngrow, so I can fly<\/p>\n<p>Then I can join some family birds<br \/>\nand migrate to beyond<br \/>\nperhaps to fly to India<br \/>\nwith my kind, I can bond<br \/>\nIt goes to show the man tribe<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s different sorts around<br \/>\nsome have bad vibrations<br \/>\nand some like Lone, I found<br \/>\nare gentle caring loving souls<br \/>\nwho realize that we<br \/>\nare earthlings just like they are<br \/>\nexcept of course we be<br \/>\neating fish and flying<br \/>\nand swimming in the sea<\/p>\n<p>He called me his &#8220;Pepino&#8221;<br \/>\nthese humans all have names<br \/>\nI mean I had to humour him<br \/>\ngo along with his games<br \/>\nBut Pelicans are royal birds<br \/>\nand Neptune is our king<br \/>\nThe Albatross, and us Pelicans<br \/>\nhave a real large span of wing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepino the injured Pelican that fell into a garden in Urmia was found looked after and taken back to the wetland and the wild <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/pepino-the-dalmation-pelican-a-story-of-his-rescue-and-return-to-the-wilds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}