Welcome to our newest member…
Assisi Animal Association
Covid combined with personal health conditions, wrecked my normal career life as a Commercial Instructor Pilot. So I have now started what I was intending to do much later in life, closer to retirement. That is, Assisi Animal Association.
Something I have not included on my website is descriptions of some of my more unusual animal encounters. As it can be seen, I have always been very close to animals.
Here are some examples of what I mean;
It's not unusual for me to stop on the path and offer to help strangers who have problems controlling their dogs.
My first dog was a Blue Heeler when I was 2 years old and I remember him very well.
My second dog was a labrador who lived for 15 years. His discipline and training success for many things was amazing.
I have had 5 cats and currently have 2 of them. One of my previous cats saved me from a house fire before choosing to escape. He could have jumped out of the window any time he liked, but waited until I was on my feet. He woke me up from smoke inhalation by persistently scratching and biting me all over. I was bleeding everywhere from his bites and scratches and thick smoke was everywhere. His name was Patch.
My first ever job was helping out at the local dog obedience school at the age of 12. I seemed to have unusual success with angry and frightened dogs.
A Tawny Frogmouth owl use to fly down and sit beside me on the bus stop seat every night. He would return to me with the mice that he caught, to eat them beside me. He even offered me one of them one day.
The leader of a wild horse herd in the outback desert approached me for a scratch on the nose and then they all ran away.
I once let a wild goanna jump up and onto my head so he could look around for his prey. He then jumped down and chased after something he saw.
I rescued an injured Nankeen Kestral. He was operated on by a veterinary surgeon and an aeronautical engineer. He was then rehabilitated and returned to the wild. I subsequently heard that he always visited the home of his volunteer rehabilitator.