LISBON — After a three-month push to finance an emu’s $3,000 journey to a new home in Georgia, Ralphie is on his way. The emu has been in the care of Janet Tuttle at Rockin’ T Equine Sanctuary and Rescue in Lisbon for a decade. Ralphie came there after an animal control officer picked him […]
emu
Posted inMaine
Lisbon woman seeking safe home for emu
LISBON — Janet Tuttle just wants to find Ralphie a proper home. Ralphie, aka “The Bird,” is a 100-pound emu who is almost tall enough to look Tuttle in the eye. Tuttle has cared for Ralphie for about nine years. He escaped May 31, prompting local public safety officials to sound the alert. He was captured the […]
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Lisbon woman hopes to send Maine’s wandering emu to a safe home
LISBON — Janet Tuttle just wants to find Ralphie a proper home. Ralphie, aka “The Bird,” is a 100-pound emu who is almost tall enough to look Tuttle in the eye. Tuttle has cared for Ralphie for about nine years. This month, he escaped, prompting local public safety officials to sound the alert. He was captured […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Missing emu found and now resting in its Lisbon sanctuary
LISBON — A missing emu was found Friday down the road from its home at the the Rockin’ T Equine Sanctuary and Rescue on Edgecomb Road. “I think he was headed back here,” sanctuary owner Janet Tuttle said Friday evening. “He was on our property behind a neighbor’s house. He wasn’t deep in the woods.” […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Have you seen this emu? It escaped from a Lisbon Falls sanctuary
UPDATE: Missing emu found and now resting in its Lisbon sanctuary LISBON — The search was on Thursday for a missing emu, and the huge bird’s handlers could not be more emphatic in their pleas to the public. “IF YOU SEE HIM, DO NOT APPROACH HIM or CHASE HIM,” according to a message on Facebook, posted […]
Posted inFranklin
Maine emu farmer shares his fascination with the bird
FARMINGTON — Richard Merrow wants to share his fascination with large, mild-mannered birds called emus. Merrow and Rita Mathon, formerly of Monmouth, have 13 emus on their farm and a batch of eggs incubating in their Savage Road home. It took a three-year search to find the right property to develop into Birds of a […]