Of all the incredulous tales that turn up in the Quad-Cities, none that I know of can match this … A dog falling from the night skies.
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Sadie, a petite-sized Pomeranian, landed next to a Davenport street last weekend after surviving a flight of about two miles, clutched in the talons of a great horned owl.
As the owl flies, Sadie’s flight covered between 24 to 30 city blocks. She was scruffed up, but suffered nothing worse than bruises and a broken tail.
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“I had stopped for the sign at East 29th and College when this dog came flying out of the sky right in front of my Jeep — right out of the sky,” says Jamie Padden, Davenport. “It dropped out of nowhere.”
The owl followed, ready to snatch back its lost snack.
Padden was horror-struck to see the little dog scrambling to get away.
“I opened my car door and ran screaming at that owl,” she says. “It was after the dog.
“That owl was so big I swear that its wings spread halfway across the street. That sounds overdramatic, but it’s true.”
Sadie has been returned to her home and is recovering from her near lunch experience.
Great Horned Owls are HUGE! Two feet tall from the perch to top of the head, they regularly snatch up rabbits and skunks in the wild. A cat or small dog in suburbia would pose no problem.
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When I was a young girl, we almost lost our little dog to an owl. She was walking with us down the country road on a pleasant evening and my dad had to chase the owl off and carry our little pup!
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