Chicken adopts Lake City girl, now they’re buds

Della Munnich was strolling through her downtown Coeur d’Alene neighborhood earlier this year when she saw something a little out of the ordinary. “I was walking down this alley and I thought, ‘Is that..? No it can’t be. It’s a chicken in a tree,’” she said Thursday afternoon. “I came home and I told my husband, ‘There is a chicken living in a tree.’” As an animal advocate, Munnich was delighted to see the chicken on her neighborhood wanderings. It would hop down from a low-hanging pine branch to greet her or accept a gift of tasty chicken feed.

Then one day, Munnich witnessed something that made her animal-loving heart melt. “This little girl was with the chicken,” she said. “She would be holding it and then it would go back to the tree periodically, then it would follow her around. Then it would fly up to the window sill on the house, just watching her.” The chicken has adopted 8-year-old Nevaeh Laskey as her best friend, and for Nevaeh, the feeling is mutual/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Have you owned an unusual pet?