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A lone chicken ended up in Samantha Scherer\u2019s yard Friday evening. A lone chicken ended up in Samantha Scherer\u2019s yard Friday evening. <\/p>\n
After safely guiding it into her fenced-off back yard, Scherer and her husband left it some Cheerios.<\/p>\n
Scherer said she has two dogs; otherwise, she\u2019d let the animal inside.<\/p>\n
However, the chicken apparently got a bit rattled by Scherer\u2019s dogs, because by Saturday, it turned up at her next-door neighbour\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure enough, there\u2019s this chicken in the yard\u2014(so) we corralled it into the back yard,\u201d said Dana Jones.<\/p>\n
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Runaway chicken, Oct. 3, 2026 The runaway chicken eventually escaped its first yard, and turned up in the yard of neighbour Dana Jones. <\/p>\n
That prompted the question of who do you tell when there\u2019s a lost chicken in your back yard?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe called Fish and Wildlife,\u201d Jones said, \u201cbut a chicken gets a peace officer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones said the chicken staged a second jailbreak, escaping onto her front lawn, but between her, her boyfriend and the peace officer — who, it turns out, grew up on a farm and was a bit of a chicken whisperer — they were able to corral the freedom-loving fowl into a a kennel cage in order to transport it to the local SPCA.<\/p>\n
Jones said the chicken was well hydrated — she gave it water and some crackers before it departed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were glad it was picked up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
All of which begs a follow-up question: if no one claims it, do people adopt chickens?<\/p>\n
\u201cI would guess so,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThey have goats and stuff come in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was 19 in Red Deer, I volunteered at the Humane Society,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we had people who brought in lost goats.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever in a million years did I think I\u2019d be babysitting a lost chicken, but there you go!\u201d<\/p>\n
CTV News has reached out to the Calgary Humane Society for comment.<\/p>\n
With files from CTV News\u2019 Camilla Di Giuseppe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A runaway chicken has been taken into custody in East Calgary. The wayward chicken turned up at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-920617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}