In Highland Village, a routine morning at Him.Barber started like any other, but took an unexpected turn when an unusual visitor was spotted at the front window.<\/p>\n
Employees saw a colorful bird perched on the windowsill and figured he was far from home, so they jumped into action. <\/p>\n
” I originally took a kolache one of our barbers got, and put it up on the windowsill. And he was sort of nibbling at it,” said barber Luke Spitzer. After getting a few nibbles, he lured the bird onto a booster chair and brought it inside.<\/p>\n
At first, employees thought the bird couldn’t fly; they were wrong.<\/p>\n
Video posted to social media shows the moments the bird, later identified as Bosco, took flight around the salon, and chaos followed.<\/p>\n
Shop owner Genti Rifati said the initial flight was alarming, but cooler heads prevailed. <\/p>\n
” A lot of the younger kids are freaking out, screaming in their first reaction to flying,” he said, “But then I’m like, guys, it’s just like a pet, right?”<\/p>\n
Eventually, Bosco settled on Genti’s arm and quickly made himself at home. <\/p>\n
He perched on employees’ shoulders and made friends with staff and visitors. As staff waited for animal control to arrive, they shared videos of the unexpected visitor on social media, including a clip of employees dancing with the friendly bird. <\/p>\n
Those posts changed everything. <\/p>\n
One of the salon employees shared the videos on Snapchat, where they eventually reached a teenager who immediately recognized Bosco as her family’s missing bird.<\/p>\n
“Someone messaged him and said, ‘Hey, I think you guys have my bird,'” Rifati recalled. “She’d been looking for him all night.”<\/p>\n
Bosco’s owner, Kristen Bratton, said the curious Quaker parakeet had escaped the night before through a doggy door at her home. She spent hours searching neighborhoods, posting online and hoping he’d return.<\/p>\n
“I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning looking for him,” Bratton said. “I did not think I was going to see him again.”<\/p>\n
Then her 17-year-old daughter received a Snapchat from a friend who works at the salon.<\/p>\n
The family rushed over.<\/p>\n
When Bratton walked through the door, Bosco flew straight back to her.<\/p>\n
“Out of all the people he could have ended up with, he ended up with someone my daughter knew,” Bratton said. “That is the crazy part.”<\/p>\n
For the employees at Him.Barber, what started as an ordinary workday turned into an unforgettable rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Highland Village, a routine morning at Him.Barber started like any other, but took an unexpected turn when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,18837],"class_list":["post-360387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}