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Last year, California man Ed Gernon adopted a ferel Shepherd-mix named Rex. Rex couldn’t be around other dogs, cats and other small animals were prey.
“He was dangerous,” Gernon told CBS Los Angeles. “He was an animal that had learned to live on the streets and to survive on his own hunting ability, I guess.”
Gernon was shocked, then, when about a month after adopting Rex, the once-ferel, dangerous dog saved the life of a tiny, helpless hummingbird he found barely clinging to life.
“And he suddenly stopped and he would not move,” he recalls. “I mean it’s tiny and it’s dead as far as I’m concerned. It’s covered in ants. It’s got no feathers.”
Upon closer inspection, Gernon learned the tiny bird was, in fact, still alive. Had it not been for Rex’s persistence, the sick bird would never have survived. Gernon nursed the hummingbird back to health and still cares for the tiny bird today, more than a year after Rex found her.
“I rescue this dog. He rescues the bird. The bird rescues all of us in a weird sense and it’s just a miracle,” Gernon said.
Linda Sue Johnston
says:Thank You Thank You Thank You for sharing that is so sweet. I saved a hummer from freezing. It had snowed alot and we wern’t expecting it and when I saw a hummer with her feet frozen to a clump of snow under a bush,I took her in and held her in my hand until she warmed up took her outside and thought she would fly away, it took another 20 minutes before she felt safe to go. The first time I ever saw a hummer was when I saw sun bathing and opened my eyes and it landed on my burnt nose I was so scared I didn’t know what is was so close to my eyes i couldn’tell what it was.