Feathered friends! Magical moment dog rescues confused bird that flew into a Connecticut home and couldn’t get out again by carefully catching it in his mouth and releasing it outside
- Dog performed a gentle catch and release on a bird trapped inside a home
- Gus, a Labrador-Pyrenees mix, held the creature in its mouth and took it outside
- He then let the bird fly away, who headed towards to trees
- Owner Jennifer Ahleberg filmed the encounter and said Gus is ‘very skilled’
This is the magical moment a dog rescued a bird that had flew into his home and couldn’t find it’s way back out.
Jennifer Ahleberg filmed Gus, a Labrador-Pyrenees mix, who she said has become ‘adept at the gentle catch and release’ after several birds got themselves stuck in her Connecticut home over the years.
In the footage, the bird helplessly flaps around around the room hitting into glass windows as it desperately tries to escape.
When a bird became trapped in this Connecticut home, owner Jennifer Ahleberg instructed her clever canine Gus (left) to ‘take it outside.’ The Labrador-Pyrenees mix carefully caught the bird in his mouth and headed outside (right)
But after Jennifer instructs Gus to ‘take it outside,’ he springs into action, picking it up off the ground and gently holding the bird in his mouth.
From there, he carefully walks out of the house onto wooden decking where lets the creature go.
The pair then watch as the bird flaps its way to freedom, gleefully heading towards the trees at the end of the yard.
Jennifer said: ‘He is somehow able to trap and catch the bird without injuring it and then he brings the bird outside and lets it go.
‘Gus is very skilled at the gentle catch and release!’
Once on the wooden decking (left) Gus then opened his mouth and let the bird go (right) and the pair watched it fly away