The pair are like any other friends cherishing each other's company and a video shows their quality time on the water. They are shown with fishing rods in hand, and Veronika hugging her furry friend.
With fishing rods in hand, Veronika waited for any bites whilst Archie managed to resit the urge to jump in and hunt the food for himself.
Pictured: Archie, a rescued brown bear, together with his owner Veronika Dichka fishing on a boat in Novosibirsk in Russia
‘We heard a faint tapping’: Goose Finds Injured Mate at Wildlife Hospital and Won’t Budge From the Door By Judy Cole -Jul 21, 2021
No one writes romance novels about geese, but maybe they should. Unlike many of their fickle human counterparts, geese mate for life. So, when they honk, “ ’Til death do us part,” they mean it—which would explain why when a Canada goose named Arnold wound up in the hospital, his Mrs. marched up to the threshold demanding visitation rights. The pair of wild geese are longtime residents at a pond close to the Cape Wildlife Center (CWC) in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Though well-known to the facility’s crew, the avian inhabitants have generally declined human interaction, preferring to keep to their own company. When the crew noticed Arnold was limping and injured, however, they stepped in to intervene. After a literal wild goose chase that eventually ended in his capture, an exam revealed the wounded gander had two open fractures on one of his feet, likely caused by an underwater predator. With the webbing and skin pulled away leaving the bones exposed, an operation to repair the damage was in order. The following day, as they were prepping Arnold for surgery, staff members heard a faint, inexplicable tapping at their door. “We turned to see that his mate had waddled up onto the porch and was attempting to break into our clinic,” Cape Wildlife Center posted to their Facebook page. “She had somehow located him and was agitated that she could not get inside.” Once she’d tracked him down, Arnold’s stalwart missus stood watch throughout the entire procedure, refusing to budge from her vantage point by the doors.
Successfully Sews One Stitch in Tiny Tree Frog Whose Lung Was Exposed, Loving ‘all Creatures Great and Small’ In post-op after the successful procedure, Arnold was placed in close proximity to his grateful spouse. The natural order was soon restored as she quickly settled in to attend to the needs of her still-wobbly hubby. “His mate immediately calmed down and began to groom him through the door,” CWC wrote. “They both seemed much more at ease in each other’s presence.”
Although it will take some weeks for Arnold to recuperate, he’s expected to make a full recovery. When he’s deemed sound, the staff will return him to the wild, and then he and his mate can get back to the business of living their honking happily ever after.
We were getting lots of birds around in the trees but since the heavy rains they seem to have gone away, I think they must come into the built up areas for the lakes when their own water supply has dried up. Now the rain is heavy they returned to their own areas.
Sweet little creatures, the Hampsters