dudeone Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Chicken saves family from house fire Published Saturday, Dec 29 2012, 7:50am EST | By Charlotte Grant-West http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a447594/chicken-saves-family-from-house-fire.html A chicken has saved a family from a house fire. Dennis Murawska and his wife were woken early in the morning at their home in Alma Center, Wisconsin, by their pet chicken Cluck Cluck. A fire had started in the garage and their smoke detectors failed to w ork. At 6.15am yesterday (December 27), the couple fled the house before the fire reached them. Firefighters later saved the chicken, who had alerted its owners with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below. "The chicken gets quite vocal when she gets excited," said Murawska. Chief fireman of Alama Center told The AP: "We are used to hearing about a dog or cat or something, but we never heard of a chicken waking up a resident for a fire, that's pretty amazing." Cluck Cluck came from a nearby farm and began wandering over to Murawska's house. His neighbor said he could kill it for meat because it had failed to produce eggs and had a mutated foot. However, Murawska kept the chicken as a pet and built a coop. He and his wife even let it sleep in their basement on cold nights. Murawska, 59, said: "I spent way more money than I ever should've. I guess it paid off." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Ed Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Cluck cluck the chicken. Who would have thought. Somebody give that bird a medal! And perhaps a little hot sauce we haven't missed that fire quite just yet there billy bob joe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Chicken saves family from house fire Published Saturday, Dec 29 2012, 7:50am EST | By Charlotte Grant-West http://www.digitalsp...house-fire.html A chicken has saved a family from a house fire. Dennis Murawska and his wife were woken early in the morning at their home in Alma Center, Wisconsin, by their pet chicken Cluck Cluck. A fire had started in the garage and their smoke detectors failed to w ork. At 6.15am yesterday (December 27), the couple fled the house before the fire reached them. Firefighters later saved the chicken, who had alerted its owners with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below. "The chicken gets quite vocal when she gets excited," said Murawska. Chief fireman of Alama Center told The AP: "We are used to hearing about a dog or cat or something, but we never heard of a chicken waking up a resident for a fire, that's pretty amazing." Cluck Cluck came from a nearby farm and began wandering over to Murawska's house. His neighbor said he could kill it for meat because it had failed to produce eggs and had a mutated foot. However, Murawska kept the chicken as a pet and built a coop. He and his wife even let it sleep in their basement on cold nights. Murawska, 59, said: "I spent way more money than I ever should've. I guess it paid off." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etsen3 Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Was the chicken really consciously trying to alert the owners? Or was it just clucking out of fear/excitement which just happened to wake the owners up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainly Mattias Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 glad they saved the chicken. noisy things, chickens. my cousin had one as a pet too. always teased her that we'd eat it. Was the chicken really consciously trying to alert the owners? Or was it just clucking out of fear/excitement which just happened to wake the owners up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobble Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Neat story, but it's not like the chicken went into the room and started pecking them until they were awake. It just played the role of a smoke detector. Which was lucky considering their real detector was broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 I cannot prove it , but i believe that you are rewarded for acts of kindness and empathy , not all the time , but sometimes . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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