Please Don't Feed The Vulture
Don't fret, they caught him yesterday. Never mind...
Posted: 22 June 2001
by Jon
If you're thinking of going for a wander in Norfolk this weekend,
watch out for an escaped vulture with an appetite for rectors'
cats...
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Foster, a three-year old African Ruppell's griffin vulture was
spotted, following his flight from Banham zoo on Monday, after he
swooped down on the cleric's pet in a vicarage garden in Southwold. A
bit of a shock for the mog we reckon, given that the big bird has an
eight-foot wingspan and eats carrion and small animals.
Fortunately the cat was unharmed and experts are now attempting to
lure the vulture out of the trees with tasty tidbits, presumably not
tasty tidbits of tiddles mind. Zoo representatives say that Foster is
not dangerous, but should not be fed, so don't go offering him your
dead guinea pigs, hamsters etc.
Walkers, we reckon should be safe, unless they're on the small
side, or dead.
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