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Grieving Mau-Mau may take new lover
Thursday, April 17, 2003
BY BILL SWAYZE
Star-Ledger Staff
Call it emu matchmaking.
Angela Cook has a lonely female emu named Honey, whose partner died just 10 days ago when it was struck by a truck after getting out of its pen in McMichaels, Pa.
Ron Hamilton has a sad male emu named Mau-Mau, whose mate, Mimi, was killed Sunday in similar fashion on Route 80.
Mau-Mau is 5 years old, 80 pounds and has a swift kick. Honey is 9 years old, 130 pounds and is very shy.
A love connection? Only time will tell, as Cook and Hamilton plan to talk about making the two big birds an item to lift their spirits, they said yesterday. Cook said she is willing to part with her bird, if Mau-Mau meets Honey's high standards.
"She's almost lost without her buddy. This is some emu saga. I would rather that she be with another male," Cook said. "They (the Hamiltons) will have to e-mail me some pictures of him."
Hamilton said he is interested in the idea of making a match, but he said he still needs time to deal with Mimi's death. But "I will talk to her," he said.
Hamilton's Mimi flew the coop at his log yard off Berkshire Valley Road in Roxbury -- the birds' happy home for two years -- and ultimately ran into the eastbound lane of the highway, into a trailer pulled behind Michael Egan's 2002 Dodge Durango. She was launched back into the center median, where she died. Egan, of Chester, N.Y., was not injured, but his small trailer suffered a small dent.
The Hamiltons said they believe kids deliberately opened the 15,000-square-foot pen sometime before he arrived there at 2 p.m. Mau-Mau, who also got out and was retrieved, has been lost without his mate of five years, he said.
"There's hope," his wife, Jackie Hamilton added. "I don't want Mau-Mau to die because he's broken-hearted."
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Thursday, April 17, 2003
BY BILL SWAYZE
Star-Ledger Staff
Call it emu matchmaking.
Angela Cook has a lonely female emu named Honey, whose partner died just 10 days ago when it was struck by a truck after getting out of its pen in McMichaels, Pa.
Ron Hamilton has a sad male emu named Mau-Mau, whose mate, Mimi, was killed Sunday in similar fashion on Route 80.
Mau-Mau is 5 years old, 80 pounds and has a swift kick. Honey is 9 years old, 130 pounds and is very shy.
A love connection? Only time will tell, as Cook and Hamilton plan to talk about making the two big birds an item to lift their spirits, they said yesterday. Cook said she is willing to part with her bird, if Mau-Mau meets Honey's high standards.
"She's almost lost without her buddy. This is some emu saga. I would rather that she be with another male," Cook said. "They (the Hamiltons) will have to e-mail me some pictures of him."
Hamilton said he is interested in the idea of making a match, but he said he still needs time to deal with Mimi's death. But "I will talk to her," he said.
Hamilton's Mimi flew the coop at his log yard off Berkshire Valley Road in Roxbury -- the birds' happy home for two years -- and ultimately ran into the eastbound lane of the highway, into a trailer pulled behind Michael Egan's 2002 Dodge Durango. She was launched back into the center median, where she died. Egan, of Chester, N.Y., was not injured, but his small trailer suffered a small dent.
The Hamiltons said they believe kids deliberately opened the 15,000-square-foot pen sometime before he arrived there at 2 p.m. Mau-Mau, who also got out and was retrieved, has been lost without his mate of five years, he said.
"There's hope," his wife, Jackie Hamilton added. "I don't want Mau-Mau to die because he's broken-hearted."
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