From the town of Buckley, Washington.

Bill Rattray has a pet he never wanted. But it seems the pet has found an owner it wants.

“I looked out the window and it was an emu sitting in my backyard,” Rattray said. “It’s kind of the oddest thing to happen. I was thinking, “They don’t fly or nothing so how did it get in my backyard?’”

Rattray closed his yard gate and called animal control. But he was told animal control officers don’t deal with emus.

Rattray is now trying to find out whether the bird had a previous owner. If so, he says, he’d love to reconnect the bird with its rightful owner.

“Obviously, if you’re missing an emu, you’re going to know it’s missing,” he said. “I don’t want it. I don’t have the facility for it.”

Rattray’s neighbors say the emu has been prancing up and down the street for about a week, even peering in their windows.

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