In Highland Village, a routine morning at Him.Barber took an unexpected turn when an unusual visitor was spotted at the front window. Employees saw a colorful bird perched on the windowsill and figured he was far from home, so they jumped into action.
Barber Luke Spitzer said, “I originally took a kolache one of our barbers got, and put it up on the windowsill. And he was sort of nibbling at it.” After getting a few nibbles, he lured the bird onto a booster chair and brought it inside.
The Bird’s Big Escape
At first, employees thought the bird couldn’t fly; they were wrong. Video posted to social media shows the moments the bird, later identified as Bosco, took flight around the salon, and chaos followed.
Shop owner Genti Rifati said the initial flight was alarming, but cooler heads prevailed. “A lot of the younger kids are freaking out, screaming in their first reaction to flying,” he said, “But then I’m like, guys, it’s just like a pet, right?”
Eventually, Bosco settled on Genti’s arm and quickly made himself at home. He perched on employees’ shoulders and made friends with staff and visitors.
As staff waited for animal control to arrive, they shared videos of the unexpected visitor on social media, including a clip of employees dancing with the friendly bird. Those posts changed everything.
One of the salon employees shared the videos on Snapchat, where they eventually reached a teenager who immediately recognized Bosco as her family’s missing bird. “Someone messaged him and said, ‘Hey, I think you guys have my bird,'” Rifati recalled. “She’d been looking for him all night.”
Bosco’s owner, Kristen Bratton, said the curious Quaker parakeet had escaped the night before through a doggy door at her home. She spent hours searching neighborhoods, posting online and hoping he’d return.
“I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning looking for him,” Bratton said. “I did not think I was going to see him again.”
Then her 17-year-old daughter received a Snapchat from a friend who works at the salon. The family rushed over.
When Bratton walked through the door, Bosco flew straight back to her. “Out of all the people he could have ended up with, he ended up with someone my daughter knew,” Bratton said. “That is the crazy part.”
Original reporting: Dallas TX News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
