Chaotic video of a breastfeeding mother running outside to save a pet goose from a bald eagle has captivated TikTok in the past week.
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Cait Oakley was feeding her youngest before bed recently when she heard her pet goose, Frankie, starting honking frantically outside. She rushed out the front door in her husband’s boxers, with the baby still latched to her chest, and saw an eagle dragging Frankie up the driveway. She ran after them, screaming at the predator to let her pet go.
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Security camera footage of the brief altercation was uploaded to a TikTok account for Frankie run by Oakley’s husband, and soon took off. In less than a week, it’s racked up over 19 million views.
“We have lost 3 chickens in the last week from what I was told was eagles which I believed hawks were preying on them but watch Frankie (our female goose) get taken,” reads the caption. “Mama bear mid breast feeding protecting her sweet Frankie. Officially living at a zoo.”
Fortunately, the incident ended with the eagle letting Frankie go, and the goose wasn’t harmed in the process. But she did gain a whole lot of new fans thanks to the video.
“People are just loving Frankie so much, and I’m just having so much fun with it it’s hilarious,” Cait told Canada’s CHEK News. “I think it’s just such a chaotic unusual thing to see, I mean it’s definitely not something you see every day.”
People in the comments were definitely infatuated with Frankie, and with Cait for snapping into action so quickly.
“The way she was calling for you at the door, smart goose,” wrote @yourtightaunty.
“As a chicken owner clothes are optional when saving them,” @crazy.chickenlady said. “I went after a coyote once. He won’t be back, he’s seen things.”
Another viewer joked that “Not all heroes wear clothes.”
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The Oakleys have continued to share coverage of the incident as well as footage of both Frankie and their other goose, Gerald, to a whole new world of TikTok viewers.
*First Published: May 23, 2022, 11:26 am
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