This is a story of a beautiful little bird out cruising the blue skies on a beautiful Summer evening in Las Vegas. 

To set the stage, I should tell you that I leave my doors open AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. 

So here is this sweet little bird out for a little prospecting.  He happens to fly into my house as I'm pouring coffee... Seriously, about 20 minutes ago (7 pm PST 8-1-07).

First he gets stuck behind my couch so I closed all the bedroom/bathroom doors & opened all of my house doors and windows to help the little dude escape.

After about 10 minutes, I help him fly out my living room window.  He seems to be in shock a little bit, so I grabbed my camera to take his picture (to show my husband... and of course all of you guys)!

Unfortunately I scared him & he flew into the french door to my master bedroom & collapses on the ground.  In 3 seconds FLAT, he's in the mouth of this guy! - - - - - - - - >

This is Chance, our rescue dog.  He thought he died and went to Doggy Heaven!! 

I assure you, he dropped that bird on my command!

So I pick up the bird to make sure he's OK (well as Ok as a bird can be after his "near death" experience).

He sat in my hand for about 15 seconds and flew up into the tree.

Right now he's still in the tree... Chance is still positioned in the backyard waiting for him to miraculously fall to the ground again. 

This is the "other" obstacle for this cute little bird.  Doesn't he look guity??  This is Smokey!  He was an innocent bystander... Only because Chance was SUPERMAN like FAST!

The tree behind him is where the bird is currently taking refuge. 

So, the next time you're having a bad day prospecting... remember, it could be worse.

You could be this sweet little bird taking flight in the beautiful Las Vegas skies only to fly into the home of these two guys & the mouth of a rescue dog named Chance!