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Ash Holbrook says the therapeutic animal brings her peace and makes her "feel good and not alone". (Source: Family Photo / KOCO / CNN)
OKLAHOMA (KOCO / CNN / RNN) – After a pigeon, the certified emotional support animal for a Texas autistic woman, flew away, the two were reunited, thanks to a good Samaritan.
Ash Holbrook, the owner of the pigeon, broke down when his best friend and support animal Geraldine was returned to him Monday night.
Geraldine, wearing a pink diaper, went off while Holbrook and her mother were hitching a trailer to a horse match in Oklahoma City.
The family says the pigeon comes back normally when they let it out. However, they think the four-hour drive from her home in Sherman, Texas, makes her confused, according to KFOR.
Instead of returning, Geraldine sailed away.
"It was so weird," Holbrook told KFOR. "She got up very high, flew and took off, it was so weird."
Holbrook, whose KFOR reports that she was diagnosed with autism later in life, and her family worried about Geraldine because she would not know her environment in Oklahoma City.
But the good Samaritan Delores Chavez spotted the pigeon – thanks to its pink diaper – and returned it to the family.
Holbrook and Geraldine normally spend every moment of their time together, according to KFOR. The woman lifted the bird, which was badly injured when she received it last year from a vet in Oklahoma City.
Holbrook told KFOR that the therapeutic animal brings her peace and makes her feel good and not alone.
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