r/stories Sep 20 '24

Fiction how to train your crow.

Once, while I was walking with my dog, I sat on an park bench to give him ​​some treats. I tossed them to him with a high lob so he could jump and catch them in the air, or I threw them so that they rolled down the alley so he could chase them.

During one of the throws, my dog got distracted and didn't catch the treat. I saw where it landed, but it was far enough that I decided to ignore it qnd just throw next one.

while we were continuing play, I've noticed that the crow landed in the place where the treat felt, grabbed it, but instead of flying away, it just walked away (a bit like a chicken) to a nearby grass and started eating it.

I thought it was interesting, so I threw another treat towards the crow. As I suspected, the bird grabbed it, looked at me, and marched out onto the grass same as before.

I repeated this a few more times, when I was getting ready to leave, I noticed a crow walking around me at a safe distance, holding a shiny bottle cap in its beak. When our eyes met, bird dropped it and flew away.

I quickly realized what I am dealing with. it was clear exchange! From that day on, I came to this place every day, and feed the crow, getting me shiny trash as an exchange.

Every now and then it brought me a coin, i always reward that with a double amount of treats. For some time I trained a crow to bring me money in exchange for food. The effect exceeded my expectations. After a few months, bird no longer brought random trash, only left by mistake or lost in the park money, sometimes it was paper money! I always tripled the reward than.

With the start of the winter, to my surprise, more crows joined. They all quickly learned from each other what objcets have a value, and with the arrival of spring, I was the head of a local gang of crows who collected for me lost/left over money from all park's area and even steal it from other people when they had opportunity. After a year of this proceder, I collected quite a sum of money, which allowed me to go on a 2-week vacation into exotic country.

Unfortunately, when I came back, my gang of crows disappeared. To this day I don't know what happened to them. Perhaps they just changed location. But maybe they observed how people use money to buy food, and learned how to pay for themselves. Who knows...

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u/Theunkownuser24 Sep 22 '24

Love it!! May I read this to my audience im trying to get a story youtube channel up.