Maybe Ben Franklin was right.

Maybe the wild turkey SHOULD have been our national bird. Because turkeys tend not to do things like this:

Last month, I received a message on my voice mail regarding a peculiar
incident that took place on Messalonskee Lake. The caller stated that Danny Bam
Bam, a five-pound Yorkshire Terrier, had nearly been abducted, then eaten alive
by a pair of bald eagles. Worse yet, the eagles had attacked the woman who tried
to save him.