Our three (now adult) emus – ‘the Emerys’ – are very tame, however their natural curiosity and wanderlust means that we keep them in a big yard of their own. Many blogposts ago, I described how we lost them for a few days because they wandered onto an adjacent farm. So now, when we let them out of their yard, we don’t let them out of our sight.
It’s not an unusual request for me to ask Son to take the Emerys for a walk. He does so rather reluctantly but he is much better than I am at herding them back into their yard after they have eaten all the roses.
jmgoyder 
I love the Emerys, how fun they seem.
Fun and a bit difficult to handle!
They are so cool looking …wow
Wait ’til you see my new chicks – I get them in around 3 weeks!
Awesome , can’t wait ….:)
You got yourself an awesome son there…walking the emus and all 🙂
Yeah, and he doesn’t even like them!
The emus have good taste–they chow down on fragrant, lovely roses.
Hi,
I had to smile whey you mentioned the emus eating the roses, they are amazing aren’t they, they just love to eat anything and everything. 😀
they are gorgeous animals. you are so lucky!!!
quite the outstanding creatures!
Some people walk their dog; some people walk their emus. 😉
I agree with Diana above, and I am glad that Son is helping you too. 🙂
~ Lynda
Eaten all the roses?!? I wouldn’t HAVE it! 🙂 You love those birds like I love tapioca.
So funny because Anthony said on the way up the driveway this morning, ‘Who pruned the roses?”
🙂 They seem so graceful in their gait Julie… like ballerinas! But they eat roses – OMG … how interesting!! Learning so much from your diverse blog xo Sending hugs – hoping your day is brighter today…
Oh, not at all graceful when they run – they sort of zigzag in a knock-kneeish way – hilarious!
🙂
Well that’s a convenient way to deadhead. Do you deadhead roses? 🙂
I am not a gardener – that was Anthony’s role – hehe!
I’m not either, otherwise I’d know the answer to that! 🙂 I have the blackest thumb around… 🙂
They have English tastes, these Emerys
Yes indeed!
Here in Texas, it’s the deer who eat the roses – and about everything else in sight, when you get right down to it. During last year’s drought they were coming into the cities and chowing down on everyone’s irrigated gardens. It was irritating, but clear evidence they’re pretty smart critters.
I have to confess – the very sentence, “Honey, would you take the emus out for a walk?” leaves me in giggles.
We don’t have wild deer here – I didn’t know they, too, like roses – so funny!
Appetites shappetites. Roses make for some lovely munching. (get it? love-ly? roses?) 😛
You are hilarious!
Amazing creatures, I’d love to have some of these wandering round my garden!
Not if you had roses!
How cool to take them for a walk. If I took an emu for a walk where I live, I would definitely get some odd, but amusing stares. It could be fun to see the looks on their faces. Here, all I see are people out walking their dogs.
I need to find (or invent!) a 3-emu-leash and then I could take them for a walk off the property – ha!