Warrenton turkey named USB-Cable goes missing before being pardoned
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- What do you call a turkey that goes missing? USB-Cable apparently.
Warrenton's mayor Henry Balensifer took to Facebook Wednesday morning to share that a local turkey named USB-Cable, who was set to be pardoned, had gone missing.
USB-Cable, a 4-H bird belonging to a local Warrenton family, was originally intended to be sold at the local county fair, but when he failed to meet weight regulations, he was brought back home.
“One of my sisters, two, came up with it and the owner of it — my other sister — took her name and plopped it on USB-Cable,” Cenzo Bigda said. “She named it something so she wouldn’t get attached, and that just stuck, I guess.”
The Bigda family planned to prepare him for their Thanksgiving meal, but quickly discovered he had developed a special relationship with their small herd of goats.
“What’s funny is they [the goats] don’t accept one of our newer goats. We have two older ones, and they don’t accept fully an old goat, but they took him in like he was just a baby goat basically,” Bigda said.
According to Bigda, USB-Cable had an affinity for jumping on top of things, just like his goat friends. He even made fast friends with the family’s pig.
“He ate like the goats. He ate like the pig sometimes. And he was oddly clean…and he jumped on the goats backs many times,” Bigda said. “He was just chilling. He liked all the goats. He was just happy he made it through fair.”
To honor this relationship, the family planned to pardon him from their annual meal.
But after a recent wind storm damaged a fence around the home, Bigda said it looked like USB-Cable had found his way out. Police found no evidence of “fowl” play.
“Hopefully he’s somewhere gobbling up all this extra attention,” Bigda said.
Warrenton police are still looking for USB Cable. Anyone who knows his whereabouts is encouraged to contact law enforcement.
Bigda said he hopes his family's turkey is living his best life, adding that if anyone were to find him, his only request is that they "don't eat him."