Except the warmth and safety of her home. She refused to share that. Although the dog and cat were given these life-saving gifts.

​@rockit3422 what a ridiculous uninformed comment. The crow is a wild bird, only a terrible person would trap her inside a house when she's obviously healthy and uninjured. She doesn't require anything nature doesn't provide. Dogs and cats are domestic animals that can't survive well on their own in the wild, Crows can. Wild animals should never be removed from their natural habitat unless they absolutely need a humans care for injury or illness and they can't survive otherwise. Even then, they should be released as soon as they are well. Very few situations require a wild creature to remain permanently under the care of a human. Healthy wild birds do not belong in houses. They need to fly free and live amongst their own species in their natural habitat to remain truly happy and healthy.

What you are forgetting is that a dog and a cat are domesticated pets. A free-living crow has a boundless freedom that no domestic animal can have. And it has its flock of conspecifics. Kaley has given Darling this freedom and has not interfered with nature. You have to choose sides...

I think that was right. There was something off about Darling, baby minded, never grew up. Was never observant enough for the flock. She was dropped there by the parents and she would have been too cooped up in the house. She was treated as her parents would have wanted. Don't be angry.@@rockit3422

@@rockwell1558 I disagree with you, and I note a contradiction in what you say. Kindly note that cats and dogs are not born domesticated and so they need to be trained to be domesticated, although the level of domesticating intensities differ from animal to animal dependending on their current living environment and their natural level of psychology. Crows are definitely not as amenable to domestication as cats, dogs and rabbits are - this is pretty obvious; however, in the case of Darling this crow's affinity towards human love and affection was indeed very much pronounced owing to the fact that she was an orphan crow whom Kayley greatly helped by making a nesting home for her. It is my belief that Darling sensed Kayley's help and reciprocally manifested her deep gratitude to her by continuing to stay in the family's immediate environment and befriending Sam the dog and Gigi the cat. Darling was definitely looking for a warm and loving home with her human parents - this is not to say that she was to be permanently imprisoned within the home of her human parents but to have the opportunity to return to her human home. So why couldn't the family allow her to stay in their home and to be accommodated in a bird cage. If this were not passible for reasons whatsoever, then the least that the family could have done was to have built a bird house for her outside the house - this would have protected Darling from predators. All I can say is that this family failed to go the extra step by safeguarding Darling by giving her a secure home to live in. This is the painful tragedy to all of us who love and care for animals.

Yeah I was the same I knew it was going to end sadly but even the short amount of time they all had together would of been 10 lifetime experiences in a short period I hope darling is in crow heaven r.i.p you were one special bird

Exactly. I braced myself...but - no good. I've tamed 2 feral cats 2 different times...out here in the Blue Ridge mountains. They each went from Wild and ferocious, to loving and tame. Then they each disappeared, independent of each other. I tell myself that they wandered off and found a loving partner. But I know that coyotes are smart and hungry, here in these mountains. I never tried to keep the cats inside when they wanted to be out and running free. Each one had his own personality. Each one affected me deeply and enriched my life, just like all my domestic pets have always done.

.....('In-My Opinion'-!?-'Any'- 'Interaction'!-W/'Nature'- is like a brief 'Touch'!?- from the hand of God-!?))//-!!!

The idea of her being eaten by a bird of prey is really horrific. I have a family of crows that I give treats to in our backyard. I was devastated when their nest was ransacked one year.

​@@Wayniesgirl Hawks don't go after crows, usually crows bother hawks even one on one. In my area crows bombdive hawks everytime they see one. Maybe just maybe darling went to another family that would allow her in or she passed because it was her time to go.

Me too; I just had something in my eye. lol. What an amazing experience, so beautiful. May God rest her soul. x

66 yr old man here. Same.

I was actually cutting onions when I watched this video, so, there's that😂❤

I was crying 😭😭🥹

Respected Darling was a wild animal. Right , the crow pleaded to be let inside and after the crow gave her something special she wouldn't let the crow in, especially at night. Sad ending to a preventable situation if I ever seen one.

mean people suck

Firearms should be illegal. Why do ordinary citizens need them anyway. It makes me furious.

If you are from the United States, read the Constitution. If you are not, ask your masters. @@titicatfollies6615

That is very tragic. I am sorry for the loss of your crow friend.

@@titicatfollies6615 Say that when a 6'3 man breaks into your house with a knife.

god bless ur soul

I do not recollect reading about Darling's demise. Perhaps Darling is not dead and has relocated to another region after having found a new human and / or crow family. All the same may Almighty God care, protect and feed our beautiful Darling.

I'm so sorry

​@@rolandfernandez9529Bro what😂

She should’ve let the bird inside where it’s safe

​@@Reav052Was thinking that too

😢❤

I'm sure they miss you too, Nancy.

🥹❤️

Beautiful

Ironically I read your comment as she said that! What a blessing ❤

You missed the "dimension" of this story.

@@marcelbork92 oh, yes! This is so right... I missed the essence of that dimension for so long. But the thing is - it was meant to be, as I had to miss it to get it. Well, it costs... but the experience of missing it and getting it is the whole point. Just wait for it... it will come (only) when you are ready. 👍🌅

⁠@@miglena2sboom. That hit hard for lil Marcel. Well returned my friend, well returned. ❤

Easy to understand and agree with. Those birds are brilliant and make u feel like something hard to explain.

the title was a giveaway though

Fuck man, you hit the nail on the head haha just keep scrolling the pain away

I know, I’m still crying 10 minutes later 😅

😂That's exactly what I came here to comment. This is a life/experience most of us will never be able to have. Crows (corvids in general) are amazing!

Weirdo. You believe everything on youtube.

How long did she live for?

Kinda made me wanna move to Canada for a second. Only a second. The next second, I remembered how much I hate the cold 😭

It's like she is living in a studio ghibli movie.

WHAT HAPPENED to the crow?

@@hannypressley343 I don't think that they know. Darling seemed to just disappear and not return.

@@sashasabbeth6836 So they think she passed ? Soo sadd..What ever is written i couldn't read

Yeah. Dark chocolate bitter sweet metaphorically speaking =(. I envy Kalie. I wish i had this connection with a wild animal 😍 😊.

@@hannypressley343 Taken by a bigger, stronger bird of prey

Beautiful comment

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WELL SAID

Sounds like you have a true friend in her.

I am jealous! I want a crow friend.What a blessing💗🥰💗

I hope you have years and years with her🙏🙏

May I ask what you feed your Crow Queen? There is a murder of crows nearby that gather near our apartment building’s dumpster. I talk to them on occasion and have wanted to befriend them. Would love to know what you have found your crow friend’s food preference to be.

I hope you well survived the 'flying-training'

Did you buckle down and run across your yard and start flapping your wings to teach them how to fly?

Toppins a bag

How does a human teach a bird to fly ?

@@chamonix2602 sounds like a good book-title... genre: science-fiction.

That was a one in one million crows indeed 😊🙏✨🐦‍⬛✨

@@apepchoko This is a story is about this beautiful crow in the name of Darling and not about the domestication of animals. This was a miraculous story that happens once in a thousand life times. We humans are called to treasure and cherish such miraculous and touching stories of humans and animals, and to pass these touching and miraculous stories to generations of human beings - this miraculous and touching story is about Darling, an orphaned crow that wanted to show its gratitude to the humans who saved it from certain starvation and eventual death. By way of gratitude to Kayley, family and Sam the dog and Gigi the cat, Darling wanted to spend her life with this family in their home. While I am not necessarily advocating keeping birds in the home, the least that Kayley and family could have done was to have built a bird house within the external vicinity of their farm house. It was most obvious that Darling grew very very fond of the family and loved playing with Gigi and Sam in the immense garden. Its very disappointing to note that Kayley and family did not go the extra mile to help Darling with a warm and loving home, even after she visited them at their home window and made those attention-seeking sounds. It was manifestly obvious that Darling indeed became most intimate and protective with the externality of the house and its immediate environment to the extent that she swooped down to attack anyone and every one who dared to approach "her house". We who love and remember Darling can only hope and pray that she is safe wherevers she is. May Almighty God bless and protect our sweetheart Darling.

@@rolandfernandez9529this comment was longer than the video.

@@nicholsonjay4724and several of us enjoyed this little rabbit hole of humanity

⁠@@nicholsonjay4724and seemingly written by a bot. So verbose!

There will NEVER be THIS darling again.

Yes, I know. Kayley gave us an excellent video of Darling. This video is so very heart warming and at the same time heart breaking. Thanks to Kayley, Darling was a happy crow while she lived within the confines of Kayley's home. I just wish Kayley and family had built a bird home for Darling as the video and Kayley's narrative clearly shows that Darling very much wanted to be part of Kayley's family. I can understand that keeping a crow in one's home may be a bit bizarre, but if Kayley and family had built a birdhouse for Darling, it may afforded the freedom and flexibility to Darling as well as to have given her that intimacy that Darling so much desired.

I'm so sorry ...

You literally could've prevented that by letting the crow live with you guys, but no and then when the crow inevitably died to a predator in the wild you go ahead and cry for the camera such a fake scumbag.

What a lovely tribute to this wonderful woman.

​@@budsimpson2853people don't generally make tributes to themselves. However, I will say that she has a beautiful heart. 😊

im pretty sure this channel just grabs stuff from online and shares it here with what i hope is some editing. @@Katherine_02

(this is the comment that deserved the 1500 likes)

And the scenery is just breath taken. How lucky to have an experience like that ❤

I wouldn’t say lucky, I would say very fortunate. AMAZING STORY, JUST BEAUTIFUL. Thank you for sharing your LIFE with the world. Much love.

The same for me, I would have built a safe place...😢😢😢

yes but she most likely got catched when flying outside. normally crows chase away also much bigger birds of prey, sometimes in groups but also alone.

Same here.

Building a safe house for a wild animal while might be a good intention, is also a bad idea. Darling was still wild and would have suffered without his/her freedom.

thank you. i was about to comment to say the same thing@@ZepG

dude me and my brothers also had a crow called blackie as children crazy! probably just a childs first call if he sees a black bird xD he also disappeared one day, i will always remember him for breaking into our house thru any window u open and eating my mothers hair. he also shit on a pillow I havent washed it since muhahahaha

More than simply being territorial, I think Darling was being protective of this family when strangers would arrive.

Isn’t this program wonderful

that’s beautiful. I love birds and other animals so much, thank you for rescuing your bird friends.

Not really. She refused to let this vulnerable bird inside. Save the animals from people like this who think pronouns are more important than going out of their way to keep an animal safe.

@@suzannemarienau2760 what are you talking about? It's a wild animal. She did keep it safe by bringing it to safety as a fledgling. You can't bring every wild animal inside to 'protect' it. The crow didn't want to come inside at night, it slept in the forest, so letting it in during the day wouldn't have achieved a thing. It wasn't any more vulnerable than every creature living as nature intended. It could fly, forage, and protect its territory. Not the slightest bit more vulnerable than any other wild bird.

@@suzannemarienau2760 I agree with you 100% sadly.

​@@suzannemarienau2760nonsense, its not a dog or a cat, those indeed are animals that can not stand low temperatures

Oh boy!!!! Great story of genuine respect and love from all parties involved....could write a children story book on this it would bring out the example of love, friendship and loss all in one something our children need to know about from an early enough age as a natural part of life...thank you for sharing

@@trudy-annsmall9600you’re so right

it was bound to happen...........hawks kill birds...and this crow was totally alone, an easy target simply because it had not gone off and found others of its kind... with even a small group crows become aware of killer birds and sound alarms to warn other creatures of the danger.

man?

Humankind.

@@camez2345 oh get over it

You expressed your sentiments so beautifully!

Compelling is definitely the word. Four very different animal species with an incredible bond ❤❤🐦‍⬛

Wonderfull kind words, but Calie did not consider Darling a pet, as she mentioned at 4:00 , they were friends.

This is a story is about this beautiful crow in the name of Darling and not about the domestication of animals. This was a miraculous story that happens once in a thousand life times. We humans are called to treasure and cherish such miraculous and touching stories of humans and animals, and to pass these touching and miraculous stories to generations of human beings - this miraculous and touching story is about Darling, an orphaned crow that wanted to show its gratitude to the humans who saved it from certain starvation and eventual death. By way of gratitude to Kayley, family and Sam the dog and Gigi the cat, Darling wanted to spend her life with this family in their home. While I am not necessarily advocating keeping birds in the home, the least that Kayley and family could have done was to have built a bird house within the external vicinity of their farm house. It was most obvious that Darling grew very very fond of the family and loved playing with Gigi and Sam in the immense garden. Its very disappointing to note that Kayley and family did not go the extra mile to help Darling with a warm and loving home, even after she visited them at their home window and made those attention-seeking sounds. It was manifestly obvious that Darling indeed became most intimate and protective with the externality of the house and its immediate environment to the extent that she swooped down to attack anyone and every one who dared to approach "her house". We who love and remember Darling can only hope and pray that she is safe wherevers she is. May Almighty God bless and protect our sweetheart Darling.

You literally could've prevented that by letting the crow live with you guys, but no and then when the crow inevitably died to a predator in the wild you go ahead and cry for the camera such a fake scumbag.

​@@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus1You really dare choose to treat the word of Christ, like an infectious disease? Just forcibly spreading it without consent then believing you're the good one... You take something beautiful and use it as a weapon of manipulation. Be gone demon, you invoked the wrong entity.

It wasnt her loss it was a wild bird ya wacko. Her befriending the bird feeding it and such is was caused its demise.

​@@uhnogoodfound the sociopath

@@uhnogood That doesn't even make sense... Had she kept it in the house it would never have gotten killed by a predator.

dear sir reading your story made me continue to cry for a bit longer after thare story.My grandma and grandpa had an owl and a bear they yoused to call them there kids.I have been blessed to have many kinds of Animals in my life but my favorite was a racoon my mom brought home, he was so smart my dad hated him and my duck.lol hugs tami from 5980

This is a story is about this beautiful crow in the name of Darling and not about the domestication of animals. This was a miraculous story that happens once in a thousand life times. We humans are called to treasure and cherish such miraculous and touching stories of humans and animals, and to pass these touching and miraculous stories to generations of human beings - this miraculous and touching story is about Darling, an orphaned crow that wanted to show its gratitude to the humans who saved it from certain starvation and eventual death. By way of gratitude to Kayley, family and Sam the dog and Gigi the cat, Darling wanted to spend her life with this family in their home. While I am not necessarily advocating keeping birds in the home, the least that Kayley and family could have done was to have built a bird house within the external vicinity of their farm house. It was most obvious that Darling grew very very fond of the family and loved playing with Gigi and Sam in the immense garden. Its very disappointing to note that Kayley and family did not go the extra mile to help Darling with a warm and loving home, even after she visited them at their home window and made those attention-seeking sounds. It was manifestly obvious that Darling indeed became most intimate and protective with the externality of the house and its immediate environment to the extent that she swooped down to attack anyone and every one who dared to approach "her house". We who love and remember Darling can only hope and pray that she is safe wherevers she is. May Almighty God bless and protect our sweetheart Darling.

@@rolandfernandez9529 Are you being critical of my story or of Kayley not doing enough? Kayley did what she felt best and she has my respect. Me, I had no control over my Grandfather's decision to domesticate Sammy. It was just a story to reiterate what Kayley was saying about the intelligence of crows. Have a nice day.

@@christinefuller3168 No I am not being critical about you, and no offense intended. I do not want to use the word critical because it sounds legal. I'm saying that I wish that Kayley and family had given Darling a home in a birdhouse where she could have lived in the comfort of knowing that she was near her adopted family. Obviously, Darling was very fond of Kayley and family including their dog, Sam and their cat, Gogi. It hurts me to know that Kayley and family did not go the extra mile by giving Darling a birdhouse to stay in. Yes, Kayley did care for Darling, but I just wish that she had gone the extra mile. Thank you for having responded.

​@@rolandfernandez9529I was thinking the same thing. Even though, their love for Darling was obvious, I was saddened that they didn't let them in their home or build a bird house, so she could feel safe😢

Yeah, with comments like this I understand why you couldn't possibly eat a chicken or a turkey or duck or pigeon.

⁠@@FactsBeFactsYou just had to be “that guy” didn’t ya? I bet you’re suspicious of your own shadow.

still very much family without crossing the line and letting it in the house !

Yes - I would have made a place for her, and she's free to come and go.

I truly didn't understand her reasoning. Wild animals don't hang around like pets. That bird wanted to be her pet

I agree completely. When an animal picks you out and wants to come in, you let them in. It's such a rare thing.

I never realized until watching videos on YT, how brilliantly smart crows are........

Me, too. Very sad end!

This is a story is about this beautiful crow in the name of Darling and not about the domestication of animals. This was a miraculous story that happens once in a thousand life times. We humans are called to treasure and cherish such miraculous and touching stories of humans and animals, and to pass these touching and miraculous stories to generations of human beings - this miraculous and touching story is about Darling, an orphaned crow that wanted to show its gratitude to the humans who saved it from certain starvation and eventual death. By way of gratitude to Kayley, family and Sam the dog and Gigi the cat, Darling wanted to spend her life with this family in their home. While I am not necessarily advocating keeping birds in the home, the least that Kayley and family could have done was to have built a bird house within the external vicinity of their farm house. It was most obvious that Darling grew very very fond of the family and loved playing with Gigi and Sam in the immense garden. Its very disappointing to note that Kayley and family did not go the extra mile to help Darling with a warm and loving home, even after she visited them at their home window and made those attention-seeking sounds. It was manifestly obvious that Darling indeed became most intimate and protective with the externality of the house and its immediate environment to the extent that she swooped down to attack anyone and every one who dared to approach "her house". We who love and remember Darling can only hope and pray that she is safe wherevers she is. May Almighty God bless and protect our sweetheart Darling.

You literally could've prevented that by letting the crow live with you guys, but no and then when the crow inevitably died to a predator in the wild you go ahead and cry for the camera such a fake scumbag.

​@@rolandfernandez9529 Thought‐provoking. Darling really has a place deep in my heart.

YES THE ENDING WAS VERY SAD IT MAKES ME FEEL THAT NOTHING IS FOR EVER 😢😢😢

Sheep thought extinct

Deepest sympathies to you!! ❤❤

I'm still crying.😪

She kept speaking in past tense, I knew something was up. 😔