UPDATED: Gobble, Gobble, Gone: No "Fowl" Play in Turkey Death

A 16 1/2-pound wild turkey crashed through a double-paned window of a Royalcrest Drive home, leaving a hole three feet in diameter and scaring the only one in the house at the time, a boxer named Stella.

After flying through the glass, the turkey flew about 18 feet before landing in a bloody pile on the kitchen floor, homeowner Dawn Schanen said.

"It's now dressed in my friend's freezer," she said. "I told him, 'Don't invite me over for dinner. I'm not eating that turkey."

Schanen was at work when the turkey hit her ranch house's front picture window. A neighbor who was home later told her "it was an explosion like you wouldn't believe."

The neighbor called Schanen at her work, but she was already on her way home and arrived about 10 minutes after it happened.

Her dog Stella, who relaxes on a sofa near that window, usually jumps up to excitedly greet her at the door. But not on Friday.

Stella had run into a bedroom, "traumatized" from the smashed glass and winged intruder, Schanen said. Luckily, the boxer was not injured in the incident.

The turkey's neck, however, might have been broken in the crash. She said the bird was dead when she found it.

"It wasn't a pretty sight," she said.

It took about four to five hours to clean the glass and blood. Two "fantastic friends" of the family, Ron and Dan, helped clean and board up with window. The friends who she said could have the turkey "just picked it up by its legs and carried it" to a truck.

Unlike some wooded areas of Brookfield where turkeys are more frequently sighted, Schanen said she has only seen "maybe one or two" walking in her backyard in the 10 years her family has lived there.

She said the turkey might have gotten confused, thinking it was flying into a group of neighbor's evergreens that are reflected in the window panes.

"My kids tell me my windows are too clean," she joked. 

"We've had small birds fly into the window," she added. "But it must have been going pretty fast."

The window had to be boarded up and it could take a couple weeks before a new custom window is available.

"I wanted a new window but not this way," she said.

Police officers said no animal death investigation was warranted because there were "no signs of foul play."