Posted by coral on February 4, 2003, at 21:39:05
In reply to Funky, funky chickens, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 1:47:11
A rooster showed up in our yard one day. Yes, the neighbors DID mind when he started madly crowing every day at 5:00 a.m. Since I'm an early riser, it was fine with me. The neighbors converged on our yard, to capture the rooster. (All they needed were lighted torches to look at the mob that hunted the Frankenstein monster!) The rooster was sitting in a tree, watching with benign interest, as the people all scurried about the yard, hunting him. Next, the police showed up. Now, we have 30 adult neighbors, 50 children and 3 police officers hunting the rooster, who STILL sat in the tree, unobserved. I watched with a little bit of glee, as the people got scratched by scrambling through the thorny hedges, and got flat-out tickled when one neighbor bagged another neighbor's head with the fish net he was carrying. After they'd all left, dirty, scratched and befuddled, the rooster went to sleep. The next morning, he crowed again at 5:00 a.m. and for the next two weeks, he moved from house to house, crowing each morning. Finally, he was humanely trapped and taken to a farm. He won, hands down, in my book.
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