Can you top this?

[LadyDi381]

I live next door to a co-worker in the country and she raises rabbits and chickens. She lost a big rooster about a week ago and I have seen it off and on for about a week on our property.
Last night, I was on call for recovery room at our hospital. It was called in at 2 am.

So, I went to my car and I saw something on the hood of my car. It was dark so I couldn't make it out. I got into the car very quickly and started the engine and turn the lights of my car on. There sitting on the hood was a big rooster. It didn't move.

I thought,' If the car starts moving, it will get scared and fly away'.........nope, it stayed there. So, I drove down our street with a rooster on the hood of my car. It stayed there. I pulled into my neighbor's driveway and got out of the car. I tried to shew the thing off my hood and it wouldn't budge. Now I'm worried, do I have to take this bird to the hospital on my car?

We have a lot coyotes in our area and I was afraid that the coyotes may get this big beautiful rooster. So, I pulled this rooster off my hood and carried it back behind the neighbors garage. He didn't flutter.I was terrified of this bird pecking or scratching me. He was quiet and calm.

I found an empty cage and put the bird in it without a scratch.

I felt like one of the Beverly Hillbillies driving with a rooster on my new Acura.

Diane

[dumluck53]

can't top that! funnier than heck story!!

ya did a good deed, though...good karma coming your way.

[wickus]

ha, the best part is the neighbor wondering how the heck the rooster put himself back in the cage. don't tell

[Go Aweigh2452]

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[Tedster]

Just watched the tribute to Patrick Swayze on Dancing with the Stars so I was already wet eyed, then I read your story and I laughed till I cried. Thanks for sharing!

[Play N Hookie II]

That was a good thing you did. Not everyone would have been that kind. Good karma for sure!! Funny story!

[Play N Hookie Admiral]

Thats great! Those darn chickens...I hate how much they love cars...ours are always checking themselves out in my freshly cleaned wheels. :cool:

[voyager]

I have not been around chickens since I was a kid but I seem to remember when the sun goes down they go to sleep. I mean they really go to sleep they don't move again until the sun comes up. The eyes can be open but as long as it's dark they are staying put.

[SomeSailor]

Yeah... They go to roost and you can do pretty much anything you want with them. If you've ever seen the results of a fox or other predator in a hen house, you know how stupid they can be in the dark. :)

We had a family of skunks break into a hen house when I was a kid and it was a massacre... but the ones left just sat there.

[merrily]

Diane,
If your Acura is a four door, then technically it would be a chicken sedan, not a chicken coupe....

[LadyDi381]

Tally, I thought about not telling them and it made chuckle but then I know my co-worker. There would have been a big argument between the couple accusing each other of putting the rooster in the cage.

Merrily, I guess I have a chicken sedan. lol

[SomeSailor]

I once had a neighbor who wanted a cat and mentioned it on several occasions. But, the husband was dead set against it.

A few months later a stray kitten was wandering near our doorstep. Someone had dumped it in the neighborhood and it was obviously starving. Anyhow... I brought it in and fed it and once it was belly-full and happy, I took it next door to see if she'd want to take it in.

I got there and they weren't home, but had left their front door open. So, I dropped the little kitten inside and figured she was no worse off than when I started and closed the door so she couldn't escape.

Anyhow... they come home a few hours later and find this kitten has "snuck" into their house. They fell in love with it... named it "Houdini" and lived happily ever after.

I don't think they ever figured out I inserted the little bugger. :)

[Tedster]

I hope they are not boaters, or read this website ever!

[bradvo]

I once had a neighbor who wanted a cat and mentioned it on several occasions. But, the husband was dead set against it.

A few months later a stray kitten was wandering near our doorstep. Someone had dumped it in the neighborhood and it was obviously starving. Anyhow... I brought it in and fed it and once it was belly-full and happy, I took it next door to see if she'd want to take it in.

I got there and they weren't home, but had left their front door open. So, I dropped the little kitten inside and figured she was no worse off than when I started and closed the door so she couldn't escape.

Anyhow... they come home a few hours later and find this kitten has "snuck" into their house. They fell in love with it... named it "Houdini" and lived happily ever after.

I don't think they ever figured out I inserted the little bugger. :)


So that was you in our neighborhood last November, we found a starving matted hair cat and have had it ever since. First thought it was a female so named it cecile or something like that but soon found it was male so been calling him Chuck.
Of course my favorite saying when he gets in his mood is WTF chuck, then I get the look from the mrs :eek:

[SomeSailor]

We do have a stray we picked up when we lived in Hawaii. He's still around and turned 20 this year. :)

[Randygh]

Diane--Thanks for sharing the great experience with the rooster.

Many years ago, one of our employees (a city slicker) house sat for a client and her animals. She had a small henhouse with one nasty rooster. My client told my employee to watch out for the rooster when she fed the chickens. One evening while feeding the hens, the nasty rooster charged her. She whacked him in the head with the feed bin lid and knocked him out. She thought she killed him, but he awoke and thereafter was as meager as the hens. He never charged her again and always kept his distance from her. I like chickens--fried, baked, BBQ'd, roasted!!

[LadyDi381]

End of the saga. My neighbor brought us a full dinner tonight. Yep, you guess it, a roasted chicken. I asked her if it was the big red rooster. She assured me, it was not. She bought the roasted chicken... thank god.

[SomeSailor]

She assured me, it was not. She bought the roasted chicken... thank god.

So she says... :)