No puns, please.

[wordinista]

For the past few weeks/months, we've had, for reasons I have yet to understand a rooster wandering around the neighborhood. 

We are not zoned for agriculture, so this is kind of not what you'd call normal.

But... nonetheless, a rooster.  A rooster.

We think he belongs (insofar as a rooster can "belong" to someone who does such a crap job of keeping it contained) to a house on the block, but aren't sure.  (WTF, rooster.)  So I called Animal Control today to see what can be done because (a) ROOSTER, (b) not zoned for livestock, (c) ROOSTER, and (d) avian flu paranoia, shut up.

Evidently they won't come out to catch the rooster (a shame, because I would pay to see that), but they will come out and collect it if it's already contained.  The girl I spoke with said that I could try luring it into my garage, or possibly tossing a recycling bin over it to keep it in one place, or some other similar Elmer Fudd-meets-Wile E. Coyote type trick.  Conversely, I could figure out the house to which said poultry belongs, and Animal Control can send a letter ascertaining whether the rooster belongs to them, and if it does, I can then have Code Enforcement go over and be all, "No fowl in the suburbs, yo."

I... don't want a rooster in my garage, man.  However, I'm pretty sure tossing a recycling bin over it in this heat might not be the best thing for the rooster.

Dude.  A rooster.  Just get your kids a hamster, for crying out loud.

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[smartycat.livejournal.com]

At least two of the Hispanic families on my block have had fowl (multiple chickens and roosters) at one time or another. We're not zoned for agriculture/livestock either, and the birds disappear temporarily after a visit from Code Enforcement but tend to return one or two months later. I'm pretty sure these birds aren't the family pets. ^__^;; Fresh eggs and meat always available! One family even stuck a great fuzzy mountain of a dog (think Great Pyrenees but in chestnut red) in their backyard to guard the hens. But at least these were normal farm fowl and not game cocks.

And if your Animal Control is like our animal control is, they're special. But that's a rant for another day.