Bantam Rooster Found

After an earlier incident in the rural town where I live, when an over-zealous sheriff shot a neighbor's pet as it ran away from him, killing the pet, an Action Alert Group, interested in safe guarding local pets was created. (Please excuse that run-on sentence...) BTW: the sheriff was a total d*ck. This dog had a collar and was super goofy and clearly not posing a threat to the officer or the community. But the cop had to go and get a rifle and shoot the dog dead.

The Action Alert Group sends out emails whenever a dog or cat is found or reported missing/lost. At least once a week a cat or dog goes on the lam.

And I don't want to be mean: but how do you lose a dog on a walk? I get that it's the country and a person might want to let his or her dog off the leash as owner and pet amble along a country road at sunset. Nice and romantic, right? Not if the dog doesn't come when you call it and ends up spending the night in the wilds (not where domestic pets belong) running from bears/coyotes/mountain lions or worse, shot dead the next day by the po-lice.

Today's alert is a classic.
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Bantam Rooster Found

Friday, Dec. 2, 2011

If you or anyone you know is missing a rooster:
A rooster has taken up with [redacted] flock on [redacted]
White bantam rooster with leg feathers.
A silver bracelet tag.

[redacted] will read the bracelet tonight when they roost.

Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested or helpful in getting this boy home.
 
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If I were that rooster and I'd taken up with a new flock, given that the new flock had a couple of cuties in it, I might be perfectly happy not to be found. I can't wait to learn who "lost" this bad boy. I might pop over to visit his new haunt to see how he's doing.