Posted on 02/14/2014 9:40:52 AM PST by sevinufnine
The couple and their five children are fond of unusual animals and urban agriculture.
So the couple found an emu farm near Martinsville and brought home a chick about a year ago and named it Zazu.
“It’s grown up with our family,” Mike Powell said. It started out sleeping in the couple’s bed. “Not the prettiest creature in the world, but we love it,” Mike Powell said.
Today, it’s about 5 feet tall, and looks like a shaggy umbrella on long legs with large, reptilian feet. At the end of a long neck is a head with an expression that looks somewhere between angry and terrified.
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Dude. where yuh been lately?
HG Just spring you from prison or something?
Theoretically, so do humans. I've never been married and I'm happy as can be, unlike many of my married buddies.........LOL!
If the emu is pining for a mate, I'll have a talk with it.......
IOW, the busy body neighbors are basing their case on maybes and what ifs. If I were on the council, I’d raise their property taxes for bothering the council with such nonsense.
There are peacocks that roam the neighborhood. I never hear them and have no complaints.
Bfl
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