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Commentary: My neighbour’s raucous rooster deprived me of sleep for months
Channel News Asia ^ | 11 Dec 2022 | Tracy Lee

Posted on 12/11/2022 3:24:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

Everyone is entitled to keep pets, but how much should neighbours tolerate a noisy animal? Tracy Lee says it’s best to speak to the pet’s owner sooner rather than later.

One morning several months ago, I was rudely awakened at 5.45am by an unearthly sound best described as a vuvuzela tooted at full blast.

The ear-splitting “uh-uh-uh-ooooooooooooh!” lasted about 4 seconds, followed by a 15-second silence. The ruckus repeated itself on loop for about 10 minutes. By then, there was no way I could get back to sleep.

It occurred again around 10am, 1pm and 5pm, and became a daily thing. I would crane my neck out of my balcony trying to identify its source, to no avail.

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1 posted on 12/11/2022 3:24:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
You bought an animal.

I didn't buy an animal.

2 posted on 12/11/2022 3:26:10 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: nickcarraway

I LOVE roosters’ crowing in the morning! There used to be one out here where we live but either it died or coyotes got it. I miss that beautiful sound.


3 posted on 12/11/2022 3:31:13 PM PST by buffyt (Just BOOFY here Formerly known as Mr and Mrs B F T )
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To: nickcarraway
"One morning several months ago, I was rudely awakened at 5.45am "

OMG!! Poor thing! Bring out the violins!!!

4 posted on 12/11/2022 3:33:44 PM PST by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

Most city ordinances will allow hens but no roosters......................


5 posted on 12/11/2022 3:38:30 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe he needed a silenced shotgun to take care of the raucous rooster.


6 posted on 12/11/2022 3:40:50 PM PST by bigbob (z)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t see the problem.


7 posted on 12/11/2022 3:42:49 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: nickcarraway
There is an easy solution to this problem.image host
8 posted on 12/11/2022 3:43:46 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: nickcarraway

I knew a girl we called Rooster a long time ago, we have a rooster and they are all over my neighborhood


9 posted on 12/11/2022 3:44:20 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: buffyt
I like the sounds of farm animals and birds in the morning as well. In warm weather, I keep my bedroom windows open just so I can hear them.

Typically roosters will only crow in middle of the night when they sense a predator in the area. They are warning their flock of potential coyotes or foxes, etc .

Sounds like this is more of a predator problem than a rooster problem.

10 posted on 12/11/2022 3:44:51 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,712,890 | Truth Social | 87,865,341 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: nickcarraway

Was it good eating?


11 posted on 12/11/2022 3:47:26 PM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: nickcarraway

Get yourself a BB gun or a slingshot. Or a pack of fire crackers.

When the thing starts up throw a whole pack at it. A couple of times doing that the stupid animal might get the message.

Or the owner.


12 posted on 12/11/2022 3:48:42 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: lizma2

Obviously never stood an underway mid-watch.


13 posted on 12/11/2022 3:53:20 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: nickcarraway

Been in an area with multiple roosters for so long I don’t even hear them anymore. It is just another common sound for me.


14 posted on 12/11/2022 4:02:00 PM PST by jy8z
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To: PeterPrinciple

Where we are in Metro Atlanta you can’t have rosters but somebody in the neighborhood didn’t get the memo as you can hear a rooster every morning. We only have hens and they’re pretty quiet.


15 posted on 12/11/2022 4:03:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: lizma2

By 5 I have had good breakfast. What is her problem?


16 posted on 12/11/2022 4:03:41 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: nickcarraway

Here they come to snuff the rooster, ahh yeah
Yeah, here come the rooster, yeah!

You know he ain’t gonna to die
No, no, no, you know he ain’t gonna to die...


17 posted on 12/11/2022 4:07:31 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: buffyt

We have a number of animals around our house. My favorite is the elk in the fall. We can hear their bugle as we lay in bed and the occasional clashing antlers during the rut.


18 posted on 12/11/2022 4:13:08 PM PST by Troublemaker
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To: nickcarraway

I hear a half dozen roosters crowing every morning... and they aren’t even mine. I think of them as a natural alarm clock, they start an hour before first light which is when i need to be up.


19 posted on 12/11/2022 4:29:33 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: SamAdams76

“Typically roosters will only crow in middle of the night when they sense a predator in the area. They are warning their flock of potential coyotes or foxes, etc .”

In a suburban area that means they crow every 15 minutes. When I lived on Guam this was the case.


20 posted on 12/11/2022 4:33:39 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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