What kind of person are you?
I.......................am a gardener. :-)
Posted on 07/17/2010 5:05:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PETOSKEY, Mich.- A northern Michigan woman has lost a long legal battle to keep her disabled pet rooster in a suburban neighborhood.
Beaker, who suffered permanent injury when he was dropped at the age of 3 days by students at a Montessori kindergarten, will have to move to the Second Chance Animal Ranch in Petoskey, Mich., The Detroit News reported Saturday. But Sharon Peters worries about her pet's future, since he can barely see, has a club foot, and is frightened of other chickens but is comfortable with her and her husband.
"We're his flock, basically," she told the News.
Peters, who teaches at the Montessori school, brought Beaker home in 2007.
"I have sucker written across my forehead," she said.
A neighbor complained a year later about Beaker's crowing. Peters fought to keep him before the zoning board, the county commission and two courts, until a circuit judge ruled the rooster had to go.
Emmet County, at the tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, has an ordinance barring farm animals on residential property.
The Peters picked up both allies and enemies during the fight. Some neighbors bought T-shiris saying "I'm a Beaker Backer" and others sent them anonymous threats.
Uh, Joe? Did you actually READ all of that?
I’d love to have chickens. But the coyotes come close to the house and I have grandkids. They stand and stare at you.
We had a couple of chickens for pets (DH loves all animals) - we have five acres and no one minds chickens. But there are too many predators and we knew it was a matter of (short) time before the coons or coyotes or foxes got ‘em, so we gave them away.
We can shoot predators here but you need a hunting license and then a “nuisance” license. Son shoots. I’ve never fired a gun. Oh, his wife shoots too.
We live just a few hundred yards from BLM and there are bears and cougars as well, so if anyone wants to have livestock they need good fences and dogs, and we have neither.
The wild animals lived here first, this valley is mostly wild and forested.
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Our farm was settled in 1860. But it is again mostly covered with trees and brush as no one has farmed it since the 50’s. There are settled spots near us, streets with houses but the land behind them is woods. There are black bears that eat bird seed and tear apart suet feeders. We have foxes. And Turkeys. And deer. LOTS of deer.
Yeah, deer. Cute but destructive! People around here need 6 to 8 foot fences to keep them out of gardens. The fawns are so cute though.
I keep the deer off my roses by using putrescent egg solids otherwise known as Liquid Fence. Expensive but it works. Those darn deer even eat my honeysuckle and trumpet vine.
Aint they lovely?
I have about 25 barred rocks, they are getting a bit long in tooth now. I should start on new ones this summer.
You use repellant on Bambi???
What kind of person are you?
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What kind of person are you?
I.......................am a gardener. :-)
....the same folks who have leaf blowers, snow blowers, riding lawnmowers, boom boxes, weed whackers, lawn edgers, hedge trimmers, a giant metallic wind chime collection, whiny pool pumps, whiny grandkids, a workshop in their garage with an air compressor too small for the job so it runs constantly, and a router that has just the right piercing pitch to drive starlings from the trees and even muslim prayer caterwaulers from their minarets ...
People who have loud obnoxious friends who park in your space rather than theirs, or who honk every time they pass by, people who have outdoor sound systems, agitated visiting mother-in-laws, drunken pool parties, shop vacs, motorcycles without mufflers, kids who drive cars with sound systems that make the leaves tremble and ground vibrate when they are still three blocks away.
... Folks who spend at least one night a week arguing with their windows wide open, and at least four evenings with a sports station on tuned to a third-world game you aren't interested in that makes them holler full throttle unexpectedly.
... Folks who have a dog that can do no wrong because he's the only dog they never hear barking all night though everyone else does, people who fart like boar hogs when you have company over on your patio,...
People who have a male cat that engages in fights and orgies below bedroom windows, people who hoard fireworks so they can shoot them off weeks after the holidays are over, people who have a basketball hoop above their driveway that draws the most monotonous dribblers every day after school lets out...
People who insist on having a motion-sensing security light the size of a battleship's semaphore aimed directly at the sidewalk by your window that's so sensitive it lights up every time a maple seed helicopters by...
People who put their trash in the can by throwing it from fifteen feet away, and who have a lot of Heineken bottles left over from the last natural disaster.
Oh, and their girlfriends or wives fake it, very loudly. And so do their daughters, apparently.
And yes, they DO leave their blinkers on when they drive.
And yes, they have Obama stickers on their cars and their cars' fan belt squeals like a wounded rabbit, though it could be squealing because there's a stray kitten caught in there someplace.
Naturally it's the rooster that has to go because these folks need to sleep in late every morning in order to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when their mail shows up with their government check.
Heck, the neighbors probably keep the poor rooster up. :0D
I have not one but three crowing roosters as neighbours. Sometimes the owner wil come over and offer me a couple dozen eggs for the hazzle :).
Thing is, it is no hazzle at all. And of course, cities will tolerate things like crazed muslims crowing out of their minarets and just say "thank you, sir. May I have another?"
must be the Huguenot in me
lol darn big rooster......stay away from him.....run away, run away....
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