For almost half a year I knew someone owned several roosters nestled some where in my neighborhood, because I could hear them in the distance(about 50ft. or more) every morning when I walked my dogs. I knew they were on the other side of the street from were I walked my dogs. I've always wanted to see these roosters and have gone looking for them, but only got that far, until now.
Today I decided to investigate were the roosters lived, so I went on my bike and targeted the noise. Stopping next to a neighboring house that looked unoccupied, I heard the roosters even louder and went near the house to check if I could get a better look. I looked over the fence into the yard and saw a spacious yard with a lengthy structure in the back corner.
I found the house who was keeping the roosters, but I wanted to make sure that this was it. The owners of the house were outside in the driveway cleaning up leaves; I went up to them and told them a story I made up that I found a rooster about a month ago, the story was a half truth because I did actually find a rooster( his name is Archie, he passed away:'{ ) but 6 months ago, and was holding him at my house. And some how we talked for awhile and the owner and his son( he was my age:19 or 20) pridefully showed me his roosters. As we walked over to the roosters, the owner told me that one of his friends, an ''ex-cop'' saw me looking over and thought I was going to burglarize someone's house. Luckily I went in time because the owner told me that he had his gun on him and told his friend that I was ''okay''. I thought holy poop I could have gotten killed.
I got to see all of the roosters in one section that were lined in 4-5 columns with 8 roosters in each row, some cages had bantam hens along with the roosters. On the other section, there were even more roosters that were squawking and impatiently moving in their cages. I masked that I cared for these roosters, and asked them casual questions such as, ''How many do you have?'', ''What breeds do you have here?'', ''Where do you buy their food?'' Why do you have so many roosters? '' Don't the neighbors complain?'', and so on. They cheerfully answered my questions and I would act astonished to hear what they said. Then, we walked back to their house and I talked to them and eventually ''befriended'' the son. We talked for awhile about were we went to high school and about college, and finally I rode my bike back to my house. When I got back home, I went online to report this to the Animal Cruelty Task Force. I spoke with someone but didn't report it because first needed the address of the house, so tomorrow early in the morning I'm going to get it down.
I'm concerned that these guys will do something to me or my love ones if they find out were I live. I shouldn't have gone over to speak with them but it's already too late, to regret. I'm doing this for the animals' well-being. I want shut these guys down. But I keeping thinking to myself if I should wait for a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or report it now.
What do you think I should do, and do you think I should have done things differently?
Today I decided to investigate were the roosters lived, so I went on my bike and targeted the noise. Stopping next to a neighboring house that looked unoccupied, I heard the roosters even louder and went near the house to check if I could get a better look. I looked over the fence into the yard and saw a spacious yard with a lengthy structure in the back corner.
I found the house who was keeping the roosters, but I wanted to make sure that this was it. The owners of the house were outside in the driveway cleaning up leaves; I went up to them and told them a story I made up that I found a rooster about a month ago, the story was a half truth because I did actually find a rooster( his name is Archie, he passed away:'{ ) but 6 months ago, and was holding him at my house. And some how we talked for awhile and the owner and his son( he was my age:19 or 20) pridefully showed me his roosters. As we walked over to the roosters, the owner told me that one of his friends, an ''ex-cop'' saw me looking over and thought I was going to burglarize someone's house. Luckily I went in time because the owner told me that he had his gun on him and told his friend that I was ''okay''. I thought holy poop I could have gotten killed.
I got to see all of the roosters in one section that were lined in 4-5 columns with 8 roosters in each row, some cages had bantam hens along with the roosters. On the other section, there were even more roosters that were squawking and impatiently moving in their cages. I masked that I cared for these roosters, and asked them casual questions such as, ''How many do you have?'', ''What breeds do you have here?'', ''Where do you buy their food?'' Why do you have so many roosters? '' Don't the neighbors complain?'', and so on. They cheerfully answered my questions and I would act astonished to hear what they said. Then, we walked back to their house and I talked to them and eventually ''befriended'' the son. We talked for awhile about were we went to high school and about college, and finally I rode my bike back to my house. When I got back home, I went online to report this to the Animal Cruelty Task Force. I spoke with someone but didn't report it because first needed the address of the house, so tomorrow early in the morning I'm going to get it down.
I'm concerned that these guys will do something to me or my love ones if they find out were I live. I shouldn't have gone over to speak with them but it's already too late, to regret. I'm doing this for the animals' well-being. I want shut these guys down. But I keeping thinking to myself if I should wait for a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or report it now.
What do you think I should do, and do you think I should have done things differently?
