I know this might sound extreme but has there ever been a surgery devised that would stop a rooster crowing so that one could live in a suburban area? I ask this because ages ago I used to run a paper route and one of the dogs on my route had had it's vocal chords cut because it would bark nonstop. It still had a whispery sound that creeped me out the first time I heard it until I found out the source of the sound. Imagine hearing this sound over and over in the predawn light just after you had watched a scary movie the night before.