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[Zinnia-Hen]

City tells 5-year-old girl her rooster has got to go

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Photo courtesy: The Macnab family

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Photo courtesy: The Macnab family​

DUFUR, OR (KPTV) -​

The family of a 5-year-old girl from the small Oregon town of Dufur is fighting to keep her rooster after the city council gave her 10 days to get rid of the animal.
Ayla Macnab bought Dallas the Rooster with her own money in June 2012, and has been preparing to show him in 4H ever since, according to her mother.
A recent noise complaint led the city to demand the rooster be removed.
"She's offered to pay the city the $186 she had been saving for Disneyland in order to keep Dallas," said Ayla's mother, Jill Macnab, whose family has lived in the Dufur area for nine years.
Dufur Mayor Arthur Smith said the city investigated the rooster complaint and found it to be in violation of a nuisance ordinance, so he sent the family a letter informing them of the rooster removal deadline. Ayla's family then responded in turn with a request for a hearing, which Smith plans to schedule soon.
The law being applied to Dallas isn't an "anti-rooster ordinance," Smith said. It does include language involving animals and roosters and was amended in 2012.
Dallas the rooster's arrival in Dufur came before that law was amended, Jill Macnab said, and she hoped the city would have a grandfather clause allowing her daughter to keep the animal.
It turns out there's no such clause, she said, and though she doesn't blame the town's city council, Macnab said her daughter is desperate to keep her rooster.
"They're not necessarily at fault, but it is their responsibility to make it right," she said.
A Facebook page has been created in support of letting Ayla keep her rooster. Jill Macnab said the page's 400 likes in a matter of hours have been a big surprise. She said she's thankful for the support of strangers and also her immediate neighbors, who she said are "totally on our side."
"We're 100 feet from the city limits - we have fields on both sides of us," Macnab said in reference to the complaint, which she said came from someone who lives two blocks away. "It's one person against us."
For now, Dallas the rooster's fate in Dufur remains up in the air while the family awaits its meeting with a nuisance abatement officer.
Copyright 2014 KPTV-KPDX Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.
http://www.kptv.com/story/24778091/5-year-old-girl-in-dufur-in-battle-with-city-to-keep-her-rooster
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/974/870/400/saving-dallas-the-rooster/

 

[drumstick diva]

Some neighbors are such a pita. How loud could one silkie rooster be? If he is the only chicken they have, I wonder if he is kept in the house most of the time.

Hmm someone should be near the neighbor's home while the rooster is crowing - to record the noise level at that distance.

 

[sgtmom52]

 

[craftiekids]

What is this a monkey? Wow he's too cute! I can't imagine something so small. My twins are amazed by this little animal... Please tell us what it is! Thank you! Susie

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

What is this a monkey? Wow he's too cute! I can't imagine something so small. My twins are amazed by this little animal... Please tell us what it is! Thank you! Susie

Pigmy Marmoset I think ts called. Saw a picture the other day of one hanging on someone neck an sucking on their ear.

 

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[KristyHall]

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

 

[KristyHall]

BY JONATHAN SANGER
A woman driving on a Florida expressway pulled over screaming for help when her 5-month-old nephew stopped breathing on Thursday afternoon.
Motorists stuck in traffic rushed to help Pamela Rauseo, above, perform CPR on her nephew, Sebastian de la Cruz, on the Dolphin Expressway in Miami,according to The Miami Herald. Herald photographer Al Diaz was behind Rauseo and helped get the attention of a police officer who aided in resuscitation efforts. The baby boy was taken to a hospital, where he was listed as stable.

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Pamela Rauseo performs CPR on her nephew. At right is Lucila Godoy, who stopped her car to assist in the rescue. At left is Sweetwater, Fla., officer Amauris Bastidas, who also stopped to aid the baby.

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Sweetwater officer Amauris Bastidas helps rescue a five-month-old baby boy, Sebastian de la Cruz, who stopped breathing. At center, the baby's aunt, Pamela Rauseo. At right is Lucila Godoy who stopped her car to assist in the rescue.

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Pamela Rauseo reacts after performing CPR on her nephew.





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