well first of all i live in a small town, and i released the rooster in my back yard, where he stayed all day. so everybody assumed he was mine. i could see him at all times, it's just that when he crowed the whole town could hear him. if he was not safe i had a place to put him. i would never hurt an animal or let one be hurt. he free ranged around the yard all day, and enjoyed himself. i think we all agree that letting chickens roam is a good thing as long as they are safe, and he was safe, okay?
i'm glad the kids came to get him because i would have had to put him in a cage. i would not have let him loose all night. i have lost chickens to dogs, one of them my own dog, only because the chicken flew the coop.
i don't appreciate whoever turned these roosters loose with my girls in the first place. they were tearing up my hens so i had to protect them first. i still have one of the hens isolated because she was so torn up. the other rooster is working on the rest of my hens and will end up losing his head pretty soon. no suffering.
so nobody has a sense of humor about a using a rooster to heckle the local gestapo. i am not irresponsible or uncaring. quite the opposite.
