A Cock Crows in Portland - The Atlantic
(December 2008)
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This left Fizzleโ€™s owner, Jennifer Scott, in a bind (โ€œOur neighbors love us dearly,โ€ she said, โ€œbut not that muchโ€). It also placed Fizzle firmly in an emerging urban underclass: the homeless rooster."
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โ€œIโ€™ve had grown men in tears because they raised them as babies and they live in the city and canโ€™t have a rooster,โ€ Rushing says from behind the feed-store counter, where a dry-erase board keeps a running tally of Critter Kornerโ€™s population, and an orange cat named Mr. Dunn naps amid the dayโ€™s paperwork.


My first impulse is that these men probably should not own chickens of any sex. ;^)

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