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THE COLLIE, CAT AND ROOSTER!

Several years ago Jerry decided he wanted to have
chickens around the place in order to hear the crowing of a rooster.
We looked around and one day found several Chinese Silkies.
Chinese Silkies have long fluffy white feathers and fluffy down around their feet.
I thought they were pretty so Jerry bought a couple of pairs.

We brought them home and after a few days Jerry started turning them
out into the yard to get "fresh" food.
Naturally the roosters didn't get along.
The biggest one was continually beating up on the smaller one.
He may have been smaller but he had good sense!

One evening we were sitting out in the yard and the roosters started fighting.
Here they came around the corner of the house and the little one
was making a bee line straight for the dog house.
Our Collie was laying out in front of it and that rooster ran over
and stopped right beside the dog.

The bigger rooster stopped at the sight of the dog.
This continued for several weeks with the smaller rooster
always running to our Collie for protection.

One morning I happened to look out the window when I heard
a rooster crowing.
There the little one was, standing in the dog house door crowing his head off.
In just a minute out comes the Collie followed by our Manx cat!
The dog and cat stretched rather lazily and the rooster flapped his wings
and they all went their separate ways until night time.

After that day it was a common sight to look out when it started to storm
and see the dog, cat and rooster all go in the doghouse.

Ahh! Life in the country is Great!

 Have you seen rooster dance ?