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My dad is smarter than the Ginney

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• Posted on May 7, 2006

Okay, so we have had this chicken walking around the house all the time for a few months now and it apparently really likes our front porch. We have a kickplate on our front door that is extremely shiny and he seems to be a vain animal. He likes to sit on the front porch and look at himself, then I guess he gets jealous of himself and starts pecking at the door. After he starts pecking, he starts getting excited and starts pooping on the front porch. I know, I know. Exciting. So we have tried to get the humane society out here for a while now, but they said that they have been trying to catch this thing for about a year, but thier traps don’t seem to work. So dad setup a trap in the front next to the front door that had a mirror inside of it and put some corn in the bottom. After a day of having it running around and just kind of looking at the cage, he somehow triggered it, but he didn’t get stuck inside. But then yesterday, he took the bait. He got inside and couldn’t get back out. So I told dad he was finally smarter than the bird, because I had my doubts. So he calls the humane society and tells them that we have the bird, and they say "I’m sorry sir, we don’t take birds here". So what do we do with the chicken? If the family wasn’t boycotting meat, we might have eaten it, but instead, dad calls a friend and finds out that they have some ginney’s at thier house so the bird can just get transplanted there. So dad and I have to transport the bird from our house to the truck so he can take it over there. So I lift up the edge of the cage and dad slowly pushes a board underneath it so that we can move it to the truck. The best part was while we were carrying it, the bird was going nuts just ramming the cage trying to get out. I know this is a long story, but it was fun, and not many people have to deal with chickens when they live in the middle of the city. I kind of felt like I was on Friends. So, just in case you doubted me, here are a few pictures of the bird below. The pictures could have been better, but the stupid bird was determined to not stay still for me, so I couldn’t get a clear picture of it.