It’s said that good fences make good neighbors. This is because a good fence makes it harder for your neighbor’s german shorthaired pointers to get in amongst your chickens. I carried the dead bird over to where he was waxing his truck. He was very apologetic and at the end of the day we’re all good neighbors again because he bought us four more baby chicks and a 50-lb bag of Chick Start. I returned the carcass to the local ecosystem.
I should have just given it to the dogs. Maybe they’d choke on a chicken bone.
Now we have little things under a heat lamp in the breakfast nook that go PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP. Another neighbor’s little girl came over to see. She giggled and was cute. The chicks were cute. Everyone was cute. It was a cute end to a strangely carnal day that went by very quickly thanks to this stupid daylight savings extension.
6 comments:
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! They're adorable. :) And good for you and your neighbor handling this like civilized, um, peeps.
Chicks are cute, I gotta say. Oh, thanks for the link!
You have to learn to maximize these opportunities. When your neighbor brought the four chicks and the Chicks Start, you should have burst into tears and sobbed, "BUT I DON'T WA-AAAAANT ANOTHER CHICK! I WANT MR. PEEPERS BACK!!!!"
Then he would have given you more stuff.
-Roy
Awwwwww chicks! Too bad they grow into chickens... or is that the point. They are so cute tho.
Little fuzzy things! My cat would like to torment and kill them. But she'd have so much fun doing it -- wouldn't it be worthwhile? You know it would.
It might. Chicks only cost like a dollar and there's no point getting all sentimental because the decision as to which egg becomes a bird that lives in my yard and lays eggs for several years and which becomes breakfast is totally random, whereas having a cat that loves you for providing her easy prey is priceless, almost. Should that have been a credit card commercial?
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