Strollin’ around the Village with my two buddies on this Indian Summer day...

seems like we got ourselves an influx of new residents...on a temporary basis anyhow....a lot of really pretty exotic chickens are being dropped off here lately...dunno why perzackly...the folks that drop ‘em off would be kinder to their pets if they wuz to just kill ‘n eat them...

guess they find it hard to eat what has been a pet but seems t’me to be cruelly indifferent to their fate when they so casually drop off flightless chickens to fend for themselves...’course, our omnipresent coyotes ‘n raccoons love the fact that these birds not only can’t fly to get away but since they’ve been pets, they are fearless....

They don’t wander far from wherever they’re dropped...they wait patiently for someone, anyone, to come feed them...and if they last a week on their own, it’s only by sheer chance...

People have been dropping off cats ‘n dogs for a long time...they blame it on the economy...can’t afford their pets...’course, most of ‘em still manage to scrape up enuff money for beer ‘n cigarettes...

Freedom comes at a turrible price for most abandoned pets...