I’ve given up on using the quote feature, as it consistently messes with the formatting. Here are your fowl stories of the day.
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It was just a normal day last summer at R and R Garage in North Carolina when a rooster randomly wandered over to the garage, and didn’t seem to have any plans to leave. The employees assumed he’d been abandoned and began feeding him leftovers from the shop fridge, but when they took a long weekend, they sort of figured he would move on to another spot.
When they all returned, though, he was still there, so they named him Earl and he’s been the shop rooster ever since.
“He comes running when the first guy comes in to open up for the day,” Joe Gallo, co-owner of R and R Garage, told The Dodo. “He gets his cup of scratch, then wanders the shop looking for any bugs that may be around. He gets up under all the toolboxes and workbenches looking for spiders and anything else he can find.”
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As they say, the rest of the story is here, with lots more photos.
And here’s a sweet duckling family:
At least once a year, a mother and her brood of ducklings make their way from her nesting grounds, through a high school to a nearby creek. Staff have helped guide the family on their journey for the last 10 years. pic.twitter.com/X6Xfcz8GAf
— CBC (@CBC) May 19, 2019
And finally mammals represent – a boy and his ram:
Rams are considered the bullies of the sheep world but Mario is kind, gentle and helps four-year-old Rory overcome his shyness.
Secret Life of Farm Animals
Wednesday, 8pm – BBC One Walespic.twitter.com/63vKEHTG77— BBC Wales ??????? (@BBCWales) January 21, 2019
And finally – our Governor tells dad jokes – and also signed into law his campaign promise of fully funded all-day Kindergarten.
Respite open thread
Baud
This is a good post.
RAVEN
This is a friend and a link to his ant museum site.
I am interested the processes and mechanisms responsible for the origination, organization, and maintenance of diversity. I am specifically interested in understanding how the importance of diversity maintaining and organizing processes and thus patterns of diversity change as a function of geographic scale. I am currently studying the effects of non-native species on Florida ant communities using historical records collected by entomologists and deposited in museums over the last few decades. I aim to describe what happens to native ant species when non-native species arrive and identify the traits that predict which non-native ant species will become successful. I am working on a taxonomic treatment of the ant genus Strumigenys in my spare time.
HeleninEire
LOL. I love posts like this. Because you all have cats and dogs and chickens and ducks and birds and cows? and gerbils and fish and, um, kids.
And here’s me “OMG should I get a dog?” Sooo hard, this decision.
Gravie
Let me be the first to say it knocks me out that the garage owner (in the rooster story) is named Gallo. Because “gallo” in Spanish = “rooster” in English. Looks like the little cock-a-doodle-do was just looking for his family.
Betty
So sweet and so needed. Thank you.
RAVEN
Barak is at da game!
Ohio Mom
Lovely. Just the thing after a hard day.
debbie
Aww, that shy little boy! ? ?
Kristine
I love animal stories. Question for the duck-experienced, though.
Isn’t 10 years old for a duck, especially in the wild?
Is it possible that it’s one of her ducklings that returned to the old nesting ground and remembered the route?
Patricia Kayden
That’s one rooster which will never be eaten. Cool dude. Another round of great animal stories to end the weekend. Nice!!
seefleur
And this is why I LOVE this blogsite… Lovely stories and demented jackals – who could ask for anything more?!?!!
Lapassionara
I saw a chipmunk on my patio today, and for some reason I was cheered by the sight. He was eating the many maple seeds that have helicoptered onto the ground, for which I was grateful. I find solace in the animals, especially the birds, around my yard.
SiubhanDuinne
I bought me a duck,
My duck pleased me.
I fed my duck
Under yonder tree.
My duck said “Quack quack”
My pig said “Griffey griffey”
My hen said “Shimmy-shack shimmy-shack”
My cat said “Fiddle-eye-fee.”
J R in WV
@seefleur:
who is calling me demented now?
Ark, ark, ark!!
ETA: to add the person calling us demented… ;-)
No offense taken, or I hope, given!
Geeno
Rory and Mario – true bromance.
TaMara (HFG)
@Kristine: Yes, you’re probably correct on both points.
Just One More Canuck
@Kristine: they’ve found another nest at the high school:
https://garyallan.ca/gary-allan-high-school-annual-duck-walk/
chris
@RAVEN: Video from Toronto.
Wag
I’m proud of our new governor. Polis is a quality guy.
And I appreciate his sense of humor
Amir Khalid
Robert Pattinson is in talks with Warner Bros. to be the next Batman, per CNN.
Words fail me.
JaneE
@Gravie: Also in Italian. With an owner named Joe Gallo, where else would a rooster look for a home?
Steve in the ATL
@Amir Khalid: well, he’s certainly no Val Kilmer
Major Major Major Major
♥️ Omg, that video with the kid and the ram ?
I made a little vanilla cake today because there was a thunderstorm and I had some leftover eggs and frozen buttercream, that was nice.
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
@Steve in the ATL:
Adam West weighs in:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jU13ujED8rc
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Who’s Robert Pattinson?
@Steve in the ATL: Who’s Val Klimer?
Dan B
@Wag: That’s good to hear especially for Pride Month. As Pence and Pompeo work to undo 50 years of LGBT progress.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: whatever, Mr. Lifelong LA Resident.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: I believe the last film I saw was in 2005.
ETA: I live in Glendale, not LA. It’s even in my nym.
HumboldtBlue
Aww, sweet little lamb.
Did youse see the beautiful Liver birds today?
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Glendale is metro LA. I didn’t mean literally the municipal entity of Los Angeles. And isn’t Glendale in LA county? And don’t I fly into LAX when visiting Glendale? Why yes I do!
Mike J
A lot of boys in Wales are “best friends” with sheep, but they usually aren’t on BBC
Amir Khalid
@HumboldtBlue:
Speaking of which, why does Liver rhyme with “driver” and not with “shiver”?
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Mike J: That’s a crass response to a story of a shy child – possibly on the spectrum – and his interaction with his ram. It’s disappointing that you’d offer it.
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
#4 is Lego
Amir Khalid
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. And a sparkly boy vampire in another movie.
Ruckus
@RAVEN:
I’m trying to watch a Netflix special called Resurface.
It’s about a program for disabled vets, called Operation Surf.
I’ve watched less than 3 minutes, it’s 27 minutes long. So far, it’s amazing.
Ruckus
@Ruckus:
If anyone checks in here I highly recommend this show. It’s not long but it is well done. It struck me that I felt just a bit like I was back in that navy hospital 46 yrs ago, sitting in a group of men with PTSD, some extreme cases, but I was seeing actual progress, not just a holding/hiding process.