January 12, 2010

Rooster ban coming to our city?

This evening, we, the chicken people, can be found at the Carver Branch Library to voice our opinions about the rooster ban that is being proposed. Roosters crow and that is the issue. Um, yeah, it's a bird call.  What is also a bird call, an obnoxious recorded bird call is this:

This plays every ten minutes, 24/7 at the Honda dealership near my home. Most people don't hear it, they claim to have become used to it.  That is proof that they could become used to a rooster crow as well. It is also a freaking bird call, loud, can be heard two blocks on all sides. It is not efficient, grackles continue to soil cars and now, my chicken sounds just like it. But it's a loud bird call! So isn't a rooster crow a loud bird call?  If roosters are banned will these irritating recordings of some bird of prey murdering another bird be banned as well? Makes no sense otherwise. Both are loud bird calls.

I can't but help but think of the animal cruelty that could descend on the Austin rooster. Once an animal is banned it becomes devalued and then cruelty results. I might protest this ban if it goes into effect with rooster recordings. There is no rooster, the rooster is banned and there is no rooster to confiscate. The noise falls into a noise ordinance has been in effect for  years and I think that is all you need with roosters. So, it is not rational, I can still be fined but this sort of shit solicits this sort of rebellion from me.

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