Post by bigjohnstudd on Feb 11, 2021 19:04:56 GMT -5
Teen reunited with pet rooster lost at Alabama Cracker Barrel after Civil War reenactment
www.al.com/news/2021/02/teen-reunited-with-pet-rooster-lost-at-alabama-cracker-barrel-after-civil-war-reenactment.html
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It all started when 18-year-old Thomas Ramsey, a student at Copiah Academy in Gallman, Miss., and founder of the Muddy Rabbits Mess, a 32-member military reenactment group and the largest youth group nationally, was returning from a Civil War reenactment in Springhill, Tenn., and stopped for lunch on Jan. 31 at Cracker Barrel in Cullman. With him was his friend Jonas Patrick and his Buff Orpington rooster, Peep.
Peep is a handsome fellow, in keeping with the standards of this heritage breed of chicken: heavy, with a broad body and low stance and having a “bold, upright and graceful” carriage. He’s been the cock of the walk ever since Ramsey found him on a roadside last summer when he was still a young chick.
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But, an hour later, Ramsey’s friend went outside and came back with bad news: “He said, ‘he’s gone, man,’” said Ramsey. “At first I thought he was joking; he messes with me like that.”
It wasn’t a joke, though. Peep had flown the coop.
“I went back into the Cracker Barrel and it was very hard for me to say this with a straight face, even though I was panicking: ‘Do you have cameras in the parking lot? I think someone stole my chicken,’” he said. Someone overheard and said they’d seen Peep wandering in the parking lot.
Peep is a handsome fellow, in keeping with the standards of this heritage breed of chicken: heavy, with a broad body and low stance and having a “bold, upright and graceful” carriage. He’s been the cock of the walk ever since Ramsey found him on a roadside last summer when he was still a young chick.
..snip..
But, an hour later, Ramsey’s friend went outside and came back with bad news: “He said, ‘he’s gone, man,’” said Ramsey. “At first I thought he was joking; he messes with me like that.”
It wasn’t a joke, though. Peep had flown the coop.
“I went back into the Cracker Barrel and it was very hard for me to say this with a straight face, even though I was panicking: ‘Do you have cameras in the parking lot? I think someone stole my chicken,’” he said. Someone overheard and said they’d seen Peep wandering in the parking lot.
Click this link for the full story, including the exciting conclusion.
