robin's new pet

this is rex. he is robin's new pet rooster. he's very young. robin bought him from a neighbor for $2, a whole week's allowance. the latest trend here is for all the boys in the neighborhood to buy pet roosters. that's alot of crowing! the first morning we had him locked inside a cardboard box in robin's bedroom (!) and he started crowing at 5:30am. oh my god. then he escaped the box into the house. we eat chickens, don't we? hmm. robin had to get up for school anyways, but that's too early for me to hear "cockadoodledoo" EVERY DAY. besides, the rooster is NOT going to live in the house. that was a temporary thing until we had other arrangements. we have no chicken house. well, we did, but it was rotten and i knocked it down last year. rex spent the afternoon enjoying the back yard. as of last night, rex is living up the street in a friend's chicken house. there he has his own little private section in a chicken house with other chickens and stuff. robin says rex is very happy to be there. guess it beats a cardboard box!