Almost all animals in the Barra are free range, particularly the dogs, chickens and roosters. The roosters kick in to their morning crooning around 4am. This morning I took a walk around 6am and noticed that at low tide pigs are tied to poles in the mud of the estuary so they can eat the crabs. Seafood ham anyone? I’ve noticed a few ducks, but they seem to run with the chickens, trying to blend in. A duck pretending to be a chicken is pretty comical. If only the ducks felt free to be ducks in world dominated by chickens.
Dogs have a tough life, most of them running free and fending for themselves. They’re not treated real well (kicking, rocks) because they’re pests trying to find the next meal. This makes them a bit mean and territorial. The Mayor has proposed an extermination program, but that caused an outcry from the town so the dogs stay.
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