Kauai seems to have a fairly large population of chickens that roam wild around the towns. Roosters with flamboyant combs and proud curving tail feathers, and the slightly less flashy hens.<\/p>\n
Someone<\/b> has decided we could make our fortune by forming a tourist outfitter on the island for hunting chickens. With crossbows. “Nail a chicken to a tree, and that chicken is free!” Tee-shirt sales with little cartoon chickens, have your rooster’s head stuffed and mounted on a banana wood plaque with carved painted figures of chickens along the border, slingshots for the kids to hunt pullets, rubber chickens impaled on rubber arrows. “We’d make a fortune!”, she chortles.<\/p>\n
Names have been omitted to protect the clearly deranged. But at least I have it documented for her doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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