Wild cock

If I would have been faster on the draw, I would have had a picture of it. I passed a rooster on the way to work. Do roosters graze? Maybe they eat small pebbles? This one was doing whatever roosters do, but it was doing it by the side of the freeway. This would not have surprised me if I lived in say, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri or any other midwestern flyover. But this is Southern California. Seriously, who brought a rooster here? Around here a rooster is an exotic pet, much like a bangle or a panda or a great white shark. Who lets their prized possession, their beloved exotic, rare rooster run around next to a freeway where someone might shoot it... Strange times indeed.