Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Stolen Chicken Mystery

Last week I wrote about Huyen's stolen birds. Well, I've got good and bad news. Here's the good news: Huyen and Linh got two new birds. Here's the bad news, after just a couple of days one of the birds disappeared (this video was taken after one of the birds was gone...and before I knew there were supposed to be two birds in the cage).




Well, once again I've got good news and bad news. Here's the good news: the birds weren't stolen. Here's the bad news, a rat ate them. Turns out I'm not the only person with a rat problem. Huyen's roommate walked outside their apartment the other day and saw a rat chasing the bird. Apparently the rat had climbed up into the cage and eaten the other three birds -- two a couple weeks ago, one the other day. This one lone survivor somehow escaped:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe Huyen and Linh should become vegetarians... do rats like lettuce?

Anonymous said...

how did a rat eat a live chicken? how big is this rat?????? I think Huyen needs a cat to keep guard of the chickens.

Benjamin said...

The chickens are really really small. They're really more like birds than chickens. That said, the rats can be pretty big.

Anonymous said...

Maybe your rat is a relative of RATATOUILLE and he was using the chickens for his chicken soup.