I Thought Only Cats Had 9 Lives?

Holy Chicken Head!

This story is all over the Internet and I don't know how in the world I missed it. Right on the tail of the headless dog story comes the case of the headless rooster. This is true, not Weekly World News true, but MSNBC true. A farmer in Colorado decided to have chicken for dinner. Outside he goes to the barn to get a chicken for dinner. Whack! off goes the chickens head. Only.... the headless wonder ran away and made it's way back to the barn where he lived another 18 MONTHS! Rooster Mike has been a celebrity with a web site, magazine articles, festivals. He survived because the blade missed the jugular vein and a clot formed to prevent him from bleeding to death. Mike was fed and watered by inserting an eyedropper directly into his gullet. Poor Mike finally died in a hotel room. (Which is about as strange as a rooster living for 18 months without a head.) I guess he was meeting a hen for some hanky-panky and his old heart could not take it.