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Meet Barbosa

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When Will Lowrey saw Barbosa’s picture online, he very quiet. They wanted to stay in their coops (small
knew that he had found someone special. The sheds that chickens live in).”
rooster was at the Ulster County SPCA in New York Gradually, Barbosa and Morgan came out. They
and needed a forever home. Lowrey works at the scratched around in the grass, and took dustbaths
Porchlight Animal Sanctuary in Virginia, and made — rolling in dirt to keep themselves clean of insects.
the long drive to New York. There, he met another “Morgan enjoys being cuddled,” says Frye, and even
rooster named Morgan. fell asleep in her arms at the vet! Barbosa likes to
Lowrey learned that the roosters were used in explore and protect everyone. He makes alarm
cockfighting — an illegal practice in which two or crows, sounds to alert others when there is a THIS PAGE: CARA FRYE; COVER: ALVAN NEE/UNSPLASH.COM.
more birds are placed in an enclosed area to fight. groundhog, coyote, or hawk nearby. He alerted Frye
“Their combs and wattles (the red flesh on top of to a large bear while she was gardening! “He was
their heads and under their beaks) had been very loud, and paced back and forth,” she says. The
removed,” says Porchlight’s President, Cara Frye, who bear kept going to the woods, but Barbosa’s friends
decided with Lowrey to adopt them both. “They were won’t forget his bravery.

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