A woman injured a cockerel and left it with brain damage because its loud crowing woke her up at 3am. Caroline Smith, 52, left Eddy the black araucana cross unconscious after he was crowing in the middle of the night.
Greater Manchester Magistrates' Court heard how Smith was woken up at 3am by the loud crowing of Eddy in September 2022. Smith believed that her neighbour had previously agreed to kill the bird, but had killed the wrong one - so she decided to take matters into her own hands
Another neighbour then saw Smith, of Preston, Lancashire, trying to strangle Eddy and hit him with a boat fender - which left him unconscious. The neighbour rushed Eddy to an emergency vet, who found blood around the bird’s nostrils.
