A woman lashed at at a cockerel and left it with brain damage when it woke her up at 3am, a court has heard. Caroline Smith left Eddy unconscious after he crowed in the middle of the night.
Manchester Magistrates Court heard that the 52-year-old was woken up at 3am by this. Smith believed that her neighbour had agreed to get rid of the black araucana cross but had not.
A neighbour saw Smith trying to strangle Eddy and hit him with a boat fender. This knocked the bird unconscious with the neighbour rushing Eddy to the vets.
