{"id":18633,"date":"2018-05-31T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spca.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2018-07-19T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:08:12","slug":"a-very-special-recruit-at-the-montreal-spca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spca.com\/en\/a-very-special-recruit-at-the-montreal-spca\/","title":{"rendered":"A very special recruit at the Montreal SPCA"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we were at McDonald\u2019s, he would be employee of the month. Always in a good mood, he loves meetings and in just a few weeks, managed to become a favourite with all his colleagues. His only flaw: he talks a little loudly (and even has a tendency to scream). Tommy is a very special new recruit at the Montreal SPCA, and he\u2019s a rooster.<\/p>\n

He was only two weeks old when he arrived at our shelter last December. He had just been found wandering in the street. We first thought that this tiny ball of feathers was a baby turkey, but then he grew a crest. In the weeks that followed, Tommy grew, learned how to say \u201ccock-a-doodle-doo\u201d (in his own unique way)\u00a0and established a place for himself in the organization. An employee who lives in the countryside offered to foster him, but it was too late: everyone had already fallen in love with him and he\u2019d become a familiar part of the daily activities at the SPCA. So he spends his mornings free in the cat adoption room while we do the cleaning (needless to say, the felines are fascinated by him) and his afternoons in my office. On weekends, he enjoys the fresh air of the countryside.<\/p>\n