Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Teaches Tricks to Bantams. [ARTICLE]

Teaches Tricks to Bantams.

Mrs. Rosalie Gandolfo is a St. Louis woman who has a penchant for bantam chicken pets and has a brood of them of which she is exceedingly proud, for she has trained them to perform tricks that rare the wonder of the neighbors. Two of her roosters, especially favored by her, are named McKinley and Roosevelt. These two littlefellows were perched on a newspaper’s mammoth bulletin board on election day last November and kept the big crowds shouting with delight at their continual crowing. It seemed as if the little redbreasts knew when big returns came in for McKinley and Roosevelt, for as the figures were posted up they would emit louder than ever their “cock-a-doodle-do.” The roosters will perch on Mrs. Gandolfo’s fingers, fly to her arm, shoulder or head at command; will crow whenever their mistress tells them to, will eat out of her hand, will guard articles like a watch dog and in other ways will show the result of long and careful training; Mrs. Gandolfo, who is president of the Rosalie Woman’s named after her, prizes her pets very highly and takes great pains in teaching them mew tricks.