Conflict Resolution...Nigerien Style

Guinea fowls may be the most annoying animal on the planet. They’re a kind of poultry and they make a noise that sounds like a rusty pump that needs oil, only more annoying. Not only do they start making noise before dawn, they usually don’t stop for hours and hours on end. So, you can imagine my horror when my neighbor got two. I usually don’t sleep past 6:30, so the time is not a big deal, but waking up to that sound is dreadful and it has the same effect as nails on a chalkboard. About a week after my neighbor first got the two guinea fowls, she had me over and it turns out the birds were annoying her just as much because she cooked one for dinner! (It was delicious, by the way!) She said that she wasn’t getting a lot of sleep because of it so she decided to get rid of it. The lone guinea fowl didn’t make as much noise but still met the same fate soon after…