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Rubber chicken survives Canadian Food Inspection Agency cull By ROD MICKLEBURGH, The Globe and Mail
Trolling B.C.'s Fraser Valley for every last chicken that might have to be sacrificed in the fight against the spread of avian flu, the CFIA had come across Mike Norden's website. And Rufus.

On the website, the whimsical magician noted that Rufus the chicken was a 'live' performer in his magic show.

Rufus would have to go, Mr. Norden was told over the telephone. There were no exemptions for back-yard chickens in the sweeping cull that claimed millions of birds this spring, the CFIA man said.

But this time, the CFIA did not get their chicken. Rufus, it turned out, much like the expired parrot in the Monty Python sketch, did not have enough life in him to be killed. He was and is made of rubber.

Rufus the Chicken
Magicshows.ca would like to assure the public that "Rufus" the chicken is, in fact, NOT a real chicken. He is a rubber chicken and does not, and can not, nor will he ever, carry the Avian Flu virus. Recently Norden received a phone call from a government agency suggesting that his chicken would have to be included in the backyard culling of the Avian Flu infected birds. My website before did not do a adequate job of explaining that this was a fake chicken. Artificial. Phoney. Pretend. Fictitious. A prop.

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