Two big cocks bonded as brothers vow to live and die together. A very touching story is told by their owner.

Yu Mei Hwang is fifty years old. She worked at Hai Wei Jane Restaurant eleven years ago. The owner of the restaurant wanted to rear two cocks -- following the tradition that the louder the cocks crow, the more prosperous the business becomes. Unfortunately, cocks after cocks died when her co-workers raised them. Finally, Yu Mei Hwang was assigned the "raising cocks duty. Ever since then, everything proceeded smoothly. Later, when the Hai Wei Jane Restaurant relocated, Yu Mei Hwang changed to Hai Yian Man Fu Restaurant to work. With the consent of her previous employer, she brought the two cocks back home with her to raise them. Both of them steadily grew plump after Yu Mei Hwang adopted them, each weighed twelve kilograms. Since her son had already grown up and left home, she treated the cocks as her very own children.

She took thorough care of these two lovely pets, buying only the highest quality dove food and brown rice to feed them. Furthermore, she even bought waxed apples, papayas, grapes, watermelons and other valued nutritious fruits for them. The two cocks got along like brothers, playing and living as a pair, going out and coming back together.

Her pets were her free alarm clock. Every morning at 8:30 am and afternoon at 4:00 pm, when it was time for her to go to work either in the morning or after her afternoon break, the two of them would lightly peck at her feet to wake her up. Not only that, they would see her off all the way to the front gate. If she told them that she didn't need to go to work that day, the bosom buddies would merrily go off to play one after another, as if they could understand what she had said.

The two cocks typically even watched over the house. Whenever a stranger came near the house, they would get into their attacking stance; only when the owner said "It's a guest would they change their stance into a greeting pose. Yu Mei Hwang deeply praised these two intelligent cocks. Both of them often acted like spoiled children around her.

As a kitchen worker in a restaurant, Yu Mei Hwang did not have a high-paying salary. What was most incredible was that on the first day of adopting these two big cocks, she found five hundred NT dollars on the road. She used this five hundred dollars to buy their food and fruits. Every time their food was about to run out, she would always accidentally find another five hundred NT dollars. For eleven years, she can't remember how many five hundred NT dollar bills she had found. She feels that it was a miracle and her listeners found it unbelievable. She thinks that these two were heavenly chickens; God had arranged everything for them.

Amazingly enough, the two cocks have never gotten lost for the past eleven years. However, suddenly one of them, Big Coo-Coo, disappeared last month. She thinks that he was stolen by a stranger and was probably eaten by the thief. Worse, Little Coo-Coo seemed to know that Big Coo-Coo was dead. Overwhelmed with sadness, Little Coo-Coo could no longer eat. She tried to feed the sick Little Coo-Coo through injection, but still she couldn't bring his health back. Two days later, when she came home from work, she saw Little Coo-Coo lying on the floor, motionless. When Little Coo-Coo saw her familiar face, after a flash of recognition in his eyes, he died. Yu Mei Hwang burst into tears after losing the two lovely cocks.

Yu Mei Hwang informed us that the two cocks came to her in her dream after the sad events occurred. They both were like how they used to be -- sticking around her and trying to get her attention. The only difference was that their feathers had become more beautiful. After waking up from her dream, she cried and cried. Every time she talks about her lovely cocks with her co-workers at the restaurant, she can't bear it and shed tears. Whenever she sees others eating chicken, it reminds her of her own beloved pets, and her eyes fill with tears. She swears she will never again eat chicken in her life.