A rooster has the funniest (and cutest) reaction to his owner! You know what they say—sometimes, the loudest love shows up with feathers, flapping wings, and a strut that makes you laugh out loud. Meet Jojo. The rooster with a love story that’ll make your heart cluck a little harder and your eyes mist over in the sweetest way.
“Jojo is obsessed with me—like, really obsessed with me,” says Sanaz, his human. “He runs to me and always does a little dance around me.”
And it’s true. Whenever Sanaz calls his name, Jojo comes sprinting across the yard—beak up, tail feathers flying—like he’s starring in his own rom-com set on a farm. The moment he hears her voice, he lights up. Or rather, fluffs up. He doesn’t just come—he twirls. He pirouettes with poultry passion. This little rooster isn’t afraid to shake a tail feather for the one who raised him.
“He really wants to be snuggled and hugged by me,” she says, with a soft laugh that only someone who’s been tenderly pecked awake by love can give. “I guess this is the way that he shows me that he loves me.”
And isn’t that just like the way God wired even the smallest of His creation? To give back love in the form they know best. This is to remind us that affection doesn’t always come in perfect packages—it sometimes arrives with a squawk, a prance, and a peck on the cheek.
However, not everyone was thrilled about Jojo’s displays of affection. Some neighbors didn’t share Sanaz’s enthusiasm for crowing at dawn. So with a heart heavy as a grain sack, she knocked on over 200 doors—yes, two hundred—until she found him a home that could take him in. A place with open space, open hearts, and roosters welcome. But this isn’t a story of goodbye. Because love like this doesn’t just end.
Sanaz still visits Jojo every day. She shows up, and Jojo still runs. They take car rides together—just a woman and her rooster, driving through town like it’s the most normal thing in the world. They stop at the coffee shop, sit side by side, and share pastries. Jojo nibbles delicately while staying right beside his person, content just to be near her.
“He is everything to me, and I’m like a mom to him,” Sanaz says. “I raised him with so much love, and I think this is why Jojo is like this.”
And maybe that’s the whole point. Maybe it’s less about the crowing and the crumbs—and more about how love leaves its mark, feathered and flapping and full of delight. Because the world needs more Jojo love—more joy that dances and more loyalty that follows you into the car and stays for coffee.
It’s funny, isn’t it? The way God sends little reminders in the most unexpected ways. Of how nurturing shapes hearts, of how affection isn’t limited to the usual suspects, and of how love—even the rooster kind—always finds a way back home.
So today, let's slow down and look around. The very love you need is strutting right toward you with a little dance. And maybe—just maybe—it’s time to stop and share the pastry.
Job 12:7-10 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”