Drum-Sticked

. . . challenged creatures when it comes to Common Sense, self-preservation and survival. In my home region, we see them nonchalantly walking into traffic all the time. We seldom need to buy snow tires, since our treads are drum-struck for better traction well before the first flakes fall from recent car-turkey run-ins. Most everyone has seen their share of turkeys drown as they peer open-mouthed into the sky during cloudbursts, wondering from whence all the water is falling. Other animals duck and run for cover in such a torrential drenching, but not the agog Tom Turkey. DRUM-STRUCK finds Loopy at his wits end trying to aid a hapless roast walking.