CRANBERRY TWP — “Pet Sounds” isn't just a title of a Beach Boys album — it's also a frequent source of contention between neighbors.

Two Cranberry Township residents told the board of supervisors Thursday of the cacophony their neighbors' pets make. But it wasn't about cats or dogs, nor was it even about the goats standing near Brian Wilson.

No, these two residents told the board of an issue much more fowl: The cock-a-doodle-doos emanating from their neighbors' roosters.

Dennis Davis brought a speaker to the supervisors' Thursday meeting and played for township officials recordings of his neighbor's rooster, saying he was unable to enjoy sitting outside due to the constant crowing. In another recording, Davis demonstrated the noise could still be heard inside his house.

He noted the township has an ordinance against dogs barking outside for hours on end, saying everyone would understand the issue of a “junkyard dog” at his neighbor's house making his life “ruff.” But what about a cocky chicken?

“What is the difference with a rooster, every single day?” he asked, without ever adopting a prickly attitude.

To make matters worse, Davis said, the rooster must have been bored because his neighbor gave the rooster a friend — another male chicken, for whom the first rooster sings harmonics.

Just when the subject seemed to be petering out — a resident after Davis spoke on a septic system — Taleb Talaat, another resident, told the board of his neighbor's chicken chorus.

“Our neighbor has over 350 assorted poultry — chickens, geese, roosters, hens, you name it,” Talaat said. “That cacophony goes on day and night. One o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning, ... ad nauseam.”

More than that, Talaat said, the poultry poop has made runoff from the property contain 24 times higher levels of fecal coliform bacteria than would be permitted in swimming pools, and the chickens are tenacious trespassers.

“We've been told that when they come onto our property it's a trespass issue and we should call the police,” Talaat said. “I have too much respect for the police to call them 25 times a day because chickens are pooping on the property.”

Cranberry should not be “Chicken Poop Township,” Talaat said, claiming Butler Township, for instance, has an ordinance against roosters — something he said is lacking in Cranberry.

“I certainly beseech you to take this topic before it becomes a court issue,” he said.