Feral Pheasant. This is a domesticated pheasant, raised by a friend of ours, purchased by someone else, and then released into the wild. It reminds me of the year that John bought 20 pheasants with the intention of selling them to hunters for training their dogs. But when the time came to sell them and see them killed off he decided to release them. They hung around here for years. The following year he bought another batch of pheasants and raised them in a long running cage. A big dog dug under the fence and killed every pheasant in the pen. John was so mad he set a snare to catch the dog. A couple of days later he saw that he had snared the culprit. He approached the dog angrily. Then it wagged its tail. All was forgiven and John let the dog go. Such a softy.