In November 1924, a writer from the local paper paid a visit to the Feather Hill Poultry Ranch in Montecito. “Housed snugly in a vacant chicken house were . . . Tango and One-Step, black bear cubs . . . In an adjoining yard, Jack and Susie, full-grown ostriches with their son Rudy, ruled over a mixed flock of peacocks, turkeys, and guinea hens.