My Pet Story: The unexpected chicken tender


Rocky Grace showed up in the writer's back alley just before Thanksgiving in 2017. Little did the family know that she would change their lives forever. Photos: Jeanette M. Pintar

Chickens were never on my radar until that fateful November day in 2017, a week before Thanksgiving. Jordy the cat was seated high on the fence, tail fluffed out and switching, hackles raised high on his back. Our alpha guard-cat Floyd was there as well, equally alert.

This couldn’t be good.

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