Comments on: Gratuitous chicken blogging: Hen-naming time

By: Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:31:19 +0000

Do you guys remember Miss Prissy from Looney Tunes? Always chasing Foghorn Leghorn. Reading Gina’s chicken posts makes me want some chickens of my own. If I ever do, definitely going to have a Miss Prissy.

http://www.petcaretips.net/miss-prissy.html

By: The OTHER Pat

The OTHER Pat — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:56:32 +0000

There was one of these dog shootings when officers went to the wrong address in my area a number of years ago. They had the wrong address - went into the front yard and the family dog came running around to see what was going on whereupon they shot him several times. The father - who had been in the midst of loading the kids into the car for an outing - came around when he heard the noise and almost got shot himself.

I attended public hearings about this which were set up in an effort to make the case that there are other things a police officer can do besides pulling out their gun when a dog was encountered. The police officials were - shall I say - less than receptive to the idea. They defended the idea that their officers had the right to respond with “appropriate force” when they felt threatened by an approaching dog. When offered training on dog body language so that they’d be less likely to overreact to normal dog behavior, their response was essentially that they had more important things to spend their time and resources on.

What I was most struck by was a sort of undercurrent of annoyance - that the police basically hated the idea that they EVER had to deal with the “inconvenience” of dogs while they were “trying to do their job”, and that the most expedient course of action was just to shoot the (insert expletive here) dog to get it out of the way so that they could get on with what they were doing.

I also sensed a lot of fear, which the police defended by citing the number of times they are threatened by dogs while doing their jobs - dogs that are often trained to behave this way by lawbreaking citizens. As is often the case, fear leads to anger, and so I also sensed anger - not only at the dogs that these non-dog-savvy police officers encountered - but anger at the idea that they had to justify their fear-based reaction of pulling out a gun to shoot the dog dead.

It’s a really unsettling psychological dynamic for a dog lover to be faced with.

By: Cait

Cait — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:51:16 +0000

I like Flossie, Florence, and Francelia. :P (I do believe I may steal those, though, as soon as I figure what I’m ordering. I know mine will be really late summer chicks, but if I get them in early September, they’ll be grown before it gets TOO cold and I have NO place to put them till I get moved. :P)

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:59:41 +0000

Aline, Agnes, Amelie, Alexandrie, Antoinette, Bernadette, Blanche, Celine, Chantal, Claudine, Colette, Emmanuelle, Fabienne, Francoise, Frederique, Gabrielle, Genevieve, Geraldine, Gigi, Helene (pron. hel-en’), Iliane, Jacqueline, Josette, Juliette, Josephine, Lucie, Madeleine, Marguerite, Margaux, Martine, Nanette, Nicolette, Odette, Odile, Penelope, Simone, Suzette, Sylvie, Veronique, Yvette.

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:12:07 +0000

Grinning ear to ear here! Thanks! Wow! I’m truly so honored!

Russ’ mentor and friend for over 40 years, Francelia Goddard, an accomplished former children’s librarian, just celebrated her 101st birthday. She’s still sharp as a tack and an awesome woman. “Francelia” would be a most unusual name for a chicken … and the person Francelia would be delighted!

Russell just quipped that we could give her a paper certificate: The Spadafori Award for Chicken-ness.” It would positively make her day!

Or, since Nadine is a French name, how about all French names this time? I’ll have more name suggestions for you in the morning …

By: Marcy

Marcy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:05:49 +0000

I like Flora.

By: rose-aka the Drew fan club

rose-aka the Drew fan club — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:28:47 +0000

Pearl?
…after Pearl Lanser who is a retired school teacher who is over 100 years old. She told me long ago when at the end of the last day before summer vacation the teachers would go to the basement of their tiny country school and drink all the wine they had vined there during the year.
At over 100 years old, she has more pep and vitality than anyone I know of any age… always moving and socilizing and keeping up with things, maybe a trait chickens have?

By: C.L.H

C.L.H — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:27:36 +0000

I just tried to think of the great busybodies. (Still looking at coop designs.) Eulalie will be one. Gladys, for Gladys Kravitz from “Bewitched.” I like Moneypenny. For old names, you just can’t beat Opal, Pearl and Ruby. They could get a bridge club going.

By: glock

glock — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:00:10 +0000

Suggestions:

Martha
Abigail
Flossie (variation of Florence)
Erna
Hildegard

By: Arlene

Arlene — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:53:17 +0000

Josephine or Sophie (Sophia).