Name: Penelope: A Rescue Story
Uploaded: 2018-01-09T08:30:45.000Z
Duration: 12 min 20 s
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I mean if you hear somebody say we rescued a chicken

If you say we rescued a pit bull, or if we rescued a cat

People will be like that's so wonderful. That's so great

But you say you rescued a chicken....from what?

Do you worry about being a crazy chicken lady?

Ah...I just never thought that I would be a chicken person

I don't know, I have never connected with a chicken before

I never had the opportunity to.... before Penelope

I mean she really does treat us like family

It goes up around her tail, nice and high

We are convinced that sometimes she gives us like vengeance poops

-You know, if we are not giving her we're not giving her enough attention -Please stop talking about the poop, please..

Did she go blind or did she lose her eye?

She's doing a pretty okay job though. All things considered, that she has been through

A group of residents there tried to stop the systemic, and bloody slaughter of chickens right in the streets

This is an annual religious ritual. Practice by Hasidic Jews.

In the days leading to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement

cage chickens are brought by the hundreds to ultra-orthodox neighborhoods

for the performance of the Kaporos ritual

"God, I know we've done some things this past year

that maybe if you were being strict with me, you would maybe want to punish me

Take the chicken, I'm gonna give you the chicken"

And I, three times, swayed gently over my head

May the chicken be slaughtered in a kosher way,

and then I go on to a good life of peace and health and happiness for the upcoming Jewish new year"

And are often left without food or water for days

my grandfather, who was ultra-orthodox, talking about it

But when he spoke about it, I thought he meant that it was done in the middle ages, and it stayed there

I didn't realize it was still going on in this day and age

You've got hundreds of people lining up to do this

And it becomes, like an assembly line type of situation

and people are running, and here and there

And things aren't being done so carefully

and the chickens aren't being treated properly

when she saw the signs with chickens on them

And there were teenage boys that were standing on top of them

and you know...oh...okay, we'll look into it...we'll look into it

You could smell this all the way down the street

Practitioners claim the flesh of the dead birds is donated to needy

In my over twenty years of monitoring this

Many, if not most of the birds' bodies, are thrown directly into trash bags

It just kept getting more and more shocking to us

I just kept like I gotta do something. I have to do something

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Penelope: A Rescue Story

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