A Nervous Chicken Walking at the Gates Is Taken Under Custody of Pentagon

A local animal welfare organization said that a wandering chicken was caught by an animal welfare staff on the Pentagon, the most secured place on Earth, sneaking around.

How did the chicken get into the Pentagon?

According to USA Today, the loose hen was found at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters early Monday, Jan. 31.

Due to the recent events, the Animal Welfare League of Arlington joked in a post on Facebook that the answer to "why did he chicken cross the road" is to get to the Pentagon.

The spokesperson of the AWLA, Chelsea Jones, said that they couldn't disclose the information of the location where the chicken was found but they can say that it was a security checkpoint of the Pentagon.

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It is quite unclear where the chicken came from or how she got into the premises of the Pentagon.

After being cornered in the sub-freezing weather, the bird was handed over to local animal control officers, but still, there was no explanation for how it got there, according to Inquirer.

According to Roy's Farm, Rhode Island Red Chicken have an active, docile personality.

But sometimes the roosters can get aggressive. They can be pushy and assertive with the other breeds but they don't lack of personality.

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Henny Penny became famous

Jones described the chicken as having brown feathers, a red comb, and wattles, those characteristics have mostly come to a Rhode Island Red chicken.

She also described the chicken as a "sweet" and "nervous" hen.

The organization called her Henny Penny, which was inspired by a chicken in a folk tale that believed "the sky is falling."

Henny Penny became the talk of the town and was even featured on "the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" on his Tuesday episode, Feb. 1, according to USA Today.

Jimmy Fallon wrote a song about Henny Penny wondering if she is just a regular chicken or an "undercover spy."

Sgt. Ballena brought her safely to the shelter where she'll stay until we find a new home for her said the group in their post on Facebook, as per MilitaryTimes.

Henny Penny reportedly will be relocated in the meantime to a small farm in Virginia that is owned by an Animal Welfare League of Arlington staff.

Rhode Island Red hens have a cheerful personality and they are most likely to have a zest for life, as per Daily News.

The organization asked the people through a post in their Facebook page what the chicken's name should be, and they went wild and wrote on AWLA's  page and went creative on their comments.

One said that Henny Penny, who is ound on the military installation, instead, must be called Colonel Sanderson instead.

Another said that it could called Chick Cheney after the former secretary of the Department of Defense, Chick Cheney.

Someone else wrote "Hentagon," while another user said "Henrieta Kissinger" referring to Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state.

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