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UNDERHILL, Vt. — A Vermont girl isn’t happy her disabled pet chicken was joked about on “Saturday Night Live.”
The chicken, named Granite Heart, is learning to walk with a custom wheelchair.
On a recent ‘SNL’ episode, one of the “Weekend Update” co-hosts said she should “just eat the chicken.”
Alora Wood, 10, of Underhill, Vt., said she knows the segment was meant to be a joke, but what if it was a dog?
The chicken was born with a deformed foot.
The girl says: “Any creature, no matter how big, no matter how small, they deserve to have a perfect life.”
The custom wheelchair came from a company in Amherst, N.H.