The next time someone calls you “chicken,” you should take it as a compliment. It means that you have an unbreakable spirit — like Penelope, a chicken who lives with Vanessa and Steve Dawson in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. “She went through so much, and it was so clear that she wasn’t giving up. She inspired me,” Vanessa tells LAIKA. “Steve and I would say watching her, ‘Chicken means brave,’ not fearful.”